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x, y, a, and b are positive integers of H. When x is divided by y, the remainder is 6. When a is divided by b, the remainder is 9. Which of the following is NOT a possible value for y + b?
John, a painter, has 9 jars of paint: 4 are white, 2 are yellow, and the rest are brown. John will combine 3 jars of paint into a new container to make a new colour, which he will name according to the following conditions: 1) C1, if the paint contains 2 jars of brown paint and no white paint 2) C2, if the paint contains 3 jars of brown paint. 3) J1, if the paint contains at least 2 jars of white paint 4) J2, if the paint contains exactly 1 jar of white paint What is the probability that the new colour will be a shade of J (J1 or J2)?
A sum of money amounts to Rs.6690 after 3 years and to Rs.10,035 after 6 years on compound interest.find the sum.
Arun Kumar, Chennakesavan , Raghu and Krishnan always have discussions on various issues such as politics, international affairs, current affairs, studies etc. Once Raghu posed the following query to other group members:Find the range of real values of x satisfying the inequalities 4x - 5 > 7 and 5x - 14 > 16"
A searchlight on top of the watchtower makes 4 revolutions per minute. What is the probability that a man appearing near the tower will stay in the dark for at least 12 seconds?
John and Steve are speed walkers in a race. John is 16 meters behind Steve when he begins his final push. John blazes to the finish at a pace of 4.2 m/s, while Steve maintains a blistering 3.7 m/s speed. If John finishes the race 2 meters ahead of Steve, how long was John’s final push?
The compound ratio of 2/3, 6/7, 1/3 and 1/8 is given by?
How many words, with or without meaning, can be formed using all letters of the word GOOD using each letter exactly once?
At what time between 7 and 8 o'clock will the hands of a clock be in the same straight line but, not together?
Running at the same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a total of 270 bottles per minute. At this rate, how many bottles could 20 such machines produce in 4 minutes?
X divided by 899 gives a remainder 63. What remainder will be obtained by dividing X by 29?
Twelve men can complete a piece of work in 32 days. The same work can be completed by 16 women in 36 days and by 48 boys in 16 days. Find the time taken by one man, one woman and one boy working together to complete the work?
A man rows 750 m in 675 seconds against the stream and returns in 7 and half minutes. His rowing speed in sƟll water is
There are 5 men and 11 women. In how many ways one can select a group of 6 with at-least 3 men?
Four staff members at a certain company worked on a project. The amounts of time that the four staff members worked on the project were in the ratio 2 to 3 to 5 to 6. If one of the four staff members worked on the project for 60 hours, which of the following CANNOT be the total number of hours that the four staff members worked on the project?
A, B and C rents a pasture for Rs.870. A put in 12 horses for 8 months, B 16 horses for 9 months and 18 horses for 6 months. How much should C pay?
Laura has a deck of standard playing cards with 12 of the 72 cards designated as aheart.If Laura shuffles the deck thoroughly and then deals 10 cards off the top of the deck, what is the probability that the 10th card dealt is a heart?
What is the least number which should be added to 2597 so that the sum is exactly divisible by 5, 6, 4, and 3?
The age of a person is thrice the total ages of his 2 daughters. 0.5 decades hence, his age will be twice of the total ages of his daughters. Then what is the father’s current age? [0.5 Decades = 5 Years]
Rerty traveled a distance of 30 km, covering the first 10 km in x minutes, the next 10 km in y minutes and the last 10 km in z minutes. If he totally took 3y minutes to cover the whole distance, then which of the following cannot be true? Assume x , y and z are different.
Morgan Goldman has 5 Senior Managing Directors and 5 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 Goldman possibly provide guidance for?
A man invested Rs. 50000 at the rate of 5% p.a. for the first three years, 8% p.a.for the next five years and 10% p.a.for the period beyond eight years. At the end of eleven years, he want to distribute total money among his four sons, How much money will each son get?
A man can row 10 kmph in still water. When the river is running at 1.2 kmph, it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and back. What is the total distance traveled by the man?
What is his percentage profit made by Nick if he purchased 10 dozen pens at Rs. 25 per dozen. He sold 3 dozens at 8% profit and the remaining 7 dozens with 14% profit?
Find the number of zeroes in 58! (58 factorial)
The contents of a certain box consist of 24 lemons and 30 kiwis. How many kiwis must be added to the box so that exactly 30% of the pieces of fruit in the box will be lemons?
Cost of an item is Rs 12.60 & profit is 10% over selling price what is the selling price
In what ratio should a variety of rice costing Rs. 7 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?
Can you complete below number series by replacing "?" with the correct number. 10 # 10 # 20 # ? # 110 # 300 # 930
Before being simplified, the instructions for computing income tax in Country R were to add 2 percent of one's annual income to the average (arithmetic mean) of 100 units of Country R's currency and 1 percent of one's annual income. Which of the following represents the simplified formula for computing the income tax, in Country R's currency, for a person in that country whose annual income is A?
v, q, and r are positive integers. If v, q, and r are assembled into the six-digit number vqrvqr, which one of the following must be a factor of vqrvqr?
