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A candidate got 31% of the votes polled and he lost to his rival by 2451 votes. How many votes were cast?
Calculate the area of a triangle, if the sides are 30 cm, 21 cm and 10 cm, what is its area?
total 48 matches are conducted in Knockout match type. How many players will be participated in that tournament?
A will was written such that an estate would be divided among five beneficiaries with the remainder donated to charity. One stipulation in the will is that no one beneficiary can receive an amount within 10% of another's amount. If one of the beneficiaries received $10,000, what is the smallest possible range between t...
Find the average of all prime numbers between 30 and 50?
A train 60 m long is running with a speed of 60 km/hr. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 km/hr in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going?
a pizza which is thin is cut into 'x' pieces by 4 straight lines then the lowest possible value of x is?
A one-foot stick is marked in 1/3 and 1/5 portion. How many total markings will there be, including the end points?
A person takes 5hrs 45 min in walking to a place and riding back. He would have gained 3hrs by riding both ways. The time he would take to walk both ways is?
Find the compound interest and the amount on Rs.8000 at 5% per annum for 3 years when C.I is reckoned yearly?
A survey was sent to 70 customers, 7 of whom responded. Then the survey was redesigned and sent to another 63 customers, 9 of whom responded. By approximately what percent did the response rate increase from the original survey to the redesigned survey?
A box contains nine bulbs out of which 4 are defective. If four bulbs are chosen at random, find the probability that atleast one bulb is good.
S is a set containing 8 different positive odd primes. T is a set containing 7 different numbers, all of which are members of S. Which of the following statements CANNOT be true?
Total number of students in a class is 95. if the total number of girls in the class is 45, then the ratio of total number if boys to total number girls is
If there are 210 workers in a factory, and on a certain day, 198 were present. Calculate the percentage that showed up for work? (round to the nearest tenth).
Health insurance Plan P requires the insured person to pay $500 but then the insurance pays 70% of the cost over $500. Plan Q requires the insured to pay the initial $400, but then pays 60% of the cost over $400. Which of the following is a cost level for which both insurance plans pay out the same amount?
A Pentagon marked P,Q,R,S and T on its five sides. five colors, black, brown,blue,violet and white are used to paint the five sides of the pentagon. If the adjacent faces are painted with the different colors, in how many ways can the pentagon be painted?
If goods be purchased for Rs.840 and one-fourth be sold at a loss of 20% at what gain percent should the remainder be sold so as to gain 20% on the whole transaction?
Tom opened a shop investing Rs.30000. Jose joined him 2 months later, investing Rs.45000. They earned a profit of Rs.54000 after completion of one year. What will be Jose's share of profit?
Convert the 13/36 m/s into kilometers per hour?
There is a sequence such that each term is positive integer and each digit of the terms in the sequence has 3 to be ordered, what is the value K of 100th term?
In the game of Dubblefud, red chips, blue chips and green chips are each worth 2, 4 and 5 points respectively. In a certain selection of chips, the product of the point values of the chips is 12,000. If the number of blue chips in this selection equals the number of green chips, how many red chips are in the selection?
A large petrol tank has two inlet tubes (a large one and a small one) and one outlet tube. It takes 3 hours to fill the tank with the large inlet tube. On the other hand, it takes 6 hours to fill the tank with the small inlet tube. The outlet tube allows the full tank to be emptied in 9 hours. What fraction of the tank...
A train passes a station platform in 36 sec and a man standing on the platform in 24 sec. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr. What is the length of the platform?
Find the value of (950+ 220/900) × 900
Find the greatest number that will divided 43,91 and 183 so as to leave the same remainder in each case
The ratio Q , by volume of soap to alcohol to water in a 76 litre solution is 2: 50: 100 . The solution is then altered by adding more soap, alcohol and water.After this alteration the ratio, by volume of soap to water in the solution doubles whereas the ratio, by volume of soap to water remains the same as before. Wha...
The length of a rectangular floor is more than its breadth by 200%. If Rs. 324 is required to paint the floor at the rate of Rs. 3 per sq m, then what would be the length of the floor?
A child must place 4 different toys in 5 different bins. If any of the toys can go in any of the bins, in how many ways can the child place the toys into the bins?
A tradesman by means of his false balance defrauds to the extent of 20%? in buying goods as well as by selling the goods. What percent does he gain on his outlay?
Rohan spends 40% of his salary on food, 20% on house rent, 10% on entertainment and 10% on conveyance. If his savings at the end of a month are Rs. 2000. then his monthly salary is
The radius of the two circular fields is in the ratio 4: 5 the area of the first field is what percent less than the area of the second?
The operation is defined for all integers a and b by the equation ab = (a - 1)(b - 1). If x20 = 190, what is the value of x ?
