question
stringlengths
3
1.14k
a manufacturing company has 15% cobalt ,25% led and 60% of copper. if 5kg of led is used in a mixture how much copper we need to use
A boy has nine trousers and 15 shirts. In how many different ways can he select a trouser and a shirt?
A person crosses a 600 m long street in 5 minutes. What is his speed in km per hour?
The expression (3x-2)/(x+3) is equivalent to which of the following?
A completes 80% of a work in 20 days. Then B also joins and A and B together finish the remaining work in 3 days. How long does it need for B if he alone completes the work?
In a 100m race, Sam beats John by 4 seconds. On the contrary, if Sam allowed John to start 24m ahead of Sam, then Sam and John reach the finishing point at the same time. How long does Sam take to run the 100m race?
A sum of 13,400 amounts to 14,400 in 2 years at the rate of simple interest. What is the rate of interest?
The rate of Interest on a sum of money is 5% p.a. for the first 3 years, 4% p.a. for the next 4 years, and 5% for the period beyond 7 years. If the S.I, Occured on the sum for the total period of 8 years is Rs. 540/-, the sum is
Find 60/42*4
A family consists of two grandparents, two parents and three grandchildren. The average age of the grandparents is 67 years, that of the parents is 35 years and that of the grandchildren is 6 years. What is the average age of the family?
When the smallest of 3 consecutive odd integers is added to four times the largest, it produces a result 732 more than 4times the middle integer. Find the numbers?
A certain company retirement plan has arule of 70provision that allows an employee to retire when the employee's age plus years of employment with the company total at least 70. In what year could a female employee hired in 1989 on her 32nd birthday first be eligible to retire under this provision?
A and B complete a work in 10 days. A alone can do it in 14 days. If both together can do the work in how many days?
10 men, working 8 hours a day can complete a work in 18 days. How many hours a day must 15 men work to complete the work in 12 days ?
A, B and C invested Rs.6300, Rs.4200 and Rs.10500 respectively, in a partnership business. Find the share of A in profit of Rs.12300 after a year?
At the start of an experiment, a certain population consisted of 3 animals. At the end of each month after the start of the experiment, the population size was double its size at the beginning of that month. Which of the following represents the population size at the end of 11 months?
If n is the product of three consecutive integers, and n is divisible by 5, which of the following is not necessarily a divisor of n ?
If 280 people, constituting 5 percent of the population of a town, ride bicycles, and the others do not, then how many people in the town do not ride bicycles?
In one hour, a boat goes 14 km/hr along the stream and 8 km/hr against the stream. The speed of the boat in still water (in km/hr) is:
50 square stone slabs of equal size were needed to cover a floor area of 72 sq.m. Find the length of each stone slab?
If the average (arithmetic mean) of a and b is 45 and the average of b and c is 70, what is the value of c − a?
If one of the followings is the product of the two 3-digit integers 8K1 and 6L5 (K and L denote the tens digit of the respective integers), then that product must be
If a: b = 6:4, b: c =7: 8, find a: b: c?
An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. How many steps are visible when the escalator is not operating?
A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 815 in 3 years and to Rs. 854 in 4 years. The sum is :
Two ants, Arthur and Amy, have discovered a picnic and are bringing crumbs back to the anthill. Amy makes twice as many trips and carries one and a half times as many crumbs per trip as Arthur. If Arthur carries a total of m crumbs to the anthill, how many crumbs will Amy bring to the anthill, in terms of m?
The area of a triangle is with base 4m and height 5m?
A sum of money at simple interest amounts to $ 700 in 3 years and to $764 in 4 years. The sum is:
A train 700 m long is running at a speed of 78 km/hr. If it crosses a tunnel in 1 min, then the length of the tunnel is?
A grocer has a sale of Rs. 4000, Rs. 6524, Rs. 5689, Rs. 7230 and Rs. 6000 for 5 consecutive months. How much sale must he have in the sixth month so that he gets an average sale of Rs. 7000?
3 cooks have to make 80 burgers. They are known to make 20 pieces every minute working together.The 1st cook began workin alone and made 20 pieces having worked for sometime more than 3 mins.The remaining part of the work was done by second and 3rd cook working together.It took a total of 8 minutes to complete the 80 burgers.How many minutes would it take the 1st cook alone to cook 160 burgers?
A person travels equal distances with speeds of 3 km/hr, 4 km/hr and 5 km/hr and takes a total time of 47 minutes. The total distance is?
X starts a business with Rs.45000. Y joins in the business after 3 months with Rs.30000. What will be the ratio in which they should share the profit at the end of the year?
An engineer undertakes a project to build a road 10 km long in 300 days and employs 30 men for the purpose. After 100 days, he finds only 2 km of the road has been completed. Find the (approximate) number of extra men he must employ to finish the work in time.
What is the least number of square tiles required to pave the floor of a room 11 m 50cm long and 1m 50 cm broad?
