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A two-digit number is such that the product of the digits is 8. When 18 is added to the number, then the digits are reversed. The number is:
An equilateral triangle of sides 3 inch each is given. How many equilateral triangles of side 1 inch can be formed from it?
While working alone at their respective constant rates, server P uploads 480 files in 4 hours and server Y uploads 480 files in 8 hours. If all files uploaded by these servers are the same size, how long would it take the two servers, working at the same time and at their respective constant rates, to process a total o...
In a flower shop there were 10 flowers in each bouquet. If the seller has doubled the number of flowers in each bouquet then the new average of flowers in each bouque is
In certain year in Country C, x sets of twins and y sets of triplets were born. If there were z total babies born in Country C in this year, and x and y were both greater than 0, which of the following represents the fraction W of all babies born who were NOT part of a set of twins or triplets?
Find out the C.I on Rs.5000 at 4% p.a. compound half-yearly for 1 1/2 years?
A sum of $500 amounts to 600 in 2 years at simple interest. If the interest rate is increased by 10% it would amount to how much ?
Find the principle on a certain sum of money at 5% per annum for 3 1/5 years if the amount being Rs.870?
0.35 represents what percent of 0.007?
At a meeting, 7 people are to be seated around a circular table. Two seating arrangements are considered different only when the positions of the people are different relative to each other. What is the total number of different possible seating arrangements for the group?
The least among the following is:
A boat running downstream covers a distance of 24 km in 3 hours while for covering the same distance upstream,it takes 4 hours.What is the speed of the boat in still water ?
In a Olympic a country get total 222 medals. If the ratio of gold silver and bronze medals is 5:17:15. find the number of gold medals?
Arnold and Danny are two twin brothers that are celebrating their birthday. The product of their ages today is smaller by 9 from the product of their ages a year from today. What is their age today?
A company conducted a survey about its two brands, A and B. x percent of respondents liked product A, (x – 20) percent liked product B, 23 percent liked both products, and 23 percent liked neither product. What is the minimum number F of people surveyed by the company?
The product of all prime numbers less than or equal to nine are?
7386038 is divisible by
Two, trains, one from Howrah to Patna and the other from Patna to Howrah, start simultaneously. After they meet, the trains reach their destinations after 9 hours and 16 hours respectively. The ratio of their speeds is:
Find the number of factors E of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), where k is a non-negative integer?
A town in California fines residents who do not pay their property taxes on time. All residents must pay their taxes before July 1st for that calendar year or face the following fine structure: For the first month the taxes are overdue (that would be any payment made on July 1st through July 31st), the total fine is 3%...
The difference between compound interest and simple interest on a certain amount of money at 5% per annum for 2 years is 20. Find the sum :
In an intercollegiate competition that lasted for 3 days, 185 students took part on day 1, 150 on day 2 and 200 on day 3. If 100 took part on day 1 and day 2 and 110 took part on day 2 and day 3 and 50 took part on all three days, how many students took part only on day 3?
Difference between the length &breadth of a rectangle is 20 m. If its perimeter is 206 m, then its area is?
The sum of ages of 4 girls born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the youngest girl?
The area of the square formed on the diagonal of a rectangle as its side is 108 1/3 % more than the area of the rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 28 units, find the difference between the sides of the rectangle?
In one day, Juan sends Keith three times as many messages as he sends Laurence, and Laurence sends Missy 5 times as many messages as he receives from Juan. If Missy received 25 messages from Laurence, how many messages does Keith receive from Juan?
6 women can do 75 unit of work in 8 days by working 5hr/day in how many days 4 women do 30 units of work by working 8hr/day
In country Z, 10% of the people do not have a university diploma but have the job of their choice, and 25% of the people who do not have the job of their choice have a university diploma. If 20% of the people have the job of their choice, what percent of the people have a university diploma?
The average height of 6 people is 67 inches. When Robert's height is included, the average increases by 2 inches. How tall is Robert in inches?
A card game called “high-low” divides a deck of 52 playing cards into 2 types, “high” cards and “low” cards. There are an equal number of “high” cards and “low” cards in the deck and “high” cards are worth 2 points, while “low” cards are worth 1 point. If you draw cards one at a time, how many ways can you draw “high” ...
Lewis must answer 7 out of 10 questions on an examination. If at least 3 of the first 5 questions must be answered, how many possible combinations of 7 questions are available to lewis?
A boat can move upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 35 kmph, then the speed of the current is?
An article is bought for Rs.600 and sold for Rs.500, find the loss percent?
A total of 30 percent of the geese included in a certain migration study were male. If some of the geese migrated during the study and 20 percent of the migrating geese were male, what was the ratio of the migration rate for the male geese to the migration rate for the female geese? [Migration rate for geese of a certa...
