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A student got 72% in math and 82% in history. To get an overall average of 75%, how much should the student get in the third subject?
A 260 m long train running at the speed of 120 km/hr crosses another train running in opposite direction at the speed of 80 km/hr in 9 sec. What is the length of the other train?
A technician makes a round-trip to and from a certain service center by the same route. If the technician completes the drive to the center and then completes 10 percent of the drive from the center, what percent of the round-trip has the technician completed?
A train consists of 12 boggies, each boggy 15 metres long. The train crosses a telegraph post in 9 seconds. Due to some problem, two boggies were detached. The train now crosses a telegraph post in
There are 2 kinds of staff members in a certain company, PART TIME AND FULL TIME. 25 percent of the total members are PART TIME members others are FULL TIME members. The work time of part time members is 3/5 of the full time members. Wage per hour is same. What is the ratio of total wage of part time members to total wage of all members.
A cistern can be filled by a tap in 4 hours while it can be emptied by another tap in 9 hours. If both the taps are opened simultaneously, then after how much time will the cistern get filled?
How long does a train 100 m long traveling at 72 kmph takes to cross a tunnel of 1400 m in length?
In a triangle ABC, AB = 6, BC = 8 and AC = 10. A perpendicular dropped from B, meets the side AC at D. A circle of radius BD (with centre B) is drawn. If the circle cuts AB and BC at P and Q respectively, then AP : QC is equal to
Maddie has 6 apples, if she give 3 to mike, how many does she have left?
Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in 20 & 30 minutes respectively while C can empty it in 20 minutes. If A, B & C are kept open successively for 1.5 minute each, how soon will the tank be filled?
If the time is currently 1:30 pm, what time will it be in exactly 644 hours?
A no.when divided by 220 gives a remainder 43, what remainder will be obtainedby dividingthe same no.17?
A river 5m deep and 35 m wide is flowing at the rate of 2 kmph, calculate the amount of water that runs into the sea per minute?
Dawson purchased a house for Rs.78000 and a site for Rs.12000 respectively, if he sold the house for Rs.79000 and the site for Rs.15000, then find the resultant percentage of gain?
Marketing executives for a certain chewing gum company projected a 25 percent increase in revenue this year over that of last year, but revenue this year actually decreased by 25%. What percent of the projected revenue was the actual revenue ?
A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his average by 3. Find his average after 17th inning?
The average of first five multiples of 6 is?
The 19th of September 1987 was a Saturday. If 1988 was a leap-year, what day of the week was the 25th of September 1990?
The average marks obtained by 100 candidates in an examination is 50. Find how many candidates have passed in the examination, if the average marks of candidates who passed is 70 and that of failed candidates is 20.
What is the next number in this sequence: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221, _________?
Divide Rs. 1500 among A, B and C so that A receives 1/3 as much as B and C together and B receives 2/3 as A and C together. A's share is?
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Two trains of equal length, running with the speeds of 60 and 40 kmph, take 55 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?
Mark bought a set of 6 flower pots of different sizes at a total cost of $8.25. Each pot cost 0.15 more than the next one below it in size. What was the cost, in dollars, of the largest pot?
S is a set of 64 consecutive multiples of 4. If the smallest number in S is 68, then the greatest number in S is
Ajay buys 6 dozen eggs for Rs 10.80, and 12 eggs are found rotten and the rest are sold at 5 eggs per rupee. Find his percentage gain or loss.
Given that there are 11 cricket players per team, how many ways can you select 3 cricket players from 4 teams if no more than one player can be selected from each team?
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A train crosses a platform of 150 m in 15 sec, same train crosses another platform of length 250 m in 20 sec. then find the length of the train?
The markup on a television set is 20 percent of the cost. The markup is what percent of the selling price? (markup = selling price - cost)
if (log5 5)(log4 9)(log3 2) is equal to
A company pays 12.5% dividend to its investors. If an investor buys Rs.40 shares and gets 25% on investment, at what price did the investor buy the shares?
If a and b are nonzero integers such that 6a = 15b, then each of the following must be true EXCEPT
Find the area of the quadrilateral of one of its diagonals is 30 cm and its off sets 9 cm and 6 cm?
The simple interest on a sum of money is 4/9 of the principal. Find the rate percentage and time, if both are numerically equal.
A sum of 25 was paid for a work which A can do in 32 days, B in 20 days, B and C in 12 days and D in 24 days.How much did C receive if all the four work together ?
