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A man buys a cycle for Rs. 1400 and sells it at a loss of 15%. What is the selling price of the cycle?
An bus covers a certain distance at a speed of 280 kmph in 5 hours. To cover the samedistance in 1hr, it must travel at a speed of?
Ten different letters of alphabet are given, words with 5 letters are formed from these given letters. Then, the number of words which have at least one letter repeated is:
In a survey of political preferences, 78% of those asked were in favour of at least one of the proposals: I, II and III. 50% of those asked favoured proposal I, 30% favoured proposal II, and 20% favoured proposal III. If 5% of those asked favoured all three of the proposals, what W percentage of those asked favoured more than one of the 3 proposals.
A shopkeeper loses 15%,if an article is sold for Rs. 187. What should be the selling price of the article to gain 20%?
Every year an amount increases by 1/8th of itself. How much will it be after two years if its present value is Rs.65000?
The average of first four prime numbers greater than 30 is?
1/3, 1/2, 1/4, 2 1/3, 3 1/2, 4 1/4, 4 1/3, 6 1/2, ?
A wheel that has 6 cogs is meshed with a larger wheel of 14 cogs. When the larger wheel has made 24 revolutions, then the number of revolutions made by the smaller wheel is:
Two family reunions are happening at the Leela hotel, the Oates reunion and the Hall reunion. All 100 guests at the hotel attend at least one of the reunions. If 50 people attend the Oates reunion and 62 people attend the Hall reunion, how many people attend both reunions?
The average price of three items of furniture is Rs. 15000. If their prices are in the ratio 3:5:7, the price of the cheapest item is
Rose is two years older than Bruce who is twice as old as Chris. If the total of the age of Rose, B and Chris be 27 years, then how old is Bruce ?
The average marks of a class of 25 students is 40 and that of another class of 30 students is 60. Find the average marks of all the students?
If x and y are positive integers, and 1 is the greatest common divisor of x and y, what is the greatest common divisor F of 2x and 3y?
What is the value of (log2 3)(log3 4)(log4 5)...(log63 64)?
The sum of the first 50 positive even integers is 2550. What is the sum E of even integers from 102 to 200 inclusive?
A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 68 years now, the son's age five years back was:
Each of X alarm tolls at regular intervals. All of them tolls together twelve times a day. No two alarm at equal intervals of time. If each alarm tolls after a whole number of minutes, what is the maximum possible value of X?
The winning relay team in a high school sports competition clocked 48 minutes for a distance of 13.2 km. Its runners A, B, C and D maintained speeds of 16 kmph, 17 kmph, 18 kmph, and 19 kmph respectively. What is the ratio of the time taken by B to than taken by D?
A and B entered into a partnership investing Rs.25000 and Rs.30000 respectively. After 4 months C also joined the business with an investment of Rs.35000. What is the share of C in an annual profit of Rs.47000?
A, B and C are partners. A receives 2/3 of profits, B and C dividing the remainder equally. A's income is increased by Rs.200 when the rate to profit rises from 5 to 7 percent. Find the Capital of B?
A town's oldest inhabitant is x years older than the sum of the ages of the Lee triplets. If the oldest inhabitants is now J years old, how old will one of the triplets F be in 20 years? J-X-40/3 is my answers. J = X + L + L + L is the initial situation After 20 years J + 20 = X + L + L + L + 60 ...20 years for each triplet so 60 years totally. J - X - 40/ 3 = L is my answer. What wrong am i doing ? Since the age asked is after 20 years i also consider adding 20 years to J .
A 3" cube is painted in all its faces and then it is cut down into 1" blocks. How many 1" blocks are there even without a single face being painted?
What are the number of ways to select 3 men and 2 women such that one man and one woman are always selected?
The volume of a sphere with radius r is (4/3)*pi*r^3 and the surface area is 4*pi*r^3. If a sperical balloon has a volume of 36 pi cubic centimeters, what is hte surface area of the balloon in square centimeters?
The ratio of men to women in a class is 6 to 5. If 6 men and 6 woman drop out of the class and the ratio of men to women after the drop out is 4 to 3, then how many men are currently in the class?
A dress on sale in a shop is marked at $D. During the discount sale its price is reduced by 15%. Staff are allowed a further 10% reduction on the discounted price. If a staff member buys the dress what will she have to pay in terms of D ?
What is the value of 4^4+4^6?
15 men take 21 days of 8 hrs. each to do a piece of work. How many days of 5 hrs. each would it take for 21 women if 3 women do as much work as 2 men?
There are 51 people in a certain community who belong to the local golf club, tennis club or both clubs. If twice as many people belong to the tennis club as belong to the golf club, what could be the number of people who belong to both clubs?
