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A profit of Rs. 700 is divided between X and Y in the ratio of 1/2:1/3 . What is the difference between their profit shares ?
The current of a stream runs at the rate of 4 kmph. A boat goes 6 km and back to the starting point in 2 hours, then find the speed of the boat in still water?
There are 1000 students in a school and among them 10 % of them attends chess class. 10% of the students who are in the chess class are also enrolled for swimming. No other students are interested in swimming so how many will attend the swimming class if all enrolled attends?
One used-car salesperson receives a commission of $ 200 plus 3 percent of $ 1,000 less than the car’s final sale price. Another car salesperson earns a straight commission of 6 percent of the car’s final sale price. What is the final sale price of a car if both salespeople would earn the same commission for selling it?
(3220 + 6160) / 28
A sum of Rs.42000 is divided into three parts such that the simple interests accrued on them for three, six and seven years respectively may be equal. Find the amount deposited for 6 years.
A bullet train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 25 seconds. If the speed of the bullet train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?
From a pack of 52 cards, 1 card is drawn at random. What is the probability that a red card is drawn?
If the sum of three consecutive even numbers is 40 more than the average of these numbers, then the largest of these numbers is?
The number of arrangements that can be made with the letters of the word MEADOWS so that the vowels occupy the even places?
Earl can stuff advertising circulars into envelopes at the rate of 36 envelopes per minutes and Ellen requires a minutes and half to stuff the same number of envelops.Working together,how long will it take Earl and Ellen to stuff 180 envelopes
Barbara has 8 shirts and 9 pants. How many clothing combinations does Barbara have, if she doesn’t wear 3 specific shirts with 2 specific pants?
Total 45 cows 15 cow gives each 2 liter milk 15 cow gives each 3/4 liter milk 15 cow gives each 1/4 liter milk this is split into 3 son per each 15 cows & 15 liter milk how?
The speed of a boat in still water is 60kmph and the speed of the current is 5kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?
Roseline works 6 hours per day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 8 hours per day on Tuesday and Thursday. She does not work on Saturday and Sunday. She earns $272 per week. How much does she earn in dollars per hour?
If x > y and y > z, which of the following represents the greatest number E?
The average weight of 8 people increases by 2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing 75 kg. What is the weight of the new person?
Which is the integer that represents a sum of 3 consecutive even integers from the options given?
A and B started a business in partnership investing Rs.20,000 and Rs.15,000 respectively. After 6months, C joined them with Rs.20,000. Whatwill be B's share in total profit of Rs.24,000 earned at the end of 2years from the startingof the business?
A man rows his boat 75 km downstream and 45 km upstream, taking 5 hours each time. Find the speed of the stream?
The price of a mobile was increased by 25 percent. The new price was then decreased by 10 percent. A single increase of what percent is equivalent to these two successive changes?
if the price of a book is first decreased by 30% and then increased by 40%, then the net change in the price will be :
There are 10 members from that a total of 6 men & 4 ladies a committee of 3 is to be formed. If Mrs. A is not willing to join the committee in which Mr. B is a member, whereas Mr.B is willing to join the committee only if Mrs C is included, how many such committee are possible?
If a boat is rowed downstream for 24 km in 4 hours and upstream for 48 km in 24 hours, what is the speed of the boat and the river?
The area of a parallelogram is 128sq m and its altitude is twice the corresponding base. Then the length of the base is?
The difference between compound and simple interest on a certain sum of money for 3 years at 6 2/3% p.a is Rs.184. Find the sum?
When a=x+(2/x) and b=x-(2/x), (2^a^2)/(2^b^2)=?
If the cost price of 55 articles is equal to the selling price of 50 articles, then what is the percent profit?
A person purchased a TV set for Rs. 16000 and a DVD player for Rs. 6250. He sold both the items together for Rs. 36490 . What percentage of profit did he make?
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 n is a positive integer and n^2 is divisible by 200, then what is the largest positive integer that must divide n?
if the price of a book is first decreased by 30% and then increased by 20%, then the net change in the price will be :
At what rate percent on simple interest will Rs.750 amount to Rs.900 in 5 years?
Two stations A and B are 110 km apart on a straight line. One train starts from A at 7 a.m. and travels towards B at 20 kmph. Another train starts from B at 8 a.m. and travels towards A at a speed of 25 kmph. At what time will they meet?
The radius of a cylindrical vessel is 7cm and height is 6cm. Find the whole surface of the cylinder?
