{"id":153551,"date":"2023-07-29T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T09:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=153551"},"modified":"2023-07-29T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T09:03:06","slug":"a-survey-line-was-measured-to-be-285-5-m-with-a-tape-having-a-nominal-length-of-30-m-on-checking-the-true-length-of-the-tape-was-found-to-be-0-05-m-too-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-survey-line-was-measured-to-be-285-5-m-with-a-tape-having-a-nominal-length-of-30-m-on-checking-the-true-length-of-the-tape-was-found-to-be-0-05-m-too-short\/","title":{"rendered":"A survey line was measured to be 285.5 m with a tape having a nominal length of 30 m. On checking, the true length of the tape was found to be 0.05 m too short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. A survey line was measured to be 285.5 <em>m <\/em>with a tape having a nominal length of 30 <em>m<\/em>. On checking, the true length of the tape was found to be 0.05 <em>m <\/em>too short. If the line lay on a slope of 1 in 10, the reduced length (horizontal length) of the line for plotting of survey work would be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(A) 283.6 <em>m<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(B) 284.5 <em>m<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(C) 285.0 <em>m<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(D) 285.6 <em>m<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: 283.6 <em>m<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct option is\u00a0<strong>B<\/strong>\u00a0283.6 m<br>Measured length = 285.5 m<br>Nominal length of tape = 30 m<br>Slope = 1 in 10<br>The tape is 0.05 m too short<br>Actual length of tape = 30-0.05=29.95 m<br>Actual length measured<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-198.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153552\" width=\"389\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-198.png 695w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-198-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. A survey line was measured to be 285.5 m with a tape having a nominal length of 30 m. On checking, the true length of the tape was found to be 0.05 m too short. If the line lay on a slope of 1 in 10, the reduced length (horizontal length) of the line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":153553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"class_list":["post-153551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153554,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153551\/revisions\/153554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}