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There are 5 burglars and once went to a bakery to rob it obviously. The first guy ate 1/2 of the total bread and 1/2 of the bread. The second guy ate 1/2 of the remaining and 1/2 of the bread. The third guy ,fourth guy and fifth guy did the same. After fifth guy there is no bread left out. How many bread are there?
If I walk at 3 kmph, I miss the train by 2 min, if however, I walk at 4 kmph. I reach the station 2 min before the arrival of the train. How far do I walk to reach the station?
A and B started a business in partnership investing Rs.20,000 and Rs.15,000 respectively. After 6months, C joined them with Rs.20,000. Whatwill be B's share in total profit of Rs.21,000 earned at the end of 2years from the startingof the business?
In a group of dogs and people, the number of legs was 28 more than twice the number of heads. How many dogs were there? [Assume none of the people or dogs is missing a leg.]
what smallest no. should subtracted from 5000,so that remainder completely divisible from 19?
At what price must an Book costing $47.50 be marked in order that after deducting 10% from the list price. It may be sold at a profit of 25% on the cost price?
A and B start from Opladen and Cologne respectively at the same time and travel towards each other at constant speeds along the same route. After meeting at a point between Opladen and Cologne, A and B proceed to their destinations of Cologne and Opladen respectively. A reaches Cologne 40 minutes after the two meet and B reaches Opladen 60 minutes after their meeting. How long did A take to cover the distance between Opladen and Cologne?
If a mixture is 1⁄7 alcohol by volume and 2⁄7 water by volume, what is the ratio of the volume of alcohol to the volume of water in this mixture?
If 1 + x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x = 80, then the average (arithmetic mean)R of x, x^2, x^3, x^4 and x^5 is equal to which of the following?
In how many ways can a group of 5 men and 2 women be made out of a total of 7 men and 3 women?
John invests $x at the semi-annual constant compounded rate of 2 percent and also does $5,000 at the quarterly constant compounded rate of 4 percent. If the interests are the same after 1 year, what is the value of x??
An design manager has 10patterns of chairs & 8patterns of tables. In how many ways can he make a pair of table & chair?
The salaries A, B, C are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5. If the increments of 15%, 10% and 20% are allowed respectively in their salaries, then what will be new ratio of their salaries?
If 9 engines consume 24 metric tonnes of coal, when each is working 8 hoursa day, how much coal will be required for 8 engines, each running 13 hours a day, it is being given that 3 engines of former type consume as much as 4 engines of latter type?
Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and one is a heart, is:
Sam invested Rs. 15000 @ 10% per annum for one year. If the interest is compounded half-yearly, then the amount received by Sam at the end of the year will be?
What is the greater of the two numbers whose product is 2688, given that the sum of the two numbers exceeds their difference by 64?
For any numbers a and b, a#b = ab(6 − b). If a and a#b both represent positive numbers, which of the following could be a value of b?
If each side of a square is increased by 25%, find the percentage change in its area?
Rs.600 amounts to Rs.900 in 3 years at simple interest. If the interest is increased by 4%, it would amount to how much?
Alan buys 4 TVs, a 26 inch, a 28 inch, a 30 inch, and a 32 inch, for his new house. Each TV costs $200 more than the size below it. Alan spends a total of $3,800. How much would he have spent if he had bought only the 28 inch and 30 inch TVs?
The average (arithmetic mean) monthly income of four workers is $2,000. After one worker’s income increases by 25 percent the new average income is $2,250. What was the original income of the worker whose monthly income increased?
Four packages have an average weight of 12.5 pounds. What is the minimum possible weight of the heaviest package in pounds if the median is 12 pounds?
A man can row with a speed of 15 kmph in still water. If the stream flows at 5 kmph, then the speed in downstream is?
In the city of San Durango, 60 people own cats, dogs, or rabbits. If 40 people owned cats, 40 owned dogs, 10 owned rabbits, and 12 owned exactly two of the three types of pet, how many people owned all three?
