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In case L is the only individual sewing on committee B, which among the following shouldserve on committee A?
There are 8 magazines lying on a table; 4 are fashion magazines and the other 4 are sports magazines. If 2 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?
At what rate percent on simple interest will Rs.1750 amount to Rs.2000 in 2 years?
Pencils, Pens and Exercise books in a shop are in the ratio of 10: 2 : 3. If there are 120 pencils, the number of exercise books in the shop is:
In Town P, 70 percent of the population are employed, and 21 percent of the population are employed males. What percent of the employed people in Town P are females?
What is the diffference between the place value and face value of 8 in the numeral 8635?
A meeting has to be conducted with 3 managers. Find the number of ways in which the managers be selected from among 6 managers, if 2 managers will not attend the meeting together?
If the letters of the word CHASM are rearranged to form 5 letter words such that none of the word repeat and the results arranged in ascending order as in a dictionary what is the rank of the word CHASM?
The bankers discount of a certain sum of money is Rs. 36 and the true discount on the same sum for the same time is Rs. 30. The sum due is:
Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 and 12 hours, while third pipe will make the tank empty in 20 hours. If all three pipes operate simultaneously. In how many hours the tank will be filled ?
The volumes of two cones are in the ratio 1 : 30 and the radii of the cones are in the ratio of 1 : 2. What is the length of the wire?
A construction company wants to number new houses using digit plates only. If the company puts an order for 1512 plates, how many houses are to be given numbers? (The numbers of houses are consecutive and the number of the first house is 1).
Andrew travelling to 7 cities. Gasoline prices varied from city to city. What is the median gasoline price?
How many total numbers of not more than 20 digits that can be formed by using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 is
A box contains nine bulbs out of which 4 are defective. If four bulbs are chosen at random, find the probability that all the four bulbs are defective?
In a particular 100 meter race, 9 athletes are participating that are numbered 1-9. In how many ways can athlete #4 finish ahead of #2 provided there's no tie among the athletes?
In an exam, Gibi scored 59 percent, Jigi scored 55 percent , Mike scored 99 percent and Lizzy 67 percent. The maximum score awarded in the exam is 700. Find the average mark scored by all the four students?
If S is the sum of the reciprocals of the consecutive integers from 61 to 70, inclusive, which of the following is less than S? I. 1/6 II. 1/7 III. 1/8 IV .1/6>S >1/7
A rectangular plot 15 m × 10 m, has a path of grass outside it. If the area of grassy pathway is 54 m2, find the width of the path.
Two trains of length 120 m and 200 m are 100 m apart. They start moving towards each other on parallel tracks, at speeds 54 kmph and 72 kmph. In how much time will the trains cross each other?
If six persons sit around a table, the probability that some specified three of them are always together is
What is the least number which when divided by 5, 6, 7 and 8 leaves a remainder 3, but when divided by 9 leaves no remainder?
(3x + 2) (2x - 7) = ax^2 + kx + n . What is the value of a - n + k ?
Pradip spends 40 per cent of his monthly income on food items, and 50 per cent of the remaining on clothes and conveyance. He saves one-third of the remaining amount after spending on food, clothes and conveyance. If he saves 19,200 every year,what is his monthly income?
Two employees X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 550 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week?
The average of 9 observations was 9, that of the 1st of 4 being 10 and that of the last 4 being 8. What was the 5th observation?
A student has got marks in five subjects in the ratio 2:3:4:5:6 .The maximum marks of subjects in same sequence are in ratio 6:5:8:4:7.Total percentage of marks scored by him is 48%.FInd the maximum percentage obtained by him in a subject..
In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?
How many seconds will a train 100 meters long take to cross a bridge 150 meters long if the speed of the train is 63 kmph?
If (5^15)(9^8)=3(15^x), what is the value of x?
In a certain large company, the ratio of college graduates with a graduate degree to non-college graduates is 1:8, and ratio of college graduates without a graduate degree to non-college graduates is 2:3. If one picks a random college graduate at this large company, what is the probability E this college graduate has a...
Sunil invested $ 1600 fir 3 years and $ 1100 for 4 years at the same rate of Simple Interest. If the total interest from these investments is $ 506, what is the rate of interest?
An article costing rs.200 is sold at 25% discount on a mark-up price. What is the selling price after discount?
What will be the cost of building a fence around a square plot with area equal to 289 sq ft, if the price per foot of building the fence is Rs. 58 ?
