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Find the principle on a certain sum of money at 5% per annum for 2 2/5 years if the amount being Rs.896?
There are a red, yellow, blue and green tennis balls respectively in a set. How many subsets of these balls can I get without using the green ball?
If x = a/3 + b/3^2 + c/3^3, where a, b, and c are each equal to 0 or 1, then x could be each of the following EXCEPT:
A part-time employee’s hourly wage was increased by 50%. She decided to decrease the number of hours worked per week so that her total income did not change. By approximately what percent should the number of hours worked be decreased?
If Ajay drives at 4/5th of his usual speed to his office, he is 6 minutes late. What is his usual time to reach his office?
what is the value of (3)^-4 ?
Rabert’s age after 15 years will be 5 times his age 5 years back. What is the present age of Rajeev?
A machine fills 150 bottles of water every 8 minutes. How many minutes it takes this machine to fill 675 bottles?
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 3 ord...
0.2 decades ago a person was 6 times as old as his daughter, After 18 years, he will be two times as old as his daughter. Then their current ages are, [0.2 decades = 2 years]
A sum of money triples itself in ten years at simple interest. Find the rate of interest?
The banker's discount on Rs.1800 at 16% per annum is equal to the true discount on Rs.1872 for the same time at the same rate. Find the time?
As part of a game, three people each must secretly choose an integer between 1 and 3, inclusive. What is the approximate likelihood that all three people will choose different numbers?
Suppose you roll a 20 sided die twice. What is the probability you will land on the same number for both rolls?
P cando a work in 15 days and Q cando the same work in 20 days. If they can work together for 4 days, what is the fraction of work left?
The cross-section of a cannel is a trapezium in shape. If the cannel is 10 m wide at the top and 6 m wide at the bottom and the area of cross-section is 640 sq m, the depth of cannel is?
A certain board game has a row of squares numbered 1 to 100. If a game piece is placed on a random square and then moved 7 consecutive spaces in a random direction, what is the probability Y the piece ends no more than 7 spaces from the square numbered 49?
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 49920, 4160, 416, x
For an upcoming charity event, a male vocalist has agreed to sing 5 out of 7 “old songs” and 3 out of 6 “new songs.” How many ways can the singer make his selection?
A man walks half of the journey at 4 km/h by cycle does one third of journey at 12 km/h and rides the remainder journey in a horse cart at 9 km/h, thus completing the whole journey in 6 hours and 12 minutes. The length of the journey is
12.1212+17.0005 - 9.1103 = ?
Replace the ? mark with an appropriate approximate value in the following equation’? 2 4/3 of 165.83+25% of 1847= ? - 554.7
If you write down all the numbers from 1 to 25, then how many times do you write 3 ?
A batsman in his 12th innings makes a score of 60 and thereby increases his average by 2 runs. What is his average after the 12th innings if he had never been ‘not out’?
Two trains are moving in opposite directions at 60 km/hr and 90 km/hr. Their lengths are 1.10 km and 0.9 km respectively. The time taken by the slower train to cross the faster train in seconds is ?
A train travels 225 km in 3.5 hours and 370 km in 5 hours.find the average speed of train.
If -4 < x < 5 and -6 < y < 3, which of the following specifies all the possible values of xy?
Salaries of Ravi and Sumit are in the ration 2:3. It the salary of each in increased by $4000, the new ration becomes 40:57, what is Sumit’s present salary?
An empty bucket being filled with paint at a constant rate takes 6 minutes to be filled to 7/10 of its capacity. How much more time S will it take to fill the bucket to full capacity?
A cycle is bought for Rs.900 and sold for Rs.1080, find the gain percent?
A and B are two partially filled buckets of water. If 7 liters are transferred from A to B, then A would contain one-third of the amount of water in B. Alternatively, if 7 liters are transferred from B to A, B would contain one-half of the amount of water in A. Bucket A contains how many liters of water?
If a solid sphere of radius 10 cms is moulded into 8 spherical solid balls of equal radius, then surface area of each ball (in cm2) is?
What was the day on 15th august 1947 ?
The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, at the most, how many may be greater than zero?
Find the value of 1/(3+1/(3+1/(3-1/3)))
The total of 35 students in a class is 560 years. The total age of 21 students is 294. What is the total age of remaining 14 students?
