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The task of any business is to deliver _ at a profit.

A) Customer value B) Improved quality
C) Customer needs D) Products and services
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Customer value

Explanation:

The task of any business is to deliver Customer value at a profit.

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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.


Namita is from the state of Kerala. She has come to Dubai to serve as a governess for the only child of the Nairs. The Nairs are nice and gentle and Namita has no cause to complain. One day she overhears something that makes her jittery. Mr. Nair is not employed in an American company as she has been told. The nature of his business is illegal. She is shocked and wants to go back to her home town to her own people.

Gopal is from a very poor family. His family owns a very small piece of land that can hardly meet their food requirement. One day, Gopal gets a nice offer to work in the Emirates with a construction contractor. In order to meet the expenses on travelling, the family decides to sell their own land and send Gopal to the foreign country, to make money. On arrival, the contractor confiscates Gopal's passport and gives him a small place to live in with ten others like him. Gopal has little idea what he must do.


What does the phrase, 'makes her jittery' imply?

A) Sadness B) Anger
C) Trauma D) Anxiety
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Anxiety

Explanation:
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Q:

The PCl5 molecule has trigonal bipyramidal structure. Therefore,the hybridization of p orbitals should be

A) sp2 B) sp3
C) dsp2 D) dsp3
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) dsp3

Explanation:

The P atom needs five orbitals to form the five P-Cl bonds. It has a 3s and three 3p orbitals, so it must use one of its 3d orbitals to form the fifth bond. These orbitals are hybridized to form five sp3d orbitals that just happen to point in the right directions to form a trigonal bipyramid.

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Q:

Which of the following is true of enzymes?

A) Enzymes lowers the activation energy for the chemical reaction B) Enzymes speed up the rate of a chemical reaction
C) Both A & B D) Neither A nor B
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Both A & B

Explanation:

Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts. Enzymes accelerate chemical reactions. The molecules upon which enzymes may act are called substrates and the enzyme converts the substrates into different molecules known as products.

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Q:

The Nobel Prize in Economics was started in

A) 1901 B) 1936
C) 1957 D) 1967
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 1967

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Q:

Instrument for measuring work performed is called _________.

A) Eudiometer B) Anemometer
C) Hyetometer D) Ergometer
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Ergometer

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Q:

Which compressor is usually used in AC?

A) Centrifugal B) Rotary
C) Reciprocating D) Axial
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Reciprocating

Explanation:

A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor. The capacity of the air conditioning depends entirely on the capacity of the compressor. The reciprocating compressor is usually used in AC.

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The reciprocating compressor have piston and cylinder arrangement like the automotive engine. The reciprocating motion of the piston due to external power compresses the refrigerant inside the cylinder.

There are three types of reciprocating compressors:

hermetically sealed,

semi-hermetically sealed and

open type.

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Q:

When moon's orbit is closest to earth is called as

A) Perigee B) Apogee
C) Perihelion D) Aphelion
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Perigee

Explanation:

When moon's orbit is closest to earth is called as Perigee.

The distance between the Moon and Earth varies throughout the month and the year since the moon's orbit around the earth is elliptical. The distance is about 382,900 kilometers from the Moon's center to the center of Earth.

 

Hence, the point on the Moon's orbit closest to Earth is called the perigee.

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