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A candidate got 40% of the votes polled and he lost to his rival by 5000 votes. How many votes were cast? |
If f(f(n)) + f(n) = 2n+3, f(0) = 1 then f(2012) = ? |
The first three terms of a proportion are 3, 9 and 12. The fourth term is? |
Find the middle one when The sum of five consecutive even numbers is 65? |
A, B and C enter into a partnership. They invest Rs. 70,000, Rs. 80,000 and Rs. 1,20,000 respectively. At the end of the first year, B withdraws Rs. 40,000, while at the end of the second year, C withdraws Rs. 80,000. In what ratio will the profit be shared at the end of 3 years? |
Three fill pipes A, B and C can fill separately a cistern in 3, 4 and 6 minutes respectively. A was opened first. After 1 minute, B was opened and after 2 minutes from the start of A, C was also opened. Find the time when the cistern will be full ? |
The forth proportional to 20,8,15 is? |
A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20 seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform? |
Marge has 3 pumps for filling her swimming pool. When all 3 pumps work at their maximum rates, the swimming pool is filled in 60 minutes. Pump 1's maximum rate is twice the maximum rate of pump 2 and four times the maximum rate of pump 3. How long would it take Marge to fill the pool if she used only pump 3 at its maxi... |
A machine puts c caps on bottles in m minutes. How many R hours will it take to put caps on b bottles? |
At the beginning of a year ,the owner of a jewel shop raised the price of all the jewels in his shop by x% and lowered them by x%. The price of one jewel after this up and down cycle reduced by Rs.100.The owner carried out the same procedure after a month.After this second up-down cycle,the price of that jewel was Rs.2... |
By approximately what percent is x greater than 1/2 if (1/2)(x) = 1? |
Mirun travels the first 3 hours of her journey at 20 mph speed and the remaining 2 hours at 40 mph speed. What is the average speed of Mirun 's travel in mph? |
Three fifth of the roads from A to B are at least 5 miles long, and 5/6 of the roads from B to C are at least 5 miles long. If you randomly pick a road from A to B and then randomly pick a road from B to C, what is the probability that at least one of the roads you pick is at least 5 miles long? |
Each side of a rectangle is increased by 100% .By what percentage does the area increase? |
If the number of boys in a class are 8 times the number of girls, which value can never be the total number of students? |
The cost price of a radio is Rs.1500 and it was sold for Rs.1230, find the loss %? |
If four coins are tossed, the probability of getting two heads and two tails is |
In how many different ways can 5 boys and 2 girls sit on a bench such that the girls always sit together? |
In how many different ways can the letters of the word ‘CAN’ be arranged? |
How long does a truck of 200 m long traveling at 60 kmph takes to cross a bridge of 180 m in length? |
The principal that amounts to Rs. 4913 in 3 years at 6 1/4 % per annum C.I. compounded annually, is? |
A person can row at 10 kmph in still water. If the velocity of the current is 2 kmph and it takes him 25 hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place? |
In the rectangular coordinate system, what is the area of triangle CDE with points
C=(3,3)
D=(4,1)
E=(0,8) |
A basket has 5 apples and 4 oranges. Three fruits are picked at random. The probability that at least 2 apples are picked is? |
Two-third of two-fifth of three-fourth of a number is 36. What is the square root of four-fifth of that number? |
If x dollars is invested at 10 percent for one year and y dollars is invested at 8 percent for one year, the annual income from the 10 percent investment will exceed the annual income from the 8 percent investment by $56. If $2,000 is the total amount invested, how much is invested at 10 percent? |
The dimensions of a room are 25 feet * 15 feet * 12 feet. What is the cost of white washing the four walls of the room at Rs. 8 per square feet if there is one door of dimensions 6 feet * 3 feet and three windows of dimensions 4 feet * 3 feet each? |
The first doughnut is priced at $1 and then if you purchase additional doughnuts as dozens then the price is $6/dozen. What is the total number of doughnuts purchased if you paid $21? |
If Rs.7500 are borrowed at C.I at the rate of 4% per annum, then after 2 years the amount to be paid is? |
If k > 0, x + 2k = y, and y + 5k = z, what is the ratio between z - x and y - x ? |
Nine men went to a hotel. Eight of them spent Rs.3 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? |
Two pipes P and Q can fill a tank in 15 min and 20 min respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but after 4 min, pipe P is turned off. What is the total time required to fill the tank? |
If f(2, 3) = 17 and f(2, 4) = 24, what is the value of f(2, 5)? |
Two trains are moving in opposite directions at 60 km/hr and 90 km/hr. Their lengths are 1.10 km and 0.4 km respectively. The time taken by the slower train to cross the faster train in seconds is? |
A boat covers a certain distance downstream in I hour, while it comes back in 1½ hours. If the speed of the stream be 3 kmph. what is the speed of the boat in still Water? |