In the county of Veenapaniville, there are a total of 50 high schools, of three kinds: 25 public schools, 13 parochial schools, and 12 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 ...
A man buys Rs. 20 shares paying 9% dividend. The man wants to have an interest of 12% on his money. The market value of each share is:
John spent a total of $135 on baseball tickets. The price of a ticket is either $12 for the field seats or $5 for the balcony. What is the minimum amount E of dollars he could have spent for the $12 tickets?
If 5 men undertook a piece of construction work and finished half the job in 15 days. If two men drop out, then the job will be completed in
A reduction of 25% in the price of oil enables a house wife to obtain 5kgs more for Rs.800, what is the reduced price for kg?
How long does a train 110 m long travelling at 60 kmph takes to cross a bridge of 170 m in length?
If the ratio of ages of Mohan and Rakesh 4:3 and sum of their ages is 28 years then ratio of their ages after 4 years will be
The Shopkeeper increased the price of a product by 25% so that customer finds it difficult to purchase the required amount. But somehow the customer managed to purchase only 70% of the required amount. What is the net difference in the expenditure on that product?
During 2003, a company produced an average of 4,000 products per month. How many products will the company need to produce from 2004 through 2007 in order to increase its monthly average for the period from 2003 through 2007 by 150% over its 2003 average?
If a square is formed by the diagonal of the square as an edge, what is the ratio between the area?
After allowing a discount of 15% on the marked price, the selling price is Rs. 6800 for an article. If it was sold at marked price, there would have been a profit of 60%. The cost price of the article is?
The sum of ages of 5 children born 3 years different each is 50 yrs. What is the age of the Elder child?
In a certain pond, 60 fish were caught, tagged, and returned to the pond. A few days later, 60 fish were caught again, of which 2 were found to have been tagged. If the percent of tagged fish in the second catch approximates the percent of tagged fish in the pond, what`s the approximate number of fish in the pond?
Two employees X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 580 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week?
63 men working 8 hours per day dig 30 m deep. How many extra men should be put to dig to a depth of 50 m working 6 hours per day?
If the complement of a certain angle is six times the measure of that certain angle, then what is the measure of that certain angle?
The least number which must be subtracted from 709 to make it exactly divisible by 9 is:
The length of a rectangle is one fourth of the radius of a circle. The radius of the circle is equal to the side of the square, whose area is 784 sq.units. What is the area (in sq.units) of the rectangle if the rectangle if the breadth is 5 units?
In a 100-mile trip, the first 30 miles were completed at 60 mph. If the average speed for the whole trip was 40 mph, what was the average speed in the last 70 miles?
The average of the marks of 30 students in a class is 45. If the marks of each student are doubled, find the new average?
How long does a train 110 meters long running at the rate of 36km/hr take to cross a bridge 132 meters in length?
A cistern is filled by a tap in 3 1/2 hours. Due to leak in the bottom of the cistern, it takes half an hour longer to fill the cistern. If the cistern is full how long will it take the leak to empty it?
Train Q leaves New York at 7:00 am traveling to Boston at 80mph. Train B leaves Boston at 7:45 am traveling to New York at 70 mph on a parallel track. If the distance between New York and Boston is 210 miles, at what time will the two trains pass each other?
Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block ,3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensio...
For 2consecutive yrs, my incomes are in the ratio of 4:7 and expenses in the ratio of 3:5. If my income in the 2nd yr is Rs. 42000 & my expenses in the first yr in Rs.25000, my total savings for the two-year is
What will be the cost of building a fence around a circular plot with area equal to 289 sq ft, if the price per foot of building the fence is Rs. 58?
At the end of three years what will be the compound interest at the rate of 10% p.a. on an amount of Rs.40000?
A person takes 20 minutes more to cover a certain distance by decreasing his speed by 20%. What is the time taken to cover the distance at his original speed?
If m=9^(x−1), then in terms of m, 3^(4x−4) must be which of the following?
Find a sum for first 12 prime no's from number series?
In how many ways can 4 boys be allotted 3 different rooms such that none of the rooms are empty and all the 4 boys are accommodated?
The average mark of the students of a class in a particular exam is 60. If 5 students whose average mark in that exam is 44 are excluded, the average mark of the remaining will be 80. Find the number of students who wrote the exam?
