5 5 votes X, Y and Z are closed intervals of unit length on the real line. The overlap of X and Y is half a unit. The overlap of Y and Z is also half a unit. Let the overlap of X and Z be k units. Which of the following is true? k must be 1 k must be 0 k can take any value between 0 and 1 None of the above Numerical Methods gatecse-2000 numerical-methods normal non-gatecse out-of-gatecse-syllabus + – Kathleen 3.0k views answer comment Share Follow Print See 1 comment 1 1 comment reply P0535_Yedidyah_Sagar commented Oct 1, 2025 reply Follow flag Out of syllabus 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 7 7 votes ------------- z ----------------- y ------------- x in above case k is 1.. ------------------ z ----------------- y ------------- x now k is 0.. value of k would be either 0 or 1.. Digvijay Pandey answered Apr 24, 2015 • selected Dec 25, 2017 by Rupendra Choudhary Digvijay Pandey comment Share Follow See all 3 Comments 3 3 Comments reply vijaycs commented Jun 19, 2016 reply Follow flag Agreed with your ans ( either 0 or 1) but how did you represent x, y, z on the number line .. It seems k=0 in then earlier case and k=1 in the later case. 0 0 replyShare anchitjindal07 commented Dec 28, 2018 reply Follow flag Is it option C or Option D 0 0 replyShare harypotter0 commented Nov 1, 2020 reply Follow flag Option D is correct ans. k could be 0 or 1 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
1 1 vote D) none because k could be 0 or 1 confused_luck answered Jan 14, 2016 confused_luck comment Share Follow 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.