GATE 2016- Elecetronics and Communication Engineering

EC: Electronics and Communication Engineering

Q. 1 – Q. 5 Carry one mark each.

Q.1 Which of the following is CORRECT with respect to grammar and usage? 

Mount Everest is ____________.

(A) the highest peak in the world 

(B) highest peak in the world 

(C) one of highest peak in the world

(D) one of the highest peak in the world

Ans: A

 Q.2 The policeman asked the victim of a theft, “What did you ?” 

(A) loose

(B) lose 

(C) loss

(D) louse

Ans: B

 Q.3 Despite the new medicine’s ______________ in treating diabetes, it is not ______________widely. 

(A) effectiveness --- prescribed

(B) availability --- used 

(C) prescription --- available 

(D) acceptance --- proscribed

Ans: A

Q.4 In a huge pile of apples and oranges, both ripe and unripe mixed together, 15% are unripe fruits. Of the unripe fruits, 45% are apples. Of the ripe ones, 66% are oranges. If the pile contains a total of 5692000 fruits, how many of them are apples? 

(A) 2029198

(B) 2467482

(C) 2789080

(D) 3577422 

Ans: A

Q.5 Michael lives 10 km away from where I live. Ahmed lives 5 km away and Susan lives 7 km away from where I live. Arun is farther away than Ahmed but closer than Susan from where I live. From the information provided here, what is one possible distance (in km) at which I live from Arun’s place? 

(A) 3.00 

(B) 4.99 

(C) 6.02 

(D) 7.01

Ans: C