How many integers k greater than 100 and less than 600 are there such that if the hundreds and the unit digits of k are reversed, the resulting integer is k + 99? |
In a container there are two solutions; solution A and solution B in the ratio of 3 : 4. If 8 litres of solution A is added, the ratio becomes 11:12. What is the total quantity in the container after adding the extra 8 litres ? |
The simple interest on a sum of money will be Rs.600 after 10 years. If the principal is trebled after 5 years what will be the total interest at the end of the tenth year? |
How much time will a train of length 200 m moving at a speed of 72 kmph take to cross another train of length 300 m, moving at 36 kmph in the same direction? |
Jill has 35 gallons of water stored in quart, half-gallon, and one gallon jars. She has equal numbers of each size jar holding the liquid. What is the total number of water filled jars? |
The digital sum of a number is the sum of its digits. For how many of the positive integers 24-90 inclusive is the digital sum a multiple of 7? |
In a camp, there is a meal for 80 men or 200 children. If 135 children have taken the meal, how many men will be catered to with remaining meal? |
Two trains are moving in the same direction at 72 kmph and 36 kmph. The faster train crosses a man in the slower train in 18 seconds. Find the length of the faster train? |
2+2+ 2^2 + 2^3 + 2^4 + 2^5 + 2^6 + 2^7 + 2^8 = |
During a sale, a store sells 20 percent of its remaining stock each day, without replenishment. After four days, what fraction of its original stock has it sold? |
A box contains nine bulbs out of which 4 are defective. If four bulbs are chosen at random, find the probability that all the four bulbs are defective. |
From a group of 3 balls and 3 bats, 4 are to be randomly selected. What is the probability that equal numbers of balls and bats will be selected? |
In a friendship gang Andrew has 8 gang, in how many ways can he invite one or more of the gang to his house? |
Find the value of (√1.21)/(√0.81) + (√1.00)/(√0.49) is |
A car travels at a speed of 60 miles per hour. How far will it travel in 5 hours? |
The calendar for the year 2007 will be the same for the year |
The rate of increase of the price of sugar is observed to be two percent more than the inflation rate expressed in percentage. The price of sugar, on January 1, 1994, is Rs. 18 per kg. The inflation rate for the years 1994 and 1995 are expected to be 6% each. The expected price of sugar on January 1, 1996 would be |
If [P] denotes the least integer greater than or equal to P and [P] = 0, which of the following statements must be true? |
A man can row 24 kmph in still water. It takes him thrice as long to row up as to row down the river. Find the rate of the stream? |
Two trains are moving in the same direction at 72 kmph and 36 kmph. The faster train crosses a girl sitting at window seat in the slower train in 32 seconds. Find the length of the faster train ? |
If a man can cover 10 metres in one second, how many kilometres can he cover in 3 hours 45 minutes? |
A certain fraction is equivalent to 2/5. If the numerator of the fraction is increased by 4 and the denominator is doubled, the new fraction is equivalent to 1/3. What is the difference of the numerator and denominator of the original fraction? |
A five-digit number divisible by 3 is to be formed using numerical 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 without repetition. The total number R of ways this can be done is: |
Two employees A and B are paid a total of Rs. 550 per week by their employer. If A is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to B, how much is B paid per week? |
wo passenger trains start at the same hour in the day from two different stations and move towards each other at the rate of 16 kmph and 21 kmph respectively. When they meet, it is found that one train has traveled 60 km more than the other one. The distance between the two stations is? |
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 49 years. The age of E is? |
A luxury liner, Queen Marry II, is transporting several cats as well as the crew (sailors, a cook, and one-legged captain) to a nearby port. Altogether, these passengers have 16 heads and 45 legs. How many cats does the ship host? |
When the positive integer k is divided by the positive integer n , the remainder is 11. If k/n = 61.2 , what is the value of n? |
The surface area of a sphere is 4πR^2, where R is the radius of the sphere. If the surface area of sphere A is eight times as large as the surface area of sphere B, then the radius of sphere A is how many times the radius of sphere B? |
A sum of Rs. 2717 is lent into two parts so that the interest on the first part for 8 years at 3% per annum may be equal to the interest on the second part for 3 years at 5% per annum. Find the second sum? |
A multiple choice test consists of 4 questions, and each question has 5 answer choices. In how many Q ways can the test be completed if every question is unanswered? |
