GATE-GE SERIES
General-aptitude

Reasoning

3 previous year questions.

Volume: 3 Ques
Yield: Medium

High-Yield Trend

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2023

Chapter Questions
3 MCQs

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Human beings are one among many creatures that inhabit an imagined world. In this imagined world, some creatures are cruel. If in this imagined world, it is given that the statement β€œSome human beings are not cruel creatures” is FALSE, then which of the following set of statement(s) can be logically inferred with certainty?
(i) All human beings are cruel creatures.
(ii) Some human beings are cruel creatures.
(iii) Some creatures that are cruel are human beings.
(iv) No human beings are cruel creatures.

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only (i)
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only (i) and (ii)
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In 2022, June Huh was awarded the Fields medal, which is the highest prize in Mathematics.
When he was younger, he was also a poet. He did not win any medals in the International Mathematics Olympiads. He dropped out of college.
Based only on the above information, which one of the following statements can be logically inferred with certainty?
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Every Fields medalist has won a medal in an International Mathematics Olympiad.
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Everyone who has dropped out of college has won the Fields medal.
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All Fields medalists are part-time poets.
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Some Fields medalists have dropped out of college.
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A line of symmetry is defined as a line that divides a figure into two parts in a way such that each part is a mirror image of the other part about that line.
The given figure consists of 16 unit squares arranged as shown. In addition to the three black squares, what is the minimum number of squares that must be coloured black, such that both and form lines of symmetry? (The figure is representative)

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