Civil Engineering GATE 2019 Set-2 Questions with Answer

Ques 1 Civil

Daytime temperatures in Delhi can _______ 40°C.

Ques 2 Civil

The growth rate of ABC Motors in 2017 was the same _______ XYZ Motors in 2016.

Ques 3 Civil

Suresh wanted to lay a new carpet in his new mansion with an area of 70 × 55 sq. mts. However an area of 550 sq. mts. had to be left out for flower pots. If the cost of carpet is Rs. 50 per sq. mts., how much money (in Rs.) will be spent by Suresh for the carpet now?

Ques 4 Civil

A retaining wall with measurements 30 m × 12 m × 6 m was constructed with bricks of dimensions 8 cm × 6 cm × 6 cm. If 60% of the wall consists of bricks, the number of bricks used for the construction is _______ lakhs.

Ques 5 Civil

Hima Das was _______ only Indian athlete to win _______ gold for India.

Ques 6 Civil

Mohan, the manager, wants his four workers to work in pairs. No pair should work for more than 5 hours. Ram and John have worked together for 5 hours. Krishna and Amir have worked as a team for 2 hours. Krishna does not want to work with Ram. Whom should Mohan allot to work with John, if he wants all the workers to continue working?

Ques 7 Civil

Population of state X increased by x% and the population of state Y increased by y% from 2001 to 2011. Assume that x is greater than y. Let P be the ratio of the population of state X to state Y in a given year. The percentage increase in P from 2001 to 2011 is

Ques 8 Civil

The Newspaper reports that over 500 hectares of tribal land spread across 28 tribal settlements in Mohinitampuram forest division have already been “alienated”. A top forest official said, “First the tribals are duped out of their land holdings. Second, the families thus rendered landless are often forced to encroach further into the forests”.
On the basis of the information available in the paragraph, _______ is/are responsible for duping the tribals.

Ques 9 Civil

An oil tank can be filled by pipe X in 5 hours and pipe Y in 4 hours, each pump working on its own. When the oil tank is full and the drainage hole is open, the oil is drained in 20 hours. If initially the tank was empty and someone started the two pumps together but left the drainage hole open, how many hours will it take for the tank to be filled? (Assume that the rate of drainage is independent of the Head)

Ques 10 Civil

“Popular Hindi fiction, despite or perhaps because of its wide reach, often does not appear in our cinema. As ideals that viewers are meant to look up to rather than identify with, Hindi film protagonists usually read books of aspirational value: textbooks, English books, or high value literature.” Which one of the following CANNOT be inferred from the paragraph above?

Ques 11 Civil

Euclidean norm (length) of the vector [4, -2, -6]^T is

Ques 12 Civil

The Laplace transform of sinh(at) is

Ques 13 Civil

The following inequality is true for all x close to
0. 2 - x2 / 3 < (x sin x) / (1 - cos x) < 2.
What is the value of limx→0 (x sin x) / (1 - cos x)?