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In how many ways can a Chief Minister and a Vice Minister be elected from a team of 11 members?
Two cars namely A and B start simultaneously from a certain place at the speed of 40 kmph and 55 kmph, respectively.The car B reaches the destination 2 hours earlier than A. What is the distance between the starting point and destination?
The length of a train and that of a platform are equal. If with a speed of 36 k/hr, the train crosses the platform in one minute, then the length of the train (in meters) is?
When 22 is divided by the positive integer k, the remainder is 2, for how many different values of k is this true?
7% of the total quantity of rice is lost in grinding when a country has to import 6 million tonnes, but when only 7 3/4% is lost, it can import 3 million tonnes. Find the quantity of rice grown in the country.
In a sequence, each term is obtained by adding 2 to the preceding one. If the sum of the first 20 terms is equal to 140, what is the result of the addition of the first 40 terms?
One-third of Rahul's savings in National Savings Certificate is equal to one-half of his savings in Public Provident Fund. If he has Rs. 1,75,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in Public Provident Fund ?
Crazy Eddie has a key chain factory. Eddie managed to decrease the cost of manufacturing his key chains while keeping the same selling price, and thus increased the profit from the sale of each key chain from 30% of the selling price to 50% of the selling price. If the manufacturing cost is now $50, what was it before the decrease?
A class has 6 boys and x girls. Average score of boys and girls is 50 and 60 respectively. the average of the whole class is 55, what is the value of x?
If 2x^2 + y^2 = 2xy, then (x - y)^2 =
Find the least square number which is exactly divisible by 10,12,15 and 18.
George went to a fruit market with certain amount of money. With this money he can buy either 50 oranges or 40 mangoes. He retains 15% of the money for taxi fare and buys 15 mangoes. How many oranges can he buy?
The profit earned by selling an article for Rs. 832 is equal to the loss incurred when the same article is sold for Rs. 448. What should be the sale price for making 20% profit?
In the interior of a forest, a certain number of apes equal to the square of one-fourth of the total number are playing and having great fun. The remaining four apes are on a hill and the echo of their shrieks by the adjoining hills frightens them. They came and join the apes in the forest and play with enthusiasm. What is the total number of apes?
Area of a square is 1/2 hectare. The diagonal of the square is?
A box contains 9 apples, 8 of which are red. An apple is drawn from the box and its color is noted before it is eaten. This is done a total of n times, and the probability that a red apple is drawn each time is less than 0.5. What is the smallest possible value of n?
How much time will a train of length 400 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?
If k is a non-negative integer and 21^k is a divisor of 435,961 then 7^k - k^7 =
The Simplastic language has only 2 unique values and 3 unique consonants. Every noun in Simplastic has the structure CVCVC, where C stands for a consonant and V stands for a vowel. How many different nouns are possible in Simplastic?
What distance will be covered by a city bus moving at 72 kmph in 30 seconds?
In a bag, there are coins of 25 p, 10 p and 5 p in the ratio of 1 : 2 : 3. If there is Rs. 30 in all, how many 25 p coins are there?
What is the square root of 3,969?
Which No. Replace in Question mark? 4,02,42,82,23,63,?
What number has a 5:1 ratio to the number 11?
In how many ways can we put 4 different balls in 3 different boxes when any box can contain any number of balls?
There are two numbers. If 50% of the first number is added to the second number, then the second number increases to its five-fourth. Find the ratio of the first number to the second number?
If m > 0 and y is m percent of x, then, in terms of m, x is what percent of y?
What is the HCF of 2/3, 4/9 and 6/18
A man purchased 3 blankets @ Rs.100 each, 5 blankets @ Rs.150 each and two blankets at a certain rate which is now slipped off from his memory. But he remembers that the average price of the blankets was Rs.150. Find the unknown rate of two blankets?
If x and y are odd integers, which of the following must always be a non-integer
David gets on the elevator at the 11th floor of a building and rides up at the rate of 57 floors per minute. At the same time, Albert gets on an elevator at the 51st floor of the same building and rides down at the rate of 63 floors per minute. If they continue travelling at these rates, then at which floor will their paths cross ?
From below option 48 is divisible by which one?
If (5^5)(9^3)=3(15^x), what is the value of x?
A no. when divided by the sum of 555 and 445 gives 2times their difference as quotient & 60 as remainder. Find the no. is?
Find the odd man out. 12, 24, 34, 48, 64, 84
The ratio of the two natural numbers is 5 : 6. If a certain number is added to both the numbers, the ratio becomes 7 : 8. If the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 10, find the number added?
If N = 1/5 + 1/5^2 +1/5^3 , then N is multiplied by 100 , will the product be greater than 100?
If x/4 + 24/x = 5, what are the values of 4x - 7?