There is 60% increase in an amount in 6 years at S.I. What will be the C.I. of Rs. 12,000 after 3 years at the same rate?
The number 86 can be written as the sum of the squares of 3 different positive integers. What is the sum of these 3 integers?
A leak in the bottom of a tank can empty the full tank in 6 hours. An inlet pipe fills water at the rate of 4 liters per minute. When the tank is full in inlet is opened and due to the leak the tank is empties in 8 hours. The capacity of the tank is?
When the integer n is divided by 8, the remainder is 5. Which of the following is NOT an even number?
P works 25% more efficiently than Q and Q works 50% more efficiently than R. To complete a certain project, P alone takes 50 days less than Q alone. If, in this project P alone works for 60 days and then Q alone works for 150 days, in how many days can R alone complete the remaining work?
The sum of first eight prime numbers is?
It takes Joey the postman 1 hours to run a 2 mile long route every day. He delivers packages and then returns to the post office along the same path. If the average speed of the round trip is 5 mile/hour, what is the speed with which Joey returns?
Find the odd man out. 12, 24, 36, 48, 61, 72, 84
A disease has infected an ant colony that consists ofworkersandsoldiers: 30% of the soldiers and 14% of theworkerswere infected. If that colony is inhabited by 7000 ants, out of which 1540 are infected, how manyworkersinhabit the colony?
In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'CORPORATION' be arranged so that the vowels always come together?
A student has to obtain 33% of the total marks to pass. He got 125 marks and failed by 40 marks. The maximum mark is
Thurston wrote an important seven-digit phone number on a napkin, but the last three numbers got smudged. Thurston remembers only that the last three digits contained at least one zero and at least one non-zero integer. If Thurston dials 30 phone numbers by using the readable digits followed by 30 different random combinations of three digits, each with at least one zero and at least one non-zero integer, what is the probability that he will dial the original number correctly?
trees of heights 30 and 40 sepatated by a river. fish in the river is at equal dis from top of the trees where two birds are there.ratio of the distances from fish to the root of the trees?
Jim Pete’s only source of income comes from his job as a question writer. In this capacity, Jim earns a flat salary of $200 per week plus a fee of $9 for every question that he writes. Every year, Jim takes exactly two weeks of unpaid vacation to visit his uncle, a monk in Meivazhi Salai, and get inspired for the next year. If a regular year consists of 52 weeks and the number of questions that Jim wrote in each of the past 5 years was an odd number greater than 20, which of the following could be Jim’s median annual income over the past 5 years?
If T divided by B equals 9.16 what is a possible remainder?
A train 200 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?
If |4x+10| = 46, what is the sum of all the possible values of x?
S is the infinite sequence S1 = 2, S2 = 22, S3 = 222,...Sk = Sk–1 + 2(10k–1). If p is the sum of the first 30 terms of S, what is the seventh digit of p, counting right to left from the units digit?
A and B invests Rs.3000 and Rs.5500 respectively in a business. If A doubles his capital after 6 months. In what ratio should A and B divide that year's profit?
The ratio between the present ages of A and B is 6:3 respectively. The ratio between A's age 4 years ago and B's age 4 years hence is 1:1. What is the ratio between A's age 4 years hence and B's age 4 years ago?
Zinc and copper are melted together in the ratio 9 : 11. What is the weight of melted mixture, if 33.3 kg of zinc has been consumed in it?
Of the seven-digit positive integers that have no digits equal to zero, how many have two digits that are equal to each other and the remaining digit different from the other two?
How many odd factors does 210 have?
3 cooks have to make 80 burgers.They are known to make 20 pieces every minute working together.The 1st cook began workin alone and made 20 pieces having worked for sometime more than 3 mins.The remaining part of the work was done by second and 3rd cook working together.It took a total of 8 minutes to complete the 80 burgers.How many minutes would it take the 1st cook alone to cook 160 burgers?
There are 20 students in a class. In how many different ways can a committee of 3 students be formed?
The difference between a two-digit number and the number obtained by interchanging the positions of its digits is 72. What is the difference between the two digits of that number?
In traveling from a dormitory to a certain city, a student went 1/5 of the way by foot, 2/3 of the way by bus, and the remaining 12 kilometers by car. What is the distance, in kilometers, from the dormitory to the city?
Mangala completes a piece of work in 12 days, Raju completes the same work in 36 days. If both of them work together, then the number of days required to complete the work is
Two sets of 6 consecutive positive integers have exactly one integer in common. The sum of the integers in the set with greater numbers is how much greater than the sum of the integers in the other set?
From a pack of 52 cards, if 2 cards are selected one after the other without replacement, then what is the probability that the 1st card is a queen and the 2nd card is a heart.
If 12 men can reap 120 acres of land in 16 days, how many acres of land can 36 men reap in 32 days?
