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The value of Underrot 17pi/6 + Underrot 1 is most nearly equal to which of the following integers? (Please refer to the picture below for the exact version of the question)
A group of 15 people plan to rent a van and agree to share equally the total cost of the rental, which is E dollars. If n of the people decide not to participate at the last minute, by how many dollars will each remaining person's share of the total cost increase?
Two tains of equal lengths take 10 seconds and 16 seconds respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120 metres, in what time (in seconds) will they cross each other travelling in opposite direction?
The price of a cycle is reduced by 25 % The new price is reduced by a further 20 %. The 2 reductions together are equal to a single reduction of
A walks around a circular field at the rate of one round per hour while B runs around it at the rate of six rounds per hour. They start in the same direction from the same point at 7.30 a.m. They shall first cross each other at?
A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward and backward, such as 171. How many even, 6-digit numbers are palindromes?
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
Two stations AA and BB are 110 km apart on a straight line. One train starts from AA at 7 am and travel towards BB at 20 km/hr speed. Another train starts from BB at 8 am and travel towards AA at 25 km/hr speed. At what time will they meet?
Alan buys 4 TVs, a 26 inch, a 28 inch, a 30 inch, and a 32 inch, for his new house. Each TV costs $200 more than the size below it. Alan spends a total of $3,600. How much would he have spent if he had bought only the 28 inch and 30 inch TVs?
The seating chart of an airplane shows 30 rows of seats. Each row has 3 seats on each side of the center aisle, and one of the seats on each side is a window saet. The view from the window seats in 10 of the rows is obscured by the wings of the airplane. If the first person to be assigned a seat is assigned a window se...
what is the smallest integer that is multiple of 6,7 and 20
The owner of a furniture shop charges his customer 25% more than the cost price. If a customer paid Rs. 1000 for a computer table, then what was the cost price of the computer table?
The ratio of the volumes of two cubes is 729 : 1331. What is the ratio of their total surface areas?
The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular park is 3 : 2. If a man cycling along the boundary of the park at the speed of 12 km/hr completes one round in 8 minutes, then the area of the park (in sq. m) is?
The MegaTek Corporation is displaying its distribution of employees by department in a circle graph. The size of each sector of the graph representing a department is proportional to the percentage of total employees in that department. If the section of the circle graph representing the manufacturing department takes ...
A car traveled 300 meters from point A to point B at a speed of 6 meter per second. Then it took the same route and came back to point A at a speed of 2 meter per second. What is its average speed?
The U.S. Defense Department has decided that the Pentagon is an obsolete building and that it must be replaced with an upgraded version: the Hexagon. The Secretary of Defense wants a building that is exactly 70 feet high and 200 feet on a side, and that has a hexagonal bull's-eye cutout in the center (somewhat like the...
An outlet pipe empties a tank which is full in 10 hours. If the inlet pipe is kept open, which lets water in at the rate of 16 litres/min then outlet pipe would take 8 hours longer. Find the capacity of the tank.
In a question on division with zero remainder, a candidate took 12 as divisor instead of 21. The quotient obtained by him was 35. The correct quotient is?
Each week, Harry is paid x dollars per hour for the first 30 hours and 1.5x dollars for each additional hour worked that week. Each week, Annie is paid x dollars per hour for the first 40 hours and 2x dollars for each additional hour worked that week. Last week Annie worked a total of 56 hours. If Harry and Annie were ...
Two members of a club are to be selected to represent the club at a national meeting. if there are 153 different possible selections of the 2 members, how many members does the club have?
Working at constant rate, pump X pumped out half of the water in a flooded basement in 3 hours. The pump Y was started and the two pumps, working independently at their respective constant rates, pumped out rest of the water in 3 hours. How many hours would it have taken pump Y , operating alone at its own constant rat...
An article was sold after a discount of 20% and there was a gain of 20%. If the profit made on it was Rs. 6 less than the discount offered on it, find its selling price?
If a copier makes 6 copies every 3 seconds, then continues at this rate, how many minutes will it take to make 6,000 copies?
Firm A's revenues are described by the equation Ra = 17.12x and its costs by Ca = 12.87x + 2400. Firm B's revenues are described by the equation Rb = 13.27x and its costs by Cb = 8.77x + 1500. (x denotes the quantity of sales). If A's volume of sales increases from 1000 to 2000 over the same period that B's volume incr...
A man takes 5 hours 45 min in walking to a certain place and riding back. He would have gained 2 hours by riding both ways. The time he would take to walk both ways is
The average of six numbers is 3.95. The average of two of them is 3.5, while the average of the other two is 3.85. What is the average of the remaining two numbers?
In a certain sequence the term an is given by the formula: an=an−1+2n−1 for all integer n>1. If a7=49, what is a1?
