ibps-so 2019 · Question 278 of 300

In the last of the four the division and the multiplication should each be settled separately before the two results are added. 3599.6 ÷ 11.98 + 27.03 × 14.97 = ? (A) 705 (B) 675 (C) 735 (D) 645 (E) 765 Directions (Q115–Q117) : A short account of the way in which the shipping container altered the economics of sea carriage has likewise been cut up, and its sentences are printed below in a jumbled order. The five sentences given below, labelled (A) to (E), form a coherent paragraph when they are arranged in the proper order. Rearrange them and then answer the questions that follow.

1. AA vessel that spent three weeks at a wharf and one at sea was, in effect, a warehouse that occasionally moved.Correct
2. BThe saving lay not in the box itself, which is a trivial object, but in everything that the box rendered unnecessary.
3. CThe metal box did away with all of that, for a crane lifted the cargo aboard in one piece and the ship was gone within a day.
4. DFor as long as cargo was carried loose, the expensive part of a voyage was the time the vessel spent tied up in port.
5. EGangs of men carried sacks and crates down into the hold and stowed them there by hand, a labour that took longer than the crossing itself.