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The amount of electrical current that flows through a wire is inversely proportional to the resistance in that wire. A wire originally carries 4 amperes of electrical current. Then the resistance is reduced to one-half of its original value. How many amperes of electrical current will flow through the wire?
A photo-mat shop charges $0.55 for the first photo inside a film, and 40% cents less for each additional photo. How many photos can we develop with $33 if each film contains 36 photos?
What is the sum of all three digit integers formed using the digits 2,3 and 4 (repetition is allowed)
If a tap could fill entire tank in 15 hrs due to leakage, then in how much time tank can be emptied by leakage if tap can fill entire tank in 12 hrs without leakage
A train traveling at 72 kmph crosses a platform in 35 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 18 seconds. What is the length of the platform in meters?
Baby Isabel plays with blocks. Each block is 3.7 inches tall. She has a collection of 41 blocks. If she could stack all of the blocks up one on top of the other, how many inches tall would her tower of blocks be?
A train 800 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?
A train is moving at a speed of 90km/hr and its length is 500m. Find the time taken by it to pass a man standing near the railway line?
A set of 11 positive integers has an average of 15. Which of the following is the greatest possible value for the median of this set?
How many integers between 100 and 500 are there such that their unit digit is even?
Which of the following fractions is not a terminating decimal?
In a queue if 30 children were made to stand in a column, 16 columns could be formed. If 24 children were made to stand in a column, how many columns could be formed?
How many different arrangements of A, B, C, D, E AND F are possible where A is not adjacent to B and D is not adjacent to E?
A class is 6 meters 24 centimeters in length and 4 meters 32 centimeters in width. Find the least number of square tiles of equal size required to cover the entire floor of the class room ?
Due to construction, the speed limit along an 12-mile section of highway is reduced from 55 miles per hour to 35 miles per hour. Approximately how many minutes more will it take to travel along this section of highway at the new speed limit than it would have taken at the old speed limit ?
John works full-time, 40 hours a week, selling cars at the local auto mall. His sales quota for a week is $20,000. How much does John have to sell per hour to make his sales quota?
Walking 7/8th of its usual speed a man is 6 minutes too late the usual time taken by him to cover that distance is?
how many 6 digits numbers have all their digits either all odd or all even?
A, B and C entered into a partnership. A invested Rs. 2,560/- and B invested Rs. 1105/-, out of which A got Rs 320. C’s capital was
Five times the fifth term of an A.P is equal to six times the sixth term of the A.P, What is the value of the eleventh term?
How many 1/8s are there in 37 1/2?
During the first two weeks of January, the total rainfall in Springdale was 25 inches. If the rainfall during the second week was 1.5 times the rainfall during the first week, what was the rainfall during the second week of January?
The equation x = 2y^2 + 5y - 18, describes a parabola in the xy coordinate plane. If line l, with slope of 3, intersects the parabola in the upper-left quadrant at x = -5, the equation for l is
A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 100 years now, the son's age five years back was:
There are 8 magazines lying on a table; 4 are fashion magazines and the other 4 are sports magazines. If 3 magazines are to be selected at random from the 8 magazines, what is the probability that at least one of the fashion magazines will be selected?
find the number of 6 digit numbers that can be formed using digits 1,2,3,4,5,6 once such that the 6digit number is divisible by its unit digit.
Health insurance Plan E requires the insured to pay $1000 or 50% of total cost, whichever is lower. Plan B requires the insured to pay the initial $300, but then pays 80% of the cost over $300. Which of the following is a cost level for which both insurance plans pay out the same amount?
A man buys Rs. 60 shares paying 9% dividend. The man wants to have an interest of 12% on his money. The market value of each share is:
In the formula V = 1/(2r)^4, if r is halved, then V is multiplied by
Select the non termination decimal among the following.
36, 34, 30, 28, 24, 22, 18, ?
The ratio of the areas of two squares, one having double its diagonal then the other is:
Annika hikes at a constant rate of 10 minutes per kilometer. She has hiked 2.5 kilometers east from the start of a hiking trail when she realizes that she has to be back at the start of the trail in 45 minutes. If Annika continues east, then turns around and retraces her path to reach the start of the trail in exactly ...
What is the probability that a number selected from numbers 1,2,3,...,30, is prime number, when each of the given numbers is equally likely to be selected?
Find the unit's digit in 264^102 + 264^103
For my anniversary, I decided to surprise my wife. Since she is a voracious reader, I decided to collect a lot of books for her. On the first day of the month, I bought one book, on the second, I bought two and on the third, I bought three. This process went on till the anniversary and on the day, I had 181 books with ...
