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The third proportional to 3 and 6 is?
At what rate percent of simple interest will a sum of money double itself in 12 years?
Let A be the event that a randomly selected two digit number is divisible by 10 and let B be the event that a randomly selected two digit number is divisible by 5. What is P(A and B)?
Mr. John invested in Fund A and Fund B. The total amount he invested, in both funds combined, was $100,000. In one year, Fund A paid 23% and Fund B paid 17%. The interest earned in Fund B was exactly $200 greater than the interest earned in Fund A. How much did Mr. John invest in Fund A?
Out of 15 students in a class, 9 are wearing blue shirts, 3 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?
Find the simple interest on Rs. 68,000 at 16 2/3% per annum for 9 months.
Which of the following numbers is divisible by 8?
At Didymus Corporation, there are just two classes of employees: silver and gold. The average salary of gold employees is $60,000 higher than that of silver employees. If there are 120 silver employees and 160 gold employees, then the average salary for the company is how much higher than the average salary for the silver employees?
Mike took a bus from home to market, that travels at 30 kmph. While walking back at 6 kmph, halfway through, he suddenly realized he was getting late and he cycled back the remaining distance in 20 kmph. Find the average speed.
If the speed of X meters per hour is equivalent to the speed of Y kilometers per hour, what is Y in terms of X? (1 kilometer=1000 meters)
A certain car increased its average speed by 5 miles per hour in each successive 5-minute interval after the first interval. If in the first 5-minute interval its average speed was 2 miles per hour, how many miles did the car travel in the third 5-minute interval?
150 ml of 30% sulphuric acid was added to approximate 400 ml of 12% sulphuric acid solution. Find the approximate concentration W of the acid in the mixture?
The slant height of a right circular cone is 10 m and its height is 8 m. Find the area of its curved surface.
David obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks (out in 100) in English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. What are his average marks?
x and y are positive integers of V. If 1/x + 1/y < 2, which of the following must be true?
What is the sum of 100 consecutive integers from -49 inclusive, in a increasing order?
We bought 85 hats at the store. Blue hats cost $6 and green hats cost $7. The total price was $550. How many green hats did we buy?
A vessel is filled with liquid, 3 parts of which are water and 5 parts of syrup. How much of the mixture must be drawn off and replaced with water so that the mixture may be half water and half syrup?
A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. Originally, he had:
Suppose you want to buy three loaves of bread that cost $0.75 each and a jar of peanut butter that costs $7. A jar of jelly is $2.75, but you don’t need any jelly. You have $17. How much money will you have left over?
For positive integers n, the integer part of the nth term of sequence F equals n, while the infinite decimal part of the nth term is constructed in order out of the consecutive positive multiples of n, beginning with 2n. For instance, F_1 = 1.2345678…, while F_2 = 2.4681012… The sum of the first seven terms of sequence F is between:
Nobel buys an old car for $1000 and spends $1000 on its repairs. If he sells the scooter for $2500, his gain percent is?
A sum of Rs. 2665 is lent into two parts so that the interest on the first part for 5 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?
An employee’s annual salary was increased $25,000. If her new annual salary now equals $90,000, what was the percent increase?
What is the smallest number which when diminished by 10, is divisible 2, 6, 12 and 24?
A train with a length of 100 meters, is traveling at a speed of 72 km/hr. The train enters a tunnel 2.3 km long. How many minutes does it take the train to pass through the tunnel from the moment the front enters to the moment the rear emerges?
In a certain school, the ratio of boys to girls is 5 to 13. If there are 128 more girls than boys, how many boys are there?
How much time will a train of length 200 m moving at a speed of 72 kmph take to cross another train of length 300 m, moving at 36 kmph in the same direction?
Find the largest 4 digit number which isexactly divisible by 88?
Rs. 20 is the true discount on Rs. 260 due after a certain time. What will be the true discount on the same sum due after half of the former time ,the rate of interest being the same ?
If X,Y and Z are three consecutive multiples of 5. Then which of the following will the factor of X*Y*Z 1) 125 2) 250 3) 375 4) 750
2056 x 987 = ?
A watch was sold at a loss of 46%. If it was sold for Rs.140 more, there would have been a gain of 4%. What is the cost price?
ABCD is a square where AB =√2016. Let X be a point on AB and Y be a point on CD such that AX = CY . Compute the area of trapezoid AXYD.
What sum of money put at C.I amounts in 2 years to Rs.8820 and in 3 years to Rs.9261?
Two taps A and B can fill a tank in 5 hours and 20hours respectively. If both the taps are open then due to a leakage, it took 30 minutes more to fill the tank. If the tank is full, how long will it take for the leakage alone to empty the tank?
