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Telangana SET (Earth Science) Exam - English
Duration: 120 Β· Questions: 100 Β· Max Marks: 200 Β· Language: 1
Earth Science
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N is a two digit number such that the product of its digits when added to their sum equals N. The unit digit of N would be:
2
If
then what is PQR?
then what is PQR?3
If 42 → 26, 71→ 78, 33 → 16, then 62 →
4
A shopkeeper sells a file and a notebook for Rs 27 to the first customer, a notebook and a pen for Rs 31 to the second customer and a pen and file for Rs 29 to the third customer. The prices of the items are rounded in rupees. Which one of the following inferences is correct?
5
Walking from my home at a speed of 5 km/h I am 8 minutes late in reaching my office. If I walk at a speed of 8 km/h I reach 5 minutes late. How far is my office from the house?
6
A tight fitting band is wrapped around the Equator. Another circular band whose length is 15m more lies at a certain height over the first band. A group of human beings attempt to pass under the longer band. Can they walk under it? (Earth’s circumference is roughly 40,000km. The height of human beings is between 1 & 2 m)
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L is the tallest and eldest of a group of five people K, L, M, N and P. M is elder to N and shorter than K. M and P are of same age and P is taller than K. N and K are of same height and K is younger than P. Which of the following inferences is certain?
8
If the product of three consecutive positive integers is equal to their sum, then what would be the sum of their squares?
9
A tall metal cylinder is filled end-to-end with n snugly fitting spherical wax balls of diameter d. If the balls melt completely, the volume fraction occupied by the melted wax is
10
If NET14 & NET15 are five digit numbers such that their sum = 157229, then N + E + T would be:
11
The houses of three sisters lie in the same row, but the middle sister does not live in the middle house. In the morning, the shadow of the eldest sister’s house falls on the youngest sister’s house. What can be concluded for sure?
12
A woman starts shopping with Rs X and Y paise, spends Rs 3.50 and is left with Rs 2Y and 2X paise. The amount she started with is
13
A mine supplies 10000 tons of copper ore, containing an average of 1.5 wt% copper, to a smeller every day. The smeller extracts 80% of the copper from the ore on the same day. What is the production of copper in tons/day?
14
Wheat production of a country over a number of years is shown. Which year recorded highest per cent reduction over the previous year?


15
What is the next pattern in the given sequence?


16
A person completely under sea water tracks the Sun. Compared to an observer above water, which of the following observations would be made by the underwater observer?
17
A man sells three articles A, B, C and gains 10% on A, 20% on B and loses 10% on C. He breaks even when combines selling prices of A and C are considered, whereas he gains 5% when combined selling prices of B and C are considered. What is his net loss or gain on the sale of all the articles?
18
Based on the distribution of surface area of the Earth at different elevations and depths (with reference to sea-level) shown in the figure, which of the following is FALSE?


19
Time-distance graph of two objects A and B are shown.

If the axes are interchanged, then the same information is shown by:

If the axes are interchanged, then the same information is shown by:
20
A chocolate salesman is travelling with 3 boxes with 30 chocolates in each box. During his journey he encounters 30 toll booths. Each toll booth inspector takes one chocolate per box that contains chocolates(s), as tax.What is the largest number of chocolates he can be left with after passing through all toll booths?
21
It takes 2 hours for Tiwari and Deo to do a job. Tiwari and Hari take 3 hours to do the same job. Deo and Hari take 6 hours to do the same job. Which of he following statements is icorrect?
22
Abdul travels thrice the distance Catherine travels, which is also twice the distance that Binoy travels. Catherine’s speed is 1/3 of Abdul’s speed, which is also ½ of Binoy’s speed. If they start at the same time then who reaches first?
23
For a certain regular solid: number of faces + number of vertices = number of edges + 2. For three such distinct (not touching each other) objects, what is the total value of faces + vertices – edges?
24
What will be the next figure in the following sequence?
25
A, B, C, D are points on a circle with AB = 5 cm, BC = 12 cm, AC = 13 cm and AD = 7 cm. Then, the closest approximation of CD is
26
Choose the four digit number, in which the product of the first and fourth digits is 40 and the product of the middle digits is 28. The thousand digit is as much less than the unit digits as the hundreds digit is less than the tens digit.
27
Without changing the radius if the density of the planet is doubled, then what effect will it have on the ‘g’ of the planet ?
28
A frog hops and lands exactly 1 meter away at a time. What is the least number of hops required to reach a point 10 cm away?
29
A train running at 36 km/h crosses a mark on the platform in 8 sec and takes 20 sec to cross the platform. What is the length of the platform?
30
As compared to the force of gravity of the moon on the Earth, what will be the force of gravity of the Earth on the moon, if the moon’s mass is approximately 10% of the mass of the Earth ?
31
“The clue is hidden in this statement”, read the note handed to Sherlock by Moriarty who hid the stolen treasure in one of the ten pillars. Which pillar is it?
32
Suppose three meetings of a group of professors were arranged in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai. Each professor of the group attended exactly two meetings. 21 attended Mumbai meeting, 27 attended Delhi meeting and 30 attended Chennai meeting. How many of them attended both the Chennai and Delhi meetings?
33
The probability that a ticketless traveller is caught during a trip is 0.1. if the traveller makes 4 trips, the probability that he/she will be caught during at least once of the trips is:
34
The minimum number of straight lines required to connect the nine points above without lifting the pen or retracting is:


