Daily GK Update 01st August 2017

1. World's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Switzerland

i. Spanning an awesome 1621 feet and rising as high as 279 feet, the newly opened Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge in Switzerland has broken the record for the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge, according to Zermatt Tourism.

ii. The bridge, which has replaced an older bridge that was damaged by falling rocks, was named after its chief sponsor, a psychologist and co-owner of a Swiss winery.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• The Currency of Switzerland is Swiss franc.
• The Capital of Switzerland is Bern.

2. Trump Awarded First Medal of Honor to Vietnam Army Medic

i. An Army medic from Michigan who risked his life multiple times to rescue Vietnam War comrades is the first person to receive the Medal of Honor from President Donald Trump in Washington.

ii. Trump presented America's highest military honor to James McCloughan at a White House ceremony.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States.

3. Delhi Metro Declared as World’s first Green Metro

i. The Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) was recently declared as the world’s first green metro after it added a green certification for all its major buildings and installations. DMRC was also awarded the platinum rating for its 10 residential colonies for adherence to green building norms by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).

ii. The declaration was made during National Conference on Green Metro Systems by the IGBC.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• The Managing Director of DMRC is Mangu Singh.
• Prem C. Jain is the Chairman of IGBC.

4. Government enters into 9 Unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (UAPAs) with Indian taxpayers in July

i. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) entered into nine Unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (UAPAs) with Indian taxpayers in the month of July 2017. The APA Scheme endeavors to provide certainty to taxpayers in the domain of transfer pricing by specifying the methods of pricing and determining the Arm’s Length Price of international transactions in advance for a maximum period of five future years.

ii. CBDT has signed its first APA with a taxpayer engaged in supplying rigs used in Oil & Gas exploration. The international transactions covered in these nine APAs include provision of software development services, engineering design services, distribution, contract manufacturing, etc.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is a statutory authority functioning under the Central Board of Revenue Act, 1963.
• Sushil Chandra is the Chairman of CBDT.

5. Sameer Garde named Cisco president for India, SAARC region

i. Tech giant Cisco has named former Philips Healthcare executive, Sameer Garde as president for its India and SAARC operations. He has succeeded Dinesh Malkani.

ii. Malkani will remain associated with Cisco as the strategic advisor till the end of September 2017.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Cisco Systems is a Networking hardware company based in the USA.

6. Arvind Panagariya resigns as NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman

i. Arvind Panagariya, the first vice-chairman of Niti Aayog who was considered to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal pick for economic reforms, announced his resignation. 

ii. The 62-year-old Panagariya is an Indian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Columbia University.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Chairman of NITI Aayog is Narendra Modi.

7. Swachh Survekshan-2018 launched to assess sanitation in all 4,041 cities and towns of the country

i. Central Government launched the third cleanliness survey ‘Swachh Survekshan-2018’ to rank all the 4,041 cities and towns of the country based on infrastructure development for improved sanitation services and their sustainability, outcomes, citizen connect and visible impact on ground.

ii. Under the survey, launched by Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, 500 cities with more than 1 lakh population and state and UT capitals will have all-India ranking. Also, 3,541 cities with less than 1 lakh population will have state and zonal rankings.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

•  Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs is Shri Narendra Singh Tomar.

8. Mukesh Ambani Becomes Asia’s Second-Richest Person

i. Mukesh Ambani has elbowed past Li Ka-shing to become Asia’s second-richest man as investors rallied behind his efforts to arm India’s poor with cheap data-loaded phones. The chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has added $12.1 billion to his wealth in 2017, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

ii. He passed Li Ka-shing, whose empire spans telecommunications, retail, and ports. Jio took just nine months after launching with a free introductory offer to rope in 117.3 million users and become India’s fourth-largest operator, according to government data.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) was established in 1966 in Maharashtra.
• The owner of Alibaba, Jack Ma is the Richest Person in Asia.

