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What is the probability that, when three twelve-sided dice are rolled, at least one 1 is rolled?
A metallic sheet is of rectangular shape with dimensions 48 m x 36 m. From each of its corners, a square is cut off so as to make an open box. If the length of the square is 5 m, the volume of the box (in m3) is:
Find the odd man out. 1, 4, 9, 17, 25, 36, 49
A train , having a length of 220 meter is running at a speed of 60 kmph. In what time, it will pass a man who is running at 6 kmph in the direction opposite to that of the train
In a box, there are 6 red, 2 blue and 3 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither blue nor green?
On an order of 19 dozen boxes of a consumer product, a retailer receives an extra dozen free. This is equivalent to allowing him a discount of:
Today Mary’s father is four times as old as Mary. Ten years ago, he was 10 times as old. How old is Mary today?
Vijay says that his weight is between 75kg and 85 kg. But his younger sister disagrees with Vijay and says that his weight is greater than 70kg but less than 80 kg. Vijay’s mother says that his weight cannot be greater than 78 kg. If all the three predictions are correct, what is the average of different probable weigh...
If three sides of the triangle are 8 , 15 and F respectively then the how many values can F ?
A cistern is normally filled in 10 hrs,but takes 2 hrs longer to fill because of a leak on its bottom,if Cistern is full ,how much time citern would empty?
If xy=4, x/y=81, for positive numbers x and y, y=?
Ajay bought 15 kg of dal at the rate of Rs 14.50 per kg and 10 kg at the rate of Rs 13 per kg. He mixed the two and sold the mixture at the rate of Rs 15 per kg. What was his total gain in this transaction ?
There are 28 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?
If Q is an odd number and the median of Q consecutive integers is 125, what is the largest of these integers?
The price of 3 tables and 4 chairs is Rs. 3300. With the same money one can buy 2 tables and 10 chairs. If one wants to buy 1 table and 1 chair, how much does he need to pay?
Steve bought a total of 6 packages of pens, and each package contained either 3 or 7 pens. If exactly 4 of the packages Steve bought contained 7 pens, how many pens did Steve buy?
Several litres of acid were drawn offa 54 litre vessel full of acid and an equal amount of water was added. Again the same volume of the mixture was drawn off and replaced by water. As a result, the vessel contained 24 litres of pure acid. How much of the acid was drawn off initially?
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 15 min and 25 min respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but after 4 min, pipe A is turned off. What is the total time required to fill the tank?
2 cow’s and 10 goats are brought for Rs.1500. If the average price of a goat be Rs.70. What is the average price of a cow.
Find the area of trapezium whose parallel sides are 20 cm and 18 cm long, and the distance between them is 15 cm?
The sum of two numbers is 66. Five times one number is equal to 6 times the other. The bigger of the two numbers is
If the sum of 1st n integers is 55 then what is n?
How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits {1, 3, 4, 5, 7,9}(repetition of digits is not allowed)?
Harold and Millicent are getting married and need to combine their already-full libraries. If Harold, who has 1/2 as many books as Millicent, brings 1/3 of his books to their new home, then Millicent will have enough room to bring 1/2 of her books to their new home. What fraction of Millicent's old library capacity is ...
If loga/b + logb/a = log (a + b), then:
Which of the following fractions is greater than 1/6?
There are 20 balls in a box: 11 balls are green, 6 are blue and 3 are white. Then 1 green and 1 blue balls are taken from the box and put away. What is the probability that a green ball is selected at random from the box?
Marginal cost is the cost of increasing the quantity produced (or purchased) by one unit. If the fixed cost for n products is $10,000 and the marginal cost is $250, and the total cost is $16,000, what is the value of n?
In a shop, the cost of 4 shirts, 4 pairs of trousers and 2 hats is $560. The cost of 9 shirts, 9 pairs of trousers and 6 hats is $1,290. What is the total cost of 1 shirt, 1 pair of trousers and 1 hat?
A train sets off at 2 p.m. at the speed of 70 kmph. Another train starts at 3:30 p.m. in the same direction at the rate of 85 kmph. At what time the trains will meet?
Solution X is 80% chemical A and 20% chemical B by volume. Solution Y is 50% chemical A and 50% chemical B by volume. If a mixture of X and Y is 68% chemical A, what percent of the mixture is Solution X?
If x^2=2x+2, then x^3 = ?
