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As a bicycle salesperson, Norman earns a fixed salary of $20 per week plus $6 per bicycle for the first six bicycles he sells, $12 per bicycle for the next six bicycles he sells, and $18 per bicycle for every bicycle sold after the first 12. This week, Norman earned more than twice as much as he did last week. If he so... |
A patient was given five pills which he is required to take one after every twenty minutes.
How long can the pills run for him? |
A tradesman by means of his false balance defrauds to the extent of 10%? in buying goods as well as by selling the goods. What percent does he gain on his outlay? |
There are 14 teams in a certain league and each team plays each of the other teams exactly once. What is the total number of games played? |
A is twice as good workman as B, and together they complete a work in 20 days. In how many days can the work be complete by B alone? |
A bat is bought for Rs.400 and sold at a gain of 5% find its selling price? |
The simple interest on a certain sum of money for 2 years at 10% per annum is half the compound interest on $100 for 2 years at 5% per annum. The sum placed on simple interest is ? |
The average runs of a cricket player of 8 innings was 24. How many runs must he make in his next innings so as to increase his average of runs by 8? |
If a/b = 2, b/c = 3/2, c/d = 1/3, d/e = 2 and e/f = 2/3, then what is the value of abc/def ? |
There are 6 girls and 6 boys. If they are to be seated in a row, what is the probability that no two boys sit together? |
A restaurant meal cost $38.75 and there was no tax. If the tip was more than 20 percent but less than 25 percent of the cost of the meal, then the total amount paid must have been between |
A cloth, when bleached, was found to have lost 20% of its length and 10% of its breadth. The percentage of decrease in area is: |
A clothing store originally bought 100 jackets at a total cost of j dollars. If each jacket was sold for 40 percent more than its original cost, what was the individual price, in terms of j, of each jacket sold? |
The list price of an article is Rs.65. A customer pays Rs.56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts, one of them being 10%. The other discount is? |
If P(A) = 2/15, P(B) = 4/15, and P(A ∪ B) = 11/15 Find P(A|B) |
A boat running upstream takes 8 hours 48 minutes to cover a certain distance, while it take 4 hours to cover the same distance running downstream. What is the ratio between the speed of the boat and speed of the water current respectively? |
In the coordinate plane, points (x, 1) and (10, y) are on line k. If line k passes through the origin and has slope 1/4, then x + y = |
If s is the product of the integers from 70 to 80 inclusive, and if t is the product of the integers from 70 to 81 inclusive, what is 1/s + 1/t in terms of t? |
Three candidates contested an election and received 1136, 7636 and 13000 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get? |
If 3^x*4^y = 4,782,969 and x – y = 14, then x = ? |
In the county of Veenapaniville, there are a total of 50 high schools, of three kinds: 25 public schools, 17 parochial schools, and 8 private independent schools. These 50 schools are divided between three districts: A, B, and C. District A has 18 high schools total. District B has 17 high schools total, and only two o... |
25 children are going to a picnic. What is the smallest number of cakes that must be brought to the picnic so that each child receives the same number of cakes? |
? x 120 = 173 x 240 |
The average mark of the students of a class in a particular exam is 80. If 5 students whose average mark in that exam is 40 are excluded, the average mark of the remaining will be 90. Find the number of students who wrote the exam. |
The area of the square formed on the diagonal of a rectangle as its side is 108 1/3 % more than the area of the rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 28 units, find the difference between the sides of the rectangle? |
Siddharth wants to borrow Rs.8000 at rate of interest 6% p.a. at S.I and lend the same amount at C.I at same rate of interest for two years. What would be his income in the above transaction? |
A scale 6 ft. 8 inches long is divided into 4 equal parts. Find the length of each part. |
A gambler began playing blackjack with $110 in chips. After exactly 12 hands, he left the table with $320 in chips, having won some hands and lost others. Each win earned $100 and each loss cost $10. How many possible outcomes were there for the first 5 hands he played? (For example, won the first hand, lost the second... |
. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A’s chances of winning. Let’s assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia; Ghana ... |
A certain quantity is measured on two different scales, the P-scale and the S-scale, that are related linearly. Measurements on the P-scale of 6 and 24 correspond to measurements on the S-scale of 30 and 60, respectively. What measurement on the P-scale corresponds to a measurement of 100 on the S-scale? |
Goods were bought for Rs. 600 and sold the same for Rs. 688.50 at a credit of 9 months and thus gaining 2% The rate of interest per annum is: |
