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The smallest number which when diminished by 5, is divisible by 12, 16, 18, 21 and 28 is
A certain factory employed 600 men and 400 women and the average wager was Rs. 25.50 per day, If a woman got Rs. 5 less than a man, then what are their daily wages ?
How much time will take for an amount of Rs. 75 to yield Rs. 81 as interest at 4.5% per annum of simple interest?
In how many ways can 10 different gifts be divided among four children such that each child receives exactly two gifts?
There are 11 software engineers and 7 civil engineers in a company. Theyare selecting member for row. In how many ways can they be seated in a row so that no two of the civil engineers will sit together?
If Albert’s monthly earnings rise by 20%, he would earn $560. If, instead, his earnings rise by only 21%, how much (in $) would he earn this month?
If x is a positive integer, and two sides of a certain triangle have lengths x+2 and x+2 respectively, which of the following could be the length of the third side of the triangle? I. x + 1 II. x + 5 III. 2x + 1
Reena took a loan of Rs. 1200 with simple interest for as many years as the rate of interest. If she paid Rs. 972 as interest at the end of the loan period, what was the rate of interest?
The length of each side of square A is increased by 100 percent to make square B. If the length of the side of square B is increased by 80 percent to make square C, by what percent is the area of square C greater than the sum of the areas of squares A and B?
The average (arithmetic mean) of all scores on a certain algebra test was 90. If the average of the 8 male students’ grades was 86, and the average of the female students’ grades was 92, how many female students took the test?
Mike's age is 40 years. If he is 4 more than four times the age of his son, find the age of his son.
Alex has to take a quiz, which has ten true false-type question each carry 1 mark. What is the probability that Alex's can score more than 8 mark in the quiz. Given that he decides to guess randomly on the quiz.
A shopkeeper forced to sell at cost price, uses a 950 grams weight for a kilogram. What is his gain percent?
If the ratio of a to b is 2 to 3 and the ratio of b to c is 1 to 5, what is the ratio of a to c?
The area of a square field is 1600 km2. How long will it take for a horse to run around at the speed of 16 km/h ?
The speed of a train is 120 kmph. What is the distance covered by it in 8 minutes?
A wheel rotates 20 times every minute and moves 20 cm during each rotation. How many metres does the wheel move in one hour?
The value of a mobile depreciates at the rate of 5% every year. It was purchased 2 years ago. If its present value is Rs.9025 , its purchase price was
Daniel’s only source of income comes from his job as a question writer. In this capacity, Daniel earns a flat salary of $200 per week plus a fee of $7 for every question that he writes. Every year, Daniel takes exactly two weeks of unpaid vacation to visit his uncle, a monk in Tibet, and get inspired for the next year....
A man whose speed is 4.5 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?
If the average weights of three groups of 15,20,25 children respectively is 20,25,30 what is the average weights of all the children?
A certain company consists of 6 managers and 8 non-managers. How many different teams of 3 employees can be formed in which at least one member of the team is a manager and at least one member of the team is not a manager? (Two groups are considered different if at least one group member is different)
David and Rachel are getting married. The extended family wants to have its picture taken, but David's father is unwilling to stand next to Rachel's mother. How many options does the photographer have to arrange the 7 family members in a row for the picture?
The average of four positive integers is 69. The highest integer is 93 and the least integer is 39. The difference between the remaining two integers is 28. Which of the following integers is the higher of the remaining two integers?
On a trip covering 250 km, a bicyclist travels the first 100 km at 20 km per hour and the remainder of the distance at 15 km per hour. What is the average speed, in km per hour, for the entire trip?
According to a survey, at least 60% of people like apples, at least 75% like bananas and at least 80% like cherries. What is the minimum percentage of people who like all three?
Murali travelled from city A to city B at a speed of 40 kmph and from city B to city C at 60 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?
If an amount of Rs 11,200 is divided equally among 35 students, approximately how much amount will each student get?
Two pipes can separately fill a tank in 20 and 30 hours respectively. Both the pipes are opened to fill the tank but when the tank is full, a leak develops in the tank through which one-third of water supplied by both the pipes goes out. What is the total time taken to fill the tank?
A multi level marketing devised a training program by which a trainer could convince 40 persons every 60 minutes he conducts the program. And in the next 60 minutes those each of those 40 persons will convince 40 persons. If this process is repeated how many people can be trained/convinced by the company in 300 minutes...
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Number N is randomly selected from a set of all primes between 10 and 40, inclusive. Number Q is selected from a set of all multiples of 5 between 10 and 40 inclusive. What is the probability that N+Q is odd?
