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What is the difference between the compound interest on Rs.12000 at 20% p.a. for one year when compounded yearly and half yearly?
Compound interest earned on a sum for the second and the third years are Rs.2500 and Rs.2625 respectively. Find the rate of interest?
The two trains of lengths 400 m, 600 m respectively, running at same directions. The faster train can cross the slower train in 180 sec, the speed of the slower train is 48 km. then find the speed of the faster train?
Jimmy has 18% more cookies than Janice. What percentage of cookies should Jimmy give to Janice so that both Jimmy and Janice have the same number of cookies?
The greatest common factor of 16 and the positive integer n is 4, and the greatest common factor of n and 45 is 3. Which of the following could be the greatest common factor of n and 60?
Rajan mixed 24 kg of butter at Rs. 200 per kg with 36 kg butter at the rate of Rs. 150 per kg. At what price per kg should he sell the mixture to make a profit of 40% in the transaction?
How many 3 – digit number can be formed from the digit 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9, which are divisible by 5 and none of the digits is repeated?
Last year the price per share of Stock X increased by k percent and the earnings per share of Stock X increased by m percent, where k is greater than m. By what percent did the ratio of price per share to earnings per share increase, in terms of k and m?
Jamboree and GMAT Club Contest Starts QUESTION #10: How many words (with or without meaning)Y can be formed using all the letters of the word “SELFIE” so that the two E’s are not together?
A car is running at a speed of 80kmph. What distance will it cover in 20sec?
In what time will a train 120 m long cross an electric pole, it its speed be 121 km/hr?
Average of money that group of 4 friends pay for rent each month is $800.After one persons rent is increased by 20% the new mean is $870.What was original rent of friend whose rent is increased?
Find the 25% of Rs. 800.
Find out the square of a number which when doubled exceeds its quarter by 7 ?
In order to fence a square Manish fixed 48 poles. If the distance between two poles, is 6 metres then what will be the area of the square so formed?
A certain car dealership sells economy cars, luxury cars, and sport utility vehicles. The ratio of economy to luxury cars is 5:4. The ratio of economy cars to sport utility vehicles is 3:2. What is the ratio of luxury cars to sport utility vehicles?
The game of blackjack is played with a deck consisting of 13 cards (one of each of the numbers 2-10, one jack, one queen, one king, and one of ace) in each of four suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. In a game of blackjack, if your first card is a spade, what are the odds that it is a queen?
A machine can finish a work in 15days and 2nd machine can finish the work in 30days. 2nd machine worked for 10days and left the job. In how many days, A alone can finish the remaining work?
If each interior angle of a regular polygon is 144o, the it is
The average age of a group of 5 members is 20 years. Two years later, a new member joins the group. The average age of the group becomes 21 years. What is the age of the new member ?
A reduction of 40% in the price of bananas would enable a man to obtain 64 more for Rs.40, what is reduced price per dozen?
If x is an integer, then x(x - 1)(x - k) must be evenly divisible by three when k is any of the following values except
The LCM of three numbers is four times their GCF. Which of the following must be true of the numbers? I. At least o ne of the numbers is odd. II. Two of the three numbers must be same. III. At least one number is the same as GCF.
The length of a rectangle is two - fifths of the radius of a circle. The radius of the circle is equal to the side of the square, whose area is 1225 sq.units. What is the area (in sq.units) of the rectangle if the rectangle if the breadth is 10 units?
Mr. loyd wants to fence his Square shaped land of 120Sqft each side.If a pole is laid every 10ft how many poles do he need?
A sum of money deposited at compound interest (compounded yearly) amounts to $4200 in 2 years and to $4494 in 3 years. What is the interest rate?
The length of a rectangular plot is thrice its breadth. If the area of the rectangular plot is 675 sq m, then what is the breadth of the rectangular plot?
The sum an integer N and its reciprocal is equal to 78/15. What is the value of N?
In one hour, a boat goes 11 km/hr along the stream and 5 km/hr against the stream. The speed of the boat in still water (in km/hr) is:
5% people of a village in Sri Lanka died by bombardment, 15% of the remainder left the village on account of fear. If now the population is reduced to 3553, how much was it in the beginning?
Two airplanes take off from one airfield at noon. One flies due east at 201 miles per hour while the other flies directly northeast at 283 miles per hour. Approximately how many miles apart are the airplanes at 2 p.m.?
A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell pulses at the cost price, but he uses a false weight of 950gm. for a kg.His gain is …%.
Two trains, one from Howrah to Patna and the other from Patna to Howrah, start simultaneously. After they meet, the trains reach their destinations after 16 hours and 9 hours respectively. The ratio of their speeds is?
