1 -If we were to use opportunity cost value for non-basic cell to

test optimally in transportation problem, it should be

equal to zero

most positive number

most negative number

any value042990533
2-A contractor has to supply 5000 bearings per day to an
automobile manufacturer. He finds that, when he starts a
production run, he can produce 15000 bearings per day. The
cost of holding a bearing in stock per one year is Rs. 2 and the
setup cost of a production run is Rs. 1,100. How frequently
should the production run be made? (Take number of working
days in a year = 300)
4 days

10 days

6 days
8 day
3-An auto company manufactures cars and trucks. Each vehicle
must be processed in the paint shop and body assembly shop.
If the paint shop were only painting trucks, then 40 per day
could be painted. If the paint shop were only painting cars, then
60 per day could be painted. If the body shop were only
producing cars, then it could process 50 per day. If the body
shop were only producing trucks, then it could process 50 per
day. Each truck contributes $300 to profit, and each car
contributes $200 to profit. What will be the maximum profits of
the company?

 100

120

150
180
4-The number of plates of food ordered per hour at a restaurant
follows Poisson distribution, with an average of 30 plates per
hour being ordered. What is the probability that the time
between twoconsecutive orders is between 1 and 3 minutes?

0.19

0.38

0.5
0.76
5-A company orders 2250 units every 1.5 month. The cost of
one setup is Rs 500. The holding cost is Rs 0.15 per unit per
month and the shortage cost of one unit is Rs 20 per year.
Percentage saving in total annual cost by ordering EOQ will be
___________.
10.51
5-A firm marketing a product has four sales men S1, S2, S3 and
S4 and C1, C2 and C3 are the three customers. The probability of
making a sale to a customer by each salesman is given in the
table below:

6-Profit obtained by selling one unit to C1 is Rs. 500 to C2 is Rs.

450 and to C3 is 540. Assuming that only one salesman can

make a sale to a customer, the total expected profit is Rs.

____________.
1156
7-Two geometrically similar pumps are to run at the same
speed of 1200 rpm, one of the pump which has an impeller
diameter of 0.3 m lift water at a rate of 20 liter/s through a
head of 16 m. Then the size of other pump to deliver half the
quantity of water is __________m.
0.238 (0.23 - 0.25)
8-A cyclindrical container whose weight is 65 N is inverted and
pressed into the water, as shown in given figure. Assume
pressure variation in cylinder is neligible, then the differential
height(h) of the manometer is __________ cm.
9.5(9.45 -9.55)
9-A helical spring is made from a wire of 6 mm diameter and
has outside diameter of 75 mm. If the permissible shear stress
is 350 MPa and modulus of rigidity 84 kN/mm2. By considering
the effect of curvature the deflection per active turn will be
7.24
8.24

9.24

10.24

10-A multi-disc clutch employs 3 steel and 2 bronze discs

having outer diameter of 300 mm and inner diameter of 175
mm. If the coefficient of friction is 0.25 and axial force on each
pair of surfaces is 5 kN, then the torque transmitted assuming
uniform wear is _________ N-m.

 593.75(590 - 595)
12-In the requirement of flywheel in punching press, the cycle
time is 6 seconds. The stroke is 125 mm. The thickness of the
sheet metal to punched is 3 mm. The time required in seconds
for punching the sheet metal is ____________.
0.072(0.065 - 0.078)
13-A uniform disc of 50 kg mass, 800 mm diameter and 840
rpm rotational speed is mounted on a shaft. The plane of the
disc is not perfectly at right angles to the axis of the shaft but
has an error of 1.5 degree. The gyroscopic couple acting on the
bearing is _________ Nm.
404.96(404 - 406)
14-Two involute gears in a mesh have a velocity ratio of 3. The
arc of approach is not to be less than the circular pitch when
the pinion is the driver. The pressure angle of the involute teeth
is 20. The least number of teeth on each gear is
17, 51

18, 54

19, 57
20, 60
15-A cam that is designed for cycloidal motion drives a flatfaced follower. During the rise, the follower displaces 1 cm for
180 of cam rotation. If the cam angular velocity is constant at
100 rpm the displacement of the follower at a cam angle of
60, will be
2.95 cm
1.55 cm

1.95 cm

2.45 cm
16-For maximization Linear Programming Problem, the
objective function coefficient for an artificial variable is

-m

zero

17-A bush manufacturing company has a contract to supply

5000 bushes to an automobile factory per day. The company
has capacity to manufacture 8000 bushes and holding cost of
1000 bushes is 8 paise. Set up cost is Rs. 20. The length of
production cycle is approximately
11 days
13 days

16 days

23 days
18-Annual usage = 12,000 units, ordering cost = Rs. 60 per
order
Carrying cost = 10% of unit cost, unit cost of item = Rs. 10 and
lead time = 10 days.
There are 300 working days/year. In the past two years the use
rate has gone as high as 70 units per
day. For a reordering system based on the inventory level, the
average inventory (units) is
300

 0
700

900

19-The demand for a commodity is 100 units per day. Every

time an order is placed, a fixed cost of Rs. 800 is incurred.
Holding cost is Rs. 0.16 per unit per day. If the lead time is 12
days, the reorder point is

200 units

20-A 100 ohm resistor carrying a constant current of 1A is kept

at a constant temperature of 27C by a stream of cooling water
for a time-interval of 1s, the change in entropy of resistor
is________ J/K.
0
21-If a certain amount of steam is produced at a pressure of 8
bar and dryness fraction 0.8. What is the internal latent heat of
steam at 8 bar ?

