UPSC Civil Service Exam Questions - Engineering

Q1:

In a project, the contractor is paid on the basis of the running bill for a month. The rate contract for concreting is Rs. 1000/m3 of concrete. The consumption of number of cement of bags of weight 50 kg is 527. The mix proportion for the concrete is 1: 1.4 : 2.75 with W/C ratio of 0.52. The approximate billing amount of the month will be

A Rs. 5, 27, 000

B Rs. 1.49, 404

C Rs. 62, 252

D Rs. 26, 350

ANS:A - Rs. 5, 27, 000

527 * 0.0347 * (2 + 1.4+2.75) * 1000/1.54 = 61154.24.