Choose the most appropriate phrase from the options given below to complete the following sentence.

India is a post-colonial country because

Who ___________ was coming to see us this evening?

Match the columns.

   Column 1          Column 2
1) eradicate       P) misrepresent
2) distort         Q) soak completely
3) saturate        R) use
4) utilize         S) destroy utterly

What is the average of all multiples of 10 from 2 to 198?

The value of is

The old city of Koenigsberg, which had a German majority population before World War 2, is now called Kaliningrad.  After the events of the war, Kaliningrad is now a Russian territory and has a predominantly Russian population. It is bordered by the Baltic Sea on the north and the countries of Poland to the south and west and Lithuania to the east respectively.  Which of the statements below can be inferred from this passage?

The number of people diagnosed with dengue fever (contracted from the bite of a mosquito) in north India is twice the number diagnosed last year. Municipal authorities have concluded that measures to control the mosquito population have failed in this region.

Which one of the following statements, if true, does not contradict this conclusion?

If x is real and |x² - 2x + 3| = 11, then possible values of |- x³ + x² - x| include

The ratio of male to female students in a college for five years is plotted in the following line graph. If the number of female students doubled in 2009, by what percent did the number of male students increase in 2009?

At what time between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. will the minute hand and hour hand of a clock make an angle closest to 60°?

The security system at an IT office is composed of 10 computers of which exactly four are working. To check whether the system is functional, the officials inspect four of the computers picked at random (without replacement). The system is deemed functional if at least three of the four computers inspected are working.  Let the probability that the system is deemed functional be denoted by p. Then 100p =_____________.

Each of the nine words in the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is written on a separate piece of paper. These nine pieces of paper are kept in a box. One of the pieces is drawn at random from the box. The expected length of the word drawn is _____________. (The answer should be rounded to one decimal place.)

The maximum number of edges in a bipartite graph on 12 vertices is ______.

If the matrix A is such that

then the determinant of A is equal to

A non-zero polynomial f(x) of degree 3 has roots at x = 1, x = 2 and x = 3. Which one of the following must be TRUE?

The dual of a Boolean function F(x₁, x₂, ..., x_n, +, ⋅, '), written as F^D, is the same expression as that of F with + and ⋅ swapped. F is said to be self-dual if F = F^D. The number of self-dual functions with n Boolean variables is