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If A^5 + B^5 = 2500, then the greatest possible value of A is between
Two trains of equal are running on parallel lines in the same direction at 52 km/hr and 36 km/hr. The faster train passes the slower train in 36 sec. The length of each train is?
At Deluxe paint store, Fuchsia paint is made by mixing 5 parts of red paint with 3 parts of blue paint. Mauve paint is made by mixing 3 parts of red paint with 5 parts blue paint. How many liters of blue paint must be added to 40 liters of Fuchsia to change it to Mauve paint?
If 6 (A's capital) = 8 (B's capital) = 10 (C's capital). Then the ratio of their capitals is:
Find the probability that a leap year selected at random will not have 53 Sundays
Seven children — A, B, C, D, E, F, and G — are going to sit in seven chairs in a row. Children A & B must sit next to each other, and child C must be somewhere to the right of A & B. How many possible configurations are there for the children?
On an order of 4 dozen boxes of a consumer product, a retailer receives an extra dozen free. This is equivalent to allowing him a discount of:
Pipe A runs 60 liters of water per minute into a pool that has a total volume of 3,600 liters. Pipe B fills a third of the pool in 12 hours. Working together how long will it take both pipes to fill the pool?
At what rate percent per annum will the simple interest on a sum of money be 6/5 of the amount in 10 years?
Angela, Bernie, and Colleen can complete a job, all working together, in 3 hours. Angela and Bernie, working together at their respective rates, can complete the same job in 5 hours. How long would it take Colleen, working alone, to complete the entire job?
HCF and LCM two numbers are 16 and 396 respectively. If one of the numbers is 36, then the other number is?
A man has Rs. 312 in the denominations of one-rupee notes, five-rupee notes and twenty-rupee notes. The number of notes of each denomination is equal. What is the total number of notes that he has ?
If shares of two persons in profits are Rs.400 and Rs.500 then ratio of their capitals is
Brian is analyzing the performance of certain stocks. He finds that for the first fifteen days of a 30 day period, the daily closing price per share of Phoenix Pharma Inc. conformed to the function f(x)=0.4x+2f(x)=0.4x+2 , where x represents the day in the period. He found that for the last 15 days in the same period, ...
Set J consists of 10 consecutive even numbers. If the smallest term in the set is -4, what is the range of the positive integers in set J?
Someone on a skateboard is traveling 15 miles per hour. How many feet does she travel in 30 seconds? (1 mile = 5280 feet)
A ratio between two numbers is 3 : 4 and their L.C.M. is 84. The first number is
The number x of cars sold each week varies with the price y in dollars according to the equation x = 800,000 – 50y. What would be the total weekly revenue T, in dollars, from the sale of cars priced at $ 15,000?
On Saturday morning, Malachi will begin a camping vacation and he will return home at the end of the first day on which it rains. If on the first three days of the vacation the probability of rain on each day is 0.2, what is the probability that Malachi will return home at the end of the day on the following Monday?
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 6, 12, 21, x , 48
A person sells 36 oranges per rupee and suffers a loss of 4%. Find how many oranges per rupee to be sold to have again of 8%?
A can do a job in 20 days and B can do it in 30 days. A and B working together will finish twice the amount of work in days?
A walks at 10 kmph and 7 hours after his start, B cycles after him at 20 kmph. How far from the start does B catch up with A?
A car travells the first 1/2 of certain distance with a speed of 10km/hr the next 1/4 distance witha a speed of 20 km/hr, and the last 1/4 distance with a speed of 60 km/hr. the average speed of the carfor the whole journey is?
Two carpenters, working in the same pace, can build 2 desks in two hours and a half. How many desks can 4 carpenters build in 3 hours?
A bag contains a certain number of 50 paise coins, 20 paise coins and 10 paise coins inthe ratio 3:4:5. If the total value of all the coins in the bag is Rs.630, find the number of 50 paise coins ?
The average of four results is 222 and that of the first three is 219. The fourth result is?
A train passes a man standing on a platform in 8 seconds and also crosses the platform which is 267 metres long in 20 seconds. The length of the train (in metres) is:
A train 125 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?
In a cinema hall for the matinee show which started at 2.30 pm and ended at 5.30 pm the vehicle parking lot had only three wheelers (auto rickshaws) and four wheelers. Today the wheels of the vehicles parked was counted and found to be 240. What could be the number of three wheelers parked therein ?
To fill an art exhibit, the students in an art course are assigned to create one piece of artwork each in the following distribution: 1/3 are sculptures, 1/8 are oil paintings, 1/2 are watercolors, and the remaining 10 pieces are mosaics. How many students are in the art class?
A garrison of 400 men had a provision for 31 days. After 26 days 275 persons re-enforcement leave the garrison. Find the number of days for which the remaining ration will be sufficient?