If the average of 42, 87, 36, 78, 99, 22, and x is 59, what is x?
Harold works at a resort from the beginning of March to the end of September. During the month of August this past year, he made 2 times the average (arithmetic mean) of his monthly totals in tips for the other months. His total tips for August were what fraction of his total tips for all of the months he worked?
How many odd numbers between 10 and 1200 are the squares of integers?
Given an integer x, let f(x) be the sum of the digits of x. Compute the number of positive integers less than 1000 where f(x) = 2.
John has 6 people in his group of friends. How many different ways can he invite one or more of them to his house?
If u and v are negative integers, which of the following statements must be true? I. (-u)^v is positive. II. (-u)^(-v) is positive. III. u^(-v) is positive.
You have 59 cubic blocks. What is the minimum number that needs to be taken away in order to construct a solid cube with none left over?
Three 6 faced dice are thrown together. The probability that exactly two dice show the same number on them is
An amount of Rs. 3000 becomes Rs. 3500 in four years at simple interest. If the rate of interest was 1% more, then what was be the total amount?
For each color copy, Print Shop X charges $1.20 and Print Shop Y charges $1.70. How much greater is the charge for 40 color copies at Print Shop Y than at Print Shop X?
A can finish a work in 9 days and B can do the same work in 15 days. B worked for 10 days and left the job. In how many days, A alone can finish the remaining work?
The total age of A and B is 11 years more than the total age of B and C. C is how many year younger than A
A 140 meter long train crosses a man standing on the platform in 6 sec. What is the speed of the train?
A car moves at 80 km/hr. What is the speed of the car in meters per second ?
If n is the smallest integer such that 432 times n is the square of an integer, what is the value of n?
If 15% of A is the same as 20% of B, then A : B is :
A man saves Rs 300 at the end of each year and lends the money at 5% compound interest. How much will it become at the end of 3 years.
In May Mrs Lee's earnings were 70 percent of the Lee family's total income. In June Mrs Lee earned 20 percent more than in May. If the rest of the family's income was the same both months, then, in June, Mrs Lee's earnings were approximately what percent of the Lee family's total income ?
The average of 45 results is 8. The average of first 22 of them is 15 and that of last 22 is 20. Find the 23 result?
If the area of circle is 616 sq cm then its circumference?
A certain computer manufacturing firm last year produced 82 percent of its computers using parts made by its subsidiary company. If the remaining 10,890 computers were produced using parts purchased from another parts manufacturer, how many computers were produced by the computer manufacturing firm altogether?
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 10% of that is added to the weight, the weight claimed by the trader is obtained. If he charges the...
In N is a positive integer less than 200, and 18N/60 is an integer, then N has how many different positive prime factors?
A Bus travels first half distance between two places with a speed of 40 kmph and the rest half distance with a speed of 60 kmph. The average speed of the Bus is ?
Mary works in a restaurant a maximum of 40 hours. For the first 20 hours, she is paid $8 per hour. For each overtime hour, she is paid at a rate which is 25% higher than her regular rate. How much Mary can earn in a week?
Of the four numbers, whose average is 75, the first is one-fourth of the sum of the last three. The first number is ?
A sum of money becomes triple itself in 5 years at simple interest. How many years will it become six times at the same rate?
If |a+b|=|a-b|, then a*b must be equal to:
The arithmetic mean of the 9 consecutive integers starting with 's' is 'a'. What is the arithmetic mean of 9 consecutive integers that start with s + 4?
A type Q machine can complete a job in 5 hours and a type B machine can complete the job in 7 hours. How many hours will it take 2 type Q machines and 3 type B machines working together and independently to complete the job?
Bullock likes to keep a spare tyre in his car every time. On a certain day, he travels 1, 00,000 km and just to make the most of all the tyres, he changes the tyres between his journey such that each tyre runs the same distance. What is the distance traveled by each tyre?
Pam and Cathy begin running at the same time on a straight path. Pam runs at 10 miles per hour, and Cathy runs at 8 miles per hour. After 45 minutes, Pam stops to stretch. If it takes Pam 30 minutes to stretch and Cathy continues to run during this time, how many minutes will it take Pam to catch up to Cathy assuming P...
Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be formed?
