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Six points are marked on a straight line and five points are marked on another line which is parallel to the first line. How many straight lines, including the first two, can be formed with these points?
The product of two numbers is 4107. If the H.C.F. of these numbers is 37, then the greater number is: Explanation:
John and Lewis leave City A for City B simultaneously at 6 A.M in the morning driving in two cars at speeds of 40 mph and 60 mph respectively. As soon as Lewis reaches City B, he returns back to City A along the same route and meets John on the way back. If the distance between the two cities is 240 miles, how far from City A did John and Lewis meet?
Rahul's Mathematics test had 85 problems, 10 arithmetic, 30 algebra, 35 geometry problems. Although he answered 70% of arithmetic, 40% of arithmetic and 60% of geometry problems correctly, still he got less than 60% problems right. How many more questions he would have to answer more to get passed
For an employee to qualify for early retirement at a certain company, the sum of the employee’s age and years of service must be at least 74, If Sue was K years old when she was hired by the company, what is the minimum age at which she could possibly qualify for early retirement?
Find the number, difference between number and its 3/5 is 50.
Every Monday, Marina eats one croissant and every Tuesday she eats two croissants. On each subsequent day of the week, she eats a number of croissants equal to the sum of the croissants eaten on the two previous days, with the exception that if she eats more than four croissants on any particular day, the next day she will eat only one croissant. At the end of the week (which runs from Monday through Sunday), the cycle resets, and Marina goes back to eating one croissant on Monday, two on Tuesday, and so forth. If a particular month begins on a Tuesday, how many croissants will Marina eat on the 24th of that month?
If x and y are integers and xy = 660, x or y must be divisible by which of the following numbers?
A leak in the bottom of a tank can empty the tank in 6 hrs. An pipe fills water atthe rate of 4 ltrs/min. When the tank is full in inlet is opened and due to the leak the tank is empties in 8 hrs. The capacity of the tank is?
How long will it take a sum of money invested at 20% p.a. S.I. to increase double the value?
One tap can fill a water tank four times as fast as another tap. If together the two taps can fill the water tank in 30 minutes then the slower tap alone will be able to fill the water tank in _______ .
The speed of a train is 102 kmph. What is the distance covered by it in 30 minutes?
How much simple interest per annum can I negotiate with my Bank so My Family can pay back in 40 years at most double of the money we will borrow.
A certain pilot flew 400 miles to City K at an average speed of 550 miles per hour with the wind and made the trip back at an average speed of 250 miles per hour against the wind. Which of the following is closest to the pilot’s average speed, in miles per hour, for the round-trip?
It is required to fix a pipe such that water flowing through it at a speed of 7 metres per minute fills a tank of capacity 1760 cubic metres in 10 minutes. The inner radius of the pipe should be :
If x and y are positive integers and 18x=12y what is the least possible value of xy?
Let q represent the integer length of a side of a triangle. If r represents the number of distinct values for q such that we can create a triangle with lengths q, 12, and 19, what is the value of r?
This topic is locked. If you want to discuss this question please re-post it in the respective forum. The sum of the first 54 positive even integers is 2550. What is the sum of the even integers from 94 to 200 inclusive?
II - IV + IX = 200 VI + I - V= 100 II - VI + VII = 150 Then, VII + II + III = ?
Benny goes to the market for buying some apples to be distributed between her nine kids equally.She takes 360 dollars with her .The cost of each apple is 4 dollars .How many apples does she buy to share them equally between her twelve kids?
Three numbers are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 and their H.C.F is 6. The numbers are
The C.P of 40 pens is equal to the S.P of 60 pens. Find his gain % or loss%
A person buys an article at $380. At what price should he sell the article so as to make a profit of 25%?
In a school of 320 students, 85 students are in the band, 200 students are on sports teams, and 60 students participate in both activities. How many students are involved in either band or sports?
A box contains three pairs of blue gloves and two pairs of green gloves. Each pair consists of a left-hand glove and a right-hand glove. Each of the gloves is separate from its mate and thoroughly mixed together with the others in the box. If three gloves are randomly selected from the box, what is the probability that a matched set (i.e., a left- and right-hand glove of the same color) will be among the three gloves selected?
If all the numbers between 11 and 100 are written on a piece of paper. How many times will the number 4 be used?
A dessert recipe calls for 50% melted chocolate and 50% raspberry puree to make a particular sauce. A chef accidentally makes 15 cups of the sauce with 40% melted chocolate and 60% raspberry puree instead. How many cups of the sauce does he need to remove and replace with pure melted chocolate to make the sauce the proper 50% of each?
Find the value for m? 19(m + n) + 17 = 19(-m + n) - 21
In the interior of a forest, a certain number of apes equal to the square of one-eighth of the total number are playing and having great fun. The remaining sixteen apes are on a hill and the echo of their shrieks by the adjoining hills frightens them. They came and join the apes in the forest and play with enthusiasm. What is the total number of apes?
