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The average (arithmetic mean) monthly income of four workers is $3,000. After one worker’s income increases by 20 percent the new average income is $3,300. What was the original income of the worker whose monthly income increased? |
Find the one which does not belong to that group ? |
A can give B 100 meters start and C 150 meters start in a kilometer race. How much start can B give C in a kilometer race? |
Nitin borrowed some money at the rate of 6% p.a. for the first three years, 9% p.a.for the next five years and 13% p.a.for the period beyond eight years If the total interest paid by him at the end of eleven years is 8160, how much money did he borrow? |
If w is 40 percent less than t, t is 40 percent less than y, and z is 46 percent less than y, then z is greater than w by what percent of w? |
What percent of 5 letter combinations that can be made from the letters of the word FERMONT and in which each letter can be used only once are the combinations in which the first letter is a vowel and the last letter is a consonant? |
A childrens identification code consists of a vowel followed by a 3-digit number greater than 200. Exactly 2 of the 3 digits in the code should be identical. How many different codes is it possible to form? |
The length of the bridge, which a train 150 m long and traveling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 sec is? |
If a = 1, what is the value of –(a^2 + a^3 + a^4 + a^5+a^6)? |
A town's oldest inhabitant is x years older than the sum of the ages of the Lee triplets. If the oldest inhabitants is now J years old, how old will one of the triplets W be in 20 years?
J-X-40/3 is my answers.
J = X + L + L + L is the initial situation
After 20 years
J + 20 = X + L + L + L + 60 ...20 years for each triplet so 60 years totally.
J - X - 40/ 3 = L is my answer.
What wrong am i doing ? Since the age asked is after 20 years i also consider adding 20 years to J . |
If John takes 7 minutes to eat x raisins, how many seconds will it take him to eat z raisins, assuming he continues to eat at the same rate? |
The average of first 25 natural numbers is? |
The distance from Steve's house to work is 30 Km. On the way back Steve drives twice as fast as he did on the way to work. Altogether, Steve is spending 6 hours a day on the roads. What is Steve's speed on the way back from work? |
Two men, Vikas and Vishal, working separately can mow a field in 8 and 12 hours respectively. If they work in stretches of one hour alternately, Vikas beginning at 8 a.m, when will the mowing be finished? |
A man complete a journey in 10 hrs. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km? |
The length of a rectangular garden is 2 feet longer than 3 times its width. If the perimeter of the garden is 100 feet, find the width and the length of the garden. |
A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10 seconds. The speed of the train is: |
What is the probability of getting a number less than 4 when a die is rolled? |
A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a queen of club or a king of heart is |
The first three terms of an infinite sequence are 2, 7, and 22. After the first term, each consecutive term can be obtained by multiplying the previous term by 3 and then adding 1. What is the sum of the tens digit and the units digit of the 22nd term in the sequence? |
Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms apart at the same time and speed. As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards the other and on reaching the second train, it flies back to the first train. This is repeated till the trains collide. If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100 km/h. How much did the bird travel till the collision. |
S1 = 6 S2 = 9 ... Sn = 3n + 4 For the sequence above, in which any term n is defined as 3n + 4, what is the value of n for the first term in the sequence to exceed 50? |
The distance between Delhi and Mathura is 215 kms. A starts from Delhi with a speed of 20 kmph at 7 a.m. for Mathura and B starts from Mathura with a speed of 25 kmph at 8 p.m. from Delhi. When will they meet? |
A, B and C can do a work in 9 days, 8 days and 12 days respectively. In how many days can all three of them working together, complete the work? |
If an integer "k" is divisible by 2,5 and 13.what is the next largest number that is divisible by all the three given numbers? |
If the number of boys in a class are 8 times the number of girls. If the number of people in the class are 45, how many girls are in the class? |
Eric throws 2 dice,and his score is the sum of the values shown.Sandra throws one dice and her score is the square of the value shown. what is the probabilty that Sandras score will be strictly higher than Erics score?? |
Two spies agreed to meet at a gas station between noon and 1pm, but they have both forgotten
the arranged time. Each arrives at a random time between noon and 1pm and stays for 6
minutes unless the other is there before the 6 minutes are up. Assuming all random times are
equally likely, what is the probability that they will meet within the hour (noon to 1pm)? |
Raja's club with a total membership of 30 has formed 3 committees, M, S and R which have 8,12, and 5 members respectively. If no member of committee M is on either of the other 2 committees, what is the greatest possible number of members in the club who are on none of the committees. |
The sum of the present ages of a father and his son is 50 years. five years ago, father's age was five times the age of the son. After 5 years, son's age will be: |
