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If S is the product of all positive integers less than 31, than what is the greatest integer k for which S/18^k is an integer?
What is the ratio between perimeters of two squares one having 3 times the diagonal then the other?
Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together ?
A train of length 150 metres takes 40.5 seconds to cross a tunnel of length 300 metres. What is the speed of the train in km/hr ?
The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a college is 7:8.If the percentage increase in the number of boys and girls be 20% and 10% respectively.What will be the new ratio?
Three numbers are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 and their H.C.F is 3. The numbers are
A miniature roulette wheel is divided into 10 equal sectors, each bearing a distinct integer from 1 to 10, inclusive. Each time the wheel is spun, a ball randomly determines the winning sector by settling in that sector. If the wheel is spun two times, approximately what is the probability that the product of the two winning sectors’ integers will be even?
What is the lowest positive integer that is divisible by each of the integers 1 through 8, inclusive?
How many different subsets of the set {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6,} do not contain 0?
There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20, third hour it has 40 and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?
Find the sum of first 30 natural numbers
A and B rent a pasture for 10 months. A put in 80 cows for 7 months. How many can B put in for the remaining 3 months, if he pays half as much again as A?
If K is the sum of reciprocals of the consecutive integers from 53 to 58, inclusive, then K is closest in value to which of the following?
John takes a trip and drives 9 hours from Town X to Town Z at a rate of 60 miles per hour. On his way back, John drives 85 miles per hour and stops in Town Y which is midway between Town X and Town Z. How many hours does it take Scott to drive from Town Z to Town Y?
A company has 100 employees, 40% of whom are employed part time. If it hires 25 new employees, 40% of whom are employed part time, what will be the percent increase in part time employees?
In a class of 60 students, the number of boys and girls participating in the annual sports is in the ratio 3 : 2 respectively. The number of girls not participating in the sports is 5 more than the number of boys not participating in the sports. If the number of boys participating in the sports is 15, then how many girls are there in the class ?
To furnish a room in a model home an interior decorator is to select 4 chairs and 4 tables from the collection of chairs and tables in a warehouse that are all different from each other. If there are 5 chairs in the warehouse and if 75 different combinations are possible, how many tables are there in the warehouse?
A train overtakes two persons walking along a railway track. The first one walks at 4.5 km/hr. The other one walks at 5.4 km/hr. The train needs 8.4 and 8.5 seconds respectively to overtake them. What is the speed of the train if both the persons are walking in the same direction as the train?
160 is what percent of 50 ?
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 46080, 3840, ?, 48, 8, 2, 1
The length of a rectangle is reduced by 20%. By what % would the width have to be increased to maintainthe original area?
Find the average of first 20 natural numbers?
The inverse ratio of 4: 2: 1 is?
If a man lost 4% by selling oranges at the rate of 12 a rupee at how many a rupee must he sell them to gain 44%?
A password of a computer used two digits where they are from 0 and 9. What is the probability that the password solely consists of prime numbers and zero?
Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 8 more than twice the third. The third integer is:
NHAI employs 100 men to build a highway of 2km in 50 days working 8 hours a day. If in 25 days they completed 1/3 part of work .than how many more employees should NHAI hire to finish it in time working 10 hours a day?
Two trains 111 meters and 165 meters in length respectively are running in opposite directions, one at the rate of 60 km and the other at the rate of 90 kmph. In what time will they be completely clear of each other from the moment they meet?
A train 500 m long is running at a speed of 78 km/hr. If it crosses a tunnel in 1 min, then the length of the tunnel is?
The price of a radio was increased by 25 percent. The new price was then increased by 40 percent. A single increase of what percent is equivalent to these two successive increases?
Two trains start from P and Q respectively and travel towards each other at a speed of 50 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively. By the time they meet, the first train has travelled 100 km more than the second. The distance between P and Q is :
What is the investment made if one invests in 15% stock at 50 and earns Rs.2000?
The seating chart of an airplane shows 30 rows of seats. Each row has 3 seats on each side of the center aisle, and one of the seats on each side is a window saet. The view from the window seats in 25 of the rows is obscured by the wings of the airplane. If the first person to be assigned a seat is assigned a window seat and thw window seat is assigned randomly, what is the probability that the person will get a seat with an unobscured view?
Krishan and Nandan jointly started a business. Krishan invested three times as Nandan did and invested his money for double time as compared to Nandan. If the gain is proportional to the money invested and the time for which the money is invested and the total gain was Rs. 28000, find the earning of Nandan.