If x^2+(1/x^2)=7, x^4+(1/x^4)=?
A man can row at 6 kmph in still water. If the velocity of current is 2 kmph and it takes him 2 hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place?
In a soccer bet,we play 4 teams.first team odd 1.30,second 5.23,third 3.25,fourth 2.05.we place the bet with 5.00 euros. how much money we expect to win?
Joe’s average (arithmetic mean) test score across 4 equally weighted tests was 70. He was allowed to drop his lowest score. After doing so, his average test score improved to 75. What is the lowest test score that was dropped?
103,100,97,..,91,88,85 Insert the missing number
In a series of consecutive numbers, 27 is the eighth smallest number and 20 is the tenth largest number. What is the range of the series?
The area of a triangle is with base 4m and height 5m?
A alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and B alone in 8 days. A and B undertook to do it for Rs. 3200. With the help of C, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to C?
If the height of an equilateral triangle GBC is equal in length to the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle DEF, a side of ΔGBC is how many times as long as a leg of the right triangle DEF?
An amount of money is to be distributed among Faruk, Vasim and Ranjith in the ratio 3 : 5 : 7. If Vasims share is Rs. 1500, what is the difference between Faruk's and Ranjith's shares?
In a partnership between A, B and C. A's capital is Rs.5000. If his share of a profit of Rs.800 is Rs.200 and C's share is Rs.130, what is B's capital?
A family has two children. find the probability that both the children are girls given that at least one of them is a girl?
If books bought at prices ranging from Rs. 125 to Rs. 350 are sold at prices ranging from Rs. 170 to Rs 420, what is the greatest possible profit that might be made in selling 12 books ?
What is the remainder when 12346 is divided by 9?
A’s speed is 30/17 times that of B. If A and B run a race, what part of the length of the race should A give B as a head start, so that the race ends in a dead heat?
Rs. 700 is divided among A, B, C so that A receives half as much as B and B half as much as C. Then C's share is:
In a garden, there are four blue flowers, three red flowers, four green flowers, and four pink flowers. What is the probability that a florist will choose three flowers of the same color when randomly picking three flowers?
The current of a stream runs at the rate of 4 kmph. A boat goes 6 km and back to the starting point in 2 hours, then find the speed of the boat in still water?
How many different positive integers are factors of 64 ?
If a fair coin is tossed six times, what is the probability of getting exactly three heads in a row?
At a school, two-fifths of the male students and two-thirds of the female students speak a foreign language. If the number of males is three-fourths the number of females, what fraction of the students speak a foreign language?
There is a building of 100 floors -If an egg drops from the Nth floor or above it will break. -If it’s dropped from any floor below, it will not break. You’re given 2 eggs. Find N How many drops you need to make?
A pipe is 30 m long and is 45% longer than another pipe. Find the length of the other pipe
If 3y + 7 = x^2 + P = 7x + 5, what is the value of P ?
If b is an integer, what is the greatest possible value for b that would still make the following statement true: 11*10^b < 1/10 ?
Ram singh goes to his office in the city, every day from his suburban house. His driver Mangaram drops him at the railway station in the morning and picks him up in the evening. Every evening Ram singh reaches the station at 5 o'clock. Mangaram also reaches at the same time. one day Ramsingh started early from his office and came to the station at 4 o'clock. Not wanting to wait for the car he starts walking home. Mangaram starts at normal time, picks him up on the way and takes him back house, half an hour early. How much time did Ram singh walk.
By selling an article for 3200, a dealer suffers a loss equal to 1/5 of his investment. Find the cost price. At what price should he had sold it to make a gain of 10% ?
How many words can be formed by using all the letters of the word “DAUGHTR” so that vowels always come together & vowels are never together?
A and B start from house at 10am. They travel on the MG road at 20kmph and 40 kmph. there is a Junction T on their path. A turns left at T junction at 12:00 noon, B reaches T earlier, and turns right. Both of them continue to travel till 2pm. What is the distance between A and B at 2 pm
The average (arithmetic mean) of five numbers is 5. If 2 is subtracted from each of three of the numbers, what is the new average?
Light glows for every 30 seconds . How many max. times did it glow between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am.
A military commander has to choose 3 soldiers out of a company of 5 for guarding the headquarters. How many different group combinations of 3 does he have to choose from?