Sakshi can do a piece of work in 20 days .Tanya is 25% more efficient than Sakshi. the number of days taken by tanya to do the same piece of work is?
What is the sum of the different positive prime factors of 620?
A right triangle is inscribed in a circle. The legs of the triangle have lengths 6 and 8. What is the diameter of the circle?
1000 men have provisions for 21 days. If 800 more men join them, for how many days will the provisions last now?
(2^2-1)(2^2+1)(2^4+1)(2^12+1)=
If a certain coin is flipped, the probability that the coin will land heads is 1/2. If the coin is flipped 6 times, what is the probability that it will land heads up on the first 3 flips but not on the last 3 flips?
If a jar contains 25 percent red candies, 10 percent blue candies, and 55 white candies, what fraction of candies are of another color?
Starting with 0, a mathematician labels every non-negative integer as one of five types: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, or epsilon, in that repeating order as the integers increase. For instance, the integer 8 is labeled delta. What is the label on an integer that is the sum of a gamma raised to the seventh power and a del...
Suppose you have three identical prisms with congruent equilateral triangles as the end-polygons. Suppose you attach them by the rectangular faces so they are perfectly aligned. There will be some large faces created by two or more co-planar faces of the individual prisms: count each such large face as one. Given that,...
If a person sells a wooden furniture at 8% profit against 8% loss, then he could had earned Rs12 more. What is the cost price of furniture?
A person covered one-fourth of the total distance at 26 kmph and remaining distance at 24 kmph. What is the average speed for the total distance?
Four car rental agencies A, B, C and D rented a plot for parking their cars during the night. A parked 15 cars for 12 days, B parked 12 cars for 20 days, C parked 18 cars for 18 days and D parked 16 cars for 15 days. If A paid Rs. 1395 as rent for parking his cars, what is the total rent paid by all the four agencies?
A person purchased a TV set for Rs. 14000 and a DVD player for Rs. 6250. He sold both the items together for Rs. 31150. What percentage of profit did he make?
Lilly has 10 fish and Rosy has 12 fish. In total, how many fish do they have in all?
33 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 x+y=-4, and x=6/y, what is the value of x^2+y^2?
Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds. The ratio of their speeds is?
During the last 5 days, John ran 5 miles per day on average. How many miles must he run tomorrow to increase his daily average to 7 miles per day.
A man buys $50 shares in a company which pays 10% dividend. If the man gerts 12.5% on his investment, at what price did he buy the shares?
If m > 1 and n = 2^(m+3), then 4^m =
A party supply store sells noisemakers arranged on display such that each of the three different colors of noisemakers, red, blue, and purple are consecutive in a repeating pattern. If four consecutively displayed noisemakers are purchased, what is the probability that two of the noisemakers are purple?
if A fills a tank in 30mins,and B fills the same tank in 20mins,and C emptys it in 40min ,if A,B,C works together how much time will the tank take to fill?
In how many ways can 5 men & 4 women can be made from a gang of 6 men & 6 women ?
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 sixth digit of p, counting right to left from the units digit?
A train sets off at 2 p.m. at the speed of 80 kmph. Another train starts at 3:30 p.m. in the same direction at the rate of 85 kmph. At what time the trains will meet?
A batsman scored 120 runs whichincluded 3 boundaries and 8sixes. What % of his total score did he make by running between the wickets
Carrie likes to buy t-shirts at the local clothing store. They cost $9.95 each. One day, she bought 25 t-shirts. How much money did she spend?
The value of land increases by a% during June and decreases by b% during July. If the value of the land is the same at the end of July as at the beginning of June, what is b in terms of a?
A certain car can travel 20 minutes on a gallon of gasoline at 60 miles per hour. If the car had started with a full tank and had 8 gallons of gasoline left in its tank at the end, then what percent of the tank was used to travel 80 miles at 60 mph?
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:
Average age of students of an adult school is 46 years. 120 new students whose average age is 32 years joined the school. As a result the average age is decreased by 4 years. Find the number of students of the school after joining of the new students.
A man can row three - quarters of a kilometer against the stream in 11¼minutes. The speed(in km/hr) of the man in still water is
In Arun's opinion, his weight is greater than 65 kg but leas than 72 kg. His brother does not agree with Arun and he thinks that Arun's weight is greater than 60 kg but less than 70 kg. His mother's view is that his weight cannot be greater than 68 kg. If all of them are correct in their estimation, what is the average...
