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Find the simple interest on Rs.500 for 9 months at 6 paisa per month?
21 ball numbered 1 to 21. A ballis drawn and then another ball is drawn without replacement.
How many 1/12s are there in 37 1/2?
Three people each took 5 tests. If the ranges of their scores in the 5 practice tests were 10, 20 and 32, what is the minimum possible range in scores of the three test-takers?
The H.C.F of two numbers is 11 and their L.C.M is 7700. If one of the numbers is 275, then the other is?
A test has a mean of 220 and a standard deviation of 10, find the corresponding z score for: a) a test score of 232?
A man's regular pay is $3 per hour up to 40 hours. Overtime is twice the payment for regular time. If he was paid $168, how many hours overtime did he work?
Nikhilesh invested certain amount in three different schemes A, B and C with the rate of interest 10 p.c.p.a., 12 p.c.p.a.and 15 p.c.p.a. respectively. If the total interest accrued in one year was 3200 and the amount invested in scheme C was 150% of the amount invested in scheme A and 240% of the amount invested in sc...
In a series of consecutive odd numbers, 27 is the sixth smallest number and 25 is the tenth largest number. What is the range of the series?
The H.C.F. of two numbers is 15 and their L.C.M. is 620. If one of the numbers is 375, then the other is:
A couple spent $132 in total while dining out and paid this amount using a credit card. The $132 figure included a 20 percent tip which was paid on top of the price which already included a sales tax of 10 percent on top of the price of the food. What was the actual price of the food before tax and tip?
Three hundred students at College Q study a foreign language. Of these, 160 of those students study French, and 190 study Spanish. If at least 90 students who study a foreign language at College Q study neither French nor Spanish, then the number of students who study Spanish but not French could be any number from
A Bird is flying into the wind going 6 Km/Hr, and with the wind going 26 Km/Hr, What is his Rate?
The diameter of a cylindrical tin is 4cm and height is 5 cm. Find the volume of the cylinder?
Of the following, which is nearly equal to √12?
Half of 2 percent written as decimal is
Three blocks of different colors are to be placed on a row. How many different sitting arrangements are possible if red must be placed next to blue ?
What is the unit digit of (6!*3! / 3!*4!)?
Divide Rs. 2800 among A, B and C so that A receives 3/4 as much as B and C together and B receives 1/4 as A and C together. A's share is?
Find the remainder of the division (3^33)/7.
Two bullet train s 140 m and 200 m long run at the speed of 60 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively in opposite directions on parallel tracks. The time (in seconds) which they take to cross each other, is:
At what rate percent per annum will a sum of money double in 8 years.
Find the amount on Rs.6000 in 2 years, the rate of interest being 4% per first year and 5% for the second year?
The time taken to travel from city X to city Y is 12 hrs.if a person starts at 6 a.m from city x and another person leaves in city y at 8 p.m .when they will meet.
In a partnership between A, B and C. A's capital is Rs.8000. If his share of a profit of Rs.800 is Rs.200 and B's share is Rs.130, what is C's capital?
If x is the interest on y and y is the interest on z, the rate and time is the same on both the cases. What is the relation between x, y and z?
The average age of a group of n people is 14 years old. One more person aged 34 joins the group and the new average is 16 years old. What is the value of n?
How much greater is the combined area in square inches of the front and back of a rectangular sheet of paper measuring 11 inches by 17 inches than that of a rectangular sheet of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches?
An Olympic diver received the following scores: 4, 2, 5, 1. The standard deviation of her scores is in which of the following ranges?
A train 140 m long running at 84 kmph crosses a platform in 16 sec. What is the length of the platform?
A shopkeeper expects a gain of 22.5% on his cost price. If in a week, his sale was of Rs. 392, what was his profit?
The average speed of a car is 1 3/5 times the avg speed of a bike. A tractor covers 575km in 23hrs. How much distance will the car cover in 4hrs if the speed of the bike is twice speed of the tractor?
A certain company reported that the revenue on sales increased 50 % from 2000 to 2003, and increased 80 % from 2000 to 2005. What was the approximate percent increase in revenue for this store from 2003 to 2005?
How many integers E are prime numbers in the range 200 < E < 220?
The Price of 357 apples is Rs.2499. What will be the price of 49 dozens of such apples?
A cycle is bought for Rs.900 and sold for Rs.1100, find the gain percent?