A train passes a man standing on a platform in 8 seconds and also crosses the platform which is 264 metres long in 20 seconds. The length of the train (in metres) is:
A man bets on no. 16 on a roulette wheel 14 times and losses each time. On the 15th span he does a quick calculation and finds out that the no. 12 had appeared twice in the 14 spans and is therefore, unable to decide whether to bet on 16 or 12 in the 15th span. Which will give him the best chance and what are the odds ...
Two cars are traveling towards each other. If car A is traveling at a speed of 50 mph and car B is traveling 12% slower, how much time will it take the cars to meet if the initial distance between the two is 705 miles?
The sum of three integers A, B and C is 360. A is one third of the sum of B and C and B is one fifth of the sum of A and C. What is C?
A basket of 1430 apples is divided equally among a group of apple lovers. If 45 people join the group, each apple lover would receive 9 apples less. How many U apples did each person get before 45 people joined the feast?
A can do a particular work in 6 days . B can do the same work in 8 days. A and B signed to do it for Rs. 3680. They completed the work in 3 days with the help of C. How much is to be paid to C?
If 5 toys cost Rs, 234, what do 35 toys cost?
At a supermarket, the ratio of the number of shampoos to the number of soaps is 8 to 5, and the ratio of the number of drinks to the number of shampoos is 3 to 4. If the ratio of the soaps to the number of cereals is 9 to 2, what is the ratio of the number of drinks to the number of cereals?
What is the remainder if 7^16 is divided by 100?
A train crosses a platform of 140 m in 15 sec, same train crosses another platform of length 250 m in 20 sec. then find the length of the train?
The Kiljaro Highway is marked with Milestones denoting the distance to the town of Kiljaro. Tommy left kiljaro and drove the highway, passing the 10 km milestone at 8:30. Some time afterwards, Tommy got a phone call asking him to return home, and he made a U-turn at the 160 km milestone. At 09:A0 Tommy passed the miles...
2 + 2^2 + 2^3 + ... + 2^8 = ?
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 5,28,57,88,125
How many three-digit integers between 310 and 400, exclusive, are divisible by 3 when the ones digit and the tens digit are switched?
A bus leaves Burbank at 8:00 a.m. traveling east at 60 miles per hour. At 2:00 p.m. a plane leaves Burbank traveling east at 300 miles per hour. At what time will the plane overtake the bus?
The value of 5 in the number 357.21 is
Crew A can build a complete car in 20 minutes and Crew B can build a complete car in 25 minutes. If both crews work independently and start at the same time, what is the shortest amount of time W it could take for 10 cars to be complete?
An accurate clock shows 8 o’clock in the morning. Through how many degrees will the hour hand rotate when the clock shows 2 o’clock in the afternoon?
An old man distributed all the gold coins he had to his two sons into two different numbers such that the difference between the squares of the two numbers is 64 times the difference between the two numbers. How many coins did the old man have?
In what ratio should a variety of rice costing Rs. 6 per kg be mixed with another variety of rice costing Rs. 8.75 per kg to obtain a mixture costing Rs. 7.50 per kg?
What is the total surface area in square meters of a rectangular solid whose length is 6 meters, width is 5 meters, and depth is 2 meters?
The probability that a visitor at the mall buys a pack of candy is 30%. If three visitors come to the mall today, what is the probability E that exactly two visitors will buy a pack of candy?
How many necklace of 12 beads each can be made from 18 beads of different colours?
If the sum of a number and its square is 342, What is the number?
What sum of money will produce Rs.70 as simple interest in 5 years at 3 1/2 percent?
A certain set of numbers has an average (arithmetic mean) of 50 and a standard deviation of 50.5. If p and n, two numbers in the set, are both within 2 standard deviations from the average, then which of the following could be the sum of p and n?
The cost of one photocopy is $0.02. However, a 25% discount is offered on orders of more than 100 photocopies. If Saran and David have to make 80 copies each, how much will each of them save if they submit a single order of 160 copies?
In the coordinate plane, the points F (-2,1), G (1,2), and H (2,1) lie on a circle with center P. What are the coordinates of point P ?
A person buys an article at Rs.500. At what price should he sell the article so as to make a profit of 10%?
A certain musical scale has has 13 notes, each having a different frequency, measured in cycles per second. In the scale, the notes are ordered by increasing frequency, and the highest frequency is twice the lowest. For each of the 12 lower frequencies, the ratio of a frequency to the next higher frequency is a fixed c...
From a bunch of nine keys, three particular keys have to be used to open a combination lock, such that the second key can be used only after the first key and the third key can be used only after the second key. What are the chances of opening the lock in a random selection of three keys?