Ten percent of the women in a college class are science majors, and the non-science majors make up 60% of the class. What percentage of the men are science majors if 40% of the class are men?
The incomes and expenditures of P, Q, R are in the ratio of 6 : 8 : 11 and 5 : 8 : 12 respectively. If P saves 1/4th of his income, what is the ratio of the savings of P, Q and R ?
Evaluate : 1024 x 237 + 976 x 237
A tradesman by means of his false balance defrauds to the extent of 30%? in buying goods as well as by selling the goods. What percent does he gain on his outlay?
If the cost price of 12 articles is same as the selling price of 25 articles. Find the gain or loss percentage?
In a sample of high school students, 20 percent are sophomores, and 65 percent are not freshmen. What percentage of the high school students are juniors or seniors?
How long does a train 110 m long running at the speed of 72 km/hr takes to cross a bridge 132 m length?
How many days per calendar year is the month a factor of the day
The average marks scored by Ganesh in English, Science, Mathematics and History is less than 14 from that scored by him in English, History, Geography and Mathematics. What is the difference of marks in Science and Geography scored by him?
A train 150 metres long is moving at a speed of 25 kmph. It will cross a man coming from the opposite direction at a speed of 2 km per hour in :
If 12 men do a work in 80 days, in how many days will 16 men do it?
The average age of 36 students in a group is 14 years. When teacher's age is included to it, the average increases by one. Find out the teacher's age in years?
If x and y are positive integers and y ≠ 1, then xy(y −1) is
n is an integer chosen at random from the set {1, 5 , 9, 11 } p is chosen at random from the set {2, 6, 10, 14, 18} What is the probability that n + p = 15 ?
An empty fuel tank with a capacity of 200 gallons was filled partially with fuel A and then to capacity with fuel B. Fuel A contains 12% ethanol by volume and fuel B contains 16% ethanol by volume. If the full fuel tank contains 18 gallons of ethanol, how many gallons of fuel A were added?
If 36 men can do a piece of work in 25 hours, in how mwny hours will15 men do it?
Find the remainder when 3^27 is divided by 5?
If 9a - b = 10b + 80 = -12b - 2a, what is the value of 2a + 22b?
Find the area of trapezium whose parallel sides are 20 cm and 18 cm long, and the distance between them is 15 cm.
A trader sells two brands of petrol; one is Extra Premium and other one is speed. He mixes 12 litres Extra Premium with 3 litres of speed and by selling this mixture at the price of Extra Premium he gets the profit of 9.09. If the price of Extra Premium Rs. 48 per litre, then the price of Speed is:
A man swims downstream 72 km and upstream 45 km taking 9 hours each time; what is the speed of the current?
a man have 8 t-shirt and some pant.he can dress in 72 ways.then tell me the no. of pant that man have.
If the operation € is defined for all x and y by the equation x € y = 2*x*y, then 6 € (4 € 5) =
The line r ≡ 3x + ny − 7 = 0 passes through the point A = (3, 2) and is parallel to the line s ≡ mx + 2y − 13 = 0. Calculate the values of m and n.
Present ages of Abi and Suji are in the ratio of 5:4 respectively. Three years hence, the ratio of their ages will become 11:9 respectively. What is Suji's present age in years?
A man whose speed is 4.5 kmph in still water rows to a certain upstream point and back to the starting point in a river which flows at 1.5 kmph, find his average speed for the total journey?
1 quarter Kg of potatoes cost 60 paise. Calculate the cost of 200 grams
In how many ways can you line up 7 apples in a row if one of them cannot be in the middle or at the either end?
A trader owes a merchant Rs. 10,028 due 1 year hence. The trader wants to settle the account after 3 months. If the rate of interest is 12% per annum,how much cash should he pay ?
The "prime sum" of an integer n greater than 1 is the sum of all the prime factors of n, including repetitions. For example , the prime sum of 12 is 7, since 12 = 2 x 2 x 3 and 2 +2 + 3 = 7. For which of the following integers is the prime sum greater than 35 ?
A and B are two stations 390 km apart. A train starts from A at 10 a.m. and travels towards B at 65 kmph. Another train starts from B at 11 a.m. and travels towards A at 35 kmph. At what time do they meet?
The number of ways in which six boys and six girls can be seated in a row for a photograph so that no two girls sit together is ?
Solve below question 2x + 1 = -15
If Sam shares his books in the ratio of 1/8 : 1/9 : 1/10 : 1/11 between his four friends A, B, C and D, then find the total number of books Sam should have?
A sum of Rs. 2665 is lent into two parts so that the interest on the first part for 8 years at 3% per annum may be equal to the interest on the second part for 3 years at 5% per annum. Find the second sum?
The product of two numbers is 120 and the sum of their squares is 289. The sum of the number is?
Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively . If they cross each other in 23 seconds, what is the ratio of their speeds?