50% of the apartments in a certain building have windows and hardwood floors. 25% of the apartments without windows have hardwood floors. If 40% of the apartments do not have hardwood floors, what percent of the apartments with windows have hardwood floors?
In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither blue nor green?
When a natural number N is successively divided by 12,13,14,15. the remainders are 16,17,18,19. What will be the sum of the remainders if the order of the division is reversed?
36 identical chairs must be arranged in rows with the same number of chairs in each row. Each row must contain at least three chairs and there must be at least three rows. A row is parallel to the front of the room. How many different arrangements are possible?
The cross-section of a water channel is a trapezium in shape. If the channel is 14 meters wide at the top and 8 meters wide at the bottom and the area of cross-section is 770 square meters, what is the depth of the channel (in meters)?
What will be the difference between simple and compound interest @10% per annum on a sum of $1000 after 4 years?
Two consultants can type up a report in 12.5 hours and edit it in 7.5 hours. If Mary needs 30 hours to type the report and Jim needs 12 hours to edit it alone, how many W hours will it take if Jim types the report and Mary edits it immediately after he is done?
Ram will arrange 6 people of 6 different heights for photograph by placing them in two rows of three so that each person in the first row is standing is standing in front of someone in the second row. The heights of the people within each row must increase from left to right, and each person in the second row must be t...
If w/x = 2/3 and w/y = 3/5, then (x + y)/y =
A train 100 m long crosses a platform 125 m long in 10 sec; find the speed of the train?
There are 7 non-collinear points. How many triangles can be drawn by joining these points?
In how many different number of ways 3 boys and 2 girls can sit on a bench?
15, 31, 63, 127, 255, ?
The average of 20, 30 and 130 is twice the average of 10, 30, and which of the following ?
The jogging track in a sports complex is 594 m in circumference. Deepak and his wife start from the same point and walk in opposite directions at 4.5 km/hr and 3.75 km/hr respectively. They will meet for the first time in?
A couple decides to have 2 children. If they succeed in having 2 children and each child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl, What is the probability that they will have exactly 1 girl and 1 boy?
Kanul spent $3000 in buying raw materials, $2000 in buying machinery and 10% of the total amount he had as cash with him. What was the total amount?
If a train, travelling at a speed of 180 kmph, crosses a pole in 5 sec, then the length of train is?
A teacher gave the same test to three history classes: A, B, and C. The average (arithmetic mean) scores for the three classes were 65, 92, and 77, respectively. The ratio of the numbers of students in each class who took the test was 4 to 6 to 5, respectively. What was the average score for the three classes combined?
4524 - ? = 2456
The average of first ten prime numbers which are odd is?
Matt gets a $1,300 commission on a big sale. This commission alone raises his average commission by $150. If Matt's new average commission is $400, how many sales has Matt made?
Solve the given two equations and find the inequality of X and Y. (a) x^4- 227= 398 and (b) y^2 + 321=346
In a certain sequence, the first term is 2, and each successive term is 3 more than the reciprocal of the term that immediately precedes it. What is the fifth term in this sequence?
In how many ways can 7 different object be divided among three persons so that either one or two of them do not get any object?
A man rows his boat 90 km downstream and 45 km upstream, taking 2 1/2 hours each time. Find the speed of the stream?
Two angles of a triangle have ratio 7:3, and their difference equals the third angle. What is the smallest angle, in degrees, of the triangle?
At present, the ratio between the ages of Arun and Deepak is 4 : 3. After 6 years, Arun's age will be 26 years. What is the age of Deepak at present ?
Rahul can do a work in 3 days while Rajesh can do the same work in 2days. Both of them finish the work together and get $250. What is the share of Rahul?
The H.C.F. of two numbers is 42 and the other two factors of their L.C.M. are 12 and 14. The larger of the two numbers is:
Square OCAB has an area of 9 square units. Point O is found where the axes meet. What are the coordinates of point A?
Laxmi and Prasanna set on a journey. Laxmi moves northwards at a speed of 20kmph and Prasanna moves southward at a speed of 30 kmph. How far will be Prasanna from Laxmi after 60 minutes ?
If a number is formed by writing integers 1 to 150 one after another, like 12345...150. How many Q digits does this integer consists of?
A started a business with an investment of Rs. 70000 and after 6 months B joined him investing Rs. 100000. If the profit at the end of a year is Rs. 108000, then the share of B is?
Insert the missing number. 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 12, 16, 15, (....)
One year ago, the ratio of Roonie’s and Ronaldo’s age was 6: 7 respectively. Four years hence, this ratio would become 7: 8. How old is Ronaldo ?
A plane moves from a place 9N 40E to a place 9N 40W taking 8 hours to travel. If the plane had left at 10.00 a.m. then what is the local time of arrival at the destination?
An integer n between 1 and 99, inclusive, is to be chosen at random. What is the probability that n(n+2) will be divisible by 3 ?
