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What is the sum of two consecutive even numbers, the difference of whose squares is 84?
Four friends, Patricia, Melyssa, Tania, and Cassandra, are pooling their money to buy a $1100 item. Patricia has three times as much money as Melyssa. Tania has $20 more than Patricia. Cassandra has 25% more than Tania. If they put all their money together and spend the $1100, they will have $19 left. How much money do...
If (1/5)^m * (1/4)^3 = 1/(2*(10)^3), then m =
A factory has three types of machines, each of which works at its own constant rate. If 7 Machine As and 11 Machine Bs can produce 305 widgets per hour, and if 8 Machine As and 22 Machine Cs can produce 600 widgets per hour, how many widgets could one machine A, one Machine B, and one Machine C produce in one 8-hour da...
On multiplying a numberZ by 153, the result obtained was 102325. However, it is found that both the 2's are wrong. Find the correct result.
24 lbs of coffee P and 25 lbs of coffee V are mixed to make coffee X and Y. The ratio of P to V in coffee X is 4 to 1, in Y is 1 to 5. How much of P is contained in the mixture X?
A started a business with an investment of Rs. 70000 and after 6 months B joined him investing Rs. 120000. If the profit at the end of a year is Rs. 26000, then the share of B is?
The average of first five prime numbers greater than 20 is?
3550 - (1002 / 20.04) = ?
If 5^11 * 4^6 = 2 * 10^n, what is the value of n?
The banker's discount on a bill due 4 months hence at 15% is Rs.420. The discount is
Which of the following equations represents a line that is perpendicular to the line described by the equation 4x + 3y = 12?
Convert 500 miles into meters?
The no. of girls in a class are seven times the no. of boys, which value cannever be the of total students?
The average height of 50 pupils in a class is 150 cm. Six of them whose height is 146 cm, leave the class and six others whose average height is 156 cm, join. The new average height of the pupils of the class (in cm) is ?
Square A has an area of 121 square centimeters. Square B has a perimeter of 16 centimeters. If square B is placed within square A and a random point is chosen within square A, what is the probability the point is not within square B?
Speed of a boat in standing water is 9kmph and speed of the stream is 1.5kmph. A man can rows to a place at a distance of 105km and comes back to the starting point. The total time taken by him is?
Simran started a software business by investing Rs. 50,000. After six months, Nanda joined^her with a capital of Rs. 80,000. After 3 years, they earned a profit of Rs. 24,500. What was Simran's share in the profit ?
Look at this series: 80, 10, 70, 15, 60, ... What number should come next?
A thief steals a car at 2.30pm and drives it at 60kmph.the theft is discovered at 3pm and the owner sets off in another car at 75kmph when will he overtake the thief
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?
A searchlight on top of the watch-tower makes 3 revolutions per minute. What is the probability that a man appearing near the tower will stay in the dark for at least 10 seconds?
A number when divided by a divisor leaves a remainder of 24. When twice the original number is divided by the same divisor, the remainder is 11. What is the value of the divisor?
A, B and C can do a work in 90, 30 and 45 days respectively. If they work together, in how many days will they complete the work?
The average age of an adult class is 40years. 12new students with an avg age of 32years join the class. Thereforedecreasing the average by 4year. Find what was theoriginal strength of class?
How many integers from 0 to 59, inclusive, have a remainder of 1 when divided by 3 ?
Ravi can do a piece of work in 25 days while Prakash can do it in 40 days. In how many days will they finish it together?
Once a week, Susan collects wildflowers around her neighborhood to display in the vase on her family's kitchen table. When her dog Rocko tags along, she gets distracted by his barking, so she collects about 3/4 as many flowers as she usually would when she comes alone. When her father comes along, he collects twice as ...
The areas of the two spheres are in the ratio 1: 4. The ratio of their volume is?
A car gets 40 kilometers per gallon of gasoline. How many gallons of gasoline would the car need to travel 180 kilometers?
Yesterday's closing prices of 2,860 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 p...
If p is the sum of m and n, then which one of the following must equal m – n ?
A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs. If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke
A car during its journey travels 1 hour at a speed of 40 kmph, another 30 minutes at a speed of 60 kmph, and 2 hours at a speed of 60 kmph.The average speed of the car is
Find the compound interest on $100000 in 2years at 4% per annum, the interest being compounded half-yearly?
If 12 men do a work in 80 days, in how many days will 16 men do it?
