GATE Questions

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Sir Sandford Fleming, (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He proposed worldwide standard time zones, designed Canada's first postage stamp.

Venus is the only planet that rotates in clockwise where all other planets in the solar system rotates in anti - clockwise direction.

The finance ministers of US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan is called as G-7 group. 

In this chemical reaction chlorine change oxidation number from 0 to -1 (reduction) and bromine change oxidation number from -1 to 0 (oxidation).

Chlorine is stronger oxidation reagent than bromine.

In VIIA or group 17 (halogen elements) there are six elements: fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), astatine (At) and tennessin(Ts).

They have high electronegativity because they have seven valence electrons in their outermost energy level, so they can gain an electron to have the octet rule.  

Going down in the group, element are weaker oxidazing reagent and less reactive.

Most operating systems store files on a hard disk.

Let the present age of Pinky be x years

Then the age of Mary is x - 12 years

After 3 years,

Ratio of  MaryPinky = x - 9x + 3 = 58

8x - 72 = 5x +15

=> 3x = 87

=> x = 29

=> Age of Pinky = 29 years

=> Age of Mary = 29 - 12 = 17 years

Present age of Sam = 29 + 17 = 46

Before 15 years Sam age = 46 - 15 = 31 years.

Lithium is the lightest of all the metals due to its low atomic number among metals. It is the lightest solid element.

Properties ::

* It is a soft silvery-white alkali metal.

* Lithium is highly reactive and flammable and is stored in mineral oil.