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A box contains 3 red chips and 2 blue chips. If two chips are selected at random without replacement, what is the probability that the chips are different colors?
Two integers are in the ratio of 1 to 4. If 6 is added to the smaller number, the ratio becomes 1 to 2. Find the larger integer.
In the x-y plane, point (x, y) is a lattice point if both x and y are integers. Circle C has a center at (-2, -2) and a diameter of 8. Some points, such as the center (-2, -2), are inside the circle, but a point such as (-2, 2) is on the circle but not in the circle. How many lattice points are in circle C?
A and B enter into partnership with capitals in the ratio 3 : 4. At the end of 10 months A withdraws,and the profits now are divided in the ratio of 5 : 6. Find how long B remained in the business?
8103/x is a non-terminating decimal. Which of the following could be a value of x?
(208% of 1265) ÷ 6 = ?
Bill downloads the movieRevenge of the Avengersto his computer in 2.5 hours, using a download manager that downloads from 3 sources marked A, B and C. Each source provides download at a constant rate, but the rates of different sources are not necessarily identical. If the movie was downloaded from sources A and C alon...
Find the L.C.M of 22, 25, 44 and 20.
A, Band C enter into partnership. A invests 3 times as much as B and B invests two-third of what C invests. At the end of the year, the profit earned is Rs. 6600. What is the share of B ?
The average salary of all the employees in a small organization is Rs 8,000. The average salary of 7 technicians is Rs 12,000 and the average salary of the rest is Rs 6,000. The total number of employees in the organisation is?
In a stack of boards at a lumber yard, the 24th board counting from the top of the stack is immediately below the 14th board counting from the bottom of the stack. how many boards are in the stack?
If $100 invested at a certain rate of simple interest amounts to $140 at the end of 3 years,How much will $150 amount to at the same rate of interest in 6 years?
A, B and C rent a pasture. If A puts 10 oxen for 7 months, B puts 12 oxen for 5 months and C puts 15 oxen for 3 months for grazing and the rent of the pasture is Rs. 245, then how much amount should C pay as his share of rent?
The average age of A and B is 30 years. If C were to replace A, the average would be 25 and if C were to replace B, the average would be 40. What are the age of A, B and C?
Machine X can complete a job in half the time it takes Machine Y to complete the same job, and Machine Z takes 50% longer than Machine X to complete the job. If all three machines always work at their respective, constant rates, what is the ratio Q of the amount of time it will take Machines X and Z to complete the job...
What is the sum of all the composite numbers up to 22?
36 men can complete a piece of work in 18 days. In how many days will 27 men complete the same work ?
Vijay lent out an amount Rs. 10000 into two parts, one at 8% p.a. and the remaining at 10% p.a. both on simple interest. At the end of the year he received Rs. 890 as total interest. What was the amount he lent out at 8% pa.a?
When 999^500 is divided by 5, the remainder is
A factory has 500 workers, 10 percent of whom are women. If 50 additional workers are to be hired and all of the present workers remain, how many of the additional workers must be women in order to raise the percent of women employees to 20 percent?
If x, y, and z are positive integers, and 2x = 5y = 8z, then the least possible value of x + y + z is
A secret can be told only 2 persons in 5 minutes .the same person tells to 2 more persons and so on . How long will take to tell it to 768 persons ?
9, 12, 11, 14, 13, ?, 15
In a game of 70 points, A can give B 5 points and C 25 points. then how many points can B give C in a game of 50?
A cycle is bought for Rs.900 and sold for Rs.1080, find the gain percent?
A fruit seller sells mangoes at the rate of Rs.11 per kg and thereby loses 10%. At what price per kg, he should have sold them to make a profit of 10%?
If 4 spiders make 4 webs in 4 days, then 1 spider will make 1 web in how many days?
The three sides of an acute angled triangle (all in cms) are 12, 19 and k. How many integer values can k take?
A, B and C play a cricket match. The ratio of the runs scored by them in the match is A:B = 2:3 and B:C = 2:5. If the total runs scored by all of them are 100, the runs scored by B are? A. 15 B. 18
The volume of a certain substance is always directly proportional to its weight. If 48 cubic inches of the substance weigh 112 ounces, what is the volume, in cubic inches, of 60 ounces of this substance?