Sum of even numbers between 15 and 25 is
A pair of prime numbers that can be expressed in the form E{p, (p + 6)} is defined as a pair of “sexy primes.” A “sexy triplet” is a group of three primes that can be expressed in the form {p, (p + 6), (p + 12)}. All of the following prime numbers are the middle term of a sexy triplet EXCEPT
If g and h are positive integers, and 3 is not a factor of h, then h may be which of the following?
What is the area of a square field whose diagonal of length 20 m?
When average age of 20 members are 0, how many members greater than 0?
What is the remainder when 8^1 + 8^2 + 8^3 +...+ 8^9 is divided by 4?
Evaluate 248+64−−√−−−−−−−−−√
The last day of a century cannot be
325 metres long yard, 26 trees are palnted at equal distances, one tree being at each end of the yard. What is the distance between 2consecutive trees
The toll for crossing a certain bridge is $0.70 each crossing. Drivers who frequently use the bridge may instead purchase a sticker each month for $13.00 and then pay only $0.30 each crossing during that month. If a particular driver will cross the bridge twice on each of x days next month and will not cross the bridge...
he total marks obtained by a student in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics is 140 more than the marks obtained by him in Physics. What is the average mark obtained by him in Chemistry and Mathematics?
Mike, Jim and Bob are all professional fisherman. Mike can catch 36 fish in one hour, Jim can catch twice as much and Bob can catch 50% more than Jim. If the three started to fish together and after 40 minutes Mike and Bob left, how many fish did the three fishermen catch in one hour?
4y - 4x = xy and x ≠ 0. If x and y are integers, which of the following could equal y?
An item is being sold for $10 each. However, if a customer will “buy at least 3” they have a promo discount of 15%. Also, if a customer will “buy at least 10” items they will deduct an additional 8% to their “buy at least 3” promo price. If Sam buys 10 pcs of that item how much should he pay?
A salesman’s terms were changed from a flat commission of 5% on all his sales to a fixed salary of Rs.1000 plus 2.5% commission on all sales exceeding Rs. 4,000. If his remuneration as per new scheme was Rs. 600 more than that by the previous schema, his sales were worth?
By selling a product with 20% profit, how much profit was earned? I. The difference between cost and selling price is Rs. 40. II. The selling price is 120 percent of the cost price.
Nicky and Cristina are running a 400 meter race. Since Cristina is faster than Nicky, she gives him a 12 second head start. If Cristina runs at a pace of 5 meters per second and Nicky runs at a pace of only 3 meters per second, how many seconds will Nicky have run before Cristina catches up to him?
Each person who attended a company meeting was either a stockholder in the company, an employee of the company or both. If 62 percent of these who attended the meeting were stockholders and 50 percent were employees. What percent were stockholders, who were not employees?
Which of the following is a possible length for side AB of triangle ABC if AC = 5 and BC = 9? I. 4 II. 9 √3 III. 13.5
There is a vertical stack of books marked 1, 2, and 3 on Table-A, with 1 at the bottom and 3 on top. These are to be placed vertically on Table-B with 1 at the bottom and 2 on the top, by making a series of moves from one table to the other. During a move, the topmost book, or the topmost two books, or all the three, c...
An automotive test consisted of driving a car the same distance three separate times, first at an average rate of 4 miles per hour, then 5 miles per hour, then 6 miles per hour. If the test took 74 hours to complete, how many miles was the car driven during the entire test?
A can complete a project in 30 days and B can complete the same project in 30 days. If A and B start working on the project together and A quits 10 days before the project is completed, in how many days will the project be completed?
What is the rate percent when the simple interest on Rs.800 amount to Rs.160 in 4 Years?
What least number must be added to 1056, so that the sum is completely divisible by 23 ?
A and B started a business with initial investments in the ratio 2 : 3, after some months B withdrawn his investment, and their share in the annual profits were in the ratio 8 : 7. Then how long B was in the business ?
A and B are two circles. The radius of A is 5 times as large as the radius of B. What is the ratio between the areas of the circles?
Arun has 13 boxes of chocolates with him, with an average of 17 chocolates per box. If each box has at least 11 chocolates and no two boxes have equal number of chocolates, then what can be the maximum possible number of chocolates in any box?
If X is the sum of first 20 positive even integers and Y is the sum of first 20 positive odd integers, what is the value of x-y? Please try to explain your answers
A boy has nine trousers and 12 shirts. In how many different ways can he select a trouser and a shirt?
A sock drawer contains eight socks, each one a different solid color. The colors of the socks are pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. If the socks are laid next to each other, how many different arrangements of socks could be made?
