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#88 A necklace is made by stringing N individual beads together in the repeating pattern yellow bead, green bead, white bead, blue bead, and red bead. If the necklace design begins with a yellow bead and ends with a white bead, then N could equal
Kim has 40 percent more money than Sal and Sal has 20 percent less money than Phil. If Sal and Phil have a combined total of $1.80, how much money does Kim have?
The letters in the word ADOPTS are permuted in all possible ways and arranged in alphabetical order then find the word at position 42 in the permuted alphabetical order?
The remainder when dividing the expression (X + Y) by 5 is 4. The remainder of X divided by 10 is 2. What is the remainder F of Y divided by 5?
In one year, the population, of a village increased by 10% and in the next year, it decreased by 10%. If at the end of 2nd year, the population was 7920, what was it in the beginning?
A, B and C can do a work in 6, 8 and 12 days respectively doing the work together and get a payment of Rs.1800. What is B’s share?
The Arnolds purchased 550 square feet of Kentucky Gem sod at $1.89 per square foot and 270 square feet of Zelzea Blue sod at $1.48 per square foot. What was the approximate average price per square foot paid for all the sod?
In a simultaneous throw of 2 dice, what is the probability of getting a total of 5?
In each of the following questions a number series is given with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative that will continue the same pattern and fill in the blank spaces. ?, 7, 14, 23, 34, 47
A is two years older than B who is twice as old as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C be 52, then how old is B?
If a and b are multiples of 8 then which are all the multiples of 8 1) a*b 2) a-b 3) a+b 4) a/b 5) a^b
Two men start together to walk a certain distance, one at 4 kmph and another at 3 kmph.The former arrives half an hour before the latter. Find the distance.
Jane invested $1500 in fund A and $1000 in fund B. Over the next two years, the money in Fund A earned a total interest of 12 percent for the two years combined and the money in fund B earned 30 percent annual interest compounded annually. Two years after Jane made these investments. Jane's investment in fund B was wor...
12 welders work at a constant rate they complete an order in 8 days. If after the first day, 9 welders start to work on the other project, how many more days the remaining welders will need to complete the rest of the order?
At the A-Street Fish Market a vendor sells fresh caught fish. His store is filled with 2/7 bass, 1/5 tuna, 1/7 trout, and the rest are catfish. If a customer just bought 1/7 of all the tuna and 1/7 of all the catfish, and a fisherman arrived to restock the bass, doubling the number of bass, what proportion of fish now ...
In Goshawk-Eurasian nature reserve 30 percent of the birds are Hawks, and 40 percent of the non-Hawks are Paddyfield-Warblers. If there are 25 percent as many Kingfishers as Paddyfield-Warblers in the reserve, then what percent of the birds E in the nature reserve are not Hawks, Paddyfield-Warblers, or Kingfishers?
A and B started a partnership business investing some amount in the ratio of 4 : 5. C joined then after six months with an amount equal to that of B. In what proportion should the profit at the end of one year be distributed among A, B and C?
By selling 11 pencils for a rupee a man loses 10%. How many for a rupee should he sell in order to gain 20%?
24.39 + 562.093 + 35.96 = ?
A trader cheats both his supplier and customer by using faulty weights. When he buys from the supplier, he takes 10% more than the indicated weight. When he sells to his customer, he gives the customer a weight such that 50% of that is added to the weight, the weight claimed by the trader is obtained. If he charges the...
Fifty applicants for a job were given scores from 1 to 5 on their interview performance. Their scores are shown in the table above. What was the average score for the group?
A man traveled a total distance of 900 km. He traveled one-third of the whole trip by plane and the distance traveled by train is one-half of the distance traveled by bus. If he traveled by train, plane and bus, how many kilometers did he travel by bus?
A certain candy manufacturer reduced the weight of Candy Bar M by 10 percent buy left the price unchanged. What was the resulting percent increase in the price per ounce of Candy Bar M?
The SF Chronicle has a word game where all the letters are scrambled up and you have to figure out what the word is. Imagine that a scrambled word is 5 characters long: How many possible solutions are there? What if we know which 5 letters are being used?
If both 5^3 and 3^3 are factors of n x (2^5) x (12^2) x (7^3) x (10^2), what is the smallest possible positive value of n?
A can do a work in 12days. When he had worked for 3days, B joinedhim. If they complete the work in 3more days, in how manydays can Balone finish the work?
On selling 20 balls at Rs. 720, there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost price of a ball is:
A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 825 in 3 years and to Rs. 854 in 4 years. The sum is:
I chose a number and divide it by 12. Then I subtracted 240 from the result and got 8. What was the number I chose?
