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A committee of 3 persons is to be formed from 3 company secretaries, 4 economists and 2 chartered accountant. What is the probability that each of the three professions is represented in the committee?
The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the youngest child?
It takes John 15 minutes to walk to the car park and 45 to drive to work. At what time should he get out of the house in order to get to work at 9:00 a.m.?
1⁄5 + 1⁄7 + 2⁄3 = ?
Julie and his friends wants to play Team Carrom board. Julie has 7 friends.In how many possible ways to divide into team?
The salaries of A and B together amount to $7000. A spends 95% of his salary and B, 85% of his. If now, their savings are the same, what is A's salary?
Line J has a y-intercept of 9 and passes through point (a,b). What is the slope of Line J in terms of a and b?
In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the probability of getting a prize?
A train traveling with constant speed crosses a 90m long platform in 12 seconds and a 120m long platform in 15 seconds.Find the length of the train and its speed.
Richard has to paint a mural with seven horizontal stripes. He only has enough paint for four red stripes, four blue stripes, four white stripes, four black stripes, and four yellow stripes. If his patron wants at most two different colors in the mural, how many different ways can he paint the wall?
In a race where 18 cars are running, the chance that car X will win is 1/8, that Y will win is 1/12 and that Z will win is 1/6. Assuming that a dead heat is impossible, find the chance that one of them will win.
A starts business with Rs.4500 and after 7 months, B joins with A as his partner. After a year, the profit is divided in the ratio 2 : 3. What is B’s contribution in the Capital ?
How many keystrokes are needed to type the numbers from 1 to 1500?
A 20 litre mixture of milk and water contains milk and water in the ratio 3 : 2. 10 litres of the mixture is removed and replaced with pure milk and the operation is repeated once more. At the end of the two removal and replacement, what is the ratio T of milk and water in the resultant mixture?
The product of the prime integers between 42 and 50, inclusive, is:
15 lts are taken of from a container full of liquid A and replaced with Liquid B. Again 15 more lts of the mixture is taken and replaced with liquid B. After this process, if the container contains Liquid A and B in the ratio 9:16,What is the capacity of the container H?
A mixture contains alcohol and water in the ratio 4 : 3. If 7 litres of water is added to the mixture, the ratio becomes 4: 5. Find the quantity of alcohol in the given mixture
A boat goes 100 km downstream in 10 hours, and 75 m upstream in 15 hours. The speed of the stream is?
8 teams.each teams play twice with other teams.win =2poins. lose =0 points. no draw/match abandonment.top four go semis.if same points runrate considered. whats the minimum num of points with which a team may go to semis
Which of the following expressions CANNOT have a negative value
The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average of the team?
A milk man has 20 liters of milk. If he mixes 25 liters of water, which is freely available, in 20 liters of pure milk.If the cost of pure milk is Rs.18 per liter,then the profit of the milkman, when he sells all the mixture at cost price is:
Kurt, a French painter, has 9 jars of paint: 4 jars of yellow paint, 2 jars of red paint, and 3 jars of brown paint. Kurt pours the contents of 3 jars of paint into a new container to make a new color, which he will name according to the following conditions: The paint will be namedBrun Yif it contains 2 jars of brown ...
Look at this series: 15, __, 27, 27, 39, 39, ... What number should fill the blank?
A collector collects stamps from foreign countries. In June, she gave 20 percent of her stamps to her friend. In July, she gave 20 percent of her remaining stamps to another friend. If these were the only changes in the number of stamps in the stamp collection during those two months, what percent of her collection at ...
A container can hold 4 quarts of fruit juice and 4 quarts of water. How many quarts of water must be added to the container to create a mixture that is 3 parts fruit juice to 5 parts water by volume?
Dave has no fashion sense, and will wear any combination of garments regardless of whether someone thinks they “match.” Every day Dave chooses an outfit consisting of one of each of the following garments: jacket, tie, shirt, pants, boxers, right sock, left sock, right shoe, left shoe. If Dave has more than one of each...
Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting all tails?
The function f is defined for all the positive integers g by the following rule: f(g) is the number of positive integers each of which is less than g and has no positive factor in common with g other than 1 . if p is a prime number then f(p)?
A can do a work in 3days. B can do in 6days. If both A&B are working together in how many days they can finish the work?