A thief goes away with a SANTRO car at a speed of 22 kmph. The theft has been discovered after half an hour and the owner sets off in a bike at 72 kmph when will the owner over take the thief from the start?
A 30 kg metal bar made of alloy of tin and silver lost 3 kg of its weight in the water. 10 kg of tin loses 1.375 kg in the water; 5 kg of silver loses 0.375 kg. What is the ratio of tin to silver in the bar?
A tour group of 25 people paid a total of $1050 for entrance to a museum. If this price included a 5% sales tax, and all the tickets cost the same amount, what was the face value of each ticket price without the sales tax? Choices
A train runs at the speed of 72 kmph and crosses a 250 metre long platform in 26 seconds. What is the length of the train ?
John borrowed 3 soccer boots from Jake, and forgot them on the field, if peter came across a total of 15 boots on the field Jake's boots inclusive, and he took 4 boots at random, what is the probability that Jake's boots were not amongst the 4 taken?.
Sachin is younger than Rahul by 4 years. If their ages are in the respective ratio of 7:9, how old is Sachin?
What will be the difference between simple and compound interest at 16% per annum on a sum of Rs. 1000 after 4 years?
If paint costs $3.20 per quart, and a quart covers 1200 square feet, how much will it cost to paint the outside of a cube 10 feet on each edge?
An empty bottle weighs 1/6th of the full bottle. When a certain percent of water was removed and the bottle was weighed, the weight of the bottle turned out to be 1/3rd of the bottle when it was full. What is the percent of water removed?
A man started driving at a constant speed, from the site of a blast, the moment he heard the blast. He heard a second blast after a time of 30 mins and 20 seconds. If the second blast occurred exactly 30 mins after the first, how many meters was he from the site when he heard the second blast? ( speed of sound = 330 m/s)
a school has 6 maths 5 physics and 5 chemistry teachers each teacher can teach 4 subjects max what is he minimum number of teachers required
A person, who decided to go to weakened trip should not exceed 8 hours driving in a day. Average speed of forward journey is 40 m/h. Due to traffic in Sundays, the return journey average speed is 30 m/h. How far he can select a picnic spot?
Taequan is playing a dice game where he rolls two, fair, six-sided dice twice. If he gets the same roll on his second try as his first, he wins. If he rolled an 8 on his first try, what is the probability that he will win with his second roll?
A thief is spotted by a policeman from a distance of 100 metres. When the policeman starts the chase, the thief also starts running. If the speed of the thief be 8km/hr and that of the policeman 10 km/hr, how far the thief will have run before he is overtaken?
Mangala completes a piece of work in 18 days, Raju completes the same work in 40 days. If both of them work together, then the number of days required to complete the work is
The average weight of 8 person's increases by 5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing 35 kg. What might be the weight of the new person?
What numbers should go on the bottom line? 3 6 9 15 8 2 10 12 11 8 19 27 19 10 29 39 ? ? ? ?
A tradesman sold an article at a loss of 20%. If the selling price had been increased by $100, there would have been a gain of 5%. What was the cost price of the article ?
On January 1, 2011, James invests 80% of his retirement savings in Antarctic largecap stocks, 10% in Antarctic midcaps, and 10% in Antarctic smallcaps. In 2011, largecaps rise 10%, midcaps rise 10%, and smallcaps rise 20% in the Antarctic stock market; however, in 2012, largecaps fall 5% and midcaps fall 10%, while smallcaps rise x% in Antarctica. If, on January 1, 2013,James has the same total amount of retirement savings as he did two years before, then x is between
√{(3.5)(10^9)} is closest to which of the following?
The volumes of two cones are in the ratio 1 : 10 and the radii of the cones are in the ratio of 1 : 2. What is the length of the wire?
A tank is filled by 3 pipes A,B,C in 5 hours. Pipe C is twice as fast as B and B is twice as fast as A. How much will pipe A alone take to fill the tank ?
A can run a kilometer race in 4 1/2 min while B can run same race in 5 min. How many meters start can A give B in a kilometer race, so that the race mat end in a dead heat?
In a certain province in Russia there are 15 cities. If a single road segment connects only two cities, how many road segments are required in order to connect the cities so that each city is connected to all other cities with a single road segment?
In an apartment building that has 441 units, 4 out of every 7 units are currently rented, including 1/5 of the one-bedroom units. If, of the rented apartments, there is a 6:1 ratio of two-bedroom units to one-bedroom units, and the building only consists of two-bedroom and one-bedroom units, how many two-bedroom units are not rented?
How many minutes does it take Dhoni to type 64 words if he types at the rate of 16 words per minute?
A and B start walking towards each other at 6pm at speed of 6kmph and 4kmph. They were initially 50km apart. At what time do they meet?