A man can row at 5 kmph in still water. If the velocity of current is 1 kmph and it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place? |
Set A contains three different positive odd integers and four different positive even integers. Set B contains two different positive odd integers and three different positive even integers. If one integer from set A and one integer from set B are chosen at random, what is the probability that the product of the chosen... |
For each positive integer,the quantitySn is defined such thatSn+2=(Sn)^2 -S(n+2).in addition ,S2=1.then which of the following must be true. |
Half the people on a bus get off at each stop after the first, and no one gets on after the first stop. If only one person gets off at stop number 8, how many people got on at the first stop? |
Set A contains all the even numbers between 2 and 50 inclusive. Set B contains all the even numbers between 102 and 150 inclusive. What is the difference between the sum of elements of set B and the sum of the elements of set A? |
A and B start a business jointly. A invests Rs.16000 for 8 months and B remains in the business for 4 months. Out of the total profit B claims 2/7th share. How much money is contributed by B? |
200 hundred multiples of seven are chosen at random, and 500 multiples of eight are chosen at random. Approximately what percentage of the 700 selected numbers are odd? |
A man can row his boat with the stream at 8 km/h and against the stream in 4 km/h. The man's rate is? |
A, B and C rents a pasture for Rs.480. A put in 12 horses for 8 months, B 16 horses for 9 months and 18 horses for 6 months. How much should C pay? |
What is the median from the below series 92, 93, 88, 95, 88, 97, 87, and 98 |
What is the prime factors’ number of 18? |
A 30% solution of barium chloride is mixed with 10 grams of water to form a 20% solution. How many grams of original solution did we start with ?
I am trained to complete above problem as per following technique. Is it possible to solve in following manner.
30%_________100%
______20%
ratio is 100-20 : 20-30, which is w... |
Find the greatest number that will divide 205, 626 and 588 leaving 5, 6 and 8 as remainders respectively |
30 binders can bind 1400 books in 21 days. How many binders will be required to bind 1600 books in 20 days? |
A person purchased a TV set for Rs. 2000 and a DVD player for Rs. 1500. He sold both the items together for Rs. 4000. What percentage of profit did he make? |
A person buys an article at Rs.500. At what price should he sell the article so as to make a profit of 20%? |
A city with a population of 97,500 is to be divided into 6 voting districts, and no district is to have a population that is more than 10 percent greater than the population of any other district. What is the minimum possible population that the least populated district could have? |
Hillary and Tenzing are climbing to the summit of Mt. Everest from a base camp 4,800 ft from the summit. When they depart for the summit at 06:00, Hillary climbs at a rate of 800 ft/hr with Tenzing lagging behind at a slower rate of 500 ft/hr. If Hillary stops 800 ft short of the summit and then descends at a rate of 1... |
In a BCCI meeting there are 12 people. All shake hands with each other once. How many handshakes will be there altogether? |
If a and b are positive integers, and a=4b+16, the greatest common divisor of a and b CANNOT be |
Find the 21th term of an arithmetic progression whose first term is 3 and the common difference is 5. |
What is the next number of the following sequence
7,0,1,8,5,12,9,2,6,3,2,? |
Complete the numerical sequence by replacing the question mark with the correct numbers.
5+3+2 = 151022
9+2+4 = 183652
8+6+3 = 482466
5+4+5 = 202541
9+5+5 = ?????? |
One man selling a lottery there are 10 prizes and 25 no prizes. if a lottery is drawn randomly, What is the probability of getting a prize? |
What least number should be subtracted from 642 so that the remainder when divided by 5, 7, and 9 will leave in each case the same remainder 4 ? |
If in a certain code "RANGE" is coded as 12345 and "RANDOM" is coded as 123678. Then the code for the word
"RAM" would be |
If 123xy is divisible by 40, then the value in place of x+y is : |
In a sample of associates at a law firm, 25 percent are second-year associates, and 75 percent are not first-year associates. What percentage of the associates at the law firm have been there for more than two years? |
Mike took 5 mock tests before appearing for the GMAT. In each mock test he scored 9 points more than the previous mock test. If he scored 760 on the GMAT and his average score for the mocks and the GMAT was 726.67, what was the difference in the score of his last mock and his GMAT score? |
IF x is an integer greater than 6, then all the following must be divisible by 3 EXCEPT |
A man can row upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 35 kmph, and then find the speed of the man in still water? |
If 15!/3^x is an integer, what is the greatest possible value of x? |
A fence consists of m lengths of fence that are each n feet long. A fence post separates each length of fence by its width of x feet. What is the total length R of the fence including the fence posts on each end? |
A 20% stock yielding 8% is quoted at? |
Jim bought edging to go around a circular garden with a radius of 6 feet. Later he decided to