A committee of two people is to be chosen from 4 married couples. What is the number of different committees that can be chosen if two people who are married to each other cannot both serve on the committee? |
There are 2 sections A and B in a class, consisting of 36 and 44 students respectively. If the average weight of section A is 40kg and that of section B is 35kg, Find the average of the whole class? |
Of 25 applicants for a job, 14 had at least 4 years' experience, 18 had degrees, and 3 had less than 4 years' experience and did not have a degree. How many of the applicants had at least 4 years' experience and a degree? |
Working alone at its constant rate, machine A produces x boxes in 10 minutes and working alone at its constant rate, machine B produces 2x boxes in 5 minutes. How many minutes does it take machines A and B, working simultaneously at their respective constant rates, to produce 5x boxes? |
In a business school case competition, the top three teams receive cash prizes of $1000, $ 2000, and $ 3000. while remaining teams are not ranked and do not receive any prizes, there are 6 participating teams, named A, B, C, D, E, F. If team A wins one of the prizes, team B wins also one of the prizes. How many outcomes of the competition are possible ? |
A mixture of 20 kg of spirit and water contains 10% water. How much water must be added to this mixture to raise the percentage of water to 25% |
In a kickball competition of 9 teams, how many possible matches can each team play with each other? |
Working alone, Mary can pave a driveway in 4 hours and Hillary can pave the same driveway in 3 hours. When they work together, Mary thrives on teamwork so her rate increases by 33.33%, but Hillary becomes distracted and her rate decreases by 50%. If they both work together, how many hours will it take to pave the driveway? |
A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days and 16 days respectively. Both work for 3 days and then A goes away. Find how long will B take to complete the remaining work? |
The edge of a cube is 9a cm. Find its surface? |
On Thursday, Kramer purchases exactly 3 new shirts, 2 new sweaters, and 4 new hats, On the following day and each subsequent day thereafter, Kramer wears one of his new shirts together with one of his new sweaters and one of his new hats. Kramer avoids wearing the exact same combination of shirt, sweater, and hat for as long as possible. On which day is this no longer possible? |
A small company reduced its faculty by approximately 13 percent to 181 employees. What was the original number of employees? |
The sale price sarees listed for Rs.500 after successive discount is 10% and 5% is? |
John sold 100 shares of stock for $96 per share. For half his shares, this represented a 20% profit; for the other half, this represented a 20% loss. What was the net gain or net loss on this sale of stock? |
Suppose son name is 120,his brother name is 150 and his mother name is 180.find out his father's name??? |
If A lends Rs.2500 to B at 10% per annum and B lends the same sum to C at 11.5% per annum then the gain of B in a period of 3 years is?
A. Rs.107.50 |
Two integers are in the ratio of 1 to 4. If 6 is added to the smaller number, the ratio becomes 1 to 3. Find the larger integer. |
The daily hotel rates for five hotels John was considering were $60, $125, $80, $70 and $x. If the median price was $5 lower than the average (arithmetic mean) price, which of the following could be $x? |
A 440-liter solution of Kola is made from 88% water, 8% concentrated Kola and the rest is made from sugar. If 3.2 liters of sugar, 10 liter of water and 6.8 liters of concentrated Kola were added to the solution, what percent of the solution is made from sugar? |
For every positive integer n, form the number n / s(n), where s(n) is the sum of the digits of n in base 10. What is the minimum value of n/s(n) for 10 <= n <= 99. |
In one hour,a boat goes 11 km along the stream and 5 km against the stream.The speed of the boat in still water is : |
The cost price of a radio is Rs.1680 and it was sold for Rs.1450, find the loss %? |
Out of 15 students in a class, 10 are wearing blue shirts, 2 are wearing green shirts, and 3 are wearing red shirts. Four students are to be selected at random. What is the probability that at least one is wearing a green shirt? |
Cole drove from home to work at an average speed of 80 kmh. He then returned home at an average speed of 120 kmh. If the round trip took a total of 3 hours, how many minutes did it take Cole to drive to work? |
On a sum of money, the S.I. for 2 years is $600, while the C.I. is $612, the rate of interest being the same in both the cases. The rate of interest is? |
The sum of number of boys and girls in a school is 300. If the number of boys is x, then the number of girls becomes x% of the total number of students. The number of boys is? |
John and Steve are speed walkers in a race. John is 15 meters behind Steve when he begins his final push. John blazes to the finish at a pace of 4.2 m/s, while Steve maintains a blistering 3.8 m/s speed. If John finishes the race 2 meters ahead of Steve, how long was John’s final push? |
In a box of 8 pens, a total of 2 are defective. If a customer buys 2 pens selected at random from the box, what is the probability that neither pen will be defective? |
√1.5625 = ? |
The sum of three consecutive integers is 312. What is the sum of the next three consecutive integers? |
If 20x = 49y, which of the following must be true?