There are 3 red shoes, 2 green shoes. If one draw randomly a shoe what is the probability of getting a red shoe
X does a work in 20 days. Y does the same work in 40 days. In how many days they together will do the same work?
If the sum of the two numbers is 22 and the sum of their squares is 404, then the product of the numbers is:
A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 9 seconds. Find the length of the train.
What is the greatest possible length that can be used to measure exactly the following Lengths 7m, 3m 85cm, 12m 95cm?
Which of the following is equal to 10^-(-2)^4?
The population of a town is 231400. If it increase at the rate of 3% per annum. What will be its population for 2years hence?
Ramu bought an old car for Rs. 42000. He spent Rs. 13000 on repairs and sold it for Rs. 64900. What is his profit percent?
The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 61. What is the difference between the highest and lowest numbers?
The size of a television screen is given as the length of the screen's diagonal. If the screens were flat, then the area of a square 18-inch screen would be how many square inches greater than the area of a square 16-inch screen?
Find the area of a parallelogram with base 14 cm and height 24 cm.
How many positive integers less than 300 can be formed using the numbers 1, 2, 3 a for the digits?
What are the number of ways to select 3 men and 2 women such that one man and one woman are always selected?
A bus travels first one-fourth of the distance with a speed of 9 km/hr, next one fourth of the distance with 15 km/hr, third one-fourth distance with a speed of 20 km/hr and last one fourth with 30 km/hr. The average speed of the car for the whole journey is:
The sum of the square of the three consecutive even natural numbers is 1460. Find the numbers?
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 4 and 5 hours respectively. If they are turned up alternately for one hour each, the time taken to fill the tank is?
A and B start a business with Rs.6000 and Rs.8000 respectively. Hoe should they share their profits at the end of one year?
The present population of a town is 4320. Population increase rate is 20% p.a. Find the population of town before 2 years?
An even number, total of whose digits is 27, is always divisible by
If q and y are both odd prime numbers and q < y, how many distinct positive integer factors does 2qy have?
Find the term next in series.. 1,1/2,3/2,2,5,1/3,16/3,15,12,1/4,25/4,?
If a man lost 4% by selling oranges at the rate of 24 a rupee at how many a rupee must he sell them to gain 44%?
A 270 meter long train running at the speed of 120 kmph crosses another train running in the opposite direction at the speed of 80 kmph in 9 seconds.What is the lenght of other train.
January 1, 2008 is Tuesday. What day of the week lies on Jan 1, 2009?
If Robert got marks in 6 subjects= {50, 62, 66,74, 80, 82}, what is the total mean and median of the marks ?
There are 450 birds at a small zoo. The number of birds is 5 times the number of all the other animals combined. How many more birds are there than non bird animals at the zoo?
Given a set of n rays in a plane, we define a reversal as the operation of reversing precisely one ray and obtaining a new set of n rays. Q1: if n = 2001 and if k reversals are performed such that all the rays are reversed, then a possible value of k is a. 4000 b. 4002 c. 2011 d. 1999
In what time will a train 100 m long cross an electric pole, it its speed be 144 km/hr?
What is 10-8+6-4+...+(-10)?
Increasing the original price of a certain item by 25 percent and then increasing the new price by 30 percent is equivalent to increasing the original price by what percent?
A coin is tossed live times. What is the probability that there is at the least one tail?
Walking at 3/4 of his usual place, a man reaches his office 20 minute late. Find his usual time?
The probability that A can shoot a target two out of two times is 0.25. What is the probability that the target will be missed by A immediately after such two shots?
Ramesh, xyz and Rajeev put a partnership. profit is 36000, if Ramesh and xyz ratio is 5 : 4 and xyz and Rajeev 8:9. Find Rajeev's share.
ACME’s manufacturing costs for sets of horseshoes include a $11,450 initial outlay, and $19.75 per set. They can sell the sets $50.00. If profit is revenue from sales minus manufacturing costs, and the company producessells 987 sets of horseshoes, what was their profit?
A man bought 40 shares of Rs. 60 at 8 discount, the rate of dividend being 1212%The rate of interest obtained is
The difference between the length and breadth of a rectangle is 23 m. If its perimeter is 206 m, then its area is?
The distance from the x-axis to point P is half the distance from the y-axis to point P. If the coordinates of P are (x,-4), how many units is P from the y-axis?