9. Rahul, Manu-Sumeeth clinch titles at Lagos Open

i. Indian shuttler C Rahul Yadav and men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy clinched the men's singles and men's doubles title respectively at Lagos International challenge in Nigeria.

ii. Rahul surpassed another Indian player Karan Rajan Rajarajan in the final clash to the title at the MoladeOkoya-Thomas Hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium. In the doubles pair, Manu and Sumeeth, who played at the Rio Olympics, defeated local pair of Godwin Olofua and Anouluwapo Ju won Opeyori.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Abuja is the Capital of Nigeria.
• The Currency of Nigeria is Nigerian naira.

10.Summer Olympics: Los Angeles to host 2028 Games and Paris gets 2024

i. Los Angeles reached an agreement with the leaders of the International Olympic Committee on plans to host the 2028 Summer Games. Los Angeles formally announced its bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics after agreeing on a deal that paves the way for Paris to host in 2024.

ii. The Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic bid committee in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), announced it recently. The LA bid committee stated that Los Angeles will host the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games 2028.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.

Data Interpretation

Directions (1-5): Study the following pie-chart and bar chart and answer the following questions. 

Percentage wise distribution of students in six different schools 

Total number of students = 6000

Percentage of students 

Number of boys out of 6000 students in each school separately 

 

Q1. What is the total number of girls in school C, number of girls in school E and the number of boys in school D together?    

(a) 1700

(b) 1900

(c) 1600

(d) 1800

(e) None of these 

Q2. What is the respective ratio between the number of boys in school C, number of girls in school B and total number of students in school E?  

(a) 45 : 7 : 97

(b) 43 : 9 : 97 

(c) 45 : 7 : 87 

(d) 43 : 9 : 87 

(e) None of these 

Q3. What is the difference between the total number of students in school F and the number of boys in school E? 

(a) 820

(b) 860

(c) 880

(d) 900 

(e) None of these

Q4. In which school the total number of students (both boys and girls) together are equal to the number of girls in school E? 

(a) A 

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D

(e) F

Q5. Number of girls in school A is approximately what per cent of total number of students in school B?  

(a) 55

(b) 50

(c) 35

(d) 45

(e) 41

Directions (6-10): Study the following pie-chart and table carefully to answer these questions. 

State wise details of adult population of a country.

Graduate and above, total number = 24 Lakhs  

Upto XII Std. Pass, Total number = 32 lakhs 

Male-Female (M : F) Ratio
States     Graduate and Above		Upto XII standard Pass
	M : F	M : F
A	7 : 5	7 : 9
B	5 : 3	3 : 5
C	5 : 4	4 : 5
D	9 : 8	5 : 7
E	9 : 7	9 : 10
F	4 : 3	3 : 2

Q6. What is the difference between graduate male population and XII standard male population from state A? 

(a) 24000

(b) 14000

(c) 28000

(d) 36000

(e) None of these 

Q7. What is the ratio between graduate female population of state E and standard XII female population of state D respectively? 

(a) 7 : 5

(b) 5 : 7 

(c) 16 : 15

(d) 15 : 16

(e) None of these 

Q8. Graduate female population of state C is what per cent of the standard XII female population of the state?  

(a) 40

(b) 62.5

(c) 50

(d) 52.5

(e) None of these

Q9. Class XII male population of state C is what per cent of the total standard XII population of all the state together?  

(a) 8%

(b) 12%

(c) 11%

(d) 9%

(e) None of these 

 

Q10. What is the ratio between the graduate male population of state E and standard XII female population of that state respectively?  

(a) 28 : 35 

(b) 35 : 28 

(c) 32 : 45 

(d) 45 : 32 

(e) None of these 

Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully to answer the questions that follow. 

There are two trains, Train A and Train B. Both trains have four different types of coaches viz. General coaches, Sleeper coaches, First class Coaches and AC coaches. In train A there are total 700 passengers.

Train B has thirty percent more passengers than train A. Twenty percent of the passengers of train A are in general coaches. One fourth of the total number of passengers of train A are in AC coaches.