A certain collage has total of 200 seniors each majoring in exactly one of six subjects. A minimum of 20 seniors major in each six subjects. If three quarter of the seniors major in one of four subjects, what is the greatest possible number of seniors majoring in one of the other two subjects?
Look at this series: 1.5, 2.3, 3.1, 3.9, ... What number should come next?
If n is an integer and n^4 is divisible by 5, which of the following could be the remainder when n is divided by 5?
The price of a bushel of corn is currently $3.20, and the price of a peck of wheat is $8.80. The price of corn is increasing at a constant rate of 5x cents per day while the price of wheat is decreasing at a constant rate of x(2^1/2) - x cents per day. What is the approximate price when a bushel of corn costs the same amount as a peck of wheat?
A train 132 m long pass a telegraph pole in 6 seconds. Find the speed of the train
If a boat goes 7 km upstream in 42 minutes and the speed of the stream is 3 kmph, then the speed of the boat in still water is :
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?
Consider the sequence of numbers beginning 23, 27, 28, 32, 33... It continues in such a way that by adding 5 to the nth term, one obtains the (n + 2)th term. What is the sum of the first 16 members of this sequence?
If a number between 10 and 60 (inclusive) at random. What is the probability that the tens digit is greater than ones digit?
When x is divided by y, the quotient is s with remainder r. Which of the following is y in terms of r, x, and s? (Assume both y and s are nonzero.)
The original price of a camera was displayed as a whole dollar amount. After adding sales tax of 10 percent, the final price was also a whole dollar amount. Which of the following could be the final price of the camera?
Given that a “12-inch pizza” means circular pizza with a diameter of 12 inches, changing from an 4-inch pizza to a 12-inch pizza gives you approximately what percent increase in the total amount of pizza?
A clock loses a minute every three hours for 4 days and gains 1% in the subsequent 6 days. If it was set right on Friday at 10 AM, what will be the time at the end of 10 days?
A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 3 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10 sec. The speed of the train is?
Let a, b, c be distinct digits. Consider a two-digit number ‘ab’ and a three-digit number ‘ccb’, both defined under the usual decimal number system, if (ab)2= ccb > 300, then the value of b is
Can you find the missing number in the sequence given below? 10 17 24 11 18 ? 12 19 26 13 20 27
A fort of 2000 soldiers has provisions for 50 days. After 10 days some of them left and the food was now enough for the same period of 50 days as before. How many of them left?
In how many different ways can 4 physics, 2 math, and 4 chemistry books be arranged in a row so that all books of the same subject are together?
How many seconds will a 500 metre long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr?
A tin is full of wine. Out of this tin, 4 gallons of wine are taken out and 4 gallons of water are added. After this 4 gallons of mixture were taken out and again 4 gallons of water were added. Now the ratio of wine and water in the tin becomes 36:13. Find the volume of tin.
The average monthly income of P and Q is Rs. 5050. The average monthly income of Q and R is Rs. 6250 and the average monthly income of P and R is Rs. 5200. The monthly income of P is:
A jar of 220 marbles is divided equally among a group of marble-players today. If 2 people joined the group in the future, each person would receive 1 marble less. How many people are there in the group today?
How long does a train 110 meters long running at the speed of 72 km/hour take to cross a bridge 132 meters in length ?
The time it took car P to travel 800 miles was 2 hours less than the time it took car R to travel the same distance. If car P’s average speed was 10 miles per hour greater than that of car R, what was car R’s average speed, in miles per hour?
The total cars in a Garage is 1000 out of which 500 are made by Honda. Out of every 100 Honda cars, 90 are red in color, but only 50% of the total cars is red. Find the % of non-Honda cars that are red
By selling 150 mangoes, a fruit-seller gains the selling price of 30 mangoes. Find the gain percent?
How long will it take a sum of money invested at 5% p.a. S.I. to increase its value by 100%?
Of the three-digit integers greater than 400, how many have two digits that are equal to each other and the remaining digit different from the other two?
A worker's daily wage is increased by 50% and the new wage is $42 per day. What was the worker's daily wage before the increase?
Walking 7/6 of his usual rate, a boy reaches his school 4 min early. Find his usual time to reach the school?
In a partnership for a business, Jay invests Rs.6000 for complete year & Viru invests Rs.3000 for 6 months. What is Viru’s share if they earn Rs.240 as profit?
The smallest 6 digit number exactly divisible by 111 is?
Two same class students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more than the other and her marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. What are the marks obtained by them?
In what time will a railway train 60 m long moving at the rate of 36 kmph pass a telegraph post on its way?
What is the different between the place value and face value of 6 in the numeral 5468?
The parameter of a square is equal to the perimeter of a rectangle of length 16 cm and breadth 14 cm. Find the circumference of a semicircle whose diameter is equal to the side of the square. (Round off your answer to two decimal places)?
