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Correct answer: ₹248

First find the true discount, since the banker’s gain is the simple interest on it: \[ 48 = \frac{\text{TD} \times 8 \times 3}{100} = 0.24\,\text{TD} \;\Rightarrow\; \text{TD} = \frac{4800}{24} = 200. \] Then \[ \text{BD} = \text{TD} + \text{BG} = 200 + 48 = 248. \] The distractor 200 is the true discount, which catches anyone who stops after the first step. For completeness, the present worth is \( \text{TD}^{2}/\text{BG} = 40000/48 \approx 833.33 \) and the face value about 1,033.33. The order of magnitude is always \( \text{PW} > \text{TD} > \text{BG} \) for ordinary rates, and BD lies just above TD - so any answer below the true discount can be rejected without arithmetic.

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Correct Answer : D

Correct answer: Cannot be Determined

Every step of these machines moves one element to a fixed position and lets the rest close up behind it, so the original positions of the elements still waiting are lost as soon as the first move is made. The process runs one way only: from a later line you can say what will follow but never what came before, because many different inputs produce the same intermediate line. That is why the answer to any “what was the input” question of this kind is that it cannot be determined.

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Correct answer: Neither I nor II follows

Conclusion I claims that everyone else has already benefited, and conclusion II that nothing was ever attempted before - both far stronger than a promise to work for one group. A government may help the poor without either being true. Neither follows.

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Correct answer: QFO

Each letter moves one place forward in the alphabet: B becomes C, O becomes P, K becomes L.

The same rule turns P into Q, E into F and N into O, giving QFO.

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Correct answer: 6

Fourth in the rearranged paragraph is sentence 6.

The paragraph runs 3 – 5 – 1 – 6 – 4 – 2:

1. 3 gives the occasion: Christmas, and John's wish to surprise Jane.
2. 5 gives his choice of gift, an ivory clip for her long hair.
3. 1 gives the obstacle - he had no money.
4. 6 gives his solution with therefore - he sold his watch.
5. 4 gives Jane's reaction on seeing it.
6. 2 gives the reason for her tears, explained after a while.

The irony only lands in this order: the clip is useless because Jane has sold her hair, and the chain is useless because John has sold his watch.

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Correct answer: 4

Second in the rearranged paragraph is sentence 4.

The paragraph runs 5 – 4 – 2 – 6 – 1 – 3:

1. 5 is the topic sentence - the bank has done good, but is now under fire.
2. 4 introduces the first complaint, about profitability.
3. 2 spells that complaint out.
4. 6 adds the second charge with also - involuntary resettlement.
5. 1 illustrates it: a case in point is the Sardar Sarovar Dam.
6. 3 closes with the concession, for all its faults.

A case in point in 1 must follow the charge it illustrates, and only 5 introduces the bank, so nothing else can open the paragraph.

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Correct Answer : B

Correct answer: informed the members

Inform is a transitive verb and takes a direct object with no preposition: informed the members. It belongs to a group of verbs that are transitive in English but attract an unnecessary preposition in Indian usage: discuss, describe, emphasise, investigate, order, request, resemble, accompany, reach, enter, approach, obey, marry and inform. One does not discuss about a matter or reach at a station. What follows the object may of course take a preposition, and about is correct there: informed the members about the change, or informed the members of the change. The corresponding nouns do take prepositions - information about, a discussion about - which is precisely where the confusion originates.

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The error is in is free now from the narrow vested interests.

Vested interests is a general expression and takes no definite article here, and the adverb sits better as is now free. The article makes the phrase point to particular interests the sentence has not named.

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Correct Answer : A

Correct answer: By whom are you taught English?

The tense stays present simple, so the passive is are taught; the interrogative subject who becomes by whom; and the question order puts the auxiliary first. Teach has two objects, and it is the person that becomes the subject.

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It is popular.

Having many friends is what popular means, so the second sentence explains the first. Intelligent, busy and talkative might each be true of her but none follows from having many friends.

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It is eight.

Eight is the number - twelve less eight leaves four. Ate is the past tense of eat, and the two sound the same.

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The Atomic Energy Act was enacted in 1962.

It vests in the Central Government control over the mining of prescribed substances, the production of atomic energy and the disposal of radioactive waste, and permits secrecy over information relating to atomic energy.

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Correct Answer : B

An .INI file is a system configuration file.

It holds settings as plain text in sections with key-value pairs. Windows used INI files extensively before the registry replaced them, and many programs still use the format.

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Ethyl mercaptan (ethanethiol, C₂H₅SH) is a compound of sulphur, added to LPG to give it a smell.

LPG is odourless, so a leak would otherwise go unnoticed until it reached an explosive concentration. The human nose detects mercaptan at a few parts per billion.

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The most ancient geological formations are dated by the uranium–lead method, which is good to about 4,500 million years.

Uranium-238 decays to lead-206 with a half-life of 4,470 million years, so the ratio of the two dates the rock. Carbon-14, with a half-life of 5,730 years, is useless beyond about 50,000 years and works only on once-living material.

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World Poetry Day is observed on 21 March, declared by UNESCO in 1999.

It celebrates linguistic diversity through poetic expression and supports endangered languages, since much of what a small language holds is carried in its verse.

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14 April is observed as Cultural Unity Day in India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh and Nepal.

It is the solar new year across the region - Baisakhi in Punjab, Vishu in Kerala, Puthandu in Tamil Nadu, Pohela Boishakh in Bengal - and in India it is also the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar.

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The Tower of Silence is in Mumbai.

The dakhma on Malabar Hill is where Parsis expose their dead to vultures, holding that a corpse must not defile earth, fire or water. The practice has become difficult since vulture numbers collapsed in the 1990s.

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This zone is the pyrosphere.

Also called the mantle, it lies between the crust and the core, is about 2,880 km thick, and has an average density around 5.6. It is solid rock but deforms plastically over long periods, and its slow convection drives the movement of the plates above it.

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Both statements are correct.

A proclamation of financial emergency under Article 360 lapses after two months unless approved by both Houses, and once approved it continues indefinitely until revoked - there is no maximum, but three years is the period the question takes as correct. It has never been proclaimed.