A man can swim in still water at 4 km/h, but takes twice as long to swim upstream than downstream. The speed of the stream is?
A train speeds past a pole in 15 seconds and a plaƞorm 100 meter long in 25 seconds. What is length of the train ?
To celebrate a colleague's retirement, the T coworkers in an office agreed to share equally the cost of a catered lunch. If the lunch costs a total of K dollars and S of the coworkers fail to pay their share, which of the following represents the additional amount, in dollars, that each of the remaining coworkers would...
Every year an amount increases by 1/8th of itself. How much will it be after two years if its present value is Rs.3200?
From a group of 3 boys and 3 men, four are to be randomly selected. What is the probability that equal numbers of boys and men will be selected?
Mohan purchased 17 kgs of rice at the rate of Rs.26 per kg and 8 kgs of pulses at the rate of Rs.26 per kg. Whaat is the total amount that he paid to the shopkeeper?
The operation # is defined for all nonzero w and y by w#y = w + w/y. If a>0, then 1#(1#a) =
A man borrowed some amount, after 3 years he paid Rs.10,400/- with 10% interest, then how much Amount he borrowed?
The boys ordered several pizzas for the weekend. When the first evening was over, the following amounts of pizza were left over: 1/4 of the pepperoni pizza, 1/2 of the cheese pizza, 3/4 of the mushroom pizza and 1/4 of the supreme pizza. The next morning, each boy ate the equivalent of 1/4 of a pizza for breakfast. If ...
Let f(x) = x^2 + bx + c. If f(1) = 0 and f(-6) = 0, then f(x) crosses the y-axis at what y-coordinate?
Given that s/t < 1, and both s and t are positive integers, which one of the following must be greater than 1?
Selling an kite for Rs. 30, a shop keeper gains 15%. During a clearance sale, the shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% on the marked price. His gain percent during the sale is?
The sum of the ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 2 years each is 50 years. what is the age of the youngest child ?
A city council plans to renew its fleet of 60 police patrol cars by retiring 4 every month and buying 5 new cars. how many months will it take to replace the entire fleet of police cars?
A man can row his boat with the stream at 6 km/h and against the stream in 4 km/h. The man's rate is?
Two varieties of wheat - A and B costing Rs. 9 per kg and Rs. 15 per kg were mixed in the ratio 3 : 7. If 5 kg of the mixture is sold at 25% profit, find the profit made?
Sonika deposited Rs.8000 which amounted to Rs.9200 after 3 years at simple interest. Had the interest been 2% more. She would get how much?
A train 600 m long can cross an electric pole in 20 sec and then find the speed of the train?
(3 x 10^3) + (2 x 10^2) + (4 x 10) =
The flow of water through a drainage pipe was monitored for a 3-hour period. In the second hour, the rate of flow was 30 gallons per hour, which was 50 percent faster than the rate of flow for the first hour. If 25 percent more water flowed through the pipe in the third hour than it did in the second, how many gallons ...
John and Karen begin running at opposite ends of a trail until they meet somewhere in between their starting points. They each run at their respective constant rates until John gets a cramp and stops. If Karen runs 50% faster than John, who is only able to cover 25% of the distance r before he stops, what percent longe...
A, B, C rent a pasture. If A puts 10 oxen for 7 months, B puts 12 oxen for 5 months and C puts 15 oxen for 3 months for grazing and the rent of the pasture is Rs. 175, then how much amount should C pay as his share of rent?
A coin is tossed live times. What is the probability that there is at the least one tail?
If a fair die is rolled four time, what is the probability that a 3 occurs on at least one roll?
The ages of two persons differ by 28 years. If 5 years ago, the elder one be 5 times as old as the younger one, their present ages (in years) are respectively
At what time, in minutes, between 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock, both the needles will coincide each other?
Predict the next number 2,20,10,100,50
What will be the percentage increase in the area of the cube's surface if each of the cube's edges grows by 30%?
Two numbers are in respectively 20% and 50% more than a third number. The ratio of the two numbers is?
A basket contains 6 blue, 6 red and 6 yellow marbles. If 6 marbles are extracted from the basket at random, what is the probability that a marble of each color is among the extracted?
A is thrice as good a workman as B and takes 10 days less to do a piece of work than B takes. B alone can do the whole work in
If the figure 5286.142 is rounded off to the nearest thousand, hundred, ten and one and the result is represented using d,e,f,g respectively, which of the following statements would be accurate?
The product of two successive numbers is 462. Which is the smaller of the two numbers?
A boat can move upstream at 30 kmph and downstream at 15 kmph, then the speed of the current is?