In a certain game, a player begins with a bag containing tiles numbered 3 through 10, each of which has an equal probability of being selected. The player draws one tile. If the tile is even, the player stops. If not, the player draws another tile without replacing the first. If this second tile is even, the player sto...
At a certain amateur bands rock show the ratio of freaks to nerds to geeks is 1:2:3. If these are the only types of people in the crowd, and each person in the crowd has the same chance of yelling rock on!, what are the chances that the next person who yellsrock on!will be a nerds?
There is one highland where planes get fuel. A plan can cover the half of the world with full tank. A plane can transfer fuel from one plane to the other in the air. How many planes are required to make one plane cover the entire world once. Starting point of the travel is the Highland and coming back to the same Highl...
Find the area of a rhombus whose side is 25 cm and one of the diagonals is 30 cm?
Given a square of 10cm each side with the four semi circles inside as shown in the above diagram, find the area of the shaded portion
A pump can be operated both for filling a tank and for emptying it. The capacity of the tank is 2400 m3. The emptying capacity of the pump is 10m3 per minute higher than its filling capacity. Consequently, the pump needs 8 minutes less to empty the tank than to fill it. Find the filling capacity of the pump.
The total circumference of two circles is 64. If the first circle has a circumference that is exactly twice the circumference of the second circle, then what is the approximate sum of their two radii?
The events A and B are independent. The probability that event A occurs is u and the probability that event B occurs is v. Which of the following is equal to the probability that exactly one of the events A and B occurs?
If two numbers x, a perfect square and y, a perfect cube are added results a two digit number, whose digits if reversed, difference is 18, Find x and y ?
In a college, the ratio of the number of boys to girls is 8 : 5. If there are 160 girls, the total number of students in the college is
The calendar of the year 2032 can be used again in the year?
Find the perimeter and area of the rectangle of length 19 cm and breadth 13 cm.
A began business with Rs.45000 and was joined afterwards by B with Rs.5400. When did B join if the profits at the end of the year were divided in the ratio of 2:1?
A will states that the estate would be divided among six sons with the remainder donated to charity. One stipulation in the will is that no one among the sons can receive an amount within 12% of another's amount. If one of the beneficiaries received $30,000, what is the smallest possible range between the highest and l...
Every student in a room is either a junior or a senior. There is at least one junior and at least one senior in the room. If 4/5 of the juniors is equal to 1/2 of the seniors, what fraction of the students in the room are juniors?
5x + y = 19 , and x + 3y = 1. Find the value of 3x + 2y
A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a queen of spade or an ace of club 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:
There is a train and car. The ratio between the speed of a train & a car is 16:15 respectively. Also, a bus covered a distance of 320 km in 5 hours. The speed of the bus is 4/5th of the speed of the train. How many kilometers will the car cover in 7 hours?
In a 5 digit ID number, what is the probability of exactly 4 digits are the digit 2?
If S = {8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48}, what is the product of mean and median of the numbers in S?
There are 10 boxes numbered from 1 to 10. Either a red ball or a green ball will be placed in each box in such a way that at least 1 box contains a green ball and the boxes containing green balls are consecutively numbered. How many different ways can this be done?
If A = x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the following is true?
Several students are studying together for an exam. 60% of the students who studied less than 10 hours a week feel unprepared. 80% of students who studied 10 hours or more each week feel prepared. If 75% of the students studied less than 10 hours per week, what percent of the students feel prepared for the exam?
Mary charges $8.50 per hour to clean a house. If she works 27 hours, how much does she earn in one week?
For 1rs 4p interest wat will be for 2000rs?
Find the total number of divisors of 1728(including 1 and 1728)
A large tanker can be filled by two pipes A and B in 60 minutes and 40 minutes respectively. How many minutes will it take to fill the tanker from empty state if B is used for half the time and A and B fill it together for the other half?
If the simple interest on a certain amount in at 4% rate 5 years amounted to Rs.2240 less than the principal. What was the principal?
Five years ago, the average age of A, B, C and D was 45 years. With E Joining them now, the average of all the five is 50 years. The age of E is?
A school currently maintains a fixed number of students per class. If the ratio of students per class were to be increased by 1, 10 fewer classes would be run for a total of 120 students. What is the current ratio E of students per class?
A man, a woman and a boy can together complete a piece of work in 3 days. If a man alone can do it in 6 days and a women alone in 18 days, how long will a boy take to complete the work?
If n is an integer and 5^n > 50,000,000, what is the least possible value of n?
If a coin is tossed twice, what is the probability that the coin lands on tails on both tosses?