Last month, John rejected 0.5% of the products that he inspected and Jane rejected 0.7 percent of the products that she inspected. If total of 0.75 percent of the products produced last month were rejected, what fraction of the products did Jane inspect?
If it takes 4 movers 40 minutes to unpack their van, how long would 5 movers take?
The annual interest rate earned by an investment increased by 5 percent from last year to this year. If the annual interest rate earned by the investment this year was 26.25 percent, what was the annual interest rate last year?
no.of zeros in 1*2^2*3^3*....49^49
The sum of all the integers k such that –20 < k < 24 is
12 men work 8 hours per day to complete the work in 10 days. To complete the same work in 8 days, working 12 hours a day, the number of men required?
A, B and C can do a work in 90, 30 and 15 days respectively. If they work together, in how many days will they complete the work?
Tough and Tricky questions: Ratios 2/5 of a certain class left on a field trip. 1/3 of the students who stayed behind did not want to go on the field trip (all the others did want to go). When another vehicle was located, 1/2 of the students who did want to go on the field trip but had been left behind were able to joi...
2 trains in same direction at 50km/hr,32 km/hr.A man in slower train observes 15 sec elapse before the faster train completely passed by him what is length of faster train?
There are 6 physics books and 1 chemistry book on shelf P and 5 physics books on shelf Q. One book is moved from shelf P to shelf Q. A student picks up a book from shelf Q. What is the probability that the chemistry book is taken by the student?
What sum of money will produce Rs.90 as simple interest in 4 years at 3 1/2 percent?
If 2x = 3y = 10, then 9xy = ?
the present average age of a couple and their daughter is 35 years. Fifteen years from now, the age of the mother will be equal to the sum of present ages of the father and the daughter. Find the present age of mother?
What is the area of a square field whose diagonal of length 24 m?
The speed of a boat in still water is 60kmph and the speed of the current is 30kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?
Mary and Mike enter into a partnership by investing $800 and $200 respectively. At the end of one year, they divided their profits such that a third of the profit is divided equally for the efforts they have put into the business and the remaining amount of profit is divided in the ratio of the investments they made in...
8+2+2^2+2^3+2^4+2^5=?
Anand and Deepak started a business investing Rs. 25,000 and Rs. 35,000 respectively. Out of a total profit of Rs. 13,800, Deepak's share is?
In how many ways can the letters of the word RECPECT be arranged?
Rahul went to a shop and bought things worth Rs. 25, out of which 30 Paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free items?
When positive integer w is multiplied by positive integer n, the units digit of the product is 3. Which of the following are factors of n? I. 8 II. 15 III. 30
On a certain date, Pat invested $6,000 at x percent annual interest, compounded annually. If the total value of the investment plus interest at the end of 10 years will be $24,000, in how many years total will the total value of the investment plus interest increase to $48,000?
What are the last two digits of 43*25*23*72*51*31?
A can complete a project in 20 days and B can complete the same project in 30 days. If A and B start working on the project together and A quits 10 days before the project is completed, in how many days will the project be completed?
A mixture of 150 liters of wine and water contains 20% water. How much more water should be added so that water becomes 25% of the new mixture?
A and B can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They started doing the work together but after 2 days B had to leave and A alone completed the remaining work. The whole work was completed in :
Three grades of milk are 1 percent, 2 percent and 4 percent fat by volume. If x gallons of the 1 percent grade, y gallons of the 2 percent grade, and z gallons of the 4 percent grade are mixed to give x+y+z gallons of a 1.5 percent grade, what is x in terms of y and z?
Two trains are running in opposite directions with the same speed. If the length of each train is 120 m and they cross each other in 12 sec, then the speed of each train is?
One half of a two digit number exceeds its one third by 6. What is the sum of the digits of the number?
If 2 = (6x)/(x - xy/z) then which of the following is true?
A bag contains 50 black balls and 10 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ball is white?
In a survey, 56 percent of the people surveyed stated truthfully that they were married, while 30 percent of the people surveyed who were married at that time chose not to include that information in the survey. What percent of the people surveyed were actually married at the time of the survey?
Which answer is closest to the √151?
At a raffle, 20% of the attendees bought more than five tickets, 65% of the remaining bought four tickets or less. What percentage of the attendees bought five tickets?
Thomas and Matt has some money with them in the ratio of 3:4. If their father gives Rs.30 to each of them then the ratio becomes 4:5. What would be the ratio if Thomas spend Rs.40 and Matt spend Rs. 20 from what they have now?