☰ Transportation Engineering (Civil Engineering) - MCQs

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Q7.

Compensating errors in chaining are :

  • A. proportional to the length of the line
  • B. proportional to the square root of the length of the line
  • C. inversely proportional to the square root of the length of the time
  • D. inversely proportional to the length of the line

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Q8.

Negative errors are caused in chain, when its length is :

  • A. more than the standard length
  • B. loss than the standard length
  • C. equal to the standard length
  • D. uncertain

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Q9.

Errors which remain after mistakes and systematic errors have been eliminated are called :

  • A. Accidental errors
  • B. Latent errors
  • C. Imaginary errors
  • D. All of these

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Q10.

Most probable value of an observed quantity available from a given set of observation is the one for which the sum of the square of errors is a minimum.This statement is called:

  • A. Principal of least square
  • B. Law of errors
  • C. Principal of square errors
  • D. None of the above

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Q11.

Maximum allowable limit upto that a measurement may vary from the true value is called :

  • A. Permissible error
  • B. residual error
  • C. Expected error
  • D. Safe error

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Q12.

The position of point can be fixed more accurately by :

  • A. perpendicular offset
  • B. optical square
  • C. prism square
  • D. oblique offset

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