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What is the indication out of the sentence: ‘I gave him a piece of my mind’?
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What is the indication out of the sentence: ‘I gave him a piece of my mind’?
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The Maternity Benefit act, 1961 (M.B Act) provided for how many week’s wages during the maternity period?
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A man buys apples at a certain price per dozen and sells them at 8 times price per hundred. What percentage does he gain or lose?
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A certain sequence of integers is constructed as follows: Consider 0 and 1 as the first two numbers. The next, i.e. the third number is constructed by their sums, i.e. 1. This process of constructing the next number continues taking these numbers 0, 1, 1 as the first, second and third numbers in the sequence. What will be the 7th and 10th numbers respectively?
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A firm is purchasing two items, both on credit on the same day. The credit term offered for the first item is 2.5 /10, 1/20, net 30; and the credit term offered for the second for the second item is 3/5, 2/15, net 30. The declared purchase cost of item 1 is Rs 60,000 and that of item 2 is Rs 1, 40,000. If both credits can be paid 14 days after the purchase, what is the total amount to be paid out?
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A and B run a 1 km race. A gives B a start of 50 m and still beats him by 15 seconds. If A runs at 8 km/h, what is the speed of B?
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Social security may provide cash benefits to persons faced with
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If the radius of a circle is reduced by 50%, its area will be reduced by
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A branch of scholarship that flourished in Europe, particularly from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and was devoted to the appreciation, chronicling and classification of historic and non-organic relics, monuments and old texts refers to
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Which of the following statements reflect the distinctive feature about 6th century Ganas or Sanghas?
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What is the chronological sequence if the following developments?
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Which of the following are the typical differences between private insurance programmes and the social insurance programmes?
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