611. What is a stock of a product which is held by a trade body or government as a means of regulating the price of that product ?
A. Stock pile
B. Hoard stock
C. Buffer stock
D. Withheld stock
✅ The correct answer is option C.
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612. The reduced levels of the string at the consecutive sight rails A and B are 203.575 m, 203.475 m respectively. If the difference of their R.D.s is 10 m, the gradient of the sewer line is_________________?
A. 1 in 100 upward
B. 1 in 500 upward
C. 1 in 100 downward
D. 1 in 503 upward
✅ The correct answer is option C.
613. The density of water is 1000 kg/m3 at __________________?
A. 0°C
B. 0°K
C. 4°C D. 20°C
E. all temperature
✅ The correct answer is option C.
614. The drainage area of a town is 12 hectares. Its 40% area is hard pavement ( K = 0.85), the 40% area is unpaved streets (K = 0.20) and the remaining is wooded areas (K = 0.15). Assuming the time of concentration for the areas as 30 minutes and using the formula Ps = 900/(t + 60) the maximum run off is__________________?
A. 0.10 cumec
B. 0.12 cumec
C. 0.15 cumec
D. 0.20 cumec
✅ The correct answer is option C.
615. In a residential colony, sewers of diameters 100 mm, 150 mm and 225 mm were laid with a gradient 1 in 120. Which portion of the sewage system does not choke in due course of time?
A. 100 mm dia.
B. 150 mm dia.
C. 225 mm dia.
D. All of these
✅ The correct answer is option C.
616. What refers to the interest rate at which the present work of the cash flow on a project is zero of the interest earned by an investment ?
A. Economic return
B. Yield
C. Rate of return
D. Return of investment
✅ The correct answer is option C.
617. The property of a fluid which enables it to resist tensile stress is known as________________?
A. compressibility
B. surface tension
C. cohesion
D. adhesion
✅ The correct answer is option C.
618. Pitot tube is used for measurement of__________________?
A. pressure
B. flow
C. velocity
D. dsscharge
✅ The correct answer is option C.
619. If the flame of a miner’s safety lamp in the upper layers of the sewer forms an explosive, the sewer certainly contains_______________?
A. Hydrogen sulphide
B. Carbon dioxide
C. Methane
D. Oxygen
✅ The correct answer is option C.
620. The time oscillation of a floating body with increase in metacentric height will be________________?
A. same
B. higher
C. lower
D. lower/higher depending on weight of body
✅ The correct answer is option C.