A certain bakery sells six different-sized wedding cakes. Each cake costs x dollars more than the next one below it in size, and the price of the largest cake is $24.50. If the sum of the prices of the six different cakes is $109.50, what is the value of x?
Three bells chime at intervals of 18 min., 24 min. and 32 min. respectively. At a certain time they begin together. What length Z of time will elapse before they chime together again?
A man can row downstream at 25 kmph and upstream at 15 kmph. Find the time to reach a destination point at a distance of 50km along the downstream.
Find the number that fits somewhere into the middle of the series. Some of the items involve both numbers and letters Look at this series: C19, E21, __, I25, K27, ... What number should fill the blank?
A train crosses a platform of 120 m in 15 sec, same train crosses another platform of length 180 m in 18 sec. then find the length of the train?
The ratio of three numbers is 2:3:5 and their sum is 150. The second number of the three numbers is?
For any real number x, the operatoris defined as: (x) = x(2 − x) If p + 2 =(p + 2), then p =
Calculate the circumference of a circular field whose radius is 5 centimeters.
The average age of five persons is 40 years while the average age of some other 10 persons is 25 years. The average age of all the 15 persons is:
A slot machine in a Las Vegas casino has an average profit of $600 for each 8-hour shift for the five days Sunday through Thursday, inclusive. If the average per-shift profit on Friday and Saturday is 25% greater than on the other days of the week and the slot machine is in operation every hour of every day, what is the total weekly profit that the casino makes from the slot machine?
What is the greatest prime factor of 2^10 - 1?
A train overtakes two persons walking along a railway track. The first person walks at 4.5 km/hr and the other walks at 5.4 km/hr. The train needs 8.4 and 8.5 seconds respectively to overtake them. What is the speed of the train if both the persons are walking in the same direction as the train?
Jones covered a distance of 50 miles on his first trip. On a later trip he traveled 300 miles while going three times as fast. His new time compared with the old time was:
There are 32 stations between Ernakulam and Chennai. How many second class tickets have to be printed, so that a passenger can travel from one station to any other station?
There are two buildings P and Q. If 15 persons are sent from P to Q, then the number of persons in each building is the same. If 20 persons are sent from Q to P, then the number of persons in P is double the number of persons in Q. How many persons are there in building P?
In a business school case competition, the top three teams receive cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000, and $2,000, respectively, while the remaining teams are not ranked and do not receive any prizes. There are 6 participating teams, named Team A, Team B, Team C, Team D, Team E, and Team F. If Team A wins one of the prizes, Team B will also win one of the prizes. How many outcomes W of the competition are possible?
A man spends 1/5 of his salary on food, 1/10 of his salary on house rent and 3/5 of his salary on clothes. He still has $18000 left with him. Find his salary.
A person can swim in still water at 4 km/h. If the speed of water 2 km/h, how many hours will the man take to swim back against the current for 6km?
Bradley owns b video game cartridges. If Bradley’s total is one-third the total owned by Andrew and twice the total owned by Charlie, how many video game cartridges do the three of them own altogether, in terms of b?
If a - b = 2 and a2 + b2 = 25, find the value of ab.
3, 7, 15, 31, 63, ?
If the complement of a certain angle is two times the measure of that certain angle, then what is the measure of that certain angle?
If 4 men can colour 48 m long cloth in 2 days, then 6 men can colour 36 m long cloth in
If the sum of 1/3 and 22/99 is converted to a decimal, what is the 3000th digit to the right of the decimal place?
Three people are playing cards. What is the probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52 cards will be a diamond or a king?
If x and y are integers such that (x+1)^2 is less than or equal to 16 and (y-1)^2 is less than 64, what is the sum of the maximum possible value of xy and the minimum possible value of xy?
If points A and B are (10-5) units apart, which of the following can have only one possible value? I. The area of a square region with side AB II. The circumference of a circle passing through points A and B III. The area of a rectangular region with diagonal AB
The banker's discount on a sum of money for 1 1/2 years is Rs. 558 and the true discount on the same sum for 2 years is Rs. 600. The rate percent is:
If two projectiles are launched at the same moment from 1998 km apart and travel directly towards each other at 444 km per hour and 555 km per hour respectively, how many minutes will it take for them to meet?
A confectioner decides to sell all of his pastry due to the coming holiday. His pastry goods are equally divided among a group of 35 regular customers. If only 49 customers come to the bakery, each one will receive 6 less pastry goods. How much pastry does the confectioner needs to sell?
Worker A takes 8 hours to do a job. Worker B takes 6 hours to do the same job. How long it take both A & B, working together but independently, to do the same job?