A car dealer sold x used cars and y new cars during May. If the number of used cars sold was 10 greater than the number of new cars sold. Which of the following expresses this relationship ?
Peter will arrange 6 people of 6 different heights for photograph by placing them in two rows of three so that each person in the first row is standing is standing in front of someone in the second row. The heights of the people within each row must increase from left to right, and each person in the second row must be taller than the person standing in front of him or her. How many such arrangements of the 6 people are possible?
If k > 0, x + 2k = y, and y + 3k = z, what is the ratio between z - x and y - x ?
A man can row with a speed of 5 kmph in still water. If the stream flows at 5 kmph, then the speed in downstream is?
A train 640 meters long is running with a speed of 64 kmph. The time taken by it to cross a tunnel 140 meters long is?
For every order, a certain mail-order company charges a shipping fee of $3 plus an additional $2 if the value of the order is over $50 but not over $100 or an additional $3 if the value of the order is over $100. How much greater are the total shipping fees for 2 orders of $75 each than the total shipping fee for 1 order of $120 ?
Two trains of equal length, running with the speeds of 60 and 40 kmph, take 50 seconds to cross each other while they are running in the same direction. What time will they take to cross each other if they are running in opposite directions?
r=2^(n+1), then in terms of r, 9^n=
150 ml of 30% sulphuric acid was added to approximate 400 ml of 12% sulphuric acid solution. Find the approximate concentration of the acid in the mixture?
On a sum of money, the S.I. for 2 years is $660, while the C.I. is $693, the rate of interest being the same in both the cases. The rate of interest is?
Two cubes of their volumes in the ratio 8 : 125. The ratio of their surface area is:
The compounded ratio of (2:3), (6:11) and (11:2) is
When Jessica withdrew $200 from her bank account, her account balance decreased by 2/5. If she deposits an amount equal to 1/5 of the remaining balance, what will be the final balance in her bank account?
If each year the population of the country grows by 20%, how many years will elapse before the population of the country doubles?
A man can ride on motorcycle at 50 kmph upward road and 100 kmph downward road. He takes 12 hours to ride motorcycle uphill from lower point A to upper point B and back to A. What is the total distance traveled by him in 12 hours? He must return back to base point A in remaining time.
A coin is tossed live times. What is the probability that there is at the least one tail? A. 31/32 B. 1/16
A number is said to be prime saturated if the product of all the different positive prime factors of r is less than the square root of r. What is the greatest two digit prime saturated integer ?
the average distance between the sun and a certain planet is approximatly 2.1 10^15 inches. which of the following is the closest to the average distence between sun and the planet in kelometers? (1 km is approx 3.9 x 10^4 inches)
597**6 is divisible by both 3 and 11. The non-zero digits in the Hundred’s and ten’s places are respectively:
Andy solves problems 78 to 125 inclusive in a Math exercise. How many problems does he solve?
A rectangular floor that measures 6 meters by 8 meters is to be covered with carpet squares that each measure 2 meters by 2 meters. If the carpet squares cost $12 apiece, what is the total cost for the number of carpet squares needed to cover the floor?
If two numbers are in the ratio 2:3 and the numerator and denominator are added and subtracted by1 and 2 respectively, then the ratio becomes 6:2, then find the smallest number?
For which of the following does y(a)−y(b)=y(a−b) for all values of a and b?
Two tests had the same maximum mark. The pass percentages in the first and the second test were 40% and 45% respectively. A candidate scored 231 marks in the second test and failed by 48 marks in that test. Find the pass mark in the first test?
A and B rent a pasture for 10 months. A put in 80 cows for 7 months. How many can B put in for the remaining 3 months, if he pays half as much again as A?
Fiind the amount on Rs.5000 in 2 years, the rate of interest being 4% per first year and 5% for the second year?
If 102y = 25, then 10-y equals:
Salaries of Prasanna and Sathish are in the ratio 2 : 3. If the salary of each is increased by Rs. 4000, the new ratio becomes 40 : 57. What is Sathish's present salary?
An unbiased cubic die is thrown.What is the probabiltiy of getting a multiple of 3 or 4?
A, B and C start at the same time in the same direction to run around a circular stadium. A completes a round in 252 seconds, B in 308 seconds and C in 198 seconds, all starting at the same point. After what time will they meet again at the starting point?
The salary of a typist was at first raised by 10% and then the same was reduced by 5%. If he presently draws Rs.1045.What was his original salary?
Mr. Hernandez, who was a resident of State X for only 8 months last year, had a taxable income of $22,500 for the year. If the state tax rate were 10 percent of the year’s taxable income prorated for the proportion of the year during which the taxpayer was a resident, what would be the amount of Mr. Hernandez’s State X tax for last year?