Manoj borrowed Rs.4200 from Anwar at 6% p.a. simple interest for three years. He then added some more money to the borrowed sum and lent it to Ramu for the same time at 9% p.a. simple interest. If Manoj gains Rs.824.85 by way of interest on the borrowed sum as well as his own amount from the whole transaction, then what is the sum lent by him to Ramu?
Find the remainder of the division (3^50)/7.
If the average (arithmetic mean) of 5 positive temperatures is x degrees Fahrenheit, then the sum Z of the 3 greatest of these temperatures, in degrees Fahrenheit, could be
The present population of a town is 1000. Population increase rate is 25% p.a. Find the population of town before 1 years?
The speed of a boat in still water is 60kmph and the speed of the current is 12kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?
A cargo ship carrying four kinds of items, doohickies, geegaws, widgets, and yamyams, arrives at the port. Each item weighs 2, 11, 5, and 7 pounds, respectively, and each item is weighed as it is unloaded. If, in the middle of the unloading process, the product of the individual weights of the unloaded items equals 104,350,400,000 pounds, how many widgets have been unloaded?
How much water must be added to 60 litres of milk at 1.5 litres for Rs. 20 So as to have a mixture worth Rs.32/3 a litre?
Angelina walked 150 meters from her home to the grocery at a constant speed. She then walked 200 meters to the gym at double the speed. She spent 10 seconds less on her way from the grocery to the gym than on her way from home to the grocery. What was Angelina's speed, in meters per second, from the grocery to the gym?
In a 1000 m race Usha beats Shiny by 50 m. In the same race, by what time margin Shiny beat Mercy who runs at 4 m/s ?
If a person walks at 16 km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he would have walked 20 km more. The actual distance traveled by him is:
Insert the missing number. 2, 7, 10, 22, 18, 37, 26
How many ways are there for 3 males and 3 females to sit (around a circular table) if no male should sit next to a male (and no female next to female) and Mary wants to sit with her back on the wall?
How many different values of positive integer x, for which |x+9|<x, are there?
A man buys an article for 14% less than its value and sells it for 14% more than its value. His gain or loss percent is:
If x is negative and y is positive, which of the following must be positive?
In an election between 2 candidates, 50% of the voters cast their votes, out of which 10% of the votes were declared invalid. A candidate got 5000 votes which were 50% of the total valid votes. Find the total number of votes enrolled in that election?
A license plate in the country Kerrania consists of four digits followed by two letters. The letters A, B, and C are used only by government vehicles while the letters D through Z are used by non-government vehicles. Kerrania's intelligence agency has recently captured a message from the country Gonzalia indicating that an electronic transmitter has been installed in a Kerrania government vehicle with a license plate starting with 79. If it takes the police 9 minutes to inspect each vehicle, what is the probability that the police will find the transmitter within three hours?
Prathik purchased 40 shirts for rs 3000.he spends 10% for transportation. What should be the selling price per shirt to earn profit of 20% ?
A can do a certain job in 16 days. B is 60% more efficient than A. How many days does B alone take to do the same job?
A can do a work in 22 days. B is 30% more efficient than A. How many days does B alone take to do the same job?
When Q is divided by X, the quotient is R and the remainder is E. Which of the following expressions is equal to E?
The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 15 and the difference between the digits is 3. What is the two-digit number?
If n is a natural number, then(6n^2+6n) is always divisible by?
In a simultaneous throw of pair of dice .find the probability of getting the total more than 7
Kul is 22 years old and Saras is 33 years. Find the ratio of Saras's age to Kul's age.
If 2/a + 3/a + 6/a is an integer, which of the following must also be an integer?
What percent is 240 of 90?
Mr Yadav spends 60% of his monthly salary on consumable items and 50% of the remaining on clothes and transport. He saves the remaining amount. If his savings at the end of the year were 46800, how much amount per month would he have spent on clothes and transport?
How long does a train 125 m long running at the speed of 78 km/hr takes to cross a bridge 125 m length?
The average of seven numbers is 18. The average of first three numbers is 14 and the average of last three numbers is 23. What is the middle number?
The compound ratio of 5:6, 5:2 and 4:5?
A car runs at the speed of 40 km per hour when not serviced and runs at 80 kmph when serviced. After servicing the car covers a certain distance in 8 hours. How much time will the car take to cover the same distance when not serviced?
The Julie's father's age is two more than thrice Julie's age. If Julie will be 15 after 4 years, what is her father's present age?
Average score for Virat Kohli in a series of 10 matches is 38.9 runs. If the average for first six matches comes out to be 42 what is his average in the last 4 matches of the series?
The speed of boat in still water is 20 km/hr. If it travels 26 km downstream and 14 km upstream in same time, what is the speed of the stream?