One-third of Rahul's savings in National Savings Certificate is equal to one-half of his savings in Public Provident Fund. If he has Rs. 1,50,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in Public Provident Fund ?
If the average (arithmetic mean) of (2a+16) and (3a-8) is 84, what is the value of a?
Consider a quarter of a circle of radius 20. Let r be the radius of the circle inscribed in this quarter of a circle. Find r.
If k^3 is divisible by 120, what is the least possible value of integer k?
x is the product of each integer from 1 to 25, inclusive and y=100^k, where k is an integer . What is the greatest value of k for which y is a factor of x?
If n is a positive integer, which of the following expressions must be even?
30 liters of a mixture is created by mixing Liquid P and Liquid Q in the ratio 3:2. How many liters of Liquid Q must be added to make the ratio 3:4?
The speed at which a man can row a boat in still water is 21 kmph. If he rows downstream, where the speed of current is 5 kmph, what time will he take to cover 90 metres?
Having received his weekly allowance, John spent 3/5 of his allowance at the arcade. The next day he spent one third of his remaining allowance at the toy store, and then spent his last $1.28 at the candy store. What is John’s weekly allowance?
The simple interest at z% for z years will be $z on a sum of
The ratio of two quantities is 3 to 5. If each of the quantities is increased by 6, what is the ratio of these two new quantities?
A box contains 4 red chips and 4 blue chips. If two chips are selected at random without replacement, what is the probability that the chips are different colors?
For every X, the action [X] is defined: [X] is the greatest integer less than or equal to X. What is the value of [6.5] x [2/3] + [2] x 7.2 + [8.4] - 6.2?
the price of a commodity(in rupees per kilogram) is 100+0.1n, on the nthvday of 2007(n=1,2,,,,,100), and then remains constant. On the other hand, the price of another commodity is 89+0.15n on the nth day of 2007(n=1,2,,,,,,365). On which date in 2007, will the price of these twocommodities be equal????
At 3.40, the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock form an angle of
The average age of 15 students of a class is 14 years. Out of these, the average age of 5 students is 14 years and that of the other 9 students is 16 years. Tee age of the 15th student is?
A train is 320 meter long is running at a speed of 45 km/hour. In what time will it pass a bridge of 140 meter length?
The average age of 15 students of a class is 15 years. Out of these, the average age of 5 students is 14 years and that of the other 9 students is 16 years. Tee age of the 15th student is?
A man takes twice as long to row a distance against the stream as to row the same distance in favour of the stream. The ratio of the speed of the boat (in still water) and the stream is:
Two numbers are in the ratio of 1 : 2. If 6 be added to both, their ratio changes to 3 : 5. The greater number is
On flipping 3 coins together what is the outcomes for at least two tail?
If x is 20 percent more than y and y is 60 percent less than z, then x is what percent of z?
The sale price of an article including the sales tax is Rs. 616. The rate of sales tax is 10%. If the shopkeeper has made a profit of 12%, then the cost price of the article is:
A ladder 18 feet long is leaning against a wall that is perpendicular to level ground. The bottom of the ladder is 6 feet from the base of the wall. If the top of the ladder slips down 4 feet, how many feet will the bottom of the ladder slip?
For her customer feedback score, Jess wants to average at or above an 8.0 rating. For the month of June, she received the following scores: 7, 8, 8, 7, 9, 9, 6, 7, 8 and 7. By what percent did she fall short of her goal?
he average weight of 8 persons increases by 2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing 75 kg. What might be the weight of the new person ?
The value of x is to be randomly selected from the integers from 1 to 11, inclusive, and then substituted into the equation y = x^2 - 4x + 3. What is the probability that the value of y will be negative?
A 300 meter long train crosses a platform in 42 seconds while it crosses a signal pole in 18 seconds. What is the length of the platform?
Water boils at 212°F or 100°C and melts at 32°F or 0°C . If the temperature of the particular day is 35°C , it is equal to
One night 40 percent of the female officers on a police force were on duty. If 240 officers were on duty that night and half of these were female officers, how many female officers were on the police force?
If 4/a + 5/a + 6/a is an integer, which of the following must also be an integer?
A cycle is bought for Rs.900 and sold for Rs.1080, find the gain percent?
The total marks obtained by a student in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics is 150 more than the marks obtained by him in Physics. What is the average mark obtained by him in Chemistry and Mathematics?
If m and n are positive integers, and m=2n and k=9m, then -
The average age of 40 students is 8 years. If the age of teacher is also included , then their average age increases by half a year. What is the age of the teacher?