I. x > y
II. x^2 > y^2
III. x/7 is an integer |
Three hundred gallons of fuel are purchased at $0.90 per gallon. The fuel is consumed at a rate of $0.50 worth of fuel per hour. At this rate, how many hours are required to consume the 300 gallons of fuel? |
An epidemic is reported to have broken out in Florida. The number of detected instances of a certain disease is reported to have increased by 85% in the last year. What is the lowest number of newly detected instances possible? |
The value of ((x – y)³ + (y - z)³ + (z – x)³)/(9 (x – y) (y – z) (z – x))
is equal to : |
The least common multiple of positive integer d and 3-digit integer n is 690. If n is not divisible by 3 and d is not divisible by 2, what is the value of n? |
Two stations A and B are 110 km apart on a straight line. One train starts from A at 7 a.m. and travels towards B at 20 kmph. Another train starts from B at 8 a.m. and travels towards A at a speed of 25 kmph. At what time will they meet? |
A man purchased 3 blankets @ Rs.100 each, 5 blankets @ Rs.150 each and two blankets at a certain rate which is now slipped off from his memory. But he remembers that the average price of the blankets was Rs.157. Find the unknown rate of two blankets? |
A man can row his boat with the stream at 6 km/h and against the stream in 4 km/h. The man's rate is? |
A train moves fast a telegraph post and a bridge 264 m long in 8 sec and 20 sec respectively. What is the speed of the train? |
Three faces of a fair die are Yellow, two faces red and two blue.The die is tossed three
times. The probability that the colours, yellow, red and blue appear in the first, second and
third tosses respectively is |
If the tens digit x and the units digit y of a positive integer n are reversed, the resulting integer is 81 more than n. What is y in terms of x ? |
A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at Rs. 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at Rs. 36 per kg and sells the mixture at Rs. 30 per kg. His profit percent is: |
how many such letters pairs r in word FRONTIER having same no. of letters left between them in the word as they have in the series |
convert 100 miles into inches? |
curie bakes 5 cookies for 5 friends. 2 of the friend arrive early and eat 3 cookies each. How many cookies are left over if the other friends all have the same number of cookies? |
A person want to give his money of $12000 to his 5 children A,B,C,D,E in the ratio 2:4:3:1:5. What is the D+E share? |
Albert invested amount of 12000 in a fixed deposit for 2 years at compound interest rate of 5 % per annum. How much Albert will get on the maturity of the fixed deposit |
The H.C.F of two numbers is 23 and the other two factors of their L.C.M are 11 and 12. The larger of the two numbers is: |
The ratio of buses to cars on River Road is 1 to 3. If there are 20 fewer buses than cars on River Road, how many cars are on River Road? |
A man can row downstream at 16 kmph and upstream at 10 kmph. Find the speed of the man in still water and the speed of stream respectively? |
Agatha has $460 in 5-and 10-dollar bills only. If she has fewer 10-than 5-dollar bills, what is the least possible number of 5-dollar bills she could have? |
A grocery store bought some mangoes at a rate of 4 for a dollar. They were separated into two stacks, one of which was sold at a rate of 3 for a dollar and the other at a rate of 6 for a dollar. What was the ratio of the number of mangoes in the two stacks if the store broke even after having sold all of its mangoes? |
The profit obtained by selling an article for Rs. 86 is the same as the loss obtained by selling it for Rs. 42. What is the cost price of the article? |
85 80 25 70 55 25 35 ? ? |
When 2 is added to half of one-third of one-fifth of a number, the result is one-fifteenth of the number. Find the number? |
x# is defined for every positive even integer x as the product of all even integers from 2 to x. What is the smallest possible prime factor of (x#+7)? |
Rs. 875 becomes Rs. 956 in 3 years at a certain rate of simple interest.If the rate of interest is increased by 4% ,What amount will Rs. 875 become in 3 years ? |
3/4 of 5/7 of a number is greater than 2/3 of 4/7 of the same number by 26. What is half of that number? |
Sakshi can do a piece of work in 20 days. Tanya is 25% more efficient than Sakshi. The number of days taken by Tanya to do the same piece of work is: |
The Least Common multiple of 2^6−1 and 2^9−1 is |
Of the diplomats who attended a summit conference: 20 spoke Japanese, 32 did not speak Russian and 20% of the diplomats spoke neither Japanese nor Russian. If 10% of the diplomats spoke both Japanese and Russian, then how many diplomats attended the conference? |
A fair coin is tossed repeatedly. If head appears on the first four tosses, then the probability of appearance of tail on the fifth toss is. |
A train 220 m long passed a pole in 12 sec. How long will it take to pass a platform 600 m long? |
There are 11 baskets numbered from 1 to 11 and filled with apples. 10 children are asked to pick apples one by one from each basket such that the number of apples picked by each child from each basket is equal to the number marked on the basket. If there were 1000 apples in total and the baskets were filled in such a way that none of the basket became empty in the process, how many apples were left in the end? |
John want to buy a $100 Trouser at the store, but he think it’s too expensive. Finally, it goes on sale for $80. What is the percent decrease? |
Suppose you have three identical prisms with congruent equilateral triangles as the end-polygons. Suppose you attach them by the rectangular faces so they are perfectly aligned. There will be some large faces created by two or more co-planar faces of the individual prisms: count each such large face as one. Given that, how many faces does the resultant solid have |
Two identical machines have the ability to produce both nuts and bolts. However, it takes 1 second to produce a bolt but 2 seconds to produce a nut. What is the fastest the two machines, working together, can produce 1,200 nuts and 1,200 bolts? |
The number of boys in a class is three times the number of girls. Which one of the following numbers cannot represent the total number of children in the class ? |
Find the number of ways of arranging the letters of the word "MATERIAL" such that all the vowels in the word are to come together? |
A company has 14 equally qualified applicants for 4 open positions. How many different groups of 4 applicants can be chosen by the company to fill the positions if the order of selection does not matter? |
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