Adam borrowed some money at the rate of 6% p.a. for the first 2years, at the rate of 9% p.a. for the next three years, and at the rate of 14% p.a. for the period beyond five years. If he pays a total interest of $ 11400 at the end of 9years, how much money did he borrow?
How many liters of a 40% iodine solution need to be mixed with 35 liters of a 20% iodine solution to create a 31% iodine solution?
If 6 men and 2 boys working together, can do five times as much work per hour as a man and a boy together. Find the ratio of the work done by a man and that of a boy for a given time?
Ages of two persons differ by 24 years. If 6 year ago, the elder one be 3 times as old the younger one, find their present age
By investing Rs. 1800 in 9% stock, Syam earns Rs. 120. The stock is then quoted at
If the sum of two numbers is 22 and the sum of their squares is 404, then the product of the numbers is
A man is standing on a railway bridge which is 180 m long. He finds that a train crosses the bridge in 24 seconds but himself in 8 seconds. Find the length of the train and its speed.
The salaries of A and B together amount to $5000. A spends 95% of his salary and B, 85% of his. If now, their savings are the same, what is A's salary?
In a candy dish the ratio of red to yellow candies is 2:5, the ratio of red to green candies is 3:8, and the ratio of yellow ot blue candies is 9:2.what is the maximum total number Q of yellow and green candies combined if the maximum combined number of red and blue candies is fewer than 85?
Which of the following could be the value of x, if 2|9x – 2| = 158?
(128.5 x 4) + (13.8 x 5) = ? x 10
If the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon measures 1440o, how many sides does the polygon have?
At a certain restaurant, the average (arithmetic mean) number of customers served for the past x days was 75. If the restaurant serves 120 customers today, raising the average to 80 customers per day, what is the value of x?
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?
The speed of a car is 98 km in the first hour and 70 km in the second hour. What is the average speed of the car?
15 lts are taken of from a container full of liquid A and replaced with Liquid B. Again 15 more lts of the mixture is taken and replaced with liquid B. After this process, if the container contains Liquid A and B in the ratio 9:16,What is the capacity of the container S?
When 1/20% of 4,000 is subtracted from 1/10 of 4,000, the difference is
Which of the following are/is prime? I. 143 II. 147 III. 157
A committee of 5 is to be selected from among 3 boys and 6 girls. I how many ways can this be done if the committee is to consist of at-least one Girl? what is the answer choice and how?
1401 x 1401 = ?
If the number 90x8 is divisible by 8,then what will be the value of x?
A boy has nine trousers and 12 shirts. In how many different ways can he select a trouser and a shirt?
If Jake loses 20 pounds, he will weigh twice as much as his sister. Together they now weigh 224 pounds. What is Jake’s present weight, in pounds?
An gun can take a maximum of four shots at an enemy plane moving away from it. The probability of hitting the plane at the 1st, 2nd, third & 4th shots are 1.4, 1.3, 1.2 & 1.1 respectively. What is the probability that the plane is hit when all the four shots are fired?
Calculate the circumference of a circular field whose radius is 5 centimeters.
A bullet train 160 m long is running with a speed of 70 kmph. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 8 kmph in the direction opposite to that in which the bullet train is going?
A factory produces 3400 toys per week. If the workers at this factory work 5 days a week and if these workers make the same number of toys everyday, how many toys are produced each day?
If the price of an article went up by 30%, then by what percent should it be brought down to bring it back to its original price?
ASvennumber is defined as a five-digit number which goes according to the following rules: the leftmost digit is even, any digit to the right of an even digit must be an odd digit, and any digit to the right of an odd digit can only be one of the digits 1 or 8. How many different 5-digit numbers areSvennumbers?
5^20+5^7/7=? Reminder is…………
A barrel contains 12 oranges, 8 grapefruit, and 5 apples for a total of 25 pieces of fruit. As a game, several friends took turns randomly extracting a single piece of fruit from the barrel blindfolded. If the extracted piece of fruit was not an apple, it was returned to the bin. This process was repeated until an appl...
Walking 7/6 of his usual rate, a boy reaches his school 7 min early. Find his usual time to reach the school?
A group of 55 adults and 70 children go for trekking. If there is meal for either 70 adults or 90 children and if 42 adults have their meal, find the total number of children that can be catered with the remaining food.
Four machines, each working at the same constant rate, together can complete a certain job in 12 days. How many additional machines, each working at the same constant rate, will be needed to complete the Job in 8 days?
