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For each of her sales, a saleswoman receives a commission equal to 20 percent of the first $500 of the total amount of the sale, plus 30 percent of the total amount in excess of $500. If the total amount of one of her sales was $800, the saleswoman’s commission was approximately what percent of the total amount of the ... |
What is the small positive two digit no. divisible by 3 and such that the sum of its digits is 9? |
A person spends 40% of his salary on food, 25% on house rent, 15% on entertainment and 5% on conveyance. If his savings at the end of the month is Rs. 1500, then his salary per month in rupees is: |
Company C produces toy trucks at a cost of $5.00 each for the first 100 trucks and $3.50 for each additional truck. If 500 toy trucks were produced by Company C and sold for $20.00 each, what was Company C’s gross profit? |
By selling a house for Rs.45000, it was found that 1/8 of the outlay was gained, what ought the selling to price to have been in order to have lost 5 p.c? |
Some pens are divided among A, B, C and D. A gets twice the number of pens that B gets. C gets the same number of pens as D gets. If A gets 25 pens more than D and the ratio of the number of pens that B and C get is 2 : 3, then find the number of pens that D gets ? |
A certain industrial loom weaves 0.129 meters of cloth every second. Approximately how many seconds will it take for the loom to weave 15 meters of cloth? |
In a sports club with 30 members, 18 play badminton and 19 play tennis and 2 do not play either. How many members play both badminton and tennis? |
Two pipes function simultaneously the reservoir will be filled in 12 hours. One pipe fills reservoir 10 hours faster than the other. How many hours does the faster pipe take to fill the reservoir? |
A sum of Rs.4800 is invested at a compound interest for three years, the rate of interest being 10% p.a., 20% p.a. and 25% p.a. for the 1st, 2nd and the 3rd years respectively. Find the interest received at the end of the three years. |
In an NGO the daily average wages of 20 illiterate employees is decreased from Rs.25 to Rs.10, thus the average salary of all the literate and illiterate employees is decreased Rs.10 per day. The No. of educated employees working in the NGO is ? |
Find the fraction which has the same ratio to 2/13 that 5/34 has to 7/48? |
If the average of q, b, c, 14 and 15 is 12. What is the average value of q, b, c and 29 |
Amit and Ian paint a wall in alternating shifts. First Amit paints alone, then Ian paints alone, then Amit paints alone, etc. During each of his shifts, Amit paints 1/2 of the remaining unpainted area of the wall, while Ian paints 1/3 of the remaining unpainted area of the wall during each of his shifts. If Amit goes f... |
Average of first five multiples of 2 is |
The difference of 2 digit number & the number obtained by interchanging the digits is 36. What is the difference the sum and the number if the ratio between the digits of the number is 1:2 ? |
The length of the bridge, which a train 130 m long and traveling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 sec is? |
A bag contains 15 purple jellybeans, 10 green jellybeans, and 10 yellow jellybeans; these jellybeans are the only items in the bag. If a person picks a jellybean at random out of the bag, what is the probability that the jellybean will be green? |
What amount does Kiran get if he invests Rs. 18000 at 15% p.a. simple interest for four years? |
For the symbol, m”n=n^2−m for all values of m and n. What is the value of 3”3? |
In a garment industry, 12 men working 9 hours per day complete a piece of work in 10 days. To complete the same work in 12 days, working 15 hours a day, the number of men required is: |
Half of 1 percent written as decimal is |
If 20 typists can type 40 letters in 20 minutes, then how many letters will 30 typists working at the same rate complete in 1 hour? |
In a game of 60 points; A can give B 10 points and C 15 points. Then how many points B can give C in a game of 40 ? |
How many two letter words are formed using the letters of the word RAM? |
Count each 7 which is not immediately preceded by 5 but is immediately followed by either 2 or 3.
How many such 7's are there ?
5 7 2 6 5 7 3 8 3 7 3 2 5 7 2 7 3 4 8 2 6 7 8 |
What is the 8th digit to the right of the decimal point in the decimal expansion of 1/37? |
If the average (arithmetic mean) of the four numbers K, 2K + 2, 3K – 5 and 5K + 1 is 63, what is the value of K? |
In a series of consecutive odd numbers, 27 is the seventh smallest number and 25 is the tenth largest number. What is the range of the series? |
Insert the missing number.
