ESAS 9 EXCEL

An ionic bond can be formed between two atoms when:

• both the atoms have low values of electron affinity

• both the atoms have low values of ionization energy

• both the atoms have high values of ionization energy

• one of them has a low ionization energy and the other a high electron affinity

Of the following statements, which is FALSE?

• No FORMAT statement is required with unformatted READ or WRITE statements.

• The arithmetic IF can only be used to evaluate an arithmetic expression.

• The FORMAT statement may or may not be executed by the program

• More than one STOP statement is permitted in a program.

An interest rate of nominal 12% per year, compounded weekly, is:

• A nominal rate per week

• An effective rate per week

• An effective rate per year

• A nominal rate per year

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) has a standard set of English characters (letters, numbers and punctuations) for data transfer. There are several larger extended sets of ASCII that are dependent on the operating system. How many bits represent the standard and extended sets, respectively?

• 7, 8

• 8, 12

• 8, 16

• 7, 7

Interest earned over a specific period of time is expressed as a percentage of the original amount is called _______.

• capital gain

• time value of money

• economic return

• rate of return

An engineer is required to finish a certain engineering job in 20 days. He is said to be _____ if he finished the job within the required period of 20 days.

• qualified

• reliable

• efficient

• effective

How do law and business ethics relate to each other?

• Ethics entirely determines what the laws will be, as ethics is focused on finding one right answer to every question.

• Law and business ethics serve as an interactive system, informing and assessing each other.

• The law establishes ethical rules and boundaries, because laws take multiple stakeholders into consideration.

• Ethics is unrelated to the law because ethics answers only moral questions.

Which of the following wires is strongest in tension?

• Stainless steel wire

• Piano wire

• Aluminum wire

• Brass wire

Which of the following materials does not have covalent bonds?

• None of the choices

• Organic polymer

• Silicon

• Metal

The vertical component of pressure force on a submerged curved surface is equal to:

• Its horizontal component

• The weight of liquid vertically above the curved surface

• The product of pressure at centroid and surface area

• The force on a vertical projection of the curved surface