The average of 11 results is 49, if the average of first six results is 49 and that of the last six is 52. Find the sixth result?
If a number is chosen at random from the set {1, 2, 3, ...., 100}, then the probability that the chosen number is a perfect cube is
The ratio of the radius of two circles is 2: 3, and then the ratio of their areas 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 c crumbs to the anthill, how many crumbs will Amy bring to the anthill, in terms of c?
Raju age after 15 years will be 5 times his age 5 years back, What is the present age of Raju
A car is running at a speed of 60kmph. What distance will it cover in 8sec?
A grocer purchased a quantity of bananas at 3 pounds for $0.50 and sold the entire quantity at 4 pounds for $1.00. How many pounds did the grocer purchase if the profit from selling the bananas was $9.00?
Look at this series: 32, 31, 33, 32, 34, 33, ... What number should come next?
This year, MBB Consulting fired 8% of its employees and left remaining employee salaries unchanged. Sally, a first-year post-MBA consultant, noticed that that the average (arithmetic mean) of employee salaries at MBB was 10% more after the employee headcount reduction than before. The total salary pool allocated to employees after headcount reduction is what percent of that before the headcount reduction?
If integers a and b are distinct factors of 30, which of the following CANNOT be a factor of 30? I. a^b + b^2 II. (a + b)^2 III. a + b
Danny drove his old car 100 kilometers, from his home to a friend. To prevent the engine from overheating, he stopped his car for 10 minutes every time he completed 40 kilometers of continuous driving. When the car was moving, Danny drove it at an average speed of 60 kilometers per hour. What was Danny's average speed on that trip?
The ratio of sodium chloride to ammonium in 100 kg of mixed ammonium normally used by three chemists is 2: 15. The amount of sodium chloride to be added to 100 kg of mixed ammonium to make the ratio 9 :25 is
If c+5/d is a prime integer, which of the following must be true? 1.d=5c 2. d is a prime integer 3. c+5/d is ODD.
If 1400*xy=1050. Then what is the value of xy=?
Which of the following are divisible by both 2 and 3? I. 234,124,429 II. 88,865,544,264 III. 5,555,554,673
How many words with or without meaning, can be formed by using all the letters of the word, ‘COMPUTER’, using each letter exactly once?
A squirrel runs up a cylindrical post , in a perfect spiral path making one circuit for each rise of 5 feet . How many feet does the squirrel travels if the post is 25 feet tall and 3 feet in circumference?
5 women can do a work in two days. 10 men can complete the same work in five days. What is the ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman?
The average of 25 results is 45. The average of first 12 of those is 14 and the average of last 12 is 17. What is the 13th result?
There are 16 students in a class. On the day the test was given, Bob was absent. The other 15 students took the test and their average was 77. The next day, Bob took the test, and with this grade included, the new average was 78. What was Bob's grade on the test?
Subtracting 6% of A from A is equivalent to multiplying A by how much ?
{3, 5, 8, x} For the above mentioned Set, Mean of the set is equal to Range of the set then find out possible values of x
How many cubes will remain if the cubes having black and green coloured are removed ?
The sum of all solutions for x in the equation x^2 – 4x + 14 = |x – 4|+ 8 is equal to:
Two cyclist start from the same places in opposite directions. One is going towards north at 18kmph and the other is going towards south 20kmph. What time will they take to be 47.5km apart?
A certain car's price decreased by 2.5% (from the original price) each year from 1996 to 2002, during that time the owner of the car invested in a new carburetor and a new audio system for the car, which increased car's price by $1,500. If the price of the car in 1996 was $22,000, what is the car's price in 2002?
An express traveled at an average speed of 100 km/hr, stopping for 3 min after every 75 kn. How long did it take to reach its destination 600 km from the starting point?
A, B, C, D and E play a game of cards. A says to B, "If you give me three cards, you will have as many as E has and if I give you three cards, you will have as many as D has." A and B together have 10 cards more than what D and E together have. If B has two cards more than what C has and the total number of cards be 133, how many cards does B have ?
(X)+9088+1090-9156=19845. Calculate the value of X
A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20 seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?
Machine P and Machine Q are each used to manufacture 660 sprockets. It takes Machine P 10 hours longer to produce 660 sprockets than Machine Q. Machine Q produces 10% more sprockets per hour than Machine A. How many sprockets per hour does Machine A produce?
A pump can fill a tank with water in 2 hours. Because of a leak, it took 8/3 hours to fill the tank. The leak can drain all the water of the tank in?