An agent, gets a commission of 2.5% on the sales of cloth. If on a certain day, he gets Rs. 15 as commission, the cloth sold through him on that day is worth
On a partly rainy day, Derek decides to walk back from work. When it is sunny, he walks at a speed of s miles/hr (s is an integer) and when it gets cloudy, he increases his speed to (s + 1) miles/hr. If his average speed for the entire distance is 2.8 miles/hr, what fraction of the total distance did he cover while the...
If a mixture is 2⁄7 alcohol by volume and 3⁄7 water by volume, what is the ratio of the volume of alcohol to the volume of water in this mixture?
A cyclist covers a distance of 750 meter in 3 minutes 30 seconds. What is the speed in km/hr of cyclist
How many four-digit numbers that do not contain the digits 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 are there?
A, B and C enter into a partnership. They invest Rs. 50,000, Rs. 80,000 and Rs. 1,20,000 respectively. At the end of the first year, B withdraws Rs. 40,000, while at the end of the second year, C withdraws Rs. 80,000. In what ratio will the profit be shared at the end of 3 years?
What is the leastvalue of x. So that 23x57 is divisible by 3?
If |4x+14| = 46, what is the sum of all the possible values of x?
Find the simple interest on Rs.500 for 9 months at 6 paisa per month?
A work which could be finished in 9 days was finished 3 days earlier after 10 more men joined. The number of men employed was?
A box contains ten light out of which 5 are defective. If five light are chosen at random, find the probability that all the five light are defective?
11 different biology books and 8 different chemistry books lie on a shelf. In how many ways can a student pick 2 books of each type?
A person travels equal distances with speeds of 3 km/hr, 4 km/hr and 5 km/hr and takes a total time of 47 minutes. The total distance is?
Look at this series: -2, 0, 2, 4,... What number should come next?
Dhoni decides to attend a tennis game with four friends. If the party of five sits together in five consecutive seats, and Dhoni must NOT sit in between two of his friends, how many ways can the five friends be arranged?
Rodrick mixes a martini that has a volume of 'n' ounces having 40% Vermouth and 60% Gin by volume. He wants to change it so that the martini is 20% Vermouth by volume. How many ounces of Gin must he add?
A man buys an article and sells it at a profit of 20%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold it for Rs.90 less, he could have gained 25%. What is the cost price?
Surekha started a business investing Rs.25,000 in 1999. In 2000, he invested an additional amount of Rs. 10,000 and Rajesh joined him with an amount of Rs. 35,000. In 2001, Surekha invested another additional amount of Rs.10,000 and Jay joined them with an amount of Rs.35,000. What will be Rajesh's share in the profit ...
A basketball team scored x points per game in its first n games of the season, and in all the following games it scored an average (arithmetic mean) of y points per game. What was the average number of points per game in its first n + 5 games?
How many 4-digit no's that are divisible by 10 can be formed from the no.'s 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 0 such that no no. repeats?
The "Racing magic" takes 120 seconds to circle the racing track once. The "Charging bull" makes 40 rounds of the track in an hour. If they left the starting point together, how many minutes will it take for them to meet at the starting point for the second time?
Find value of x (11^2 + 12^2 + 13^2 + ... + 20^2) = x
A certain mixture of nuts consists of 5 parts almonds to 2 parts walnuts, by weight. What is the number of pounds of almonds in 350 pounds of the mixture ?
A man sold 20 articles for $60 and gained 20%. How many articles should he sell for $90 to incur a loss 20%?
Two vessels contains equal number of mixtures milk and water in the ratio 5:2 and 6:1. Both the mixtures are now mixed thoroughly. Find the ratio of milk to water in the new mixture so obtained?
A man can row upstream at 7 kmph and downstream at 10 kmph.Find man's rate in still water and the rate of current?
The sum of two number is 25 and their difference is 13. Find their product.
Kiran travels from A to B by car and returns from B to A by cycle in 7 hours. If he travels both ways by car he saves 3 hours. What is the time taken to cover both ways by cycle?
The present worth of a sum due sometimes hence is Rs.5760 and the banker's gain is Rs.10. What is the true discount?
In an Examination there are three subject of 100 marks each. A student scores 60% in the 1st subject and 80% in the second subject. He scored 70% in aggregate. His percentage of marks in the third subject is:
The arithmetic mean of the scores of a group of students in a test was 62. The brightest 20% of them secured a mean score of 80 and the dullest 25% a mean score of 31. The mean score of remaining 55% is?
Two pipes A and B can separately fill a cistern in 10 and 15 minutes respectively. A person opens both the pipes together when the cistern should have been was full he finds the waste pipe open. He then closes the waste pipe and in another 4 minutes the cistern was full. In what time can the waste pipe empty the cister...