Twenty three percent of the passengers of train A are in sleeper class coaches. Remaining passengers of train A are in first class coaches. Total number of passengers in AC coaches in both the trains together is 480. Thirty percent of the number of passengers of train B is in sleeper class coaches. 

Ten percent of the total passengers of Train B are in first class coaches. Remaining passengers of train B are in general class coaches. 

Q11. What is the respective ratio between the number of passengers in first class coaches of Train A and number passengers in sleeper class coaches of train B?     

(a) 13 : 7 

(b) 7 : 13

(c) 32 : 39

(d)  Data inadequate 

(e) None of these 

Q12. What is the total number of passengers in the general coaches of train A and the AC coaches of train B together? 

(a) 449

(b) 459

(c) 435

(d) 445 

(e) None of these 

Q13. What is the difference between the number of passengers in the AC coaches of train A and total number of passengers in sleeper class coaches and first class coaches together of Train B? 

(a) 199

(b) 178

(c) 187

(d) 179 

(e) None of these 

Q14. Total number of passengers in general class coaches in both the trains together is approximately what percentage of total number of passengers in train B? 

(a) 35

(b) 42

(c) 46

(d) 38

(e) 31 

Q15. If cost of per ticket of first class coach ticket is Rs. 450, what total amount will be generated from first class coaches of Train A? 

(a) Rs. 100080

(b) Rs. 108000

(c) Rs. 100800

(d) Rs. 10800

(e) None of the above 

Solutions

Quant Questions

Directions (1-5): A soft-drink company prepares drinks of three different flavours – X, Y and Z. The production of the three flavours over a period of six years has been expressed in the bar-graph provided below. Study the graph and answer the questions based on it.

Production of three different flavours of soft-drinks X, Y, Z by a 

Company over the year (in lakh bottles)

Q1. For which of the following years the percentage of rise/fall in production from the previous year is the maximum for the flavor Y?

(a) 1996

(b) 1997

(c) 1998

(d) 1999

(e) 2000

Q2. For which flavor was the average annual production maximum in the given period?

(a) X only

(b) Y only

(c) Z only

(d) X and Y

(e) X and Z

Q3. The total production of flavor Z in 1997 and 1998 is what percentage of the total production of flavor X in 1995 and 1996?

(a) 96.67%

(b) 102.25%

(c) 115.57%

(d) 120%

(e) 133.33%

Q4. What is the difference between the average production of flavor X in 1995, 1996 and 1997 and the average production of flavor Y in 1998, 1999 and 2000?

(a) 50,000 bottles

(b) 80,000 bottles

(c) 2,40,000 bottles

(d) 3,30,000 bottles

(e) 5,00,000 bottles

Q5. What was the approximate decline in the production of flavor Z in 2000 as compared to the production in 1998?

(a) 50%

(b) 42%

(c) 33%

(d) 25%

(e) 22.5%

Directions (6-10): The bar-graph given below shows the percentage distribution of the total production of a car manufacturing company into various models over two years. Study the graph carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Percentage of Six different types of Cars manufactured by a Company over two years

Q6. Total number of cars of models P, Q and T manufactured in 2000 is:

(a) 2,45,000

(b) 2,27,500

(c) 2,10,000

(d) 1,92,500

(e) 1,57,500

Q7. For which model the percentage rise/fall in production from 2000 to 2001 was minimum?

(a) Q

(b) R

(c) S

(d) T

(e) U

Q8. What was the difference in the number of Q type cars produced in 2000 and that produced in 2001?

(a) 35,500

(b) 27,000

(c) 22,500

(d) 17,500

(e) 16,000

Q9. If the percentage production of P type cars in 2001 was the same as that in 2000, then the number of P type cars produced in 2001 would have been:

(a) 1,40,000

(b) 1,32,000

(c) 1,17,000

(d) 1,05,000

(e) 97,000

Q10. If 85% of the S type cars produced in each year were sold by the Company, how many S type cars remained unsold?