double the diameter of the garden. How many more feet of edging must he buy? |
Find the amount of rs.7500 at compound interest at 4%per annum for 2 years? |
10^196 - 10^9 = Which of the following best approximates the value of the expression above? |
After decreasing 20% in the price of an article costs Rs.600. Find the actual cost of an article? |
The cost price of 25 books is the same as the selling price of ’X’ books. If the profit is 25%, then the value of X is ? |
total dinning bill of 3 people was $139.00 and 10% tip divided the bill evenly ?what is the bill amount each person shared . |
The cash difference between the selling prices of an article at a profit of 2% and 6% is Rs. 3. The ratio of the two selling prices is? |
Which of the following Equation is NOT equivalent to 25x^2 = y^2 - 16?Which of the following Equation is NOT equivalent to 25x^2 = y^2 - 16? |
A vessel of capacity 45 litres is fully filled with pure milk. Nine litres of milk is removed from the vessel and replaced with water. Nine litres of the solution thus formed is removed and replaced with water. Find the quantity of pure milk in the final milk solution? |
Three distinct single digit no A,B,C are in G.P. If abs(x) for real x is the absolute value of x(x if x is positive or zero, and x if x is negative),then the no. of different possible values of abs(A+B-C) is |
15 men can complete a piece of work in 25 days. In how many days can 20 men complete that piece of work? |
What is the sum of the digits of integer k, if k = (10^45- 46) |
A grocery store bought some mangoes at a rate of 5 for a dollar. They were separated into two stacks, one of which was sold at a rate of 5 for a dollar and the other at a rate of 5 for a dollar. What was the ratio of the number of mangoes in the two stacks if the store broke even after having sold all of its mangoes? |
Given
A+B+C=100
60A+40B+C=2000
Find A+B=? |
A batsman scored 120 runs which included 3 boundaries and 8 sixes. What percent of his total score did he make by running between the wickets. |
The average of a couple was 18Yrs when they were married 20Yrs ago.The avg age of
the couple and a child, who was born during the interval, is 26Yrs now. How old is the
child now ? |
If x and y are positive integers such that x/y=33.375, which of the following could be the remainder when x is divided by y? |
An artist wishes to paint a circular region on a square poster that is 3 feet on a side. If the area of the circular region is to be 1/2 the area of the poster, what must be the radius of the circular region in feet? |
Train A is stopped at a railway station and train B is passing the train A with a speed of 62kph. Train A and B are having lengths of 200m and 185m respectively. How long it will take the train B to pass train A? |
A man purchases 8 pens for Rs.9 and sells 9 pens for Rs.8, how much profit or loss does he make? |
Paul's income is 40% less than Rex's income, Quentin's income is 20% less than Paul's income, and Sam's income is 40% less than Paul's income. If Rex gave 60% of his income to Sam and 40% of his income to Quentin, sam's new income would be what fraction of Quentin's new income? |
Out of first 20 natural numbers, one number is selected at random. The probability that it is either an even number or a prime number is -. |
Find the odd man out 17, 39, 171, 347 |
The radius of a semi circle is 6.3 cm then its perimeter is? |
In a certain game, a large container is filled with red, yellow, green, and blue beads worth, respectively, 7, 5, 3, and 2 points each. A number of beads are then removed from the container. If the product of the point values of the removed beads is 72,030,000, how many red beads were removed? |
A card game called “high-low” divides a deck of 52 playing cards into 2 types, “high” cards and “low” cards. There are an equal number of “high” cards and “low” cards in the deck and “high” cards are worth 2 points, while “low” cards are worth 1 point. If you draw cards one at a time, how many ways can you draw “high” ... |
A and B invest in a business in the ratio 3 : 2. If 5% of the total profit goes to charity and A's share is Rs. 855. the total profit is |
Evaluate: 35 - 12*3*2 = ? |
In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'MATHEMATICS' be arranged so that the vowels always come together? |
In a Lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. It takes 34 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how many days would it take the patch to cover half of the lake? |
Murali travelled from city A to city B at a speed of 4 kmph and from city B to city C at 6 kmph. What is the average speed of Murali from A to C given that the ratio of distances between A to B and B to C is 2 : 3?
A. 48 kmph |
There are 134 toys coloured red and white in a box. Two red toys are removed from the lot and now there are twice as many red ones as white ones. How many of red colour toys are there now? |
8 and 2 are the first two terms in a geometric sequence. What is the arithmetic difference between the 3rd term and the 4th term? |
A person crosses a 600 m long street in 5 minutes. What is his speed in km per hour? |
Due to 10% decrease in the price of sugar and John can buy 5kg more sugar in Rs100 , then find the CP of sugar? |
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