There are 15 balls in a box: 8 balls are green, 4 are blue and 3 are white. Then 1 green and 1 blue balls are taken from the box and put away. What is the probability that a blue ball is selected at random from the box?
A credit card company has a cash back option for their customers which is based on the annual amount that they charge on their credit cards. The customer receives 1.5% cash on their first $5000 of purchase, 2.5% on the next $5000 of purchase and a 3% on cash back on portion that exceeds $10,000. If a customer receives a cash back of 2.5% on their total annual charges made on the credit card, then what was the customer's annual charge?
If a = 1 and b = -2, then (2a^2 + b)(q + y) + (a + b)(q - y) =
f a card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of cards, the probability of drawing a spade or a king is -.
In a series of seven football matches between Germany and Argentina , the probability of Germany winning a match is 1/3 and the probability that the match ends in a draw is 1/4. If a win gets the team 2 points, a draw 1 point and a loss 0 Points, What is the probability that Germany will end up in 7 draws in the series?
150 ml of 30% sulphuric acid was added to approximate 400 ml of 12% sulphuric acid solution. Find the approximate concentration R of the acid in the mixture?
P can do the work in 10 days and Q can do the same work in 12 days. If they work together for 4 days, what is the fraction of work that is left?
A fort had provision of food for 150 men for 60 days. After 10 days, 25 men left the fort. The number of days for which the remaining food will last, is:
m and n are the x and y coordinates, respectively, of a point in the coordinate plane. If the points (m, n) and (m + p, n + 9) both lie on the line defined by the equation x = (y/3) - (2/5), what is the value of p?
In a group of 25 factory workers, 16 have brown eyes. Six of the women do not have brown eyes. How many of the 11 men have brown eyes.
Length of a rectangular plot is 20 mtr more than its breadth. If the cost of fencing the plot at 26.50 per meter is Rs. 5300, what is the length of the plot in mtr?
For the positive numbers, n, n + 1, n + 2, n + 7, and n +10, the mean is how much greater than the median?
A Cistern is filled by pipe A in 9 hrs and the full Cistern can be leaked out by an exhaust pipe B in 10 hrs. If both the pipes are opened in what time the Cistern is full?
By selling 14 pencils for a rupee a man loses 20%. How many for a rupee should he sell in order to gain 20%?
A card is drawn at random from a deck of cards. Find the probability of getting the 3 of diamond?
The average age of 8 men is increased by years when two of them whose ages are 21 years and 23 years are replaced by two new men. The average age of the two new men is
A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 9 sec. What is the length of the train?
AB +BA ___ 161 In the addition problem above, A and B represent digits in two different two-digit numbers. What is the sum of A and B?
How many numbers between 0 and 1270 have a prime tens digit and a prime units digit?
In an office, totally there are 1800 employees and 60% of the total employees are males. 30% of the males in the office are at-least 50 years old. Find the number of males aged below 50 years?
A can complete a project in 20 days while B can complete same project in 30 days. If A and B start working together and A leaves the work 5 days before completion of project, then in how many days the project will be completed?
Charles walks over a railway-bridge. At the moment that he is just ten meters away from the middle of the bridge, he hears a train coming from behind. At that moment, the train, which travels at a speed of 90 km/h, is exactly as far away from the bridge as the bridge measures in length. Without hesitation, Charles rushes straight towards the train to get off the bridge. In this way, he misses the train by just four meters! If Charles had rushed exactly as fast in the other direction, the train would have hit him eight meters before the end of the bridge. What is the length of the railway-bridge?
The averge score of a cricketer for ten matches is 38.9 runs. If the average for the first six matches is 42. Then find the average for the last four matches?
When positive integer q is divided by 13, the remainder is 2. When n is divided by 8, the remainder is 5. How many such values are less than 180?
If Rs.20 is the True Discount on Rs260due after a certain time.What wil be true discount on the same sum due after half of the former time, the rate of interest being the same?