The sum of the squares of the first 15 positive integers (1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + . . . + 15^2) is equal to 1240. What is the sum of the squares of the second 15 positive integers (16^2 + 17^2 + 18^2 + . . . + 30^2) ?
Eight men, ten women and six boys together can complete a piece of work in eight days. In how many days can 20 women complete the same work if 20 men can complete it in 12 days?
Which of the following is divisible by the first five positive integer multiples of 23? (i) 11110 (ii) 102120 (iii) 307740
A local bank that has 20 branches uses a two-digit code to represent each of its branches. The same integer can be used for both digits of a code, and a pair of two-digit numbers that are the reverse of each other (such as 17 and 71) are considered as two separate codes. What is the fewest number of different integers ...
If 3/p = 6 and 3/q = 15 then p – q = ?
The cost of the paint is rs.50 per kg. if 1kg of paint covers 20 sq.ft, how much will it cost to paint outside of a cube having 20 feet each side
If the city centers of Tokyo and Rome are 6124 miles apart, which of the following is closest to the distance between the city centers in inches? (There are 5,280 feet in a mile.)
Aman started a business investing Rs. 70,000. Rakhi joined him after six months with an amount of Rs. 1,05,000 and Sagar joined them with Rs. 1.4 lakhs after another six months. The amount of profit earned should be distributed in what ratio among Aman, Rakhi and Sagar respectively, 3 years after Aman started the busin...
The mean of 50 observations was 36. it was found later an observation 48 was wrongly taken as 23 . the corrected new means is :
Carl is facing very difficult financial times and can only pay the interest on a $10,000 loan he has taken. The bank charges him a quarterly compound rate of 7%. What is the approximate interest he pays annually?
Cereal A is 10% sugar by weight, whereas healthier but less delicious Cereal B is 3% sugar by weight. To make a delicious and healthy mixture that is 4% sugar, what should be the ratio of Cereal A to Cereal B, by weight?
If P (A) = 0.18, P (B) = 0.5 and P (B|A) = 0.2, find P(A n B)?
Kamal started a business investing Rs. 9000. After five months, Sameer joined with a capital of Rs. 8000. If at the end of the year, they earn a profit of Rs. 8200, then what will be the share of Sameer in the profit?
The difference between the local value and the face value of 7 in the numeral 32675149 is
Each book on a certain shelf is labeled by a single category. For every 2 history books, there are 7 fantasy books and for every 4 fantasy books, there are 5 reference books. If the proportion of history to fantasy books is doubled, while the proportion of fantasy to reference books is maintained, which of the followin...
One side of a triangle has length 9 and a second side has length 4. Which of the following could be the area of the triangle? I. 30 II. 20 III. 10
Calculate the L.C.M of 1/5, 6/ 7, 5/6, 3/5 is :
The length and breadth of a rectangle is increased by 10% and 25% respectively. What is the increase in the area?
If the two-digit integers F and N are positive and have the same digits, but in reverse order, which of the following CANNOT be the sum of F and N?
There is a 10% chance that Tigers will not win at all during the whole season. There is a 30% chance that Federer will not play at all in the whole season. What is the greatest possible probability that the Tigers will win and Federer will play during the season?
Solve below question 2x + 1 = -17
To be elected president of a certain organization, a candidate needs the votes of at least 2/3 of its 1,331 members. What is the least number of votes the candidate needs to be elected?
What is the dividend. divisor 17, the quotient is 9 and the remainder is 5.
An equity analyst needs to select 4 stocks for the upcoming year and rank these securities in terms of their investment potential. If the analyst has narrowed down the list of potential stocks to 8, in how many ways can she choose and rank her top 4 picks?
A trader bought a car at 20% 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?
Today John is 3 times older than Mark. If in 13 years, John will be one year younger than twice the age of Mark on that day, how old is Mark today?
A train moves fast a telegraph post and a bridge 245 m long in 8 sec and 20 sec respectively. What is the speed of the train?
The side of a square is increased by 25% then how much % does its area increases?
Two same glasses are respectively 1/4th 1/5th full of milk. They are then filled with water and the contents mixed in a tumbler. The ratio of milk and water in the tumbler is?
How much greater is the combined area in square inches of the front and back of a rectangular sheet of paper measuring 11 inches by 11 inches than that of a rectangular sheet of paper measuring 5.5 inches by 11 inches?
To mail a package, the rate is 20 cents for the first pound and 5 cents for each additional pound. Two packages weighing 5 pounds and 10 pounds, respectively can be mailed seperately or combined as one package. Which method is cheaper and how much money is saved?
An amount of money is to be divided between P, Q and R in the ratio of 3:7:12. If the difference between the shares of P and Q is Rs.2800, what will be the difference between Q and R's share?