Engineering Sciences (XE) 2025

Even though I had planned to go skiing with my friends, I had to _________ at the last moment because of an injury. Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

The President, along with the Council of Ministers, _________ to visit India next week. Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

An electricity utility company charges ₹ 7 per kWh (kilo watt-hour). If a 40-watt desk light is left on for 10 hours each night for 180 days, what would be the cost of energy consumption? If the desk light is on for 2 more hours each night for the 180 days, what would be the percentage-increase in the cost of energy consumption?

In the context of the given figure, which one of the following options correctly represents the entries in the blocks labelled (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv), respectively?

A bag contains Violet (V), Yellow (Y), Red (R), and Green (G) balls. On counting them, the following results are obtained: (i) The sum of Yellow balls and twice the number of Violet balls is 50. (ii) The sum of Violet and Green balls is 50. (iii) The sum of Yellow and Red balls is 50. (iv) The sum of Violet and twice the number of Red balls is 50. Which one of the following Pie charts correctly represents the balls in the bag?

"His life was divided between the books, his friends, and long walks. A solitary man, he worked at all hours without much method, and probably courted his fatal illness in this way. To his own name there is not much to show; but such was his liberality that he was continually helping others, and fruits of his erudition are widely scattered, and have gone to increase many a comparative stranger’s reputation." (From E.V. Lucas’s “A Funeral”) Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?