Salad dressing P is made up of 30% vinegar and 70% oil, and salad dressing Q contains 10% vinegar and 90% oil. If the two dressings are combined to produce a salad dressing that is 20% vinegar, dressing P comprises what percentage of the new dressing? |
A small company reduced its faculty by approximately 13 percent to 195 employees. What was the original number of employees? |
A factory has a fixed cost of $43,000 a month, and a cost of $2.5 for every item produced. If the selling price of a single item is $5, what is the number of items must be sold monthly for the factory to cover its cost exactly? |
85% of the employees in a multinational corporation have VCD players, 75 percent have microwave ovens, 80 percent have ACs and 85 percent have washing machines. At least what percentage of employees has all four gadgets? |
There are 17 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? |
In a room filled with 7 people, 4 people have exactly 1 sibling in the room and 3 people have exactly 2 siblings in the room. If two individuals are selected from the room at random, what is the probability that those two individuals are NOT siblings? |
Village X has a population of 78000, which is decreasing at the rate of 1200 per year. Village Y has a population of 42000, which is increasing at the rate of 800 per year .in how many years will the population of the two villages be equal? |
Find the average of the series : 312, 162, 132, 147 and 122? |
In 1979 approximately 1/3 of the 38.3 million airline passengers traveling to or from the United States used Kennedy Airport. If the number of such passengers that used Miami Airport was 1/2 the number that used Kennedy Airport and 4 times the number that used Logan Airport, approximately how many millions of these pas... |
583 is related to 293 in the same way as 488 is related to |
When the positive integer k is divided by the positive integer n , the remainder is 13. If k/n = 81.2 , what is the value of n? |
How many odd three-digit integers greater than 800 are there such that all their digits are different? |
Square M is inscribed in circle N. If the perimeter of M is 20, what is the circumference of N? |
Which of the following is non negative? |
Evaluate: 40 - 12÷6×2 = |
The mall charges 50 cents for the first hour of parking and $3 for each additional hour until the customer reaches 4 hours, after that the parking fee is $1 per hour. If a certain customer parked his in the mall for 7 hours and 30 minutes, how much is he going to pay? |
A particular library has 75 books in a special collection, all of which were in the library at the beginning of the month. These book are occasionally loaned out through an inter-library program. If, by the end of the month, 80 percent of books that were loaned out are returned and there are 66 books in the special col... |
Find a 6-digit integer abcdef with the following properties:
Take the rightmost digit and place it in front of the integer to form a new number (abcdef --> fabcde).
The new one is the product of the old one and the shifted digit (fabcde = f*abcdef).
What was the original integer? |
A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 825 in 3 years and to Rs. 840 in 4 years. The sum is? |
In how many different number of ways 3 boys and 2 girls can sit on a bench? |
A committee has 4 men and 7 women. What are the number of ways of selecting 2 men and 4 women from the given committee? |
A train is moving at a speed of 132 km/hr. If the length of the train is 110m, how long will it take to cross a railway platform 165m long? |
What percent is 70 of 280? |
An air conditioner can coo the hall in 25 minutes while another takes 30 minutes to cool under similar conditions. if both air conditioners are switched on at same instance then how long will it take to cool the room? |
A carpenter worked alone for 1 day on a job that would take him 6 more days to finish. He and another carpenter completed the job in 8 more days. How many days would it have taken the second carpenter to do the complete job working alone? |
A man can row 8 kmph in still water. When the river is running at 2 kmph, it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and black. What is the total distance traveled by the man? |
For her customer feedback score, Jess wants to average at or above an 8.0 rating. For the month of June, she received the following scores: 5, 8, 8, 7, 9, 10, 6, 6, 8 and 7. By what percent did she fall short of her goal? |
The amount of water (in ml) that should be added to reduce 9 ml. Lotion, containing 50% alcohol, to a lotion containing 30% alcohol, is? |
The sale price sarees listed for Rs.280 after successive discount is 12% and 8% is? |
A person goes to his office at 1/3rd of the speed at which he returns from his office. If the avg speed during the whole trip is 24m/h. what is the speed of the person while he was going to his office? |
A train 250 m long running at 72 kmph crosses a platform in 15 sec. What is the length of the platform? |
A wholesaler wishes to sell 100 pounds of mixed nuts at $2.50 a pound. She mixes peanuts worth $3.50 a pound with cashews worth $4.00 a pound. How many pounds of cashews must she use? |
Tough and Tricky questions: Exponents.
If 3^m3^m3^m = 8^n, then m/n = |
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