11 December 2021 | Daily Current Affairs for All Exams | Gaurav Chaudhary Sir

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An electric current of 8 A is made to flow through a room heater of resistance 30 omega . Calculate (1) the potential difference across the heater. (2) the power supplied to the heater. (3) the amount of heat energy liberated from it in one minute. (4) If the heater is used for 10 hours daily in the months of December, then find the num ber of units of electrical energy consumed by it.

In a house there are ten 60-watt lamps. Three 40-watt flourorescent tubes and three 40-watt fans. When all these are switched on what is the current drawn from the mains if the supply voltage is 220V? Calculate the power drawn and the cost for using them for 6hours daily in a month of 30 days.( 1 B.O.T. unit costs 30 pasise).

Ministry Draws up Plan to Turn Around SEB's by 2008 To give a boost to the financial health of state electricity boards (SEBS), the power ministry has outlined an 11-point agenda to initiate their financial turnaround by 2007-08. Suggestions include changes= in the way distribution utilities submit tariff fixation petitions to the regulators and introduction of the concept of a proper timebound business plan. The ministry has asked all utilities to adopt a multi-year tariff approach while filing the next tariff petition for 2007-08 before the state regulator. This must be undertaken before December 2006. It has also asked utilities to have a state approved business plan with identifiable goals for a three, six and twelve month period. Also, approval needs to be sought from the state regulator for automatic tariff adjustment to recover additional fuel and other unanticipated costs. List the steps undertaken by Essar group in the planning process

Ministry Draws up Plan to Turn Around SEB's by 2008 To give a boost to the financial health of state electricity boards (SEBS), the power ministry has outlined an 11-point agenda to initiate their financial turnaround by 2007-08. Suggestions include changes= in the way distribution utilities submit tariff fixation petitions to the regulators and introduction of the concept of a proper timebound business plan. The ministry has asked all utilities to adopt a multi-year tariff approach while filing the next tariff petition for 2007-08 before the state regulator. This must be undertaken before December 2006. It has also asked utilities to have a state approved business plan with identifiable goals for a three, six and twelve month period. Also, approval needs to be sought from the state regulator for automatic tariff adjustment to recover additional fuel and other unanticipated costs. Identify one Limitation of planning involved in this case

Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions. In a school 4 students A, B, C and D appeared in an English examination which is consist of 15 short and 4 long questions are asked. Each of short question carry 5 marks and each of long questions carry 10 mark and for a spelling error 0.5 mark is deducted. For not attempting a question, zero marks is awarded. In the English exam, A answered (x + 6) short questions, x long questions and did (2x + 10) spelling errors. Ratio of number of spelling errors made by A and B is 8 : 3. Total marks scored by D is 86. Ratio of short and long questions answered by B In the English exam is 5 : 1 and he scored total 102 marks. C scored 35 marks more in short questions than long questions except spelling errors and the number of spelling errors made by C is equal to the difference of the number of spelling errors made by A and B. Number of short questions answered by D is average of that answered by A and B. Percentage of number of long questions answered among all the question answered by D is 20% . Average of the number of spelling errors made by all four students A, B, C and D is 10. Each student attempts integral number of short as well as long questions. Average number of short questions answered by A, B, C and D is 11.75, then the total marks scored by C in the English exam is

If the average marks of 17 students in a class is A. The marks of the students when arranged in either an ascending or a descending order was found to be in arithmetic progression. The class teacher found that the students who were ranked 3rd, 7th, 8th, 11th, 15th had copied in the exam and hence got all of them rusticated. The average of the remainder of the class was B. Then

Cotton acreage in India during the current year has fallen by 10% as cotton growers have moved on cultivation of other cash crops. This is the result of the cotton glutin world markets post-September 11 and the consequent slowdown in the world economy. But this scenario brought with it benefits toone segment of the industry-yarn manufacturers as they get highest prices for their produce. Someyarn manufacturers had stocked up low priced cotton last year. The combined effect of all this is evident in the rise in net profits and net margins of yarn manufacturers. There has been shortage of cotton in the world market last year.