2, 4, 12, 48, 240, (....) |
Bongani and Jane are friends. Bongani takes Jane's physics test paper and will not tell her what her mark is. He knows that Jane hates maths so he decides to tease her. Bongani says: “I have 2 marks more than you do and the sum of both our marks is equal to 14. What are our marks?” |
Shannon and Maxine work in the same building and leave work at the same time. Shannon lives due north of work and Maxine lives due south. The distance between Maxine's house and Shannon's house is 60 miles. If they both drive home at the rate 2R miles per hour, Maxine arrives home 40 minutes after Shannon. If Maxine ri... |
Machines X and Y produce bottles at their respective constant rates. Machine X produces k bottles in 6 hours and machine Y produces k bottles in 12 hours. How many hours does it take machines X and Y , working simultaneously , to produce 12k bottles? |
Sarah operated her lemonade stand Monday through Friday over a two week period and made a total profit of 200 dollars. On hot days she sold cups of lemonade for a price that was 25 percent higher than the regular days. Each cup she sold had a total cost of 75 cents and Sarah did not incur any other costs. If every day ... |
Find the no.of ways of arranging the boy and 8 guests at a circular table so that the boy always sits in a particular seat? |
A basketball player practices 2 hours a day Monday through Friday. How many hours must he practice Saturday and Sunday combined if he wants to practice an average (arithmetic mean) of 3 hours a day for the seven day week? |
In how many ways can you walk up a stairway with 6 steps if you
can take one or two steps at a time? (For example, you can walk up
a stairway with 3 steps in three dierent ways: (i) Take three single
steps. (ii) Take one step and then two steps. (iii) Take two steps and
then one step.) |
Two numbers N and 24 have LCM = 48 and GCF = 8. Find N. |
Which of the options is a two-digit number, which has a unit's digit that exceeds its ten's digit by 3 and the product of the given number and the sum of its digits is equal to 175. |
If a man walks at the rate of 5 kmph, he misses a train by 7 minutes. However, if he walks at the rate of 6 kmph, he reaches the station 5 minutes before the arrival of the train. Find the distance covered by him to reach the station. |
Huey's Hip Pizza sells two sizes of square pizzas: a small pizza that measures 12 inches on a side and costs $10, and a large pizza that measures 18 inches on a side and costs $20. If two friends go to Huey's with $30 apiece, how many more square inches of pizza can they buy if they pool their money than if they each p... |
A water tank is two-third full. Pipe A can fill a tank in 10 minutes and pipe B can empty it in 6 minutes. If both the pipes are open, how long will it take to empty or fill the tank completely? |
What is the sum of all 3 digit positive integers that can be formed using the digits 1, 3, and 7, if the digits are allowed to repeat within a number? |
When 30 per cent of a number is added to another number the second number increases to its 140 per cent. What is the ratio between the first and the second number? |
Given f(x) = 3x – 5, for what value of x does 2*[f(x)] – 1 = f(3x – 6) |
Two trains are moving in opposite directions at 60 km/hr and 90 km/hr. Their lengths are 1.10 km and 1.4 km respectively. The time taken by the slower train to cross the faster train in seconds is? |
Tickets numbered from 1 to 22 are mixed and then a ticket is selected randomly. What is the probability that the selected ticket bears a number which is a multiple of 3? |
How many minutes does it take John to type z words if he types at the rate of x words per minute? |
The true discount on Rs. 1760 due after a certain time at 12% per annum is Rs. 160. The time after which it is due is: |
The average of first 20 even numbers is? |
A palindrome is a word or a number that reads the same forward and backward. For example, 2442 and 111 are palindromes. If 5-digit palindromes are formed using one or more of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, how many palindromes are possible? |
3,7,12,18,25,..............6th terms |
A sequence contains y numbers of alternating positive and negative numbers, If the first number is postive and y is an even number, how many negative numbers are in it? |
In how many ways 8 different tickets T can be distributed between Jane and Bill if each is to receive any even number of tickets and all 8 tickets to be distributed. |
Company A has 13 employees, 8 of whom belong to the union. If 4 people work any one shift, and the union contract specifies that at least 4 union members work each shift, then how many different combinations of employees might work any given shift? |
A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 815 in 3 years and to Rs. 844 in 4 years. The sum is: |
The Italian size of a suit jacket is N centimeters, where N is the linear distance between the armpits when the jacket is laid on a flat surface. The American size of a suit jacket is P inches, where P is twice the linear distance between the armpits when the jacket is laid on a flat surface. If, for a particular jacke... |
John draws a card from a pack of cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is a card of black suit? |
A father is now three times as old as his son. Six years back, he was four times as old as his son. The age of the son (in years) is |
If a car travels a distance of y km, at the speed of x km/hr , which of the following cannot be equal to the distance traveled? |
In Arun's opinion, his weight is greater than 65 kg but less than 72 kg. His brother doest not agree with Arun and he thinks that Arun's weight is greater than 60 kg but less than 70 kg. His mother's view is that his weight cannot be greater than 68 kg. If all are them are correct in their estimation, what is the avera... |
7^1+7^2+7^3+...........+7^2015 find out how many numbers present which unit place contain 3 ? |
Each of the cucumbers in 100 pounds of cucumbers is composed of 99% water, by weight. After some of the water evaporates, the cucumbers are now 93% water by weight. What is the new weight of the cucumbers, in pounds? |
If each digit in the set of A = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} is exactly used once, in how many ways can the digits be arranged such that the 2 and 5 are not adjacent? |
The 8 spokes of a custom circular bicycle wheel radiate from the central axle of the wheel and are arranged such that the sectors formed by adjacent spokes all have different central angles, which constitute an arithmetic series of numbers (that is, the difference between any angle and the next largest angle is constan... |
The volumes of three containers are in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6. If the sum of the volumes of the largest and the smallest container is is 20litres more than the weight of the third container, what is the volume of the smallest container? |
A merchant sells an item at a 20% discount, but still makes a gross profit of 20 percent of the cost. What percent of the cost would the gross profit on the item have been if it had been sold without the discount? |
In the list 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 7, 11, 21, what fraction of the data is less than the mode? |
Find the odd man out.
