ibps-so 2016 · Question 384 of 394

A composite carp culture unit has approached the branch for nance, and the water quality statement led with its application records a pH of 6.1 taken at dawn from the lled pond. The liming schedule attached to the application is graded in four bands of reaction, and 6.1 falls in the mildly acidic band running from 5.6 to 6.5, for which one de nite dressing of agricultural lime is prescribed per hectare of water spread before stocking. The appraising o cer knows that mildly acidic water keeps the natural productivity of the pond low, that the liming will also settle the turbidity, sterilise the bottom and release the nutrients bound in the mud, and that the bands lying below this one attract dressings several times heavier while the band above it attracts a very small one. Only the rate for the band actually reported may be admitted in the estimate. The dose of lime prescribed for pond water at a pH of 5.6 to 6.5 is

1. A100 kg per hectare
2. B200 kg per hectare
3. C300 kg per hectare
4. D400 kg per hectare
5. E500 kg per hectare Directions (Q191–Q195) : A bank that has of late pushed its lending against the pledge of gold ornaments has called for a return from the ve branches of one district, showing the business booked under that head during the quarter last closed. Study the table given below with care and answer the questions that follow it. The second column gives, for each branch, the number of gold loan accounts sanctioned during the quarter; the third gives the average net weight of the ornaments pledged in a single account at that branch; and the last gives the loan-to-value ratio which the branch applied, that is to say the proportion of the assessed value of the ornaments which it in fact advanced. Throughout the quarter, and at every one of the ve branches alike, the ornaments tendered were assessed at the uniform rate of ₹2,500 the gram of net weight, no allowance being made at any branch for the making charges or for the stones; and every account sanctioned at a branch is to be taken to have carried the average weight and the loan-to-value ratio stated against that branch. Number of gold loan Average net weight of Loan-to-value ratio applied accounts sanctioned ornaments pledged in one by the branch (per cent of during the quarter account (grams) the assessed value) Chittoor 1,200 24 70 Dharmavaram 900 32 75 Guntakal 1,500 20 65 Kadiri 800 45 80 Madanapalle 1,100 28 72 BranchCorrect