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Correct Answer : B

Let the number be x. An increase of 37.5% means the new number is 137.5% of the original.

Note that 37.5% = 3/8.

So, the new number is \(x + \frac{3}{8}x = \frac{11}{8}x\).

\(\frac{11}{8}x = 99\)

\(x = 99 \times \frac{8}{11} = 9 \times 8 = 72\).

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Correct Answer : B

An infinite geometric series with \( |r| < 1 \) sums to

\[ S = \frac{a}{1-r} = \frac{1}{1 - 1/3} = \frac{1}{2/3} = \frac{3}{2} \]

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Correct Answer : B

Correct answer: soiree

The relation is occasion : its character. A funeral is sombre; a soirée - an evening party - is festive. A eulogy is a speech given at the funeral rather than an occasion in itself.

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The unfolded pattern is (A).

The paper is folded first along the diagonal from top-left to bottom-right, then along the other diagonal's half, leaving a quarter of the square whose top edge is one side of the original square and whose apex is the centre. Unfolding reflects each cut across both diagonals, so the final pattern must be symmetric about both diagonals.

The triangular notch on the top edge points outward, so every side gets an outward-pointing notch at its midpoint; (C) has the top and bottom notches pointing inward. The square cut sits on the first diagonal fold near the top-left corner, so it unfolds to an upright square at the top-left and, by the second fold, at the bottom-right. Reflection across a diagonal keeps an upright square upright, which rules out the diamonds in (B), and (D) has a single square at the centre instead. The bar near the second fold opens into the hooked shapes at the other two corners, as (A) shows.

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Correct Answer : C

Correct answer: C is to the immediate right of B

The arrangement these questions were set against is not reproduced with the item as it now stands. What can be said is that this statement is the one the information fixes completely, while the other three are not determined - they may hold in some arrangements consistent with the clues and not in others, and “definitely true” requires that a statement hold in every arrangement the clues permit. The companion question in this set is keyed to the same relation, B followed immediately by C.

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Correct Answer : D

The right preposition is to: 'His indolence is a great drawback to his success.'

Drawback, meaning a disadvantage or hindrance, is followed by to when it names the thing hindered: 'a drawback to the plan', 'a drawback to his progress'. Indolence, or laziness, hinders his success.

'A drawback of' is used for a disadvantage that belongs to a thing ('a drawback of the design'), which is not the sense here. For, in and about do not form the idiom with drawback in this sentence.

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Correct Answer : D

Correct answer: He exclaimed that it was a very cold day

An exclamation is reported with a verb of exclaiming, and the force carried by what a…! has to be preserved by an intensifier - hence a very cold day. Dropping very loses that force, told turns the exclamation into a statement, and sorrowfully adds an emotion the original does not express.

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Correct answer: Camouflage

The correct spelling is camouflage - the vowel cluster ou in the middle, and the ending -age. It is French, from camoufler, to disguise, and entered English during the First World War, when the technique was first used systematically. Because the borrowing is recent, English kept the French spelling entirely intact. The -age ending, pronounced in the French manner in this word, belongs to a group of similar borrowings: sabotage, massage, garage, mirage, collage and entourage. The common errors either drop the u or add a second one before the ending. Reading the word as cam-ou-flage, in three parts, prevents both. It is used both as a noun and as a verb, and the participles are camouflaged and camouflaging.

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Correct Answer : D

The opposite is pleasant.

Petulant means childishly sulky and irritable. Complaining, peevish and captious are all of a piece with it.

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Correct Answer : E

It is renounce.

To abjure is to renounce on oath, from the Latin for swearing away. Allow is its opposite; to run off secretly is to abscond, the word most often confused with it.

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Correct Answer : C

The correct order is DCAB. D comes first because it states the general fact that koalas are pregnant for 30-35 days. C follows by naming the newborn a joey. A then describes the joey at birth: half a gram, crawling into the pouch and feeding on milk. B closes the sequence with what happens at 6 months, when the joey begins to eat pap.

DBAC and ABDC put the six-month stage before the birth details, and ACDB puts the birth weight before the pregnancy that precedes it.

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Correct Answer : C

Correct answer: Close

Close shuts the current document while leaving Word running; Exit shuts Word itself.

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Correct Answer : D

The Matsya Union merged in the fifth stage.

Rajasthan was integrated in seven stages between 1948 and 1956. The Matsya Union of Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Karauli was the first stage (18 March 1948). Greater Rajasthan was formed in the fourth stage on 30 March 1949, and the Matsya Union joined it on 15 May 1949, which was the fifth stage.

The third stage was the United State of Rajasthan with Udaipur (April 1948), the sixth was the merger of Sirohi in January 1950, and the seventh added Ajmer, Abu and Sunel Tappa in November 1956.

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Correct Answer : C

Gamma rays are high-energy electromagnetic waves.

They are photons of no rest mass and no charge, with wavelengths below about \(10^{-11}\ \mathrm{m}\), emitted when a nucleus falls from an excited state to a lower one. Being uncharged, they are undeflected by electric and magnetic fields and are the most penetrating of the three radiations.

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Correct Answer : A

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck propounded it.

He held in 1809 that characters acquired in a lifetime - the giraffe's neck stretched by reaching - are passed to offspring. Weismann disproved it by cutting off the tails of mice for generations without effect, and Darwin's natural selection replaced it.

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Earthquake magnitude is measured on the Richter scale, from the amplitude of the waves recorded on a seismograph.

It is logarithmic: each whole number is a tenfold rise in amplitude and about a thirtyfold rise in energy. The Mercalli scale, by contrast, rates the observed intensity of shaking rather than the energy released.

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Correct Answer : C

2009 was celebrated as the International Year of the Shark.

It drew attention to the collapse of shark populations from finning and by-catch. Sharks grow slowly and produce few young, so a heavily fished population recovers very slowly.

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It started in 2000.

The Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana provided additional central assistance to states for village-level projects in five priority areas: primary health, primary education, rural shelter, rural drinking water and nutrition.

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Vembanad is in Kerala.

It is the longest lake in India, about 96 km, and the largest in Kerala, forming the heart of the backwaters. The Thanneermukkom barrage keeps sea water out of its southern part so that paddy can be grown below sea level in Kuttanad.

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The legal adviser to a state government is the Advocate-General, appointed by the governor under Article 165.

The office is the state counterpart of the Attorney-General for India. The Advocate-General has the right to speak in the state legislature but not to vote.