36, 60, 6, 18, 72, 25, 48 |
If 4 less than x is 4 greater than y, then a number z that is 5 greater than x reduced by y is equal to |
A train of length 240 m crosses a bridge of length 150m in 20 seconds. What is the speed of train? |
At Annie's party, there were five times as many females as males. There were three times as many adults as children. Which of the following could NOT be the number of people at the party? |
Income and expenditure of a person are in the ratio 8 : 7. If the income of the person is Rs. 40000, then find his savings? |
A man can hit a target once in 4 shots. If he fires 4 shots in succession, what is the probability that he will hit his target? |
A student has to obtain 33% of the total marks to pass. He got 59 marks and failed by 40 marks. The maximum marks are? |
A and B together can do a piece of work in 6 days and A alone can do it in 10 days. In how many days can B alone can do it? |
If (0.2)x = 2 and log 2 = 0.3010, then Find the value of x to the nearest tenth. |
51 + 52 + 53 + .........+100) is equal to |
Different breeds of dogs get older at different rates in “dog years.” Livonian wolfhounds age 7 times as fast as humans, whereas Khazarian terriers age 5 times as fast and Akkadian retrievers age 4 times as fast. If Dan bought a newborn Akkadian on January 1, 2011, a newborn Khazarian 1 year later, and a newborn Livoni... |
A train 150 m long passes a man, running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10 seconds. The speed of the train is: |
Cook can divide his herd into 5 equal parts and also to 6 equal parts, but not to 9 equal parts. What could be the number of cows Cook has in his herd? |
Divide Rs. 3250 among A, B and C so that A receives 1/5 as much as B and C together and B receives 2/3 as A and C together. B's share is? |
A9B, D100F, H361K,then find next ? |
In the manufacture of a certain product, 6 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? |
Two men A and B start from place X walking at 4 ½ kmph and 5 ¾ kmph respectively. How many km apart they are at the end of 3 ½ hours if they are walking in the same direction? |
In a coconut grove, (x + 3) trees yield 60 nuts per year, x trees yield 120 nuts per year and (x – 3) trees yield 180 nuts per year. If the average yield per year per tree be 100, find x. |
If the probability of rain on any given day in Chicago during the summer is 50%, independent of what happens on any other day, what is the probability of having exactly 3 rainy days from July 4 through July 10 inclusive? |
A certain bacteria colony doubles in size every day for 16 days, at which point it reaches the limit of its habitat and can no longer grow. If two bacteria colonies start growing simultaneously, how many days will it take them to reach the habitat’s limit? |
Steve is laying floor tiles in 2 rooms of his house. Each room requires 30 tiles, all the same size. How many of the following combinations could Steve buy if: A Small box (1 box@$8.00 w/tax) contains 10 tiles, and a Large box (1 box@$20.00 w/tax) contains 25 tiles. Steve only has $50 on him when he gets to the store. |
The compound interest accrued on an amount of Rs.44000 at the end of two years is Rs.1193.60. What would be the simple interest accrued on the same amount at the same rate in the same period? |
In a recent election, Ms. Robbins received 7,000 votes cast by independent voters, that is, voters not registered with a specific political party. She also received 10 percent of the votes cast by those voters registered with a political party. If N is the total number of votes cast in the election and 40 percent of th... |
If a sum of money borrowed at 5 percent/annum SI amounts to Rs.1020 in 4 yrs, then the sum of money borrowed is? |
A container has a capacity of 30 gallons and is full of spirit. 4 gallons of spirit is drawn out and the container is again filled with water. This process is repeated 5 times. Find how much spirit is left in the resulting mixture finally? |
The G.C.D. of 1.08, 0.36 and 0.45 is? |
Rectangular tile each of size 80cm by 55cm must be laid horizontally on a rectangular floor of size 210cm by 330cm,such that the tiles do not overlap and they are placed with edges jutting against each other on all edges. A tile can be placed in any orientation so long as its edges are parallel to the edges of floor. N... |
If 15,555 – n is divisible by 11, and 0 < n < 11, what is n? |
A scientist used a unique two-color code to identify each of the test subjects involved in a certain study. If the scientist found that choosing from among seven colors produced enough color codes to identify all but 6 of the test subjects, how many test subjects were in the study? (Assume that the order of the colors ... |
A bag holds 3 red marbles and 3 green marbles. If you removed two randomly selected marbles from the bag, without replacement, what is the probability that both would be red? |
A man covers a distance on scooter .had he moved 3kmph
faster he would have taken 40 min less. If he had moved
2kmph slower he would have taken 40min more.the distance is. |
In country Z, 12% of the people do not have a university diploma but have the job of their choice, and 25% of the people who do not have the job of their choice have a university diploma. If 40% of the people have the job of their choice, what percent of the people have a university diploma? |
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