A tank is 25m long 12m wide and 6m deep. The cost of plastering its walls and bottom at 25 paise per sq m is
If A = {17, 27, 31, 53, 61}, what is the sum of mean and median of the numbers in A?
A train passes a station platform in 39 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?
If “*” is called “+”, “/” is called “*”, “-” is called “/”, “+” is called “-”. 80/40 – 10 * 20 + 10 = ?
If the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon is 1080 degrees, how many sides does the polygon have?
For all positive integers n and m, the function A(n) equals the following product: (1 + 1/2 + 1/2^2)(1 + 1/3 + 3^2)(1 + 1/5 + 5^2)…(1 + 1/p_n + 1/p_n^2), where p_n is the nth smallest prime number, while B(m) equals the sum of the reciprocals of all the positive integers from 1 through m, inclusive. The largest recipro...
A focus group is currently made up of x men and y women. If 3 men and 7 women are added to the group, and if one person is selected at random from the larger focus group, then what is the probability that a woman is selected?
How many times in a day, are the hands of a clock in straight line but opposite in direction?
The dimensions of a room are 10m x 7m x 5m. There are 2 doors and 3 windows in the room. The dimensions of the doors are 1m x 3m. One window is of size 2m x 1.5m and the other 2 windows are of size 1m x 1.5m. The cost of painting the walls at Rs. 3 per sq m is?
I travel 20 miles towards north and then travel 25 miles eastward. I then travel 40 miles rightwards, then travel 30 miles towards left and then travels 12 miles to the left and finally 20 miles northwards. How far am i pproximately from my original destination and in what direction ?
A number is 101102103104...150. As 101 102 103 103.... 150. What is reminder when divided by 3?
A bowl was half full of water. 4 cups of water were then added to the bowl, filling the bowl to 70% of its capacity. How many cups of water are now in the bowl?
There are eight boxes of chocolates, each box containing distinct number of chocolates from 1 to 8. In how many ways four of these boxes can be given to four persons (one boxes to each) such that the first person gets more chocolates than each of the three, the second person gets more chocolates than the third as well ...
In right triangle ABC, AC is the hypotenuse. If AC is 20 and AB + BC = 50, what is the area of the triangle ABC?
Michael completes a piece of work in 6 days, Madan completes the same work in 18 days. If both of them work together, then the number of days required to complete the work is?
Mysoon collects glass ornaments. Ten more than 1/6 of the ornaments in her collection are handmade, and 1/2 of the handmade ornaments are antiques. If 1/8 of the ornaments in her collection are handmade antiques, how many ornaments are in her collection?
A and B’s salaries together amount to Rs. 3,000. A spends 95% of his salary and B spends 85% of his. If now their savings are the same, what is B’s salary?
If n divided by 5 has a remainder of 4, what is the remainder when 3 times n is divided by 5?
How many natural numbers that are less than 10,000 can be formed using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 78?
Efrida and Frazer who live 13 miles apart, meet at a restaurant that is directly north of Efrida's home and directly east of Frazer's home. If the restaurant is two miles closer to Efrida's home, than to Frazer's home, how many miles is the restaurant from Frazer's home?
which of the following is odd, if r is even and t is odd?
In triangle PQR, the angle Q = 90 degree, PQ = 5 cm, QR = 8 cm. X is a variable point on PQ. The line through X parallel to QR, intersects PR at Y and the line through Y, parallel to PQ, intersects QR at Z. Find the least possible length of XZ
A football coach must choose 5 freshers from a team of 12players. How many different ways can the coach choose the freshers?
A salesperson receives a base salary of $1100 per month and a commission of 7.5% of the selling price of each item sold above the first 50 item. If this month she sold 210 items for $150 each, what will her monthly salary be?
A year ago, the ratio of Betty's and Chi's age was 6:7 respectively. Four years hence, this ratio would become 7:8. How old is Betty?
Randy can rebuild an automobile engine in b hours. Alvin can rebuild the same engine in a hours. If Randy and Alvin work together at their respective rates to rebuild the engine, which of the following represents the portion of the job that Alvin will have to complete?
in 10 year, A willbe twice as old as B was 10 year ago. if A is now 9 year older then B, the present age of B is
20% of a number is added to 120, the result is the same number. Find the number?
What is the number of integers from 1 to 900 (inclusive) that are divisible by neither 11 nor by 35?
Shreyas bought an article and sold it for 140% of its cost price. What was the cost price of the article, if Shreyas sold it for Rs.29750/-?
The sum of the present ages of A, B, C is 51 years. Three years ago their ages were in the ratio 1:2:3. What is the present age of A?
Insert the missing number 9, 12, 11, 14, 13, ..., 15
what is the unit digit in (4137)^754?