WINK, Inc. follows a certain procedure that requires two tasks to be finished independently in order for a job to be done. On any given day, there is a 3/8 probability that task 1 will be completed on time, and a 3/5 probability that task 2 will be completed on time. On a certain day, what is the probability that task ...
If a survey shows that 34 citizens out of a sample of 200 support a particular Senate bill, what percent of the sample does not support the bill?
The ages of two persons differ by 16 years. 6 years ago, the elder one was 3 times as old as the younger one. What are their present ages of the elder person?
A person decided to build a house in 100days. He employed 100men in the beginning and 100 more after 20 days and completed the construction in stipulated time. If he had not employed the additional men , how many days behind schedule would it have been finished?
$6,000 is deposited in a savings account that pays 10% annual interest compounded semiannually. To the nearest dollar, how much is in the account at the end of the year?
A train is 310 meter long is running at a speed of 45 km/hour. In what time will it pass a bridge of 140 meter length?
If it is 6:27 in the evening on a certain day, what time in the morning was it exactly 2,880,713 minutes earlier? (Assume standard time in one location.)
1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, .... In the sequence above each term after after the first one-half the previous term. If x is the tenth term of the sequence, then x satisfies which of the following inequalities?
In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the probability of getting a prize?
Paul bought 100 books from $1250. If he sold 30 % of books to the $10 unit price and the other books in the $15 unit price, then what total profit did he realize?
How many three letter words are formed using the letters of the word COMPUTER?
The length of a rectangle is 2 times its width. If the width of the rectangle is 4 inches, what is the rectangle's area, in square inches?
A shopkeeper buys mangoes at the rate of 4 a rupee and sells them at 3 a rupee. Find his net profit or loss percent?
If equation |x/2| + |y/2| = 4 encloses a certain region on the coordinate plane, what is the area of this region?
For Consecutive integers x, y and z, where x > y > z, which of the following CANNOT be the value of (x2−y2)∗(y2−z2)(x^2−y^2)∗(y^2−z^2) ?
A rectangular field is to be fenced on three sides leaving a side of 20 feet uncovered. If the area of the field is 440 sq. feet, how many feet of fencing will be required?
Which of the following is a prime number
A train 120 m long passes a man,running at 6 kmph in the direction opposite to that of the train,in 6 seconds.The speed of the train is
A fill pipe can fill 1/4 of cistern in 16 minutes in how many minutes, it can fill 3/4 of the cistern?
How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits {1, 3, 4, 5, 7,9}(repetition of digits is not allowed)?
When y is divided by 276, the remainder is 42. What is the remainder when the same y is divided by 23?
Rajan got married 8 years ago. His present age is 6/5 times his age at the time of his marriage. Rajan's sister was 10 years younger to him at the time of his marriage. The age of Rajan's sister is: A. 32 years
In a certain town, the ratio of NY Yankees fans to NY Mets fans is 3:2, and the ratio of NY Mets fans to Boston Red Sox fans is 4:5. If there are 390 baseball fans in the town, each of whom is a fan of exactly one of those three teams, how many NY Mets fans are there in this town?
If the simple interest on a certain sum of money for 2 years is one–fifth of the sum, then the rate of interest per annum is
If three painters can complete three rooms in two hours, how many hours 5 painters would it take to do 20 rooms?
If the equation x^2−4x=k has at least one solution, which of the following must be true?
David is 12 years older than his daughter Rosy. In 4 years David will be twice as old as Rosy. What is Rosy current age.
Twelve pipes of equal capacity can fill a tank in four days. If the tank has to be filled in 3 days, the number of extra pipes needed is:
Three types of tea (namely a, b and c) costs Rs. 95/kg, Rs. 100/kg and Rs. 70/kg respectively. How many Kg. of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs. 90/kg, given that the quantities of band c are equal ?
The probability that a computer company will get a computer hardware contract is 3/4 and the probability that it will not get a software contract is 3/5. If the probability of getting at least one contract is 4/5, what is the probability that it will get both the contracts?
A grocer has a sale of Rs. 6435, Rs. 6927, Rs. 6855, Rs. 7230 and Rs. 6562 for 5 consecutive months. How much sale must he have in the sixth month so that he gets an average sale of Rs. 6600?
Teams A, B, C and D were in a baseball tournament. Each team played each other team once. Team A beat team D. Teams A, B and C won the exact same number of games. How many games did team D lose?
V is the volume of a cylinder; the radius r is 3.4. The height is 350% more than the radius. Which of the following is true?