For any positive integer n, the length of n is defined as number of prime factors whose product is n, For example, the length of 75 is 3, since 75=3*5*5. How many two-digit positive integers have length 6?
Which of the following best approximates the value of q if 20^50+20^11=20^q ?
The price of 10 chairs is equal to that of 4 tables. The price of 15 chairs and 2 tables together is Rs. 4000. The total price of 12 chairs and 3 tables is:
Two trains travelling in the same direction at 90 and 36 kmph completely pass off another in 1 minute. If the length of the first train is 300 m, what is the length of the second train?
The difference between the simple interest received from two different sources on Rs. 1500 for 3 years is Rs. 13.50. The difference between their rates of interest is?
Find the slope of the line perpendicular to the line y = (1/3)x - 7
A and B started a business investing Rs. 92,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively. In what ratio the profit earned after 2 years be divided between A and B respectively?
On decreasing the price of a colour TV by 20%, its sale is increased by 30%. The effect on the revenue is?
If p shirts can be purchased for q dollars, how many shirts can be purchased for r dollars?
How many of the positive divisors of 360 are also multiples of 4 not including 360?
If (A+B) = 14, (B+C) = 9 and (C+D) = 3, what is the value of (A+D)?
On average, activated yeast cells divide once every 120 minutes; that is, each individual cell divides into two individual cells over that time span. Given that a certain yeast colony consisted of 210,000 cells two hours ago, approximately how many cells will be populating the colony six hours from now?
Nine men went to a hotel. Eight of them spent Rs.1 each over their meals and the ninth spent Rs.2 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. Determine the total money spent by them?
TheOG 13thed page 193 #77 says If n = 90! + 87, then n is divisible by which of the following? I. 15 II. 17 III. 19
A1B, D4F, H9K,then find next term ?
A water tank is two-fifth full. Pipe A can fill a tank in 10 minutes and pipe B can empty it in 8 minutes. If both the pipes are open, how long will it take to empty or fill the tank completely?
My brother is 3 years elder to me. My father was 28 years of age when my sister was born while my mother was 26 years of age when I was born. If my sister was 6 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?
A, B, C are three consecutive positive integers (A>B>C). What is the value of the expression 2A +2B +3C?
At a restaurant, glasses are stored in two different-sized boxes. One box contains 12 glasses, and the other contains 16 glasses. If the average number of glasses per box is 15, and there are 16 more of the larger boxes, what is the total number of glasses Q at the restaurant? (Assume that all boxes are filled to capac...
The average of five results is 46 and that of the first four is 45. The fifth result is?
If 3x+y=40, 2x-y=20, for integers of x and y, 4y^2=?
Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?
A bag contains 4red, 5blue and 3green balls. If 3 ballsare picked at random, what is the probability that both are red?
Jade has 4 flavors of ice cream in his parlor. How many options are there for James to pick a one-flavor, two-flavor, three-flavor or four-flavor order?
At a special sale, 8 tickets can be purchased for the price of 6 tickets. If 8 tickets are purchased at the sale, the amount saved will be What percent of the original price of the 8 tickets?
Ten years ago, the age of Anand was one-third the age of Bala at that time. The present age of Bala is 8 years more than the present age of Anand. Find the present age of Anand?
How long does a train 110metres long running at the speed of 72 km/hr take to cross a bridge 132metres in length?
Joe drives 420 miles at 60 miles per hour, and then he drives the next 120 miles at 40 miles per hour. What is his average speed for the entire trip in miles per hour?
A works twice as fast as B. if both of them can together finish a piece of work in 12 days, then B alone can do it in
There are 50 employees in the office of ABC Company. Of these, 22 have taken an accounting course, 15 have taken a course in finance and 14 have taken a marketing course. Nine of the employees have taken exactly two of the courses and 2 employee has taken all three of the courses. How many of the 50 employees have take...
Jackson invested $200,000, dividing it all unequally between Account P and Account Q. At the end of the year, it turned out that Account P had earned 12% interest and Account Q had earned 25% interest. If Jackson earned a total of $60,000 in interest between the two accounts, which of the following is approximately the...
In a class there are 20 boys and 20 girls. In how many ways can a boy and a girl be selected?
Ravi can do a piece of work in 30 days while Prakash can do it in 40 days. In how many days will they finish it together?
A cab driver 5days income was $45, $50, $60, $65 , $70. Then his average income is?
An isosceles triangle has angles with ratios 1:2:2. What is the measurement of the angle within the triangle with ratio 2?