35
Let A, B be the ends of the longest diagonal of the unit cube. The length of the shortest path from A to B along the surface is:
36
How many digits are there is 316 when it is expressed in the decimal form?
37
There is an inner circle and an outer circle around a square. What is the ratio of the area of the outer circle to that of the inner circle?



38
The base diameter of a glass is 20% smaller than the diameter at the rim. The glass is filled to half the height. The ratio of empty to filled volume of the glass is:
39
A wheel barrow unit unit spacing between its wheels is pushed along a semi-circular path of mean radius 10. The difference between distances covered by the inner and outer wheels is:
40
Write d = 1 degree, r = 1 radian and g = 1 grad. Then which of the following is true?
41
In each of the following groups of words is a hidden number, based on which you should arrange them in ascending order. Pick the right answer.
1.Tinsel event
2.Man in England
3.Good height
4.Last encounter
1.Tinsel event
2.Man in England
3.Good height
4.Last encounter
42
Let m and n be two positive integers such that m + n +mn = 118Then the value of m + n is:
43
AB is the diameter of a circle. The chord CD is perpendicular to AB intersecting it at P. If CP = 2 and PB =1, the radius of the circle is:



44
What is the angle x in the schematic diagram given below?



45
From a group of 40 players, a cricket team of 11 players is chosen. Then, one of the eleven is chosen as the captain of the team. The total number of ways this can be done is 
below means the number of ways n objects can be chosen from m objects

below means the number of ways n objects can be chosen from m objects46
Starting from a point A you fly one mile south, then one mile east, then one mile north which brings you back to point A. Point A is NOT the north pole. Which of the following MUST be true?
47
A 3 m long car goes past a 4 m long truck at rest on the road, the speed of the cat is 7 m/s. The time taken to go past is:
48
Jar W contains 40 white marbles and jar B contains 40 black marbles. Ten black marbles from B are transferred to W and mixed thoroughly. Now, ten randomly selected marbles from W are put back in Jar B to make 40 marbles in each jar. The number of black marbles in W:
49
Consider 3 parallel strips of 10 m width running around the Earth, parallel to the equator, A1 at the equator, A2 at the Tropic of Cancer and A3 at the Arctic Circle. The order of the areas of the strips is:
50
If 
Then 

Then 
51
We define a function f(N) = sum of digits of N, expressed as decimal number e.g.
Evaluate
.
Evaluate
.52
Every month the price of a particular commodity falls in this order:1024, 640, 400, 250, …
What is the next value
What is the next value
53
A cubical piece of wood was filed to make it into the largest possible sphere. What fraction of the original volume was removed?
54
Three volumes of a Hindi book, identical in shape and size, are next to each other in a shelf, all upright, so that their spines are visible, left to right: I, II and III. A worm starts eating from the outside front cover of volume I, and eats its way horizontally to the outside back cover of volume III. What is the distance travelled by the worm, if each volume is 6 cm thick?
55
What is the area of the triangle bounded by the lines 

56
A 2.2 m wide rectangular steel plate is corrugates as shown in the diagram. Each corrugation is a semi-circle in cross section having a diameter of 7 cm. What will be the width of steel plate after it is corrugated?