Speed of a man with current measures 15 km/hr. Speed of current is 2.5 km/hr. What is the speed of man against the current?
A man walks at a speed of 3 km/hr and runs at a speed of 7 km/hr. How much time will the man require to cover a distance of 10 1/2 km, if he completes half of the distance, i.e., (5 1/4) km on foot and the other half by running?
What is the remainder when 49^74 - 5^74 is divided by 24?
For an employee to qualify for early retirement at a certain company, the sum of the employee’s age and years of service must be at least 72, If Sue was K years old when she was hired by the company, what is the minimum age at which she could possibly qualify for early retirement.
Reduce 368/575 to the lowest terms
If the area of a square with sides of length 8 centimeters is equal to the area of a rectangle with a width of 4 centimeters, what is the length of the rectangle, in centimeters?
When two coins are tossed, Find the probability of getting all tails?
The fourth proportional to 5, 8, 15 is:
A committee of three people is to be chosen from four teams of two. What is the number of different committees that can be chosen if no two people from the same team can be selected for the committee?
How many words can be formed by using all letters of the word 'SCOUNDREL' ?
A train running at the speed of 70 km/hr crosses a pole in 36 seconds. What is the length of the train?
Jim is twice as old as Stephanie, who, four years ago, was three times as old as Kate. If, five years from now, the sum Q of their ages will be 51, how old is Stephanie ?
If t is the product of the integers from 1 to 30, inclusive, what is the greatest integer k for which 3^k is a factor of t ?
On a certain day, orangeade was made by mixing a certain amount of orange juice with an equal amount of water. On the next day, orangeade was made by mixing the same amount of orange juice with twice the amount of water. On both days, all the orangeade that was made was sold. If the revenue from selling the orangeade w...
In a single throw of a die, what is the probability of getting a number greater than 4?
A data set with a mean of 60 has a standard deviation of 4.5. Which of the following is the smallest number that falls within one standard deviation of the mean?
If a, b are the two roots of a quadratic equation such that a + b = 24 and a – b = 8, then the quadratic equation having a and b as its roots is :
A warehouse is labeling computer inventory with 4-digit codes. Each code is to consist of four digits between the numbers 0 and 7. The manager is debating whether to allow any 4-digit codes to have leading zero's before a non-zero number is used. If not allowed, then numbers like0025cannot be used. The manager wants to...
A certain class of students is being divided into teams. The class can either be divided into 10 teams with an equal number of players on each team or 24 teams with an equal number of players on each team. What is the lowest possible number of students in the class?
A bag contains 12 white &18 black balls. 2balls are drawn in succession. What is the probability that first is white and second is black?
If [[x]] = x^2 + 2x + 4, what is the value of [[7]]?
The cost price of 13 articles is equal to the selling price of 11 articles. Find the profit percent?
The price of 5 kilograms of premium fertilizer is the same as the price of 16 kilograms of regular fertilizer. If the price of premium fertilizer is y cents per kilogram more than the price of regular fertilizer, what is the price, in cents, per kilogram of premium fertilizer?
A train 110 meters long is running with a speed of 60 kmph. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 kmph in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going?
Which of the following is greatest?
A certain debt will be paid in 65 installments from January 1 to December 31 of a certain year. Each of the first 20 payments is to be $410; each of the remaining payments is to be $65 more than each of the first 20 payments. What is the average (arithmetic mean) payment that will be made on the debt for the year?
Circular gears L and R start to rotate at the same time at the same rate. Gear L makes 10 complete revolutions per minute and gear R makes 30 revolutions per minute. How many seconds after the gears start to rotate will gear R have made exactly 6 more revolutions than gear L?
For any positive integer n, the sum of the first n positive integers equals n(n+1)/2. What is the sum s of all the even integers between 99 and 301?
Find out the number of ways in which 6 rings of different types can be worn in 3 fingers?
There are some pigeons and hares in a zoo. If heads are counted, there are 200. If legs are counted, there are 580. The number of hares in the zoo is?
Which of the following lines is perpendicular to y = − 2x + 3 and has the same y-intercept as y = 2x − 7?
In some quantity of ghee, 60% is pure ghee and 40% is vanaspati. If 10 kg of pure ghee is added, then the strength of vanaspati ghee becomes 20%. The original quantity was :
Drum X is 1/2 full of oil and drum Y, which has twice the capacity of drum X, is 1/3 full of oil. If all of the oil in drum X is poured into drum Y, then drum Y will be filled to what capacity?
The sum of two numbers is 73 and their difference is 28. Find the difference between their squares.