Limited resolution of early microscopes was one of the reasons of _________ understanding of cells.
A company spends an average of $500 for its 20 employees's salaries and an average of $100 for its 5 drivers' salaries. What is the average expenditure of the company?
-69*39+450=?
A train of 25 carriages, each of 60 meters length, when an engine also of 60 meters length is running at a speed of 60 kmph. In what time will the train cross a bridge 2.5 km long?
Everyone shakes hands with everyone else in a room. Total number of handshakes is 55. Number of persons=?
Jasmine had this problem on her math test: y= (15x+75)-(8x+15). She came up with the answer y= 25x-36. Jasmine has gotten the wrong answer. Can you help Jasmine correctly solve the math problem for y if x=8?
A box contains 2 white balls, 3 black balls and 4 red balls. In how many ways can 3 balls be drawn from the box, if at least one black ball is to be included in the draw?
In X game of billiards, X can give Y 10 points in 60 and he can give Z 30 points in 60. How many points can Y give Z in X game of 100?
Mr. Thomas invested an amount of Rs. 13,900 divided in two different schemes A and B at the simple interest rate of 14% p.a. and 11% p.a. respectively. If the total amount of simple interest earned in 2 years be Rs. 3508, what was the amount invested in scheme B?
63 + 5 * 12 / (180/3) = ?
A rectangular football field is fenced on all four sides. The length of the football field is twice the length of its breadth. The cost of fencing the field was $300. The football management has decided to change the dimensions of field by increasing the breadth by 5% of its original value and reducing the length by 20% of its original value and fence the field again.. What will be the cost of the new fencing?
When n is divided by 5 the remainder is 3. What is the remainder when n^2 is divided by 5?
A watch was sold at a loss of 10%. If it was sold for Rs.210 more, there would have been a gain of 4%. What is the cost price?
I gain 70 paise on Rs.70.My gain percent is :
Evaluate: 986 x 237 + 986 x 863
Mahesh marks an article 15% above the cost price of Rs. 540. What must be his discount percentage if he sells it at Rs. 462?
Find the last digit of 1!+2!+3!+4!+...............100!
Seven friends are living in 7 different flats of an apartment. Each of them was allotted a parking slot to park their cars in the ground floor. But they used to park their cars randomly in any of the seven slots. In how many ways can they park their cars so that exactly five persons park their cars in the slots allotted to them?
Jim is twice as old as Stephanie, who, four years ago, was three times as old as Kate. If, five years from now, the sum R of their ages will be 51, how old is Stephanie ?
One fourth of one third of two fifth of a number is 20. What will be40% of that number
The area of a square garden is A square feet and the perimeter is p feet. If a=p+5, what is the perimeter of the garden, in feet?
A boy has eight trousers and 10 shirts. In how many different ways can he select a trouser and a shirt?
Cereal A is 10% sugar by weight, whereas healthier but less delicious Cereal B is 2% sugar by weight. To make a delicious and healthy mixture that is 5% sugar, what should be the ratio of Cereal A to Cereal B, by weight?
The average amount with a group of seven numbers is Rs. 30. If the newly joined member has Rs. 60 with him, what was the average amount with the group before his joining the group?
A goods train runs at the speed of 72 kmph and crosses a 250 m long platform in 26 seconds. What is the length of the goods train?
In how many ways can the letters of the word BCGOI be rearranged such that the consonants always appear together?
The difference in compound interest earned on a deposit (compounded annually) in year 1 and year 2 is $ 40. Had the interest rate been three times its present value, the difference w would have been how much?
In a function they are distributing noble prize. In how many ways can 4 prizes be distributed among 8 boys when a boy gets any no. of prizes?
Sachin can cover a distance in 1hr 24 min by covering 2/3 of the distance at 4 kmph and the rest at 5 kmph. The total distance is?
How many minutes does Aditya take to cover a distance of 400 m, if he runs at a speed of 20 km/hr?
What is the difference between the largest number and the least number written with the digits 9, 3, 5, 7?
The average of nine numbers is 27. If one number is excluded, the average becomes 25. The excluded number is
A grocer stacked oranges in a pile. The bottom layer was rectangular with 4 rows of 6 oranges each. In the second layer from the bottom, each orange rested on 4 oranges from the bottom layer, and in the third layer, each orange rested on 4 oranges from the second layer. Which of the following is the maximum number of oranges that could have been in the third layer?
If shares of two persons in profits are Rs.700 and Rs. 300 then ratio of their capitals is
A rectangular tank measuring 5 m × 4.5 m × 2.1 m is dug in the centre of the field measuring 13.5 m × 2.5. The earth dug out is spread evenly over the remaining portion of a field. How much is the level of the field raised ?
A sum of money deposited at C.I. amounts to Rs.2420 in 2 years and to Rs.2662 in 3 years. Find the rate percent?
A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 38 years now, the son's age five years back was:
A shopkeeper buys mangoes at the rate of 5 a rupee and sells them at 4 a rupee. Find his net profit or loss percent?