Simplify: 0.4*0.5+0.3*0.2
The population of a village is 12000. It increases annually at the rate of 24% p.a. What will be its population after 2 years?
For each month of a given year except December, a worker earned the same monthly salary and donated one-tenth of that salary to charity. In December, the worker earned N times his usual monthly salary and donated one-fifth of his earnings to charity. If the worker's charitable contributions totaled one-sixth of his ear...
A man gets a simple interest of Rs.300 on a certain principal at the rate of 5% p.a in two years. Find the compound interest the man will get on twice the principal in two years at the same rate?
A woman gains 20% by selling an article for a certain price. If the sells it at double the price, the percentage of profit will be:
Jupiter travels around the sun at a speed of approximately 8.1 miles per second. The approximate speed is how many miles per hour?
If 12 men can reap 120 acres of land in 36 days, how many acres of land can 24 men reap in 62 days?
In the question A^B means A raised to the power of B. What is the value of A such that X^2-11x+A and X^2 -14X +2A will have a common factor?
Bob bikes to school every day at a steady rate of e miles per hour. On a particular day, Bob had a flat tire exactly halfway to school. He immediately started walking to school at a steady pace of y miles per hour. He arrived at school exactly t hours after leaving his home. How many miles is it from the school to Bob'...
Dany bought a total of 28 game cards some of which cost $0.25 each and some of which cost $0.15 each. If Dany spent $4.2 to buy these cards, how many cards of each type did he buy?
One fourth of a solution that was 10% sugar by weight was replaced by a second solution resulting in a solution that was 20 percent sugar by weight. The second solution was what percent sugar by weight?
Three pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 7 hours. After working at it together for 2 hours, C is closed and A and B can fill the remaining part in 8 hours. How many hours will take C alone to fill the tank?
If the simple interest on a sum of money for 2 years at 5% per annum is Rs. 50, what is the compound interest on the same sum at the rate and for the same time?
What number comes next in this Number series. 5 3 4 4 6 9 7 ? *Hint: check calende
A and B start a business, with A investing the total capital of Rs.50000, on the condition that B pays A interest @ 10% per annum on his half of the capital. A is a working partner and receives Rs.1500 per month from the total profit and any profit remaining is equally shared by both of them. At the end of the year, it...
What is the perimeter of a square field whose diagonal is 8√2?
100 people are attending a newspaper conference. 45 of them are writers and more than 36 are editors. Of the people at the conference, x are both writers and editors and 2x are neither. What is the largest possible number of people who are both writers and editors?
A number is doubled and 5 is added. If the resultant is trebled, it becomes 111. What is that number?
Of the 200 students at University XYZ majoring in one or more of the engineering disciplines, 140 are majoring in electrical and 150 are majoring in mechanical. If at least 30 of the students are not majoring in either electrical or mechanical, then the number of students majoring in both electrical and mechanical coul...
A windmill is taking advantage of strong air currents in order to produce electrical energy. On a typical day the wind speed is around 20 mph and in that speed the windmill produces 600 kw/h (kilowatts per hour). On a stormy day a windmill produces 20% more energy. How much kw/h can three windmills produce in two hours...
What is the total number of prime numbers less than 65?
A, B, C together started a business. A invested Rs.400 for 5 months B invested Rs.1200 for 6 months and C Rs.1600 for 3 months. If they get a total profit of Rs.7000. Find the share of A?
In the equation ax^2 + bx + c = 0 a, b, and c are constants, and abc # 0. If one root of the equation is -2, and b = 4a then which of the following is c equal to?
12 : 6 seconds :: ? : 8 minutes
If two dice are thrown together, the probability of getting an even number on one die and an odd number on the other is -.
There were totally 100 men.80 are married.75 have T.V, 85 have radio,70 have A.C. How many men have T.V, radio, A.C and also married?
A number when divided by 296 leaves 75 as remainder when the same number is divided by 37 then the remainder will be?
A university needs to select a nine-member committee on extracurricular life, whose members must belong either to the student government or to the student advisory board. If the student government consists of 9 members, the student advisory board consists of 8 members, and 6 students hold membership in both organizatio...
If a coin is flipped, the probability that the coin will land tails is 1/2. If the coin is flipped 4 times, what is the probability that it will land tails up on the first 2 flips and not on the last 2 flips?
12.036 divided by 0.04 gives :
Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary and choose the correct sequence. 1. Economic 2. Earlier 3. Each 4. Edition 5. Eager
265.124 x 11.98 ÷ 8.001 + 32.28 = ?
On increasing the price of T.V. sets by 80%, their sale decreases by 20%. What is the effect on the revenue receipts of the shop ?
Margaret is 12 years more than twice the age of his son. The age of son is 12. Find the age of mother and find the difference between their ages
The sum of ages of 5 children born 3 years different each is 65 yrs. What is the age of the Elder child?