An uneducated retailer marks all his goods at 50% above the cost price and thinking that he will still make 15% profit, offers a discount of 15% on the marked price. What is his actual profit on the sales?
Julie had 90 currency notes in all, some of which are of Rs 80 denomination and the remaining of Rs 50 denomination. The total amount of all these currency notes was Rs. 6000. How much amount (in Rs) did she have in the denomination of Rs 50?
John bought Bicycles at 6 for Rs 10000.What is the profit or loss Percentage after selling Bicycles at 5 for Rs 10000.
Look at this series: 70, 71, 76, __, 81, 86, 90, 91, ... What number should fill the blank?
A container contains 40lit of milk. From this container 4 lit of milk was taken out and replaced by water. This process was repeated further two times. How much milk is now contained by the container?
Aravind had $ 2100 left after spending 30 % of the money he took for shopping. How much money did he take along with him?
If s,u, and v are positive integers and 2s=u+2v, which of the following must be true? i. u>v ii. u is not equal to v iii. s=u
If x% of y is 100 and y% of z is 200, then find the relation between x and z.
A trader bought a car at 10% 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?
Kay and Larry race around a running track. Kay runs at a constant rate of one lap every 9 minutes and Larry runs at a constant rate of one lap every 11 minutes. If they both start at the same time, how many minutes will it take for Kay to get exactly one lap ahead of Larry?
A certain roller coaster ride has between 80 and 110 people waiting in line to board. If riders are let on only in groups of 5 there will be 2 riders that do not get on. If the riders are let on only in groups of 6 all riders will be able to get on the roller coaster. How many riders are in the line?
If the operation € is defined for all x and y by the equation x € y = 2*x*y, then 8 € (4 € 5) =
The ratio of the volumes of two cubes is 729 : 343. What is the ratio of their total surface areas?
A jogger running at 9 km/hr along side a railway track is 240 m ahead of the engine of a 150 m long train running at 45 km/hr in the same direction. In how much time will the train pass the jogger?
In a certain province in France there are 11 cities. If a single road segment connects only two cities, how many road segments are required in order to connect the cities so that each city is connected to all other cities with a single road segment?
In the number 10,0AB, A and B represent the tens and units digits, respectively. If 11,0AB is divisible by 55, what is the greatest possible value of B × A?
In a shower, 5 cm of rain falls. The volume of water that falls on 1.5 hectares of ground is
If a point (x,y) is randomly selected within the square shown in the figure above, (the vertices are on 1,1 1,-1, -1,1 -1,-1) what are the Q odds that x^2+y^2>1?
Two trains of equal length are running on parallel lines in the same direction at 46 km/hr and 36 km/hr. If the faster train passes the slower train in 36 seconds,what is the length of each train?
The probability that A speaks truth is 23/35 and that of B speaking truth is 35/47. What is the probability that they agree in stating the same fact?
The measures of the 2 acute angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 4 : 6. What arethe measures of the 2 angles?
Car Z travels 51 miles per gallon of gasoline when driven at a constant rate of 45 miles per hour, but travels 20 percent fewer miles per gallon of gasoline when driven at a constant rate of 60 miles per hour. How many miles does car Z travel on 10 gallons of gasoline when driven at a constant rate of 60 miles per hour...
Find the value of y from (12)^3 x 6^4 ÷ 432 = y?
The proportion of water to alcohol in Solution A is 4:1 and the proportion of water to alcohol in Solution B is 2:3. If an equal amount of each solution is mixed together, what is the concentration of alcohol in the new solution?
The average marks scored by Ganesh in English, Science, Mathematics and History is less than 17 from that scored by him in English, History, Geography and Mathematics. What is the difference of marks in Science and Geography scored by him?
Tea worth Rs.126 per kg are mixed with a third variety in the ratio 1: 1 : 2. If the mixture is worth Rs.133 per kg, the price of the third variety per kg will be
In an election, candidate A got 80% of the total valid votes. If 15% of the total votes were declared invalid and the total numbers of votes is 560000, find the number of valid vote polled in favor of candidate.
Monica and Miya's age are in 2:5. Find teh age of Monica if the sum of their age is 28.
A boy has twelve trousers and 14 shirts. In how many different ways can he select a trouser and a shirt?
A bag contains 12 white and 18 black balls. 2balls are drawn in succession. What is the probability that first is white and second is black?
When all the students in a school are made to stand in rows of 45, 40 such rows are formed. If the students are made to stand in rows of 40, how many such rows will be formed ?
Joe needs to paint all the airplane hangars at the airport, so he buys 360 gallons of paint to do the job. During the first week, he uses 1/4 of all the paint. During the second week, he uses 1/4 of the remaining paint. How many gallons of paint has Joe used?
