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By selling an article for $195, a person gains $45. What is the gain %? |
Harold and Millicent are getting married and need to combine their already-full libraries. If Harold, who has 1/2 as many books as Millicent, brings 1/3 of his books to their new home, then Millicent will have enough room to bring 1/5 of her books to their new home. What fraction of Millicent's old library capacity is the new home's library capacity? |
A herd of goats consists of A males and B females. In that herd, half of the goats that have horns are females. If C goats of the herd do not have horns, then the total number of male goats in the herd that do NOT have horns, in terms of A, B and C is - |
In Mike's opinion, his weight is greater than 65kg but leas than 72 kg. His brother does not agree with Mike and he thinks that Mike's weight is greater than 60kg but less than 70kg. His mother's view is that his weight cannot be greater than 68 kg. If all of them are correct in their estimation, what is the average of different probable weights of Mike? |
Find the value of 3 + 2 • (8 – 3) |
If T = 5/9 * (K - 32), and if T = 35, then what is the value of K? |
A shipment of 1500 heads of cabbage, each of which was approximately the same size, was purchased for $600. The day the shipment arrived 1/3 of the heads were sold, each at 25% above the cost per head. The following day the rest were sold at a price equal to 10% less than the price each head sold for on the day before. What was the total gross profit on this shipment. |
If 200 lb of a mixture contain 80% husk and 20% sand. Then how much husk needs to be extracted in order to have 75% concentration of Husk? |
The rational number for recurring decimal 0.125125.... is: |
John has some chickens that have been laying him plenty of eggs. He wants to give away his eggs to several of his friends, but he wants to give them all the same number of eggs. He figures out that he needs to give 7 of his friends eggs for them to get the same amount, otherwise there is 1 extra egg left.
What is the least number of eggs he needs for this to be true? |
While flying over the Pacific, an airplane makes a 25° turn to the right to avoid a storm. If, as a result, the airplane is traveling in a direction 3° east of north, in what direction was it originally flying? |
Triangle ATriangle B are similar triangles with areas 1536 units square and 2166 units square respectively. The ratio of there corresponding height would be |
A six-sided die is rolled once. What is the probability that the number rolled is an even number greater than 2? |
You collect balls. Suppose you start out with 7. John takes half of one more than the number of balls you have. Since his mother makes balls, Peter decides to triple your balls. How many balls do you have at the end? |
A circular rim 21 inches in diameter rotates the same number of inches per second as a circular rim 35 inches in diameter. If the smaller rim makes x revolutions per second, how many revolutions per minute does the larger rim makes in terms of x ? |
A group of men decided to do a work in 20 days, but 10 of them became absent. If the rest of the group did the work in 40 days, Find the original number of men? |
Two cubes have their volumes in the ratio 1 : 27. Find the ratio of their surface areas. |
In a normal 5-day work week, each of 12 employees produces 300 items per day-last week, 1/3 of the employees were absent from work for 2/5 of the days in the week. how many total items were produced last week? |
A small company employs 3 men and 5 women. If a team of 3 employees is to be randomly selected to organize the company retreat, what is the probability that the team will have exactly 2 men? |
The average age of 15 students of a class is 15 years. Out of these, the average age of 5 students is 14 years and that of the other 9 students is 16 years, The age of the 15th student is |
If f is a number such that –2 ≤ f ≤ 2, which of the following has the largest possible absolute value? |
In how many ways can 5 letters be posted in 3 post boxes, if any number of letters can be posted in all of the three post boxes? |
The length of an edge of a hollow cube open at one face is √3 metres. What is the length of the largest pole that it can accommodate? |
The volume of cube is equal to the surface area of that cube. Then find the distance of side of the cube? |
The cost price of 40 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is 25%, what is x? |
How long does a train 120 m long running at the speed of 70 km/hr takes to cross a bridge 145 m length? |
If a and b are integers and a≠0 which of the following cannot equal 0? |
A man misses a bus by 40 minutes if he travels at 30 kmph. If he travels at 40 kmph, then also he misses the bus by 10 minutes. What is the minimum speed required to catch the bus on time? |
Which of the following is NOT a factor of 10! ? |
If population of certain city increases at the rate of 5%. If population in 1981 was 138915, then population in 1978 was? |
A circular mat with diameter 22 inches is placed on a square tabletop, each of whose sides is 24 inches long. Which of the following is closest to the fraction of the tabletop covered by the mat? |
There are 28 stations between Ernakulam and Chennai. How many second class tickets have to be printed, so that a passenger can travel from one station to any other station? |
