A land mark on GATE exam day

        Yesterday (10^th Feb'13) GATE exam was conducted. It's an all India exam conducted by IITs annually for entry to M.Tech courses. Some PSUs also consider the GATE scores for offering jobs. In GATE, there are a total of 65 questions carrying a total of 100 marks, out of which 10 questions carrying total of 15 marks are in General Aptitude (GA). The remaining 85% of the total marks is devoted to the Engineering syllabus. From last year (GATE-2012),

GATE-2013 Solutions (General Aptitude)(EC/EE/IN)

1. A car travels 8 km in the first quarter of an hour, 6 km in the second quarter and 16 km in the third quarter. The average speed of the car in km per hour over the entire journey is

(A)30   (B)36   (C)40   (D)24

Sol:

This is a simple formula based one.

GATE-2013 Solutions (General Aptitude)(CS-IT/ME/PI)

1. A tourist covers half of his journey by train at 60 km/h, half of the remainder by bus at 30 km/h and the rest by cycle at 10 km/h. The average speed of the tourist during his entire journey is

(A)36   (B)30   (C)24   (D)18

Sol:

This is a simple formula based one.

Average speed = total distance/ total time