What is the difference between the place value of 2 in the numeral 7229?
A certain list consists of 21 different numbers. If n is in the list and n is 8 times the average (arithmetic mean) of the other 20 numbers in the list, then n is what fraction of the sum of the 21 numbers in the list?
What is the area of a square field whose sides have a length of 16 meters?
Express a speed of 56 kmph in meters per second?
The ratio of ages of A and B 1 year ago was 3:4.After 1 year it will be 5:6.what is the present age of A.
Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?
In an examination, 20% of total students failed in Hindi, 70% failed in English and 10% in both. The percentage of these who passed in both the subjects is :
A can do a job in 9 days and B can do it in 27 days. A and B working together will finish twice the amount of work in ------- days?
A ladies hostel had provision of food for 300 women for 45 days. After 10 days, 25 women left the hostel. The number of days for which the remaining food will last is:
If the number 992,132,24x is divisible by 11, what must be the value of x?
The speed at which a man can row a boat in still water is 15 kmph. If he rows downstream, where the speed of current is 3 kmph, what time will he take to cover 60 metres?
Two goods trains each 500 m long are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 45 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one?
If the length of a rectangle is halved and its breadth is tripled, what is the percentage change in its area?
Frank is 12 years younger then John. In 5 years John will be twice as old as Frank. How old will Frank be in four years?
How many such 3's are there in the following number sequence which are immediately Preceded by an odd number and immediately followed by an even number ? 5 3 8 9 4 3 7 2 3 8 1 3 8 4 2 3 5 7 3 4 2 3 6
Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 3 more than twice the third. The third integer is:
By investing in 1623% stock at 64, one earns Rs. 1700. The investment made is
At a circular table for eight will sit six adults and two small children. The two children will sit next to each other, and the two parents of the children will sit next to the children so that there is one parent on each side of the two children. If rotating their positions around the table is not considered changing the arrangement, in how many different ways can the eight people be arranged around the table.
A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 815 in 3 years and to Rs. 854 in 4 years. The sum is:
Robert ate 12 chocolates, Nickel ate 3 chocolates. How many more chocolates did Robert ate than nickel?
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. 1,00,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in Public Provident Fund ?
A producer of tea blends two varieties of tea from two tea gardens one costing Rs 18 per kg and another Rs 20 per kg in the ratio 5 : 3. If he sells the blended variety at Rs 25 per kg, then his gain percent is
A large tank can filled by A and B in 60 minutes and 40 minutes respectively. How many minutes will it take to fill the tanker from empty state if B is used for half the time and A and B fill it together for the other half?
The ratio of number of boys and girls in a class is 3 : 2. In the 1st semester exam 20% of boys and 25% of girls get more than or equal to 90% marks. What percentage of students get less than 90% marks ?
If a person walks at 10 km/hr instead of 8 km/hr, he would have walked 14 km more. The actual distance traveled by him is?
The average temperature for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 52°C. The average temperature for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 54°C. If the temperature on Friday be 53°C, what was the Temperature on Tuesday?
Hector runs a one-product widget shop. Each month, his fixed costs, whether he produces anything or not, amount to x dollars. The marginal cost of producing and selling one widget is a constant y dollars, regardless of the number he produces. He generally can sell widgets for r dollars each. What is the minimum number of widgets he must produce, assuming he sells every widget he produces, to break even (neither make a profit nor incur a loss) in a given month?
Let n~ be defined for all positive integers n as the remainder when (n - 1)! is divided by n. What is the value of 34~ ?
In a weight-lifting competition, the total weight of Joe's two lifts was 450 pounds. If twice the weight of his first lift was 300 pounds more than the weight of his second lift, what was the weight, in pounds, of his first lift?
The ratio by weight, measured in pounds, of books to clothes to electronics in a suitcase initially stands at 5:4:2. Someone removes 9 pounds of clothing from the suitcase, thereby doubling the ratio of books to clothes. How many pounds do the electronics in the suitcase weigh?
A rectangular field is to be fenced on three sides leaving a side of 20 feet uncovered. If the area of the field is 10 sq. feet, how many feet of fencing will be required?
if x-y-z = 0,3 x+4y+3z = 4,5x+2y+7z = 22 ,what is the value of z?
The output of a factory is increased by 10% to keep up with rising demand. To handle the holiday rush, this new output is increased by 20%. By approximately what percent would the output of the factory now have to be decreased in order to restore the original output?
A boat with still water speed of a is traveling upstream where the streams speed is b. After covering certain distance s, the boat turns back and tries to come to the starting place. But the boat stops at 3/4th of the intended distance due to a technical fault. What is the ratio of the time taken for the return journey to that of the upstream journey.