The total marks obtained by a student in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics is 150 more than the marks obtained by him in Physics. What is the average mark obtained by him in Chemistry and Mathematics? |
If it is assumed that 60 percent of those who receive a questionnaire by mail will respond and 240 responses are needed, what is the minimum number of questionnaires that should be mailed? |
How many words can be formed by using all letters of the word 'PIG' ? |
If a man can cover 12 metres in one second, how many kilometres can he cover in 3 hours 45 minutes? |
If x and y are integers such that |y + 3| ≤ 3 and 2y – 3x + 6 = 0, what is the least possible value R of the product xy? |
A cube is divided into 512 identical cubelets. Each cut is made parallel to some surface of the cube. But before doing that, the cube is painted with green on one set of opposite faces, red on another set of opposite faces, and blue on the third set of opposite faces. How many cubelets are painted with exactly one colour? |
The population of a town is 10000. It increases annually at the rate of 30% p.a. What will be its population after 2 years? |
John has $2500 in his bank account that earns 10% interest every year. How much will be in John's bank account after one year? |
Mary works in a restaurant a maximum of 45 hours. For the first 20 hours, she is paid $8 per hour. For each overtime hour, she is paid at a rate which is 25% higher than her regular rate. How much Mary can earn in a week? |
What is the probability W of randomly selecting an arrangement of the letters of the wordMEDITERRANEANin which the first letter is E and the last letter is R? |
A sum of Rs 12,500 amounts to Rs. 15,500 in the 4 years at the rate of simple interest. Find the rate percent |
Chlorination is used in industry for the purification of water; 1gm solution of chlorine will remove half of the germs in 1 liter of water. If water containing less than 0.09% of germs is considered clean, what is the minimum amount of chlorine required to purify 150 liter of water containing 0.3 liter of harmful substances? |
A luxury liner, Queen Marry II, is transporting several cats as well as the crew (sailors, a cook, and one-legged captain) to a nearby port. Altogether, these passengers have 14 heads and 41 legs. How many cats does the ship host? |
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 4 and 5 hours respectively. If they are turned up alternately for one hour each, the time taken to fill the tank is? |
What is the lowest possible common multiple of 2 distinct integers, each greater than 140? |
if i earn a profit 50$ in a day and I have 9 employees . After keeping 10 percent profit for me, and distribute remianing money equally among my employees then how much each employee would get? |
A box contains six bulbs out of which 4 are defective. If four bulbs are chosen at random, find the probability that atleast one bulb is good. |
One day a car rental agency rented 3/4 of its cars, including 3/5 of its cars with CD players. If 3/5 of its cars have CD players, what percent of the cars that were not rented had CD players? |
In a certain sequence, the first term is 3, and each successive term is 1 more than the reciprocal of the term that immediately precedes it. What is the fifth term in this sequence? |
A sock drawer contains 6 socks, each one a different solid color. The colors of the socks are red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, and violet. If a person reaches into the drawer and pulls out two socks, how many different color combinations are possible in the selected pair of socks? |
Mrs. Napier has 23 stickers to give to 9 students for a reward. How many
stickers will each student get? Will there be any stickers left over? |
A rectangular garden is 12m by 5m, what is its area? |
How many ways are there to award a gold, silver and bronze medal to 11 contending teams? |
If the true discount on s sum due 2 years hence at 14% per annum be Rs. 140, the sum due is: |
Souju's age is 131% of what it was 10 years ago, but 80 2/3% of what it will be after 10 years. What is her present age? |
By selling 175 apples, a shopkeeper gains the price of 25 apples. His gain per cent is |
Exactly 5% of the reporters for a certain wire service cover local politics in Country X. If 30% of the reporters who cover politics for the wire service do not cover local politics in Country X, what percent of the reporters for the wire service do not cover politics? |
If k is an integer and 2 < k < 7, for how many different values of k is there a triangle with sides of lengths 3, 6, and k? |
Worker A takes 8 hours to do a job. Worker B takes 10 hours to do the same job. How long it take both A & B, working together but independently, to do the same job? |
A grocer has a sale of Rs. 4435, Rs. 4927, Rs. 4855, Rs. 5230 and Rs. 4562 for 5 consecutive months. How much sale must he have in the sixth month so that he gets an average sale of Rs. 4500? |
A straight line in the xy-plane has a slope of 2 and a y-intercept of 2. On this line, what is the x-coordinate of the point whose y-coordinate is 480 ? |
3^4+3^4+3^4=? |
A man can row a boat at 20 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 8 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 60 km downstream? |
There are 25 Kids in a classroom. 12 Kids are wearing socks and 8 are wearing Shoes. 6 Kids are wearing both.