Gasoline varies in cost from $0.94 to $1.14 per gallon. If a car’s mileage varies from 16 to 24 miles per gallon, what is the difference between the most and least that the gasoline for a 480-mile trip will cost?
-20 , -16 , -12 , -8 .... In the sequence above, each term after the first is 6 greater than the preceding term. Which of the following could not be a term in the sequence?
A man swims downstream 70 km and upstream 30 km taking 10 hours each time; what is the speed of the current?
A mixture contains milk and water in the ratio 3:2. On adding 10 liters of water, the ratio of milk to water becomes 2:3. Total quantity of milk & water before adding water to it?
The average of first 50 non-zero positive integers is
Alan buys 4 TVs, a 26 inch, a 28 inch, a 30 inch, and a 32 inch, for his new house. Each TV costs $200 more than the size below it. Alan spends a total of $4,600. How much would he have spent if he had bought only the 28 inch and 30 inch TVs?
Triangle STV has sides ST = TV = 5, and SV = 6. What is the area?
A tank is filled by three pipes with uniform flow. The first two pipes operating simultaneously fill the tank in the same time during which the tank is filled by the third pipe alone. The second pipe fills the tank 5 hours faster than the first pipe and 4 hours slower than the third pipe. Find the time required by the first pipe to fill the tank ?
The probability that a number selected at random from the first 50 natural numbers is a composite number is
Ages of two persons differ by 14 years. If 6 year ago, the elder one be 3 times as old the younger one, find their present age
A foreign language club at Washington Middle School consists of n students, 2/5 of whom are boys. All of the students in the club study exactly one foreign language. 1/3 of the girls in the club study Spanish and 3/4 of the remaining girls study French. If the rest of the girls in the club study German, how many girls in the club, in terms of n, study German?
A semicircular cubicle has a radius of 14. What is the approximate perimeter of the cubicle?
Jack went on a diet 6 months ago when he weighed 222 pounds. If he now weighs 198 pounds and continues to lose at the same average monthly rate, in approximately how many months will he weigh 180 pounds?
Seven different books (A, B, C, D,E,F,G and H) are to be arranged on a shelf. Books A and B are to be arranged first and second starting from the right of the shelf. The number of different orders in which books C, D,E,F and G may be arranged is
If two resistors, A(R1) and B(R2) stand in parallel with each other in electrical wire, the total resistor appears as R1R2/(R1+R2). If three resistors, A(R1), B(R2), and C(2R2) stand in parallel in electrical wire, what is the ratio Q of the resistors’ sum of A and C to the resistors’ sum of A and B?
What is the median from the below series 5, 8, 11, 6, 10, 4, 18, 16, 13, 12 and 14
A and B invests Rs.8000 and Rs.9000 in a business. After 4 months, A withdraws half of his capital and 2 months later, B withdraws one-third of his capital. In what ratio should they share the profits at the end of the year?
Of the 800 employees of Company X, 80 percent have been with the company for at least ten years. If y of theselong-termmembers were to retire and no other employee changes were to occur, what value of y would reduce the percent oflong-termemployees in the company to 50 percent ?
boring a well 60 m depth, the cost is Rs.4/– for the first meter. The cost of each successive meter increases by Rs.3/–. What is the cost of boring the entire well?
7 people (A, B, C, D, E, F and G) go to a movie and sit next to each other in 7 adjacent seats in the front row of the theater. How many different arrangements are possible? If A will not sit to the left of F and F will not sit to the left of E. How many different arrangements are possible.
Five years ago, the average age of A and B was 15 years. Average age of A, B and C today is 20 years. How old will C be after 14 years?
A soccer store typically sells replica jerseys at a discount of 30 percent to 50 percent off list price. During the annual summer sale, everything in the store is an additional 20 percent off the original list price. If a replica jersey's list price is $80, approximately what W percent of the list price is the lowest possible sale price?
