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Choose the correct sentence from the following:

What is the missing number in the following sequence?

Rahul, Murali, Srinivas and Arul are seated around a square table. Rahul is sitting to the left of Murali. Srinivas is sitting to the right of Arul. Which of the following pairs are seated opposite each other?

Select the most suitable substitute for the underlined word in the given sentence.

Such practices do not conform to the rules of the institution.

Choose the appropriate antonym of the underlined word:

The interior designer has chosen transparent glass for the windows.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.

It is quite possible that a move to curb or control Chinese investment in Indian companies was always on the cards and that COVID-19 was a good excuse to pull the trigger.

If f(x) denotes the number of prime numbers not greater than x, then what is the value of \(f(f(100))\)

Suppose you have sufficient amount of rupee currency in three denominations: Rs. 1, Rs. 10, and Rs. 50. In how many different ways can you pay a bill of Rs. 107.

If  for all real values of x, which one of the following statements is true?

Bag x contains 3 red and 5 black balls and bag y contains 4 red and 4 black balls. One bag is selected at random and from the selected bag one ball is drawn. What is the probability that the ball drawn is red?

Let p₁ and p₂ denote two arbitrary prime numbers. Which one of the following statements is correct for all values of p₁ and p₂ ?

Two wizards try to create a spell using all the four elements, water, air, fire, and earth. For this, they decide to mix all these elements in all possible orders. They also decide to work independently. After trying all possible combinations of elements, they conclude that the spell does not work.

How many attempts does each wizard make before coming to this conclusion, independently?

A sharp recession hit in 1937, caused in part by the Federal Reserve’s decision to increase its requirements for money in reserve. Though the economy began improving again in 1938, this second severe contraction reversed many of the gains in production and employment and prolonged the effects of the Great Depression through the end of the decade.

Which one of the following sequences shows the correct precedence as per the given passage?

Terrorists hijack four U.S. planes. In a speech addressing Congress and the nation, Bush announces the War on Terror, saying, “Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announces the anti-terror campaign as “Operation Enduring Freedom,” which he says will take years to fight. The following day, Saudi Arabia ends diplomatic ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban government.

Which one of the following sequences shows the correct precedence as per the given passage?

In an engineering college of 10,000 students, 1,500 like neither their core branches nor other branches. The number of students who like their core branches is 1/4^th of the number of students who like other branches. The number of students who like both their core and other branches is 500.

The number of students who like their core branches is

In the sequence 6, 9, 14, x, 30, 41, a possible value of x is

Mr. Gupta decided to walk down the escalator of a mall. He found that if he steps down 26 steps, he requires 30 seconds to reach the bottom. However, if he steps down 34 steps, he would only require 18 seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from the moment the top step begins to descend to the time he steps off the last step at the bottom, find out the height of the escalator in steps?

Five players Prashant, Prabhu, Prince, Prem, and Piyush played five overs of cricket among themselves. Each of the five players bowled exactly one over and also batted exactly for one over. The runs conceded by the five bowlers in the respective overs bowled by them are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, not necessarily in the same order. Prashant bowled to Prem and conceded 1 run and he scored 2 runs in Prabhu’s over. Prince neither scored 3 runs nor conceded 3 runs. Prem did not bowl to Prince. Prabhu batted when Prince bowled and scored 5 runs.

Which of the following statement cannot be true? 

Given the sequence A, B, B, C, C, C, D, D, D, D, ...etc., that is one A, two Bs, three Cs, four Ds, five Fs, and so on. The 240^th letter in the sequence will be:

A rectangular sheet of paper of length 30 cm and breadth 18 cm can be transformed into curved surface of a right circular cylinder in two ways either by rolling along its length or along its breadth. Find the ratio of the volumes of the two cylinders thus formed.

Two persons, A and B are running on a circular track. At the start, B is ahead of A and their positions make an angle of 30° at the centre of the circle. When A reaches the point diametrically opposite to his starting point, he meets B. What is the ratio of speeds of A and B, if they are running with uniform speeds?

Consider the following sentences-

Every water body is an ocean. No ocean is a lake. Every lake is a pond.

Which of the following can be inferred?
(i) Every ocean is a pond.

(ii) No water body is a lake.