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A river connects two towns A and B. It flows 37 miles South from town A, then it turns West and flows 23 miles, then it turns North and flows 40 miles, then it turns to its right and flows 23 miles to reach town B. Where is town A with respect to town B?
Water flows into an empty 64-gallon drum through pipe A and flows out through pipe B. If the rate of flow through A is 2 gallons/hour, how many gallons per hour must flow out through pipe B so that the drum is full in exactly 96 hours?
Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives.
The Amazon basin has been continuously inhabited for at least 10, 000 years, possibly more. Its earliest inhabitants were stone-age peoples, living in hundreds of far-flung tribes, some tiny, others numbering in the tens of thousands. It was from the west that Europeans explorers first arrived. In 1541 a Spanish expedition from Quito, led by Gonzalo Pizarro, ran short of supplies while exploring east of the Andes in what is today Peru. Pizarros cousin Francisco de Orellana offered to take 60 men along with the boats from the expedition and forage for supplies. De Orellana floated down the Rio Napo to its confluence with the Amazon, near Iquitos (Peru), and then to the mouth of the Amazon. Along the way his expedition suffered numerous attacks by Indians; some of the Indian warriors, they reported, were female, like the Amazons of Greek mythology, and thus the worlds greatest river got its name. No one made a serious effort to claim this sweaty territory, however, until the Portuguese built a fort near the mouth of the river at Belém in 1616, and sent Pedro Teixeira up the river to Quito and back between 1637 and 1639. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Portuguese bandeirantes (groups of roaming adventurers) penetrated ever further into the rain forest in pursuit of gold and Indian slaves, exploring as far as present-day Rondônia, and the Guaporé and Madeira river valleys. Amazonian Indians had long used the sap from rubber trees to make waterproof bags and other items. European explorers recognized the potential value of natural latex, but were unable to market it because it tended to grow soft in the heat, or brittle in the cold, and thus had limited appeal outside the rain forest. However, in 1842 American Charles Goodyear developed vulcanization (made natural rubber durable) and in 1890 Irelands John Dunlop patented pneumatic rubber tires. Soon there was an unquenchable demand for rubber in the recently industrialized USA and Europe, and the price of rubber on international markets soared. As profits skyrocketed, so did exploitation of the seringueiros, or rubber tappers, who were lured into the Amazon, mostly from the drought-stricken northeast, by the promise of prosperity only to be locked into a cruel system of virtual slavery dominated by seringalistas (owners of rubber-bearing forests). Rigged scales, hired guns, widespread illiteracy among the rubber tappers, and monopoly of sales and purchases all combined to perpetuate the workers debt and misery. In addition, seringueiros had to contend with jungle fevers, Indian attacks and all manner of deprivation.
In which year did the fort was built by Portuguese near the river Belem?
What is the rank of the Krishna River in terms of water inflows and river basin area in India taking into consideration River Ganga, River Godavari, and River Brahmaputra?
Which of the following best explain why the lower course of a river is sometimes choked with sediments?
1. The valley of a river is widest in its lower course.
2. The velocity of a river in its lower course is low.
3. The delta sometimes develops in a river's lower course.
4. Much of the river water is drawn for irrigation in the lower course.
Arrange the following categories of cash inflows and cash outflows in a correct order.
1. Cash flows from investing activities.
2. Cash flows from financing activities.
3. Cash flows from operating activities.
The lubricating oil for a large industrial gas turbine engine is cooled in a counter flow, concentric tube heat exchanger. The cooling water flows through the inner tube ( diameter = 25 mm) with inlet temperature 25 degree celsius and mass flow rate 0.2 kg/s. The oil flows through the annulus (diameter = 50 mm) with mass flow rate 0.125 kg/s and its temperature at entry and exit are 90 degree Celsius and 60 degree Celsius. Find outlet temperature of cooling water
When a current of 0.5A flows through a filament of the electric bulb. Then amount of electric charge flows through a circuit is 300C, Calculate the time.
A constant current of 1.0A flows through a resistance of 12Ω. The amount of charge flows through the resistance in 1 minute is -
At which one of the following places do two important rivers of India originate;while one of them flows towards north and merges with another important river flowing towards Bay of Bengal, the other one flows towards Arabian Sea?