The compound interest accrued on an amount of Rs.44000 at the end of two years is Rs.1193.60. What would be the simple interest accrued on the same amount at the same rate in the same period?
After 114 liters of petrol were poured into the tank, it was still 5% empty. How much petrol must be poured into the tank in order to fill it?
By selling a pen for Rs.15, a man loses one sixteenth of what it costs him.The cost price of the pen is
A and B invests Rs.10000 each, A investing for 6 months and B investing for all the 12 months in the year. If the total profit at the end of the year is Rs.4500, find their shares?
Running at their respective constant rates, machine X takes 2 days longer to produce w widgets than machine Y. At these rates, if the two machines together produce 5/4 w widgets in 3 days, how many days would it take machine X alone to produce 1w widgets?
1200 boys and 800 girls are examined in a test; 4% of the boys and 30% of the girls pass. The percentage of the total who failed is ?
Q and R are two-digit positive integers that have the same digits but in reverse order. If the positive difference between Q and R is less than 70, what is the greatest possible value of Q minus R?
A salt manufacturing company produced a total of 5000 tonnes of salt in January of a particular year. Starting from February its production increased by 100 tonnes every month over the previous months until the end of the year. Find its ave66rage daily production for that year?
If points A and B are (2+3) units apart, which of the following can have only one possible value? I. The area of a square region with side AB II. The circumference of a circle passing through points A and B III. The area of a rectangular region with diagonal AB
Find the missing number in the given sequence : 1,6,11,16,?,26,31,?
If a square mirror has a 20-inch diagonal, what is the approximate perimeter R of the mirror, in inches?
In a certain boys camp, 20% of the total boys are from school A and 30% of those study science. If there are 35 boys in the camp that are from school A but do not study science then what is the total number of boys in the camp?
The number 50 can be written as the sum of squares of 3 integers. Which of the following could be the difference between the largest and smallest integers of the 3?
At what rate percent per annum will a sum of money double in 7 years.
When the price of a product was increased by 15%, the number sold was decreased by 20%. What was the net effect?
If y exceeds x by 24%, then x is less than y by?
A certain basketball team that has played 2/3 of its games has a record of 13 wins and 7 losses. What is the greatest number of the remaining games that the team can lose and still win at least 3/4 of all of its games?
The price of commodity X increases by 40 paise every year, while the price of commodity Y increases by 15 paise every year. If in 2001, the price of commodity X was Rs. 4.20 and that of Y was Rs. 6.30, in which year commodity X will cost 40 paise more than the commodity Y ?
The H.C.F of two numbers is 13 and their L.C.M is 2200. If one of the numbers is 286, then the other is?
A shopkeeper sells a badminton racket, whose marked price is Rs. 30, at a discount of 15% and gives a shuttle cock costing Rs. 1.50 free with each racket. Even then he makes a profit of 20%. His cost price per racket is :
The value of (34.310.4731.5)/(0.067323.257.57) is close to
There are 54 people in a certain community who belong to the local golf club, tennis club or both clubs. If twice as many people belong to the tennis club as belong to the golf club, what could be the number of people who belong to both clubs?
A contractor undertakes to do a job within 100 days and hires 10 people to do it. After 20 days, he realizes that one fourth of the work is done so he fires 2 people. In how many more days B will the work get over?
In an encryption code 'MATTER' is written as 'B"EEQW' when encoded and 'POTATO' is written as 'IUE"EU' when encoded. How is ''TOMATO" written in that encryption code?
Find the area of a rhombus one side of which measures 20 cm and one diagonal is 26 cm.
Tom opened a shop investing Rs.30000. Jose joined him 2 months later, investing Rs.45000. They earned a profit of Rs.45000 after completion of one year. What will be Jose's share of profit?
A man is 20 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of his son is
In a set of numbers from 100 to 1000 inclusive, how many integers are even and do not contain the digit 5?

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