On a certain road 12% of the motorists exceed the posted speed limit and receive speeding tickets, but 20% of the motorists who exceed the posted speed limit do not receive speeding tickets. What percent of the motorists on the road exceed the posted speed limit?
Set R has a mean of 9 and a standard deviation of 1.5. We are going to add two additional numbers to Set S. Which pair of numbers would decrease the standard deviation the most?
If a2 - b2 = 9 and a*b = 4, find a4 + b4.
If it is assumed that 60 percent of those who receive a questionnaire by mail will respond and 750 responses are needed, what is the minimum number of questionnaires that should be mailed?
Cole drove from home to work at an average speed of 60 kmh. He then returned home at an average speed of 100 kmh. If the round trip took a total of 2 hours, how many minutes did it take Cole to drive to work?
Line J has a y-intercept of 8 and passes through point (a,b). What is the slope of Line J in terms of a and b?
Jancy had 100 currency notes in all, some of which are of Rs 70 denomination and the remaining of Rs 50 denomination. The total amount of all these currency notes was Rs. 5000. How much amount (in Rs) did she have in the denomination of Rs 50?
A reduction of 10% in the price of salt enables a lady to obtain 10kgs more for Rs.100, find the original price per kg?
A man whose speed is 3 kmph in still water rows to a certain upstream point and back to the starting point in a river which flows at 1.5 kmph, find his average speed for the total journey?
A number when multiplied by 3 is odd and divisible by 9. This number when multiplied by 4 is 108. What is the original number?
Two trains of equal lengths take 10 sec and 15 sec respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120 m, in what time will they cross other travelling in opposite direction?
How many different positive integers exist between 10^4 and 10^5, the sum of whose digits is equal to 2?
A class of 60 students has an average height of 200 cm. Six students whose average height is 120 cm, left the class and six others whose average height is 134 cm, joined. Calculate the new average height of the students of the class (in cm) is?
A store owner estimates that the average price of type A products will increase by 35% next year and that the price of type B products will increase by 15% next year. This year, the total amount paid for type A products was $4000 and the total price paid for type B products was $5300. According to the store owner's est...
If n = 3^6 – 2^8 which of the following is NOT a factor of n?
Company KW is being sold, and both Company A and Company B were considering the purchase. The price of Company KW is 20% more than Company A has in assets, and this same price is also 100% more than Company B has in assets. If Companies A and B were to merge and combine their assets, the price of Company KW would be ap...
if 5 men take an hour to dig a ditch, then how long should 12 men take a dig to ditch of the same type?
47% of the students in a class of 42 students has glasses or contacts. How many students in the class have either glasses or contacts?
A certain industrial loom weaves 0.132 meters of cloth every second. Approximately how many seconds will it take for the loom to weave 15 meters of cloth?
Two trains of equal lengths take 10 sec and 15 sec respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120 m, in what time will they cross other travelling in opposite direction?
The time taken by a man to row his boat upstream is twice the time taken by him to row the same distance downstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 54 kmph, find the speed of the stream?
An aeroplane covers a certain distance at a speed of 240 kmph in 5 hours. To cover the same distance in 1 hours, it must travel at a speed of:
Bob travels at an average speed of 12km/h, to the school and then return to the home he travels at an average speed of 10km/h. Which of the following is the closest approximation of Bob's average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the trip?
Using all the letters of the word "NOKIA", how many words can be formed, which begin with N and end with A?
What least value must be assigned to * so that the number 197*5462 is r 9 ?
If 20 men can build a water fountain 56 metres long in 6 days, what length of a similar water fountain can be built by 35 men in 3 days?
The first three terms of a proportion are 3, 9 and 12. The fourth term is?
Krishan and Nandan jointly started a business. Krishan invested three times as Nandan did and invested his money for double time as compared to Nandan. Nandan earned Rs. 4000. If the gain is proportional to the money invested and the time for which the money is invested then the total gain was?
The LCM of two numbers is 2310 and HCF is 47. If one of the numbers is 210. Then what is the other number ?
In 1998 the profits of company N were 10 percent of revenues. In 1999, the revenues of company N fell by 20 percent, but profits were 16 percent of revenues. The profits in 1999 were what percent of the profits in 1998?
A 120 meter long train crosses a man standing on the platform in 6 sec. What is the speed of the train?
If a 10 percent deposit that has been paid toward the purchase of a certain product is $80, how much more remains to be paid?
If goods be purchased for Rs.840 and one-fourth be sold at a loss of 20% at what gain percent should the remainder be sold so as to gain 20% on the whole transaction?
Jane covered a distance of 320 miles between city A and city B taking a total of 5 hours. If part of the distance was covered at 60 miles per hour speed and the balance at 80 miles per hour speed, how many hours did she travel at 60 miles per hour?