Sentence B can only be a concluding sentence; we find in the answer choice–b, a sequence of the sentences logically leading to the concluding sentence
35% of the people read newspaper X, 55% read newspaper Y and 15% read both the papers.What percentage of the people read neither newspaper ?
5100−(102÷20.4)=?
Two trains 130 m and 160 m long run at the speed of 60 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively in opposite directions on parallel tracks. The time which they take to cross each other is?
A car traveling at a certain constant speed takes 2 seconds longer to travel 1 kilometer than it would take to travel 1 kilometer at 900 kilometers per hour. At what speed, in kilometers per hour, is the car traveling?
In a sequence of 11 numbers, each term, except for the first one, is 11^11 less than the previous term. If the greatest term in the sequence is 11^12, what is the smallest term in the sequence? Thus, A12 = A1+12-1d Where d is the difference between each pairs of consecutive terms. Since each term is 1211 less than the previous term, d=-1211Click individual answer choices for specific explanations. From what I undersltand the formula for an arithmetic sequence represents some-number-in-the-sequence= first-number-in-sequence +the-place-of-that-number - 1x the-difference-of-each-#-in-the-sequence
At a certain restaurant, the ratio of the number of cooks to the number of waiters is 3 to 10. When 12 more waiters are hired, the ratio of the number of cooks to the number of waiters changes to 3 to 13. How many cooks does the restaurant have?
How many 5 letter words ( with or without meaning) can be formed using all the following 5 letters P,U,R,S,and T so that letter P is to the left of letter R?
If the product 4864*9 P 2 is divisible by 12, the value of p?
In a certain company, a third of the workers do not have a retirement plan. 20% of the workers who do not have a retirement plan are women, and 40% of the workers who do have a retirement plan are men. If 144 of the workers of that company are men, how many of the workers are women?
The average (arithmetic mean) of eight numbers is 44.1. If the sum of half of these numbers is 156.4, what is the average of the other half?
What is the median from the below series 90, 92, 93, 88, 95, 88, 97, 87, and 98
12 men can complete any work in 36 days. 18 women can complete the same piece of work in 60 days. 8 men and 20 women work together for 20 days. If only the women were to complete the remaining work in 4 days, then how many women would be required?
A train 110 m long is running with a speed of 60 km/hr. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 km/hr in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going?
An electric motor makes 3,000 revolutions per minutes. How many degrees does it rotate in one second?
A car traveled the first quarter of a certain distance at five times the speed it traveled the remaining distance. What proportion of the total time traveled, was the time taken to travel the first quarter of the distance?
Jerry received a 10% raise each month for two consecutive months. What was his starting salary if after the two raises his salary is $1452?
A train 200 meters long completely crosses a 300 meters long bridge in 45 seconds. What is the speed of the train is?
30 men can do a work in 40 days. When should 20 men leave the work so that the entire work is completed in 40 days after they leave the work?
A baseball player just signed a new contract in which he will earn a 12% raise in base pay over last year. Last year he earned no performance bonus, but this year he will have the opportunity to earn up to $50,000 in extra pay through performance. If he earns the full performance bonus, his salary will effectively have been raised by 12.5% from the last year. Assuming he earns the full performance bonus, what will his new salary be?
At the end of three years what will be the compound interest at the rate of 10% p.a. on an amount of Rs.20000?
The average of 6 observations is 12. A new observation is included and the new average is decreased by 1. The seventh observation is?
Company A has 13 employees, 8 of whom belong to the union. If 5 people work any one shift, and the union contract specifies that at least 3 union members work each shift, then how many different combinations of employees might work any given shift?
The sum of the squares of three numbers is 138, while the sum of their products taken two at a time is 131. Their sum is:
A cylindrical water tower with radius 28 m and height 10 m is 3/4 full at noon. Every minute, .08π m3 is drawn from tank, while .03π m3 is added. Additionally, starting at 1pm and continuing each hour on the hour, there is a periodic drain of 4π m3. From noon, how many hours will it take to drain the entire tank?
Which of the following numbers has four distinct prime factors?
A new apartment complex purchased 60 toilets and 20 shower heads. If the price of a toilet is three times the price of a shower head, what percent of the total cost was the cost of all the shower heads?
For the symbol, m”n=n^2−m for all values of m and n. What is the value of 4”2?
If 7 spiders make 7 webs in 7 days, then how many days are needed for 1 spider to make 1 web?
In a party every person shakes hands with every other person. If there were a total of 190 handshakes in the party then what is the number of persons present in the party ?
A man swims downstream 30 km and upstream 18 km taking 3 hours each time, what is the speed of the man in still water?
A trader marks his articles 20% more than the cost price. If he allows 20% discount, then find his gain or loss percent?
The difference between the place values of two threes in the numerical 40378273 is
Find the C.I. on Rs. 15,625 for 9 months at 16% per annum compounded quarterly?