If Peter reads at a constant rate of 1 pages every 5 minutes, how many seconds will it take him to read N pages?
If y is 60 percent greater than x, then x is what percent less than y?
A reduction of 40% in the price of apples would enable a man to obtain 64 more for Rs.40, what is reduced price per dozen?
A merchant has 100 lbs of sugar, part of which he sells at 6% profit and the rest at 17% profit. He gains 10 % on the whole. Find how much is sold at 6% profit?
When the positive integer x is divided by 9,the remainder is 5.What is the remainder when 6x is divided by 9?
Find the one which does not belong to that group?
In a certain province in France there are 17 cities. If a single road segment connects only two cities, how many road segments are required in order to connect the cities so that each city is connected to all other cities with a single road segment?
A woman has $252,125 in her savings account. What is the least amount of money (in whole number of dollars) that she must add to her account if she wants to split this money evenly among her nine children?
If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 20% and its denominator is diminished by 25% value of the fraction is 2/15. Find the original fraction?
how many number x (x being an integer) with 10<=x<=99 are 18 more than sum of their digits?
x+(1/x) = 3.5 find x^2 + (1/x^2)
What will be the compound interest on a sum of Rs. 35,000 after 3 years at the rate of 12% p.a.?
Tom drives his car at a speed of 40kmph and reaches his destination in 5hrs and John covers the same distance in 8 hours. If speed of Tomis increased by 10kmph and speed of Ram is increased by 15kmph, what would be the difference between the times taken by them to cover the distance?
A train 490 m long, running with a speed of 63 km/hr will pass a tree in?
In how many ways the word ENGINEERING can be arranged so that no vowel come together???
Car A takes 10 min lesser than Car B which is travelling at an average speed of 40mph to cover a distance of 60 miles. What is the average speed of car A?
In what ratio should water and wine be mixed so that after selling the mixture at the cost price a profit of 33.33% is made?
In a throw of dice what is the probability of geƫng number greater than 2
Three competing juice makers conducted a blind taste test with mall shoppers. The shoppers could choose to taste any number of the three brands of juices but had to select at least one juice that they liked. If 100 shoppers liked brand J, 200 shoppers liked brand K, 700 shoppers liked brand L, 350 shoppers liked exactl...
A man is riding a bike downhill at 18 Km/hr, and uphill at 4 Km/hr, what is his rate?
In an examination 40% failed in Hindi, 45% failed in English. If 25% students failed in both the subjects. Then the percentage of failed students is?
If Jan 1, 2006 was a Sunday, What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
The daytime telephone rate between two cities is 60 cents for the first 3 minutes and c cents for each additional minute. The total charge is reduced 50 percent on calls made after 10:00 P.M. The cost, in dollars, of a 35-minute call made at 10:30 P.M. between these two cities is:
A is faster than B. A and B each walk 24 km. The sum of their speeds is 7 km/hr and the sum of times taken by them is 14 hours. Then, A's speed is equal to?
A committee of 3 people is to be chosen from the president and vice president of four different companies. What is the number of different committees that can be chosen if two people who work for the same company cannot both serve on the committee?
A and B put in Rs.300 and Rs.400 respectively into a business. A reinvests into the business his share of the first year's profit of Rs.140 where as B does not. In what ratio should they divide the second year's profit?
A, B and C rents a pasture for Rs.841. A put in 12 horses for 8 months, B 16 horses for 9 months and 18 horses for 6 months. How much should B pay?
2/5 of the fish in an aquarium is red and 1/4 of the fish is brown. 1/4of the red fish and 1/5 of the brown fish is male. If the rest of the fish in the aquarium is female, what is the probability that a fish randomly picked from the aquarium is male?
If a^2+b^2=177and ab=54 then find the value of a+b/a-b?
The banker’s discount of a certain sum of money is Rs. 60 and the true discount on the same sum for the same time is Rs.54. The sum due is
Among all sales staff at Listco Corporation, college graduates and those without college degrees are equally represented . Each sales staff member is either a level-1 or level-2 employee. Level-1 college graduates account for 15% of Listco's sales staff. Listco employs 60 level-1 employees, 30 of whom are college gradu...
M, N and O can do a piece of work in 60, 30 and 20 days respectively. Inhow many days can M do the work if he is assisted by N and O on every third day?
If f(a)=a^2, what is the value of (f(a+b)−f(a))/a ?
Aishwarya was first to board to her flight to delhi. She forgot her seat number and picks a random seat for herself. After this, every single person who get to the flight sits on his seat if its available else chooses any available seat at random. Abhishek is last to enter the flight and at that moment 99/100 seats wer...
A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4 of the remaining for travel.He is left with Rs 100/- How much did he have with him in the beginning ?