The speed of a bus increases by 2 km after every one hour. If the distance travelling in the first one hour was 35 km. what was the total distance travelled in 12 hours?
12 men complete a work in 9 days. After they have worked for 6 days, 6 more men join them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work?
A train has a length of 150 meters . it is passing a man who is moving at 6 km/hr in the same direction of the train, in 3 seconds. Find out the speed of the train.
Three friends A,B and C invested Rs. 40,000, Rs.60,000 and 80,000 respectively in a business. If the annual profit is Rs. 18000 then share of B is
What is the remainder when 220*165*110*55 is divided by 15?
A train travels 325 km in 3.5 hours and 470 km in 4 hours. Find the average speed of train ?
A cistern can be filled by a tap in 2 hours while it can be emptied by another tap in 4hours. If both the taps are opened simultaneously then after how much time will the cistern get filled?
In a class of 25 students in an examination in maths 3 students scored 95 marks each, 5 get zero each and the average of the rest was 45. What is the average of the whole class?
A restaurant meal cost $100 and there was no tax. If the tip was more than 10 percent but less than 15 percent of the cost of the meal, then the total amount paid must have been between
Which of the following CANNOT be the median of the 3 positive integers x, y, and z?
Which of the following points is closest to line y=x
A bag contains 6 black and 5 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ball drawn is white?
Anna and Carol buy CDs and tapes at a music store that sells each of its CDs for a certain price and each of its tapes for a certain price. Anna spends twice as much as Carol spends, buying three times as many CDs and the same number of tapes. If Carol spends $80.00 on four CDs and five tapes, how much does one tape co...
If p and w are positive integers such that p > w > 1, what is the remainder when 92p × 5p+w + 11w × 6pw is divided by 10?
If the mean of numbers 28, x, 42, 78 and 104 is 62, what is the mean of 48, 62, 98, 124 and x?
A certain tax rate is $.42 per $100.00. What is the rate, expressed as a percent?
if the ratio of two no. is 5:4.and addition of that no. is 36.then tell the bigger number.
Of three numbers, the third is four times the second and the second is two times the first. If their average is 165, the second number of the three numbers is:
The present age of a father is 3 years more than three times the age of his son. Three years hence, father’s age will be 10 years more than twice athe age of the son. Find the present age of the father.
A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 815 in 4 years and to Rs. 854 in 5 years. The sum is:
Look at this series: 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4), ... What number should come next?
Sachin is younger than Rahul by 4 years.If their ages are in the respective ratio of 7:9, how old is Sachin ?
The jogging track in a sports complex is 1000 meters in circumference. Deepak and his wife start from the same point and walk in opposite directions at 20 km/hr and 16 km/hr respectively. They will meet for the first time in?
If money is invested at r percent interest, compounded annually, the amount of the investment will double in approximately 50/r years. If Luke's parents invested $13,500 in a long term bond that pays 12 percent interest compounded annually, what will be the approximate total amount of the investment 12 years later, whe...
By selling 150 mangoes, a fruit-seller gains the selling price of 5 mangoes. Find the gain percent?
A man can row downstream at 18 kmph and upstream at 10 kmph. Find the speed of the man in still water and the speed of stream respectively?
In how many ways 6 boys and 4 girls can be seated in a row so that they are alternative?
Sheela deposits Rs. 5000 in bank savings account. If this is 20% of her monthly income. What is her monthly income in?
The perimeters of two squares are 40 cm and 32 cm. Find the perimeter of a third square whose area is equal to the difference of the areas of the two squares .
When a natural number N is successively divided by 11,12,13,14. the remainders are 15,16,17,18. What will be the sum of the remainders if the order of the division is reversed?
In a sports club with 40 members, 20 play badminton and 18 play tennis and 5 do not play either. How many members play both badminton and tennis?
Peter purchased a machine for Rs.80,000 and spent Rs.5000 on repair and Rs.1000 on transport and sold it with 25% profit. At what price did he sell the machine?
If the side length of Square B is sqrt(3) times that of Square A, the area of Square B is how many times the area of Square A?
At a school, three-fourths of the male students and two-thirds of the female students speak a foreign language. If the number of males is two-thirds the number of females, what fraction of the students speak a foreign language?
A rectangular field has area equal to 150 sq m and perimeter 50 m. Its length and breadth must be?