How many are Bare Feet ? |
A train 108 m long moving at a speed of 50 km/hr crosses a train 112 m long coming from opposite direction in 6 seconds. The speed of the second train is: |
A trained covered x km at 30 kmph and another 2x km at 20 kmph. Find the average speed of the train in covering the entire 3x km. |
If each side of a square is increased by 25%, find the percentage change in its area. |
In a camp, there is a meal for 120 men or 200 children. If 150 children have taken the meal, how many men will be catered to with remaining meal? |
A rectangular circuit board is designed to have a width of W inches, a length of L inches, a perimeter of P inches, and an area of D square inches. Which of the following equations must be true? |
Rs.2500 is divided into two parts such that if one part be put out at 5% simple interest and the other at 6%, the yearly annual income may be Rs.140. How much was lent at 5%? |
When a cylindrical tank is filled with water at a rate of 22 cubic meters per hour, the level of water in the tank rises at a rate of 0.7 meters per hour. Which of the following best approximates the radius of the tank in meters? |
On a bright morning, Ashley and Cecilia decided to take out their old cars from the garage and check their speeds. Just to make things for interesting, they decided to race and find out whose car was fast. So they halted their car at the starting point and began with full throttle till the finish line.
When both the car crossed the finishing line, they realized that Ashley's car was 1.2 times faster than Cecelia. Also, Cecelia had reached the finishing line 1 minutes 30 seconds later than Ashley. Ashley's car had reached the finishing line at an average speed of 60 Km/h.
With all this data given, can you find out the total distance between the starting and the finishing lines? |
What is greatest positive integer n such that 2^n is a factor of 12^14? |
On a certain plane, 2/5 of the passengers speak French and 3/4 speak Hebrew. If all of the passengers on the plane speak at least one of these languages, what is the smallest number of passengers that could be on the plane? |
If there are 6 seats and 3 students, in how many ways can they be seated? |
Can N and can В are both right circular cylinders. The radius of can N is twice the radius of can B, while the height of can N is half the height of can B. If it costs $4.00 to fill half of can B with a certain brand of gasoline, how much would it cost to completely fill can N with the same brand of gasoline? |
If the wheel is 14 cm then the number of revolutions to cover a distance of 880 cm is? |
A desalination process is able to remove 2/3 of salt in each cycle. If we have 1 liter of sea water that has 5% salt (i.e. 5 g in a liter), how much salt would have been removed from the liter of water after 3 cycles of the desalination process? |
The expression pq+p is odd when the p and q are integers. Which of the following expressions must be even? |
What will be the ratio of simple interest earned by certain amount at the same rate of interest for 12 years and that for 28 years? |
Two trains are moving in opposite directions with speed of 110 km/hr and 90 km/hr respectively. Their lengths are 1.10 km and 0.9 km respectively. the slower train cross the faster train in --- seconds |
There are 15 points in a given plane, no three of which are on the same line. If one of the points is represented as 'P, then how many triangles can be determined with the 15 points that contain the point P? |
A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at present at the time of your birth." If the father's age is 42 years now, the son's age 5 years back was? |
How many odd prime numbers are there less than 50? |
The sum of the present ages of two persons A and B is 60. If the age of A is twice that of B, find the sum of their ages 5 years hence? |
A person crosses a 600m long street in 4 minnutes. What is his speed in km per hour? |
P alone can complete a job in 7 days. The work done by Q alone in one day is equal to one-sixth of the work done by P alone in one day. In how many days can the work be completed if P and Q work together? |
A man rows his boat 90 km downstream and 5` km upstream, taking 3 hours each time. Find the speed of the stream? |
Two persons start running simultaneously around a circular track of length 200 m from the same point at speeds of 15 km/hr and 25 km/hr. When will they meet for the first time any where on the track if they are moving in opposite directions? |
If you drew a dot on the edge of a wheel and traced the path of the dot as the wheel rolled one complete revolution along a line, then the path formed would be called a cycloid, combining both forward and circular motion. What is the length of the path formed by one complete revolution? Assume the wheel has a radius of r. |
Diane find 6 and a half cans of paint are just enough to paint one third of her room. How many more cans of paint will she need to finish her room and paint a second room of the same size? |
A restaurant meal cost $31.50 and there was no tax. If the tip was more than 10 percent but less than 15 percent of the cost of the meal, then total amount paid must have been between: |
A bullock cart has to cover a distance of 80km in 10hrs. If it covers half of the journey in 3/5th time. what should be its speed to cover the remaining distance in the time left. |
8, 12, 18, 27, 40.5, (...) |
Ada and Paul received their scores on three tests. On the first test, Ada's score was 10 points higher than Paul's score. On the second test, Ada's score was 4 points higher than Paul's score. If Paul's average (arithmetic mean) score on the three tests was 5 points higher than Ada's average score on the three tests, then Paul's score on the third test was how many points higher than Ada's score? |
If n is a positive integer and the product of all integers from 1 to n, inclusive, is a multiple of 420, what is the least possible value of n? |
How many 3 digit positive integers exist that when divided by 7 leave a remainder of 5? |
The 7th grade French and Spanish classes each have 23 students in them, and there are seven students in the 7th grade taking both languages. If everyone in the 7th grade is in at least one of the two language classes, how many students are taking just one of the two classes? |
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