Alex deposited x dollars into a new account that earned 10 percent annual interest, compounded annually. One year later Alex deposited an additional x dollars into the account. If there were no other transactions and if the account contained w dollars at the end of two years, which of the following expresses x in terms...
If UVW= 1 , WXY = 0 , and UWX = 0, which of the following must be zero?
There are two examinations rooms A and B. If 10 students are sent from A to B, then the number of students in each room is the same. If 20 candidates are sent from B to A, then the number of students in A is double the number of students in B. The number of students in room A is:
1398 x 1398 = ?
Stuart bought a sweater on sale for 30% off the original price and another 25% off the discounted price. If the original price of the sweater was $100, what was the final price of the sweater?
If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 45, 55, 60, then the average marks of all the students is:
The annual income of Puja, Hema and Jaya taken together is Rs. 46,000. Puja spends 70 % of income, Hema spends 80 % of her income and Jaya spends 92 % of her income. If their annual savings are 15 : 11 : 10, find the annual saving of Puja?
Three numbers are in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6 and their average is 30 . The largest number is:
A local restaurant recently renovated its dining space, purchasing new tables and chairs to use in addition to the original tables and chairs. The new tables each seat six customers, while the original tables each seat four customers. Altogether, the restaurant now has 40 tables and is capable of seating 208 customers....
What is the least number of squares tiles required to pave the floor of a room 15 m 17 cm long and 9 m 2 cm broad?
In a consumer survey, 90% of those surveyed liked at least one of three products: 1, 2, and 3. 50% of those asked liked product 1, 30% liked product 2, and 20% liked product 3. If 5% of the people in the survey liked all three of the products, what percentage of the survey participants liked more than one of the three ...
Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is
If John invested $ 1 at 5 percent interest compounded annually, the total value of the investment, in dollars, at the end of 2 years would be
If f=(10^10)-47, what is the sum of all the digit of f?
A man rows his boat 85 km downstream and 45 km upstream, taking 2 1/2 hours each time. Find the speed of the stream?
How long does a train 110 m long running at the speed of 72 km/hr takes to cross a bridge 138 m length?
There are 44 students in a hostel, due to the administration, 15 new students has joined. The expense of the mess increase by Rs. 33 per day. While the average expenditure per head diminished by Rs. 3, what was the original expenditure of the mess ?
A truck carrying cans of paint contains P stacks. Each stack contains P/4 cases, and each case contains 12 cans. How many cans of paint are contained in 7 trucks?
Look at this series: 97, 97, 97, 81, 81, 81, 65, 65, 65 ... What number should come next?
1/5 , ½ , 1/3 , 2/5 ,1, 2/3, 3/5, 1 ½ ,1, 4/5,?
In a clothing store, there are six different colored neckties ( orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo) and five different colored shirts ( orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo) that must be packed into boxes for gifts. If each box can only fit one necktie and one shirt, what is the probability that all of the boxe...
A man invests some money partly in 9% stock at 96 and partly in 12% stock at 120. To obtain equal dividends from both, he must invest the money in the ratio?
The length of the bridge, which a train 140 m long and traveling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 sec is?
Find the one which does not belong to that group ?
There are 600 boys in a hostel. Each plays either hockey or football or both. If 75% play hockey and 50% play football, how many play both?
in a bus left side are 15 seats available,3 few seats in right side because in rear exit door .Each seat hold 3 people.In addition ,there is a seat back can sit 12 people all together .how many people can sit in a bus?
One half of a two digit number exceeds its one third by 6. What is the sum of the digits of the number?
A and B are working on an assignment. A takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer, while B takes 5 hours to type 40 pages. How much time will they take, working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110 pages?
In an election between two candidates, 75 % of the voters cast their votes, out of which 2% of the votes were declared invalid. A candidate got 9261 votes which were 75% of the total valid votes. Find the total number of votes
Of the 13 employees in a certain department, 1 has an annual salary of 38,000, 2 have an annual salary of 45,500 each, 2 have an annual salary of 42,500 each, 3 have an annual salary of 40,000 each and 5 have an annual salary of 48,500 each. What is the median annual salary for the 13 employees?
A man can row with a speed of 15 kmph in still water. If the stream flows at 15 kmph, then the speed in downstream is?