A salesman`s commission is 5% on all sales upto Rs.10,000 and 4% on all sales exceeding this.He remits Rs.31,100 to his parent company after deducing his commission . Find the total sales.
Albert invested amount of 20000 in a fixed deposit for 2 years at compound interest rate of 5 % per annum. How much Albert will get on the maturity of the fixed deposit
The value of x + x(x^x) when x = 4 is
The value of a stock is X dollars. On Sunday the stock's value grew by half of its value, but on Monday its value dropped to a quarter of its new value. What is the stock's value at the end of Monday?
A sum of Rs. 800 amounts to Rs. 920 in 8 years at simple intere interest rate is increased by 8%, it would amount to bow mucb ?
Nitin’s salary is reduced by 10% and then reduced salary is increased by 10%. Find ,how many percentage his present salary is less as compared to his previous salary?
Find k if 32 / k = 4.
Mary and Mike enter into a partnership by investing $900 and $100 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...
75% of 480 = (?) x 15 ?
A certain elevator has a safe weight limit of 1950 pounds. What is the greatest possible number of people who can safely ride on the elevator at one time with the average (arithmetic mean) weight of half the riders being 190 pounds and the average weight of the others being 200 pounds?
69 persons can repair a road in 12 days, working 5 hours a day. In how many days will 30 persons, working 6 hours a day, complete the work?
If W + A < W - A < A - W, which of the following is correct?
Three numbers are in the ratio 5 : 6 : 7. The sum of its longest and smallest numbers equals the sum of the third number and 43. Find the third number?
Two number are in the ratio 3 : 5. If 9 is subtracted from each, the new numbers are in the ratio 12 : 23. The smaller number is:
X starts a business with Rs.45000. Y joins in the business after 3 months with Rs.24000. What will be the ratio in which they should share the profit at the end of the year?
What day of the week was 5th January 2001
The diameters of two spheres are in the ratio 1:2 what is the ratio of their surface area?
4000 was divided into two parts such a way that when first part was invested at 3% and the second at 5%, the whole annual interest from both the investments is Rs.144, how much was put at 3%?
The average age of husband, wife and their child 3 years ago was 27 years and that of wife and the child 5 years ago was 20 years. The present age of the husband is:
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K-numbers are positive integers with only 2's as their digits. For example, 2, 22, and 222 are K-numbers. The K-weight of a number n is the minimum number of K-numbers that must be added together to equal n. For example, the K-weight of 50 is 5, because 50 = 22 + 22 + 2 + 2 + 2. What is the K-weight of 650?
How many digits are in (8×10^18)(10×10^10)?
At a certain hospital, 75% of the interns receive fewer than 6 hours of sleep and report feeling tired during their shifts. At the same time, 70% of the interns who receive 6 or more hours of sleep report no feelings of tiredness. If 80% of the interns receive fewer than 6 hours of sleep, what percent A of the interns ...
A, B and C invested Rs.6300, Rs.4200 and Rs.10500 respectively, in a partnership business. Find the share of A in profit of Rs.12600 after a year?
100 people standing in a circle in an order 1 to 100. No.1 has a sword. He kills next person (i.e.no. 2 )and gives sword to next to next (i.e no.3). All person does the same until only 1 survives. Which number survives at the last?
There are 2 bars of copper-nickel alloy. One bar has 2 parts of copper to 5 parts of nickel. The other has 3 parts of copper to 5 parts of nickel. If both bars are melted together to get a 20 kg bar with the final copper to nickel ratio of 5:11. What was the weight of the first bar?
In certain code 'COLD' is written as '*$&#' and 'FOUND' is written as '@$^?#'. How is 'LOUD' written in that code?
A hen leaps 6 leaps for every 8 leaps of a duck, but 4 leaps of the duck are equal to 3 leaps of the hen. What is the ratio of the speed of the hen to that of the duck?
In how many ways can 5 identical black balls and 7 identical white balls be arranged in a row so that no 2 black balls are together
How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits {1, 3, 4, 5, 7,9}(repetition of digits is not allowed)?
The length of the bridge, which a train 155 metres long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is?
If v and d are both integers, v>d, and -3v>19, then the largest value of d would be?
GOOD is coded as 164 then BAD coded as 21.if ugly coded as 260 then ADD?
What is the smallest positive integer x, such that 1944x is a perfect cube?
(2^2+4^2+6^2+.....+14^2)=?