A person purchased a Computer set for Rs. 16000 and a DVD Drive for Rs. 6250. He sold both the items together for Rs. 31150. What percentage of profit did he make?
Arun purchased 30 kg of wheat at the rate of Rs. 11.50 per kg and 20 kg of wheat at the rate of 14.25 per kg. He mixed the two and sold the mixture. Approximately what price per kg should be sell the mixture to make 30% profit?
The expression (12.86 × 12.86 + 12.86 × p + 0.14 × 0.14) will be a perfect square for p equal to
108. Triangle A’s base is 7% greater than the base of triangle B, and A’s height is 7% less than the height of triangle B. The area of triangle A is what percent less or more than the area of triangle B?
A, B and C are partners in a business. Their capitals are respectively, Rs.5000, Rs.6000 and Rs.4000. A gets 30% of the total profit for managing the business. The remaining profit is divided among three in the ratio of their capitals. In the end of the year, the profit of A is Rs.200 more than the sum of the profits o...
John opened a shop investing Rs.40000. Joy joined him 4 months later, investing Rs.50000. They earned a profit of Rs.55000 after completion of one year. What will be Joy's share of profit?
Find the largest 4 digit number which isexactly divisible by 88?
There were two candidates in an election. Winner candidate received 62% of votes and won the election by 336 votes. Find the number of votes casted to the winning candidate?
It is being given that (232 + 1) is completely divisible by a whole number. Which of the following numbers is completely divisible by this number?
A school having four classes only have student strength of 10, 40, 30 and 20 respectively. The pass percentages of these classes are 20%, 30%, 60% and 100% respectively. What is the pass percentage for the entire school?
Lottery balls numbered consecutively from one through one hundred are placed in a spinner. If one ball is drawn at random, what is the probability that it will have the number 1 on it exactly once?
The annual interest rate earned by an investment increased by 10 percent from last year to this year. If the annual interest rate earned by the investment this year was 11 percent, what was the annual interest rate last year?
A basket contains 4 blue, 4 red and 4 yellow marbles. If 4 marbles are extracted from the basket at random, what is the probability that a marble of each color is among the extracted?
How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits {1, 3, 4, 5, 7,9}(repetition of digits is not allowed)?
The list price of an article is Rs.65. A customer pays Rs.56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts, one of them being 10%. The other discount is?
((-1.9)(0.6) – (2.6)(1.2))/5.0 = ?
Three friends are buying a gift for a friend. Declan contributes 4 dollars more than 1/4 the cost of the gift, Ed contributes 1 dollar less than 1/3 the cost of the gift, and Frank contributes the remaining 17 dollars. What is the cost of the gift?
A began business with Rs.45000 and was joined afterwards by B with Rs.5400. When did B join if the profits at the end of the year were divided in the ratio of 2:1?
A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random from the bag. The probability that all of them are red, is:
A person got Rs.48 more when he invested a certain sum at compound interest instead of simple interest for two years at 8% p.a. Find the sum?
x, y, a, and b are positive integers of V. When x is divided by y, the remainder is 6. When a is divided by b, the remainder is 9. Which of the following is NOT a possible value for y + b?
In a certain company, a third of the workers do not have a retirement plan. 30% of the workers who do not have a retirement plan are women, and 40% of the workers who do have a retirement plan are men. If 120 of the workers of that company are men, how many of the workers are women?
A woman takes certain sum of money at 10% p.a. simple interest. If she pays twice the amount takes, how many years has she been paying the interest?
Find large number from below question The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 7 as quotient and the 15 as remainder
The value of 3Z + Z(ZZ)(ZZ) when Z = 5 is:
In the figure shown, the outer square has an area of 9 cm2, the inner square has an area of 1 cm2, and the four rectangles are identical. What is the perimeter of one of the four identical rectangles?
Difference between two numbers is 5, six times of the smaller lacks by 6 from the four times of the greater. Find the numbers?
In a diving competition, each diver has a 45% chance of a perfect dive. The first perfect dive of the competition, but no subsequent dives, will receive a perfect score. If Janet is the third diver to dive, what is her chance of receiving a perfect score? (Assume that each diver can perform only one dive per turn.)
Of the people who responded to a market survey, 240 preferred Brand X and the rest preferred Brand Y. If the respondents indicated a preference for Brand X over Brand Y by ratio of 6 to 1, how many people responded to the survey?
Which of the following values of R gives the greatest value for the expression R/(R-2)?
If the circumference of a circle is 200 units, Then what will the length of the arc described by an angle of 20 degree ?