A worker's take-home pay last year was the same each month, and she saved the same fraction of her take-home pay each month. The total amount of money that she had saved at the end of the year was 5 times the amount of that portion of her monthly take-home pay that she did NOT save. If all the money that she saved last...
A dishonest dealer professes to sell goods at the cost price but uses a weight of 800 grams per kg, what is his percent?
95 white and black tiles will be used to form a 10x10 square pattern. If there must be at least one black tile in every row and at least one white tile in every column, what is the maximum difference between the number of black and white tiles that can be used?
Connie paid a sales tax of 8 percent on her purchase. If the sales tax had been only 5 percent, she would have paid $12 less in sales tax on her purchase. What was the total amount that Connie paid for her purchase including sales tax?
The avg. age of a group of 20 students is 20 years.If 4 more students join the group,the avg age increases by 1 year.The avg age of the new student is?
What should be the least number to be added to the 1202 number to make it divisible by 4?
At a certain company, each employee has a salary grade s that is at least 1 and at most 5. Each employee receives an hourly wage p, in dollars, determined by the formula p = 8.50 + 0.25(s – 1). An employee with a salary grade of 5 receives how many more dollars per hour than an employee with a salary grade of 1?
Mrs. Rodger got a weekly raise of $145. If she gets paid every other week, write an integer describing how the raise will affect her paycheck.
How long does a train 110 m long traveling at 60 kmph takes to cross a bridge of 190 m in length?
A certain truck uses 18 gallons of diesel fuel in traveling 260 miles. In order for the truck to travel the same distance using 10 gallons of diesel fuel, by how many miles per gallon must the truck’s fuel mileage be increased?
The amounts of time that three secretaries worked on a special project are in the ratio of 1 to 2 to 5. If they worked a combined total of 120 hours, how many hours did the secretary who worked the longest spend on the project?
Sandy buys an old scooter for $900 and spends $300 on its repairs. If Sandy sells the scooter for $1500, what is the gain percent?
The ratio between x and y is 7/5; x is multiplied by y and y is multiplied by x , what is the ratio between the new values of x and y?
along a yard 225 metres long, 26 trees are planted at equal distances, one tree bring at each end of the yard. What is the distance between two consecutive trees ? long,26 trees
Working together, printer A and printer B would finish the task in 15 minutes. Printer A alone would finish the task in 45 minutes. How many pages does the task contain if printer B prints 3 pages a minute more than printer A ?
For which of the following values of n is (600+n)/n NOT an integer?
New town is straight to the north of New york. A high way M runs from newtown making an angle of 61 degree south east. from newyork there is also an high way N which runs Northeast 61 degrees. If high ways M and N are straight then findout the acute angle made at their intersection point.
A train 240 meters long is running with a speed of 60 kmph. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 kmph in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going?
If Rs.1000 be invested at interest rate of 5% & the interest be added to the principal every 10 yrs, then the no. of yrs in which it will amount to Rs.2000 is:
On dividing a number by 56, we get 28 as remainder. On dividing the same number by 8, what will be the remainder ?
A train 240 m long passes a pole in 24 seconds. How long will it take to pass a platform 650 m long?
An engagement team consists of a project manager, team leader, and four consultants. There are 3 candidates for the position of project manager, 4 candidates for the position of team leader, and 7 candidates for the 4 consultant slots. If 2 out of 7 consultants refuse to be on the same team, how many different teams ar...
A car travels from point A to point B. The average speed of the car is 60 km/hr and it travels the first half of the trip at a speed of 50 km/hr. What is the speed of the car in the second half of the trip?
Suppose that the numbers 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256 are placed into the nine squares in such a way that the product of the numbers appearing in any row, column or diagonal is the same. What is the value of this common product?
If a#b = ab – b + b^2, then 3#6 =
The number of boys in a class is (3/2) times the number of girls. Which one of the following numbers cannot represent the total number of children in the class ?
The average salary of the employees in a office is Rs.120/month.The avg salary of officers is Rs.460 and of non officers is Rs 110. If the no.of officers is 15,then find the No of nonofficers in the office.
Rs 80000 is divided into two parts One part is given to a person with 10% interest and another part is given to a person with 20 % interest. At the end of first year he gets profit 9000 Find money given by 10%?
The amount of time that three people worked on a special project was in the ratio of 2 to 4 to 6. If the project took 144 hours, how many more hours did the hardest working person work than the person who worked the least?
If a fair coin is flipped six times in a row, what is the probability that there will be at least one head and one tail?
The 120 students in a group are to be seated in rows so that there is an equal number of students in each row. Each of the following could be the number of rows EXCEPT
If 49x = 343^y, which of the following expresses x in terms of y?
Find the smallest number which when divided by 13 and 15 leaves respective remainders of 2 and 4
A train running at the speed of 54 km/hr crosses a pole in 7 seconds. Find the length of the train.