The price of a certain painting increased by 20% during the first year and decreased by 15% during the second year. The price of the painting at the end of the 2-year period was what percent of the original price?
Two trains start at same time from two stations and proceed towards each other at the rate of 20 km/hr and 25 km/hr respectively. When they meet, it is found that one train has traveled 55 km more than the other. What is the distance between the two stations?
A student took 6 courses last year and received an average (arithmetic mean) grade of 100 points. The year before, the student took 5 courses and received an average grade of 80 points. To the nearest tenth of a point, what was the student’s average grade for the entire two-year period?
A single refined oil can contains 20% impurities. After double – refining it contains 4% impurities. How much of double- refined oil can be obtained from 30 litres of single refined oil?
In 2005, 20 percent of the math department’s 45 students were female, and in 2007, 40 percent of the math department’s 705 students were female. What was the percent increase from 2005 to 2007 in the number of female students in the department?
Find the average of the series : 130, 160, 328, 180 and 162?
From a pack of cards two cards are drawn one after the other, with replacement. The probability that the first card is a red and the second card is black is?
A certain sum amounts to Rs.1725 in 3 years and Rs.1875 in 5 years. Find the rate % per annum?
If 0 < a < b and k = (2a + b)/b , which of the following must be true?
A box contains 12 red marbles. If someone were to remove 2 marbles from the bag, one at a time, and replace the first marble after it was removed, the probability that neither marble would be red is 25/36. How many marbles are in the bag?
Platinum is 19 times as heavy as bronze and silver is 9 times as heavy as bronze. In what ratio these two metals be mixed so that the alloy is 15 times as heavy as bronze is
Chauncy, an English bulldog, received 1200 votes in the Mr. Bulldog USA competition, giving him approximately 30 percent of the vote. Approximately what percent of the remaining votes would he have needed to receive in order to win 70 percent of the total votes?
Calculate the number of bricks, each measuring 25 cm * 15 cm * 8 cm required to construct a wall of dimensions 10 m * 4 m * 5 m when 10% of its volume is occupied by mortar?
The sum of three numbers is 98. If the ratio of the first to second is 2 : 3 and that of the second to the third is 5 : 8, then the second number is
Two stations A and B are 110 km apart on a straight line. One train starts from A at 7 a.m. and travels towards B at 20 kmph. Another train starts from B at 8 a.m. and travels towards A at a speed of 25 kmph. At what time will they meet?
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If each number in the set A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10} is used exactly once, in how many ways can the numbers be arranged?
Tom can hit a target 3times in 6 shots, Karan can hit the target 2 times in 6shots & Ashwini can hit 4 times in 4 shots.What is the probability that at least 2 shots hit the target ?
Tough and Tricky questions: Absolute Values. If |a| = 1/2 and |b| = 2/3, which of the following CANNOT be the result of a + b?
The sale price watches listed for Rs.4500 after successive discount is 10% and 20% is?
A man is 24 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. What is the present age of his son?
A train 385 meters long is running with a speed of 60 kmph. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 kmph in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going?
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 20 and 30 minutes respectively. If both the pipes are used together, then how long will it take to fill the tank?
A 300 m long train crosses a platform in 39 sec while it crosses a signal pole in 18 sec. What is the length of the platform?
A tradesman by means of his false balance defrauds to the extent of 20%? in buying goods as well as by selling the goods. What percent does he gain on his outlay?
The length of a rectangular plot is thrice its breadth. If the area of the rectangular plot is 2700 sq m, then what is the breadth of the rectangular plot?
A 300 m long train crosses a platform in 39 sec while it crosses a signal pole in 18 sec. What is the length of the platform?
10% people of a village in Sri Lanka died by bombardment, 15% of the remainder left the village on account of fear. If now the population is reduced to 6514, how much was it in the beginning?
Shekhar started a business investing Rs.25,000 in 1999.In 2000,he invested an additional amount of Rs.10,000 and Rajeev joined him with an amount of Rs.35,000.In 2001,Shekhar invested another additional amount of Rs.10,000 and Jatin joined them with an amount of Rs.35,000.What will be Rajeev’s share in the profit of Rs...
If a > x > y > z on the number line, y is halfway between x and z, and x is halfway between w and z, then (y - x)/(y - a) =
If 5 machines can produce 20 units in 10 hours, how long would it take 10 to produce 60 units?
Sami's investment portfolio consists of three stocks: an airline, a bank, and a computer company. In the month of February, the price of the airline's stock rose by 10%, that of the bank decreased by 15% and that of the computer company also decreased by 15%, but the overall value of her portfolio increased. If Sami ow...