In a group of ducks and goats, the total number of legs are 32 more than twice the number of heads. Find the total number of goats.
You collect baseball cards. Suppose you start out with 17. Maria takes half of one more than the number of baseball cards you have. Since you're nice, you give Peter 1 baseball card. Since his father makes baseball cards, Paul decides to triple your baseball cards. How many baseball cards do you have at the end?
Tourist purchased a total of 30 travelers checks in $50 and $100 denominations. The total worth of the travelers checks is $1800. How many checks of $50 denominations can he spend so that average amount (arithmetic mean) of the remaining travelers checks is $75?
Two trains of equal length, running with the speeds of 60 and 16 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?
A can do a piece of work in 40 days; B can do the same in 30 days. A started alone but left the work after 10 days, then B worked at it for 10 days. C finished the remaining work in 10 days. C alone can do the whole work in?
Solve the given two equations and find the inequality of X and Y. (a) 3X^2+8X+4 = 0 and (b) 4Y^2-19Y+12= 0
(112 x 5^4) = ?
In the manufacture of a certain product, 7 percent of the units produced are defective and 5 percent of the defective units are shipped for sale. What percent of the units produced are defective units that are shipped for sale?
A sum of money amounts to 9800 after 5 years and 12005 after 8 years at the same rate of simple interest. The rate of interest per annum is:
In covering a distance of 30 km, Abhay takes 2 hours more than Sameer. If Abhay doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less than Sameer. Abhay's speed is:
When a certain number X is divided by 66, the remainder is 14. What is the remainder when X is divided by 11?
Can you replace the question mark with the number to complete the series, provided the pair of numbers exhibits a similar relationship? ? : 4623 :: 9 : 647
A hare and a jackal are running a race. Three leaps of the hare are equal to four leaps of the jackal. For every two leaps of the hare, the jackal takes three leaps. Find the ratio of the speed of the hare to the speed of the jackal.
The sum of first five prime numbers is:
Two machines, Y and Z, work at constant rates producing identical items. Machine Y produces 23 items in the same time Machine Z produces 21 items. If machine Y takes 21 minutes to produce a batch of items, how many minutes does it take for machine Z to produce the same number of items?
When tossed, a certain coin has equal probability of landing on either side. If the coin is tossed 3 times, what is the probability that it will land twice on heads and once on tails?
In Cliff’s impressive rock collection, there are half as many igneous rocks as sedimentary rocks. Of the igneous rocks, 2/3 are shiny and the rest are matte, while 1/5 of the sedimentary rocks are shiny. If there are 40 shiny igneous rocks, how many total rocks does Cliff have?
12.5 * 3.2 * 7.8 = ?
From an island, it is possible to reach the mainland by either Ferry P or Ferry Q. Ferry P travels for 2 hours at 8 kilometers per hour, while Ferry Q takes a route that is three times longer. If Ferry P is slower than Ferry Q by 4 kilometers per hour, how many hours longer is the journey of Ferry Q compared with the j...
A reduction of 20% in the price of salt enables a lady to obtain 10kgs more for Rs.200, find the original price per kg?
How many different groups of 3 people can be formed from a group of 5 people?
If x-y=9, which of the following must be true? I. Both x and y are positive II. If x is negative, y must be negative III.If x is positive, y must be positive
What percent of the different arrangements of the letters of the word AJICUX are those in which the vowels appear together?
Difference between the length &breadth of a rectangle is 23 m. If its perimeter is 206 m, then its area is?
575.104 x 15.98 ÷ 9.001 + 21.25 = ?
By selling 45 books, a shopkeeper gains the price of 12 books. His gain per cent is
Two cars are traveling in the same direction along the same route. The red car travels at a constant speed of 40 miles per hour, and the black car is traveling at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour. If the red car is 30 miles ahead of the black car, how many hours will it take the black car to overtake the red car?
The side of a square is increased by 25% then how much % does its area increases?
How many four letter distinct initials can be formed using the alphabets of English language such that the last of the four words is always a consonant?
The greatest number of four digits which is divisible by 25, 36, 40 and 75 is:
In a factory, an average of 70 TV's are produced per day for the fist 25days of the months. A few workers fell ill for the next 5days reducing the daily avg for the month to 68 sets/day . The average production per day for day last 5days is ?
What number should replace the question mark? ?, 87, 70, 52, 35
Statements: The old order changed yielding place to new. Assumption: 1) Change is the law of nature. 2) Discard old ideas because they are old.