At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. There were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party?
There were two candidates in an election. Winner candidate received 70% of votes and won the election by 280 votes. Find the number of votes casted to the winning candidate?
If the area of a circle decreases by 42%, then the radius of a circle decreases by
Two pipes X and Y can separately fill a cistern in 18 and 24 hours respectively. If they are turned on alternately for one hour each, how long will it take to fill the cistern?
How many arrangements of the letters of the word ‘BENGALI’ can be made if the vowels are to occupy only odd places.
The 15 homes in a new development are each to be sold for one of three different prices so that the developer receives an average (arithmetic mean) of $200,000 per home. If 4 of the homes are to be sold for $170,000 each and 5 are to be sold for $200,000 each, what will be the selling price of each of the remaining 10 ...
Sachin is younger than Rahul by 7 years. If their ages are in the respective ratio of 7 : 9, how old is Sachin?
A team of eight entered for a shooting competition. The best marks man scored 82 points. If he had scored 92 points, the average scores for. The team would have been 86. How many points altogether did the team score?
The mean of (54,824)^2 and (54,826)^2 =
Rahul went to a shop and bought things worth Rs. 25, out of which 30 paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free items?
The charge for a single room at Hotel P is 55 percent less than the charge for a single room at Hotel R and 10 percent less than the charge for a single room at Hotel G. The charge for a single room at Hotel R is what percent greater than the charge for a single room at Hotel G?
There are 16 bees in the hive , then 10 more fly. How many bees are there in all?
(723+1992)2-(723-1992)2 / (723×1992)
Walking at the rate of 3 kmph a man cover certain distance in 3hr 20 min. Running at a speed of 9 kmph the man will cover the same distance in.
What is the average (arithmetic mean) of all the multiples of ten from 10 to 110 inclusive?
A certain fruit stand sold apples for $0.80 each and bananas for $0.70 each. If a customer purchased both apples and bananas from the stand for a total of $6.50, what total number of apples and bananas did the customer purchase?
A motorcycle importer is planning on increasing the price of a certain model by $1000. At this new price 9 fewer motorcycles will be sold per month, but the total revenues will increase by $26,000 to $594,000. What is the number of motorcycles the manufacturer will sell at this new price
If John invested $ 1 at 5 percent interest compounded annually, the total value of the investment, in dollars, at the end of 6 years would be
A bag contains equal number of Rs.5, Rs.2 and Re.1 coins. If the total amount in the bag is Rs.1152, find the number of coins of each kind?
If money is invested at r percent interest, compounded annually, the amount of the investment will double in approximately 54/r years. If Pat's parents invested $6,000 in a long-term bond that pays 6 percent interest, compounded annually, what will be the approximate total amount of the investment 18 years later, when ...
In a bag of small balls 1/4 are green, 1/8 are blue, 1/12 are yellow and the remaining 26 white. How many balls are blue?
Set M contains numbers that satisfy the condition that, if integer x is in the set then x+3 will also be in the set M. If -4 is one of the value in the set, which of the following numbers must also be present in the set M. I. 5 II. 2 III. -7
An inspector rejects 0.05% of the meters as defective. How many will he examine to reject 4?
What least whole no. should be added to 532869 to make it divisible by 9?
If D is the sum of consecutive even integers w, x, y, and z, where w < x < y < z, all of the following must be true EXCEPT
For a finite sequence of non zero numbers, the number of variations in sign is defined as the number of pairs of consecutive terms of the sequence for which the product of the two consecutive terms is negative. What is the number of variations in sign for the sequence 1, -3, 2, 5, -4, -6 , -8?
Line W has the equation 3x + y = 7. Which of the following lines is perpendicular to Line W?
A man took loan from a bank at the rate of 12% p.a. simple interest. After 3 years he had to pay Rs. 5400 interest only for the period. The principal amount borrowed by him was.
A can do a work in 30 days, B can do it in 20 days. They together under took to do a piece of work for Rs.1000, what is the share of B?
What least number should be added to 1056, so that the sum is completely divisible by 23
Cereal A is 10% sugar by weight, whereas healthier but less delicious Cereal B is 2% sugar by weight. To make a delicious and healthy mixture that is 6% sugar, what should be the ratio of Cereal A to Cereal B, by weight?
In a division sum, the remainder is 0. As student mistook the divisor by 12 instead of 21 and obtained 56 as quotient. What is the correct quotient ?
How many odd numbers between 10 and 1600 are the squares of integers?
How many minutes is it before 12 noon if 16 minutes ago it was three times as many minutes after 9 am?
1394 x 1394 = ?
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?
Which of the following is true about 0<|x|-x<5?