A man can row his boat with the stream at 6 km/h and against the stream in 4 km/h. The man's rate is?
A dishonest dealer professes to sell goods at the cost price but uses a weight of 880 grams per kg, what is his percent?
The sale price sarees listed for Rs.528 after successive discount is 20% and 10% is?
Fill in the blank with the correct number in this number series: 6, 45, 14, 40, __, 35, 30, ?
A couple spent $184.80 in total while dining out and paid this amount using a credit card. The $184.80 figure included a 20 percent tip which was paid on top of the price which already included a sales tax of 10 percent on top of the price of the food. What was the actual price of the food before tax and tip?
Two passenger trains start at the same hour in the day from two different stations and move towards each other at the rate of 16 kmph and 21 kmph respectively. When they meet, it is found that one train has traveled 60 km more than the other one. The distance between the two stations is?
Susan drives from city A to city B. After two hours of driving she noticed that she covered 80 km and calculated that, if she continued driving at the same speed, she would end up been 15 minutes late. So she increased her speed by 10 km/hr and she arrived at city B 36 minutes earlier than she planned. Find the distanc...
A company has two types of machines, type R and type S. Operating at a constant rate, a machine of type R does a certain job in 24 hrs and a machine of type S does the same job in 12 hours. If the company used the same number of each type of machine to do the job in 2 hours, how many machines of type R were used?
There are 22 students in a class. In how many different ways can a committee of 3 students be formed?
The volume V of a rectangular swimming pool is 840 cubic meters and water is flowing into the swimming pool. If the surface level of the water is rising at the rate of 0.5 meters per minute, what is the rate, in cubic meters per minutes, at which the water is flowing into the swimming pool?
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 279936, 46656, 7776, 1296, x
If a is a positive integer, then 2^a + 2^(a + 1)+ 2^(a + 2)+ 2^(a + 3) =
If n = 8p, where p is a prime number greater than 2, how many different positive even divisors does n have, including n ?
Convert 0.30 in to a vulgar fraction ?
A certain bus driver is paid a regular rate of $16 per hour for any number of hours that does not exceed 40 hours per week. For any overtime hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week, the bus driver is paid a rate that is 75% higher than his regular rate. If last week the bus driver earned $752 in total compensation,...
Find the wrong number below mentioned series 5,24,60,120,210,340
My brother is 3 years elder to me. My father was 28 years of age when my sister was born while my mother was 28 years of age when I was born. If my sister was 4 years of age of when my brother was born, then, what was the age of my father and mother respectively when my brother was born?
If n is the product of three consecutive integers, and n is divisible by 6, which of the following is not necessarily a divisor of n ?
An industrial loom weaves 0.128 metres of cloth every second. Approximately, how many seconds will it take for the loom to weave 27 metre of cloth ?
For a race a distance of 224 meters can be covered by P in 28 seconds and Q in 56 seconds. By what distance does P defeat Q eventually?
The area of a rectangle is 460 square metres. If the length is 15% more than the breadth, what is the breadth of the rectangular field ?
A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward and backward, such as 242. How many even three-digit numbers are palindromes?
If a and b are prime numbers, which of the following CANNOT be the value of ab?
If f(x) = x^4/(x^5 - 1), what is f(1/x) in terms of f(x)?
In how many different number of ways 2 boys and 2 girls can sit on a bench?
If the cost price of 20 articles is equal to the selling price of 15 articles, what is the % profit or loss made by the merchant?
In a local school district, the high school and middle school each received r dollars toward funding for the student arts program. The high school enrolled 500 students and the middle school enrolled 250 students. Later, the middle school transferred s dollars to the high school so that they would have received the sam...
It has been raining at the rate of 5 centimeters per hour. If the rain filled a cylindrical drum with a depth of 15 centimeters, and area 300 square centimeters, how long did it take to fill the drum completely?
Find the odd man out. 5, 6, 14, 45, 185, 925, 5556
A woman bought a car at 10% bag on its original price. He sold it at a 60% increase on the price he bought it. What percent of profit did she make on the original price?
Working together, printer A and printer B would finish the task in 24 minutes. Printer A alone would finish the task in 60 minutes. How many pages does the task contain if printer B prints 7 pages a minute more than printer A ?
How many words can be formed from the letters of the word ‘EXTRA’ so that the vowels are never together?