The Average of 100, 200, 300, 400, ... , 1000 is 550. If each number is divided by 5, then the new average will be equal to
Robert is travelling on his cycle andhas calculated to reach point A at 2 PM. if he travels at 10 kmph, he will reach there at 12Pm if he travels at 15 kmph. At what speed musthe travel to reach A at 1 PM?
Three runners R, B and C run a race, with runner R finishing 12m ahead of runner B and 18m ahead of runner C, while runner B finishes 8m ahead of runner C. Each runner travels entire distance at a constant speed. What was the length of the race?
Jake remembers only the last four letters of his five-letter Klingon name. If he is sure that the first letter is neither "N" nor "Z", and assuming that there are only 10 letters in the Klingon alphabet, what is the probability that he will give the correct name when asked for it by the space attendant?
Five years ago, John’s age was half of the age he will be in 2 years. How old is he now?
A certain musical scale has has 13 notes, each having a different frequency, measured in cycles per second. In the scale, the notes are ordered by increasing frequency, and the highest frequency is twice the lowest. For each of the 12 lower frequencies, the ratio of a frequency to the next higher frequency is a fixed constant. If the lowest frequency is 110 cycles per second, then the frequency of the 7th note in the scale is how many cycles per second?
In a fort, there are 1200 soldiers. If each soldier consumes 3 kg per day, the provisions available in the fort will last for 30 days. If some more soldiers join, the provisions available will last for 25 days given each soldier consumes 2.5 kg per day. Find the number of soldiers joining the fort in that case.
Danny is sitting on a rectangular box. The area of the front face of the box is half the area of the top face, and the area of the top face is 1.5 times the area of the side face. If the volume of the box is 648, what is the area of the side face of the box?
If 3x+4y=88 and 3x-4y=14, what is the value of x subs y?
The operation T is defined by x T y=1/x+1/y for all nonzero numbers x and y. If z is a number greater than 1, which of the following must be true. I. z T z/z-1=1 II.x T (-z)=0 III. 2/z T 2/z=z
In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 262 runs?
A trader bought a car at 20% discount on its original price. He sold it at a 40% increase on the price he bought it. What percent of profit did he make on the original price?
The total of the ages of Amar, Akbar and Anthony is 62 years. What was the total of their ages three years ago ?
What is the greater of the two numbers whose product is 2560, given that the sum of the two numbers exceeds their difference by 64?
A and B can do a work in 4days, B and C in 5days, C and A in 7days. If A,B and C work together , they will complete the work in?
What is the greatest possible straight line distance, in inches, between any two points on a rectangular box that is 5 inches wide, 3 inches long, and 4 inches high?
Suresh can complete a job in 15 hours. Ashutosh alone can complete the same job in 30 hours. Suresh works for 9 hours and then the remaining job is completed by Ashutosh. How many hours will it take Ashutosh to complete the remaining job alone?
Two trains run in opposite directions on a circular track. Train A travels at a rate of 4π miles per hour and Train B runs at a rate of 6π miles per hour. If the track has a radius of 6 miles and the trains both start from Point T at the same time, how long, in hours, after the trains depart will they again meet at Point T?
Yesterday's closing prices of 1,760 different stocks listed on a certain stock exchange were all different from today's closing prices. The number of stocks that closed at a higher price today than yesterday was 20 percent greater than the number that closed at a lower price. How many of the stocks closed at a higher price today than yesterday?
If s,u, and v are positive integers and 2s=2u+2v, which of the following must be true? i. s=u ii. u is not equal to v iii. s > v
For all real numbers v, an operation is defined by the equation v* = v - v/3. If (v*)* = 4, then v=
Five 6 faced dice are thrown together. The probability that all the three show the same number on them is?
Which is greatest in 16 ( 2/3) %, 2/5 and 0.17 ?
An article is bought for Rs.675 and sold for Rs.800, find the gain percent?
The product A of the first 10 prime numbers is closest to which of the following?
If x and y are perfect squares, then which five of the following is not necessarily a perfect square?
There are 7 non-collinear points. How many triangles can be drawn by joining these points?
A train is 435 meter long is running at a speed of 45 km/hour. In what time will it pass a bridge of 140 meter length
The angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock when the time is 4.20, is:
Speed of a boat in standing water is 8 kmph and the speed of the stream is 2 kmph. A man rows to place at a distance of 210 km and comes back to the starting point. The total time taken by him is:
Jill invests $10000 in an account that pays an annual rate of 3.96%, compounding semi-annually. Approximately how much does she have in her account after two years?
If n is an integer, which of the following CANNOT be a factor of 3n+4?