(a) 7650

(b) 9350

(c) 11,850

(d) 12,250

(e) 13,350

Q11. A box contains 4 red balls, 5 green balls and 6 white balls. A ball is drawn at random from the box. What is the probability that the ball drawn is either red or green?

(a) 2/5

(b) 3/5

(c) 1/5

(d) 7/15

(e) None of these

Q12. In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. The probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected, is:

(a) 21/46

(b) 25/117

(c) 1/50

(d) 3/25

(e) None of these

Q13. Four persons are chosen at random from a group of 3 men, 2 women and 4 children. The chance that exactly 2 of them are children, is:

(a) 1/9

(b) 1/5

(c) 1/12

(d) 10/21

(e) None of these

Q14. A box contains 20 electric bulbs, out of which 4 are defective. Two bulbs are chosen at random from this box. The probability that at least one of these is defective, is:

(a) 4/19

(b) 7/19

(c) 12/19

(d) 21/95

(e) None of these

Q15. In a class, 30% of the students offered English, 20% offered Hindi and 10% offered both. If a student is selected at random, what is the probability that he has offered English or Hindi?

(a) 2/5

(b) 3/4  

(c) 3/5

(d) 3/10

(e) None of these

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)

Sol. The percentage rise/fall in production from the previous year for flavor Y during various years are:

S2. Ans.(b)

Sol. Average annual productions over the given period for various flavours are:

For flavour X = [1/6×(50+40+55+45+60+50)] lakh bottles = 50 lakh bottles.

For flavour Y = [1/6×(55+60+50+55+50+55)] lakh bottles

= 54.17 lakh bottles.

For flavour Z = [1/6×(45+50+60+60+45+40)] lakh bottles = 50 lakh bottles.

∴ Maximum average production is for flavor Y.

S6. Ans.(c)

Sol. We shall first determine the number of cars of each model produced by the Company during the two years:

In 2000: Total number of cars produced = 3,50,000.

P = (30 – 0)% of 3,50,000 = 30% of 3,50,000 = 1,05,000

Q = (45 – 30)% of 3,50,000 = 15% of 3,50,000 = 52,500

R = (65 – 45)% of 3,50,000 = 20% of 3,50,000 = 70,000

S = (75 – 65)% of 3,50,000 = 10% of 3,50,000 = 35,000

T = (90 – 75)% of 3,50,000 = 15% of 3,50,000 = 52,500

U = (100 – 90)% of 3,50,000 = 10% of 3,50,000 = 35,000.

In 2001: Total number of cars produced = 4,40,000.

P = (40 – 0)% of 4,40,000 = 40% of 4,40,000 = 1,76,000

Q = (60 – 40)% of 4,40,000 = 20% of 4,40,000 = 88,000

R = (75 – 60)% of 4,40,000 = 15% of 4,40,000 = 66,000

S = (85 – 75)% of 4,40,000 = 10% of 4,40,000 = 44,000

T = (95 – 85)% of 4,40,000 = 10% of 4,40,000 = 44,000

U = (100 – 95)% of 4,40,000 = 5% of 4,40,000 = 22,000

Now, we shall solve the questions.

Total number of cars of models P, Q and T manufactured in 2000

= (105000 + 52500 + 52500) = 2,10,000.

S7. Ans.(b)

Sol. Using the above calculation, the percentage change (rise/fall) in production from 2000 to 2001 for various model is:

∴ Minimum percentage rise/fall in production is in the case of model R.

S8. Ans.(a)

Sol. Required difference = 88000 – 52500 = 35500

S9. Ans.(b)

Sol. If the percentage production of P type cars in 2001 = percentage production of P type cars in 2000 = 30%

Then, number of P type cars produced in 2001 = 30% of 440000 = 132000.

S10. Ans.(c)

Sol. Number of S type cars which remained unsold in 2000 = 15% of 35000

and number of S type car which remained unsold in 2001 = 15% of 44000

∴ Total number of S type cars which remained unsold

= 15% of (35000 + 44000) = 15% of 79000 = 11850.