Mrs. Evans gave a test to her freshmen economics class, which has 29 students enrolled and 24 of them answered question 1 correctly. If 22 answered question 2 correctly and 5 did not take the test then how many answered both questions correctly?
If x is an odd negative integer and y is an even integer, which of the following statements must be true? I. (3x + 2y) is negative integer II. (xy)^2 is negative integer III. (y^2 - x) is negative integer
How many positive even integers less than 100 contain digits 3 or 7?
A school has only four classes that contain 10, 20, 30 and 40 students respectively. The pass percentage of these classes are 20%, 30%, 60% and 100% respectively. Find the pass % of the entire school.
Today is Jack's birthday. One year, from today he will be twice as old as he was 13 years ago. How old is Jack today ?
Peter brought a scooter for a certain sum of money. He spent 10% of the cost on repairs and sold the scooter for a profit of $ 1100. How much did he spend on repairs if he made a profit of 20%?
Find the odd man out 4, 16, 25, 36, 42, 64
The average weight of a group of boys is 30 kg. After a boy of weight 33 kg joins the group, the average weight of the group goes up by 1 kg. Find the number of boys in the group originally ?
A man can swim in still water at 4.5 km/h, but takes twice as long to swim upstream than downstream. The speed of the stream is?
Which of the following lines has x-intercept and y-intercept that are integers Q?
if a^2+b^2=177and ab=54 then find the value of a+b/a-b?
A bag contains 50 p, 25 P and 10 p coins in the ratio 5: 9: 4, amounting to Rs. 206. Find the number of coins of each type.
The average of 10 numbers is 23. If each number is increased by 4, what will the new average be?
Each of the integers from 0 to 9, inclusive, is written on a separate slip of blank paper and the ten slips are dropped into a hat. If 5 of the slips are the drawn, without replacement, what is the probability that all 5 have a even number written on it?
The ratio of the volumes of two cubes is 729 : 1331. What is the ratio of their total surface areas?
Foodmart customers regularly buy at least one of the following products: milk, chicken, or apples. 60% of shoppers buy milk, 50% buy chicken, and 35% buy apples. If 15% of the customers buy all 3 products, what percentage of Foodmart customers purchase exactly 2 of the products listed above?
Ayesha’s father was 38 years of age when she was born while her mother was 34 years old when her brother four years younger to her was born. What is the difference between the ages of her parents?
The ratio of boarders to day students at a school was originally 2 to 5. However, after a number of new boarders join the initial 60 boarders, the ratio changed to 1 to 2. If no boarders became day students and vice versa, and no students left the school, how many new boarders joined the school?
Julie put half of her savings in a savings account that pays an annual simple interest and half in a savings account that pays an annual compound interest. After two years she earned $100 and $105 from the simple interest account and the compound interest account respectively. If the interest rates for both accounts were the same, what was the amount of Julie's initial savings?
The cost price of a radio is Rs.1500 and it was sold for Rs.1305, find the loss %?
Solve below question 2x + 1 = -19
Tom invested Rs. 15000 @ 8% per annum for two years. If the interest is compounded half-yearly, then the amount received by Tom at the end of the year will be?
A certain scholarship committee awarded scholarships in the amounts of $1250, $2500 and $4000. The Committee awarded twice as many $2500 scholarships as $4000 and it awarded three times as many $1250 scholarships as $2500 scholarships. If the total of $45000 was awarded in $1250 scholarships, how many $4000 scholarships were awarded?
There are 9 points marked on the circumference of a circle. How many hexagons can be formed by connecting 6 points of the 9 points?
To prepare cake of type A, it requires 4 eggs. While to prepare cake of type B, it requires 6 eggs. If there are 30 eggs available, and at least one cake of each type needs to be prepared, maximum how many cakes can be prepared of type B?
A jogger running at 9 km/hr along side a railway track is 240 m ahead of the engine of a 120 m long train running at 45 km/hr in the same direction. In how much time will the train pass the jogger?
If X = 2 + 1/(1+1/(1-1/2))then the value of 4x+7/3
A thief goes away with a SANTRO car at a speed of 30 kmph. The theft has been discovered after half an hour and the owner sets off in a bike at 60 kmph when will the owner over take the thief from the start?
The ratio of two quantities is 10 : 7. If each of the quantities is increased by 2, their ratio changes to 15:11 then the greatest number is?
The least multiple of 7, which leaves a remainder of 4, when divided by 6, 9, 15 and 18 is:
If x^2 + 9/x^2 = 22, what is the value of x - 3/x
College T has 1000 students. Of the 300 students majoring in one or more of the sciences,150 are majoring in Chemistry and 180 are majoring in Biology. If at least 60 of the students are not majoring in either Chemistry or Biology, then the number of students majoring in both Chemistry and Biology could be any number from?
A certain class of students is being divided into teams. The class can either be divided into 18 teams with an equal number of players on each team or 24 teams with an equal number of players on each team. What is the lowest possible number of students in the class?