The average age 8 members of a committee are the same as it was 2 years ago, because an old number has been replaced by a younger number. Find how much younger is the new member than the old number?
The list price of an article is Rs.65. A customer pays Rs.56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts, one of them being 10%. The other discount is?
Two friends decide to get together; so they start riding bikes towards each other. They plan to meet halfway. Each is riding at 6 MPH. They live 36 miles apart. One of them has a pet carrier pigeon and it starts flying the instant the friends start traveling. The pigeon flies back and forth at 40 MPH between the 2 frie...
Forty percent of the members of a swim club have passed the lifesaving test. Among the members who have not passed the test, 12 have taken the preparatory course and 30 have not taken the course. How many members are there in the swim club?
Two trains travel in the same direction at the speeds of 56km/hr. and 29km/hr. respectively. The faster train passes a man in the slower trains in 10 seconds. The length of the faster train (in metres) is
For a,r,d are the positive integers, and d|a means that “a is divisible by d”, if d|ar, which of the following must be true?
On dividing a number by 5, we get 3 as remainder. What will the remainder when the square of the this number is divided by 5 ?
There are 13 stations between Hyderabad and Bangalore. How many second class tickets have to be printed, so that a passenger can travel from any station to any other station?
Two cars cover the same distance at the speed of 60 and 64 kmps respectively. Find the distance travelled by them if the slower car takes 1 hour more than the faster car.
Walking with 5/4 of my usual speed, I miss the bus by 5 minutes. What is my usual time?
Morgan Construction has 4 Senior Managing Directors and 4 Managing Directors. Each investment banking deal requires the guidance of three managing directors, at least one of which must be a Senior Managing Director. How many possible investment banking deals can Morgan Constuction possibly provide guidance for?
The manager of a produce market purchased a quantity of tomatoes for $0.80 per pound. Due to improper handling, 15 percent of the tomatoes, by weight, were ruined and discarded. At what price per pound should the manager sell the remaining tomatoes if she wishes to make a profit on the sale of the tomatoes equal to 8 p...
A clock shows the time as 7 a.m. If the minute hand gains 5 minutes every hour, how many minutes will the clock gain by 6 p.m.?
Two persons starting from the same place walk at a rate of 5kmph and 8kmph respectively. What time will they take to be 27km apart, if they walk in the same direction?
As they say, beggars can't be choosers, in fact begger take what they can get. A begger on the street can make one cigarette out of every 6 cigarette butts he finds. After one whole day of searching and checking public ashtrays the begger finds a total of 72 cigarette butts. How many cigarettes can he make and smoke fr...
The length of a rectangular plot is 10mtr more than its width. The cost of fencing the plot along its perimeter at the rate of Rs. 6.5mtr is Rs.910. The perimeter of the plot is?
Which of the following leads to the correct mathematical solution for the number of ways that the letters of the word BANANA could be arranged to create a six-letter code?
The difference between simple and compound interest on Rs. 1200 for one year at 10% per annum reckoned half-yearly is?
what is the probability of drawn an ace or a space or both from a dew of cards.
A and B walk around a circular track. They start at 8 a.m. from the same point in the opposite directions. A and B walk at a speed of 4 rounds per hour and 4 rounds per hour respectively. How many times shall they cross each other before 9.30 a.m. ?
There are 18 stations between Hyderabad and Bangalore. How many second class tickets have to be printed, so that a passenger can travel from any station to any other station?
A brick measures 20 cm * 10 cm * 7.5 cm how many bricks will be required for a wall 28 m * 2 m * 0.75 m?
36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is
A sports equipment store sold ping pong rackets for a total of $686. If the average (arithmetic mean) price of a pair of rackets is $9.8, how many pairs were sold?
Which of the following fractions is greater than 4/5 and less than 9/10? 1. 4/5 2. 9/10 3. 1/2 4.3/4 5. 3/5 6. 8/9
An bus covers a certain distance at a speed of 100 kmph in 5 hours. To cover the samedistance in 1hr, it must travel at a speed of?
If 4 men can colour 48 m long cloth in 2 days, then 6 men can colour 36 m long cloth in?
The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular plot is 7 : 5. If the perimeter of the plot is 288 metres, what is its area?
One pipe can fill a tank three times as fast as another pipe. If together the two pipes can fill the tank in 39 minutes, then the slower pipe alone will be able to fill the tank in
If each year the population of the country grows by 100%, how many years will elapse before the population of the country doubles?
If a and b are both odd numbers, which of the following is an even number?
The length of the bridge, which a train 130 metres long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is?
If a and b are multiples of 6 then which are all the multiples of 6 1) a*b 2) a^b 3) a/b 4) a-b 5) a+b