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A telephone switchboard 100 pair cable can be made up with either enameled wire or tinned wire. There will be 400 soldered connections. The cost of soldering a connection on the enameled wire will be P 1.65 on the tinned wire, it will be P 1.15. A 100- pair cable made up with enameled wire cost P 0.55 per linear foot and those made up of tinned wire cost P 0.75 per linear foot. Determine the length of cable run in feet so that the cost of each installation would be the same ?
A. 1,000 feet
B. 1,040 feet
C. 1,100 feet
D. 1,120 feet
A lift of weight W is lifted by a rope with an acceleration f. If the area of cross-section of the rope is A, the stress in the rope is_______________?
A. [W (1 + f/ G)]/ A
B. (1 – g/f)/A
C. [W (2 + f/G)]/A
D. [W (2 + g/f)]/A
Which of the following methods is preferred for collecting origin and destination data for a small area like a mass business center or a large intersection ?
A. road side interview method
B. license plate method
C. return postcard method
D. home interview method
A _____________ is a market situation where economies of scale are so significant that cost are only minimized when the entire output of an industry is supplied by a single producer so that the supply costs are lower under monopoly that under perfect competition ?
A. Perfect monopoly
B. Bilateral monopoly
C. Natural monopoly
D. Ordinary monopoly
The minimum number of main steel bars provided in R.C.C________________?
A. Rectangular columns is 4
B. Circular columns is 6
C. Octagonal columns is 8
D. All the above
If the ratio of long and short spans of a two way slab with corners held down is r, the actual reduction of B.M. is given by
A. (5/6) (r/1 + r²) M
B. (5/6) (r²/1 + r²) M
C. (5/6) (r²/1 + r3) M
D. (5/6) (r²/1 + r4) M
A sewer running partially full and hurried with back filled, fails in compression due to_________________?
A. Weight of the pipe
B. Weight of the back fill
C. Superimposed traffic loads
D. All the above
The characteristics of fresh and septic sewage respectively are____________________?
A. acidic and alkaline
B. alkaline and acidic
C. both acidic
D. both alkaline
If the length of a chain is found to be short on testing, it can be adjusted by______________?
A. straightening the links
B. removing one or more small circular rings
C. closing the joints of the rings if opened out
D. all of the above
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