1834.6 kJ
1638.6 kJ
1384.6 kJ

1483.6 kJ

22-Losses for flow through valves and fitting are expressed in

terms of
drag coefficient

equivalent length of a straight pipe

shape factor
roughness facto
23-A pump draws oil (specific gravity 0.8) from a storage tank
and discharges it to an overhead tank. The mechanical energy
delivered by the pump to the fluid is 50 J/kg. The velocities at
the suction and the discharge points of the pump are 1 m/s and
7 m/s, respectively. Neglecting friction losses and assuming
kinetic energy correction factor to be unity, the pressure
developed by the pump (in kN/m2)
19.2

20.8

40
80
24-A storage vessel exposed to atmosphere (absolute pressure
= 10.3 m of water) has a diameter of 3 m and is initially filled
with water to a height of 2 m. The pump draws water from the
vessel and is located at an elevation of 5 m above the bottom
of the vessel. The frictional head loss in the suction pipe is 2 m
of water. If the vapour pressure of the liquid at the temperature
of operation is 3 m of water, then the available NPSH is

2.3 m

5.3 m
6.3 m
8.3 m

25-A centrifugal pump delivers a manometric head of 12 m

when pumping a liquid of relative density 0.8. If all other factors
remain the same but the liquid has a relative density of 1.2, the
new manometric head would be ___________m. 8

26-Carnot engine uses nitrogen as the working fluid ( = 1.4).

The heat supplied is 52 kJ and adiabatic expansion ratio is 32 :
1. The receiver temperature is 295 K. The amount of heat
rejected is ______kJ.
13

27-A tank fully insulated contains 1 m3 of air at 50C and 2 MPa.

The valve is open and air escapes until half the original mass is
gone and then the valve is closed. After valve is closed, the
pressure inside the tank is

757.34 kPa

650 kPa

1000 kPa

1200 kPa
28-A key capable of tilting in a recess milled out a shaft is
known as

Wood-ruff key

Feather key

Flat saddle key

Gib head key

29-A disc cam is to give SHM to a knife edge follower during

out-stroke of 40 mm. The angle of ascent is 120 and the
minimum radius of cam is 40 mm. The cam shaft revolves at
200 rpm. Then the maximum velocity during ascent is _____
m/s. 0.628(0.58 - 0.65

30-power plant operates at 30% efficiency during summer

when the sea water used for cooling is at 25C. The plant uses
350C steam to drive turbines. If the plants efficiency changes
in the same proportion to ideal efficiency, the plant efficiency in
winters when the sea water is 10C is:
54.57%

31.36%

52.16%
29.19%
31-A mass of air is stirred by a paddle wheel in an insulated
constant volume tank. The velocities due to stirring make a
negligible contribution to the internal energy of the air. Air flows
at through a small valve in the tank at the rate of 0.9 kg/h to
keep the temperature in the tank constant. At a certain instant,
the pressure and tank volume are found to be 1 MPa and 0.15
m3 respectively. If the power to the paddle is 0.2 kW, the
temperature of air in the tank is ____________ C. 523.02(5

32-The specific exergy of air for a state at 2 bar, 600 K when

surrounding are at 1 bar, 300 K is ______kJ/kg.
(Take cp = 1 kJ/kgK and R = 0.3 kJ/kgK)
154.5

33-An imaginary engine having thermal efficiency 70 percent,

receives heat and does work on a slowly moving piston at such
rates that the cycle of operation of 1 kg of working fluid can be
represented as a circle on a pV diagram where 1 cm = 200 kPa
and 1 cm = 0.2 m3/kg. The heat rejected by the engine in the
cycle is 1200 kJ/kg. What is the diameter of the circle on pV
diagram?
8.24 cm
7.14 cm

9.44 cm

10.74 cm

34-ir is compressed in a piston cylinder arrangement from 1 bar

to some pressure which is having adiabatic surface. Total heat
added in the process is 20 kJ/kg. If the surrounding is at 280 K
and the surface of the cylinder is of 350 K. What is the change
in entropy of the air if inlet temperature of air is 280 K and
outlet temperature is 450 K.
0.461 kJ/kgK
0.461 J/kgK

0.5181 kJ/kgK

0.461 J/kgK
35-Metal balls of mass 20 kg, initially at a temperature of 250C
and with specific heat 0.5 kJ/kgK are quenched in an oil both of
initial temperature 20C and specific heat 2 kJ/kgK. During the
quenching, a paddle wheel drawn by a 250 W motor is

activated to stir the oil. Entropy generated during the process is

2.2 kJ/K. If the final temperature is 50C, the thermal
equilibrium is established after ______minutes. 10.

36-A cam operates a knife edge follower having a lift of 30 mm.

The cam raises the follower with SHM for 180 of rotation
followed by a period of dwell for 60. The follower descends for
next 100 rotation of cam with uniform velocity, again followed
by a dwell period.
The cam rotates at 120 rpm and has a least radius of 20 mm.
The maximum acceleration of follower during lift will be
__________ m/s2. 2.37

37-One of the driving axles of a locomotive with its two wheels

has moment of inertia of 350 kg-m2. The wheels are of 1.85 m
diameter. The distance between the planes of the wheels is 1.5
m. When travelling at 100 km/hr the locomotive passes over a
defective rail which causes the right hand wheel to fall 12 mm
and rise again in total time of 0.1 sec, the vertical movement of
wheel being S.H.M. What is the maximum gyroscopic torque
when the wheel is falling?

1320.75 Nm

3641.5 Nm
2641.5 Nm
5251.2 Nm

38-A double acting steam engine develops 56 kW of power at

210 RPM. The maximum and minimum speeds do not very

more than 1% of mean speed and excess energy is 30% of the

indicated work per stroke. If radius of gyration of flywheel is
500 mm, the mass of flywheel will be _____________ kg.
991.735(