57
Ajay, Bunty, Chinu and Deb were agent, baker, compounder and designer, but not necessarily in that order. Deb told the baker that Chinu is on the way. Ajay is sitting across the designer and next to the compounder. The designer didn’t say anything. What is each person’s occupation?
58
Two platforms are separated horizontally by distance A and vertically by distance B. They are to be connected by a staircase having identical steps. If the minimum permissible step length is a and the maximum permissible step height is b, the number of steps the staircase can have is
59
The sum of first n natural numbers with one of them missed is 42. What is the number that was missed?
60
A mouse has to go from point A to B without retracting any part of the path, and never moving backwards. What is the total number of distinct paths that the mouse may take to go from A to B?
61
The main layers of the Earth in correct order, from the surface moving down, are:
62
Which of the following is NOT one of the main families of rocks?
63
What steps are involved in having a hypothesis become an established theory?
64
The lithosphere can be described as a layer of the Earth that is located:
65
Little or no volcanic activity is associated with which of the following plate boundaries?
66
The mineral halite has cube-shaped crystals because:
67
Which of the following is NOT a main type of silicate structure?
68
The property that distinguishes an atom to be that of a particular elements is:
69
In the mineral olivine, iron and magnesium can substitute freely in the crystal for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
70
The primary difference between magma and lava is that:
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Fluid magma rises for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
72
As the rate of cooling decreases, the sizes of the crystals in a igneous rock:
73
A pyroclastic flow can best be described as a:
74
Which of the following would be the best place to live of you wanted to avoid volcanic eruptions?
75
A volcanic dome (a.k.a. ‘rhyolite dome’) forms when:
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Which of the following is not one of the four stages in the development of a terrestrial planet?
77
The central regions of Earth’s core are a solid because
78
The youngest part of Earth’s crust are
79
The oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere
80
The gas that is most responsible for the greenhouse effect on Earth is
81
A and B move clockwise around a circle. starting from a common point O. A takes 9 minutes to complete a round but re-starts after a delay of 1 minute. B takes 13 minutes to complete the round but restarts after a delay of 2 minutes. How many minutes after they began would they meet again at O ?
82
Fourteen of the students in a class are girls. Eight students in the class wear blue shirts. Two are neither girls nor wear blue shirts. Five students who wear blue shirts are girls. How many students are there in the class ?
83
A stick of length L is broken into two pieces at random. What is the average length of the smaller piece ?
84
A long-distance runner finds a water station after completing
of the total distance After covering another
of the total distance he gets medical-aid. Another runner joins him 4 km after the medical-aid station. The second runner stops 4 km before the completion of run, covering
of the total distance. What is the total distance ?
of the total distance After covering another
of the total distance he gets medical-aid. Another runner joins him 4 km after the medical-aid station. The second runner stops 4 km before the completion of run, covering
of the total distance. What is the total distance ?85
Movement of a car with respect to time is given below :

Γ’β¬βΉThe average speed of the car is :

Γ’β¬βΉThe average speed of the car is :
86
A fuel station sold diesel costing Rs.15000 to 150 persons on a day. If the lower limit of sale to a person is Rs.50, what is the maximum amount in rupees for which one person could have purchased diesel on that day ?
87
The area of the triangle formed by joining the points (2017, 2017), (2027, 2027) and (2037, 2017) is
88
If Sangeeta’s daughter is my daughter’s mother, then how am I related to Sangeeta ?
89
Four males M1, M2, M3, M4 and four females F1, F2, F3 and F4 are sitting around a round table facing away from the table as shown in the figure below. If each one moves three positions to his/her right and then one position to the left, then in which direction does F4 face ?


90
Prof. Murthy likes to let her students choose who their partners will be; however, no pair of students may work together for more than seven class periods in a row. Alice and Bob have worked together for seven class periods in a row. Calvin and Denny have worked together for three class periods in a row. Calvin does not want to work with Alice. Who should be assigned o work with Bob ?
91
In a group of 44 players, 26 play hockey, 24 play football and 24 play cricket. Eight of them play both hockey and football, 12 play both football and cricket, and 5 play all the three games. How many play both hockey and cricket ?
92
It is given that
Γ’β¬βΉ for any real number a Suppose for two real number x and y, (xy)* = (x)* (y)*. Then which of the following is necessarily true ?
Γ’β¬βΉ for any real number a Suppose for two real number x and y, (xy)* = (x)* (y)*. Then which of the following is necessarily true ?93
Number of times a research paper is viewed and cited is shown in the pict. In which month was the percentage increase in citation more than the double of the percentage increase in view ?


94
Which of the following options is the best choice for the missing number ?
0.1, 0.25, 0.3, 0.2, 0.5, 0.6, 0.3, ...., 0.9, 0.4, 1.0, 1.2
0.1, 0.25, 0.3, 0.2, 0.5, 0.6, 0.3, ...., 0.9, 0.4, 1.0, 1.2
95
Consider a number 54 expressed in a base different from ten. What is the base of this number system if its equivalent value in the decimal system is 49 ?
96
Which of the options is appropriate for the blank space ?


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In the diagram, what is the ratio of the total shaded area (of the circle and semi-circle) to the total area of the square and the retangle ?


98
Students are solving the same problem independently. If the probability that the first one solves the problem is
and the probability that the second solves the problem is
, what is the probability that at least one of them solves the problem ?
and the probability that the second solves the problem is
, what is the probability that at least one of them solves the problem ?99
A ball is dropped from a height of 100 m. The ball after each bounce rises vertically by half its previous height (This means at the first bounce it rises by 50 m, by 25 m at the second bounce and so on). What is the vertical distance travelled by the ball between the first and the fifth bounce ?
100
Three semi-circles are drawn inside a big circle as shown in the figure. If the radius of the two identical smaller semi-circles is th of that of the big circle and the radius of the bigger semi-circle
Γ’β¬βΉ is twice that of the small semi-circle, what proportion of the big circle's area is shaded ?

Γ’β¬βΉ is twice that of the small semi-circle, what proportion of the big circle's area is shaded ?