Sukhbir is taller than Randhir but not as tall as Ajit. If Manoj is taller than Nitin, who is shorter than Ajit, then who among them is the shortest?
Students are in clubs as follows: Science-20, Drama-30, and Band-12. No student is in all three clubs, but 8 are in both Science and Drama, 6 are in both Science and Band, and 4 are in Drama and Band. How many different students are in at least one of the three clubs?
Find the odd man out. 8, 20, 14, 21, 16, 28, 32
Find the odd man out. 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 51, 56
A man invests some money partly in 9% stock at 96 and partly in 12% stock at 120. To obtain equal dividends from both, he must invest the money in the ratio:
In an election between two candidates A and B, the number of valid votes received by A exceeds those received by B by 15% of the total number of votes polled. If 20% of the votes polled were invalid and a total of 4720 votes were polled, then how many valid votes did B get?
The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, at the most, how many may be greater than zero?
A man invested an amount of Rs.8000 in a fixed deposit scheme for 2 years at compound interest of 5% per annum. How much amount will Albert get on maturity of the fixed deposit ?
At the wholesale store you can buy an 8-pack of hot dogs for $1.55, a 20-pack for $3.05, and a 250-pack for $22.95. What is the greatest number of hot dogs you can buy at this store with $211?
Fresh grapes contain 90% by weight while dried grapes contain 20% water by weight. What is the weight of dry grapes available from 5 kg of fresh grapes?
Find the number of shares that can be bought for Rs.8800 if the market value is Rs.20 each with brokerage being 2.5%.
A fast food restaurant sells chicken in orders of 6, 9, and 20. What is the largest number of pieces of chicken you cannot order from this restaurant?
A hat company ships its hats, individually wrapped, in 8-inch by 10-inch by 12-inch boxes. Each hat is valued at $7.50. If the company’s latest order required a truck with at least 384,000 cubic inches of storage space in which to ship the hats in their boxes, what was the minimum value of the order?
Free notebooks were distributed in a class among all the students. Each student got notebooks which were one-eighth of the number of student. If number of student been half, then each child would have received 16 notebooks in total. Find the total number of books distributed among students?
A dealer purchases 15 articles for Rs. 25 and sells 12 articles for Rs. 30. Find the profit percentage?
Two pipes can separately fill a tank in 20 and 30 hours respectively. Both the pipes are opened to fill the tank but when the tank is full, a leak develops in the tank through which one-third of water supplied by both the pipes goes out. What is the total time taken to fill the tank?
A & B started one company. They invest Rs. 1,00,000/- each. They deposit the money to Bank. Bank give 1% interest per month. After 2 years B left from company and asked A to return the money with interest. A says it will take time to release the FD and he assure B to give the money withinterest @0.5%. B Agreed this. What is the profit of A?
At a restaurant, glasses are stored in two different-sized boxes. One box contains 12 glasses, and the other contains 16 glasses. If the average number of glasses per box is 15, and there are 16 more of the larger boxes, what is the total number of glasses T at the restaurant? (Assume that all boxes are filled to capacity.)
A discount electronics store normally sells all merchandise at a discount of 10 percent to 30 percent off the suggested retail price. If, during a special sale, an additional 20 percent were to be deducted from the discount price, what would be the lowest possible price of an item costing $400 before any discount?
A company has two types of machines, type R and type S. Operating at a constant rate, a machine of type R does a certain job in 20 hrs and a machine of type S does the same job in 30 hours. If the company used the same number of each type of machine to do the job in 2 hours, how many machines of type R were used?
A letter lock consists of three rings each marked with nine different letters. The number of distinct unsuccessful attempts to open the lock is at the most?
How many words can be formed using the letters of the word “COMPANY”?
The true discount on Rs. 1760 due after a certain time at 12% per annum is Rs. 160. The time after which it is due is:
On dividing 15968 by a certain number, the quotient is 89 and the remainder is 37. Find the divisor.
For an integer n greater than 1, n* denotes the product of all the integers from 1 to n inclusive. How many prime numbers are there between 6*+2 and 6*+6, inclusive ?
Two trains of equal lengths are running at speeds of 30 kmph and 60 kmph. The two trains crossed each other in 30 seconds when travelling in opposite direction. In what time will they cross each other when travelling in the same direction?
Two cars cover the same distance at the speed of 32 and 64 kmps respectively. Find the distance traveled by them if the slower car takes 1 hour more than the faster car.
The average weight of 8 people increases by 2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing 85 kg. What is the weight of the new person?
A Steel company has two types of machines, type R and type S. Operating at a constant rate, a machine of type R does a certain job in 24 hrs and a machine of type S does the same job in 12 hours. If the company used the same number of each type of machine to do the job in 2 hours, how many machines of type R were used?
Of the integers between 200 and 799, inclusive, how many do not have digit 2 and 7?
3x^2-6x+3 = 0 Find the above equation find the value of x
In a parallelogram, the length of one diagonal and the perpendicular dropped on that diagonal are 30 and 20 metres respectively. Find its area