If x is an odd negative integer and y is an even integer, which of the following statements must be true? I. (3x + 2y) is positive integer II. (xy)^2 is positive integer III. (y^2 - x) is positive integer
Find the odd man out 1, 2, 5, 14, 41, 124
A dog breeder currently has 9 breeding dogs. 6 of the dogs have exactly 1 littermate, and 3 of the dogs have exactly 2 littermates. If 2 dogs are selected at random, what is the probability Q that both selected dogs are NOT littermates?
A is two years older than B who is twice as old as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C be 27, the how old is B?
Heinz produces tomato puree by boiling tomato juice. The tomato puree has only 20% water while the tomato juice has 90% water. How many liters of tomato puree will be obtained from 25 litres of tomato juice?
By selling an umbrella for Rs. 300, a shop keeper gains 300%. During a clearance sale, the shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% on the marked price. His gain percent during the sale is?
Which is the following is divisible by 11
Matt gets a $1,000 commission on a big sale. This commission alone raises his average commission by $150. If Matt's new average commission is $700, how many sales has Matt made?
Sid obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 80 marks (out of 100) in English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. What are his average marks?
How many integer values are there for x such that 1 < 3x + 5 < 17?
Nine persons went to a hotel for taking their meals. Eight of them spent Rs 12 each on their meals and the ninth spent Rs.8 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. What was the total money spent by them?
A student chose a number, multiplied it by 2, then subtracted 138 from the result and got 102. What was the number he chose?
How many pounds of salt at 50 cents/lb must be mixed with 40 lbs of salt that costs 38 cents/lb so that a merchant will get 20% profit by selling the mixture at 48 cents/lb?
The length of a train and that of a platform are equal. If with a speed of 90 k/hr, the train crosses the platform in one minute, then the length of the train (in meters) is?
The smallest value of n, for which 2n+1 is not a prime number, is
How many pages the book have, if total 303 digits are used to form the page numbers?
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 ...
in a school the ratio of boys and girls are in the ration 5:6 .25% of boys will get scholar ship and 20% of girls will get scholar ship what % of students wont get scholarship?
How many positive integer solutions does the equation 2x+1y = 100 have?
A travel agent offers a vacation plan which costs x dollars for the first day, and x/2 for each additional day. How much does a vacation of y days cost, where y > 1.
If n is an integer, then which of the following statements is/are FALSE? I)n^3 – n is always even. II)8n^3 +12n^2 +6n +1 is always even. III)√ (4n^2 – 4n +1) is always odd.
k, l, m together started a business. k invested Rs.6000 for 5 months l invested Rs.3600 for 6 months and m Rs.7500 for 3 months. If they get a total profit of Rs.7410. Find the share of l ?
A car drives 60 miles on local roads at 20 mph, and 120 miles on the highway at 60 mph, what is the average speed of the entire trip?
A barrel holds 4 quarts of tar and 4 quarts of turpentine. How many quarts of turpentine must be added to the container to create a mixture that is 3 parts tar to 5 parts turpentine by volume?
Mice can multiply very fast. Adult mice can give birth once every month, and baby mice grow into adult mice in just two months after they are born. If you would buy a baby mouse just after it was born, how many mice would you have in 10 months?
Find the number of ways in which 5 identical balls can be distributed among 10 identical boxes, if not more than one ball can go into a box?
Sum of 3 consecutive even no.'s is 38 more than the 1st no. of the series. Find the middle no.?
Joshua and Jose work at an auto repair center with 6 other workers. For a survey on health care insurance, 2 of the 6 workers will be randomly chosen to be interviewed. What is the probability that Joshua and Jose will both be chosen?
A company selected 250 zip codes in Northeastern, Florida, Arizona and California in order to mail a product catalog. The number of Northeastern zip codes was twice Florida's, and four times Arizona's, and 4/3 California's. 75,000 catalogues were mailed to California and 25% resulted in product orders. What is the rati...
Find the compound interest accrued on an amount of Rs.14,800 at 13.5% p.a at the end of two years. (Round off your answer to nearest integer)
For any four digit number, abcd, *abcd*= (3^a)(5^b)(7^c)(11^d). What is the value of (n – m) if m and n are four digit numbers for which *m* = (3^r)(5^s)(7^t)(11^u) and *n* = (25)(*m*)?
Ajay can ride 50km in 1 hour. In how many hours he can ride 1500km?
A plot is sold for Rs. 18,700 with a loss of 15%. At what price it should be sold to get profit of 15%.
For all integers a and b, a%b = (a + b)(a - b). If 9%x = 17, then which of the following could be a value of x?