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a is the hundreds digit of the three digit integer x, b is the tens digit of x, and c is the units digit of x. 3a = b = 3c, and a > 0. What is the difference between the two greatest possible values of x? Tip: Dont stop till you have exhausted all answer choices to arrive at the correct one.
A man walking at a rate of 5km/hr crosses a bridge in 15 minutes. The length of the bridge is?
The ratio of the ages of Mini and Minakshi is 4 : 3. The sum of their ages is 14 years. The ratio of their ages after 8 years will be
If x is a sum of all even integers on the interval 13...45 and y is their number, what is the GCD (x, y)?
A, B, C and D enter into partnership. A subscribes 1/3 of the capital B 1/4, C 1/5 and D the rest. How much share did A get in a profit of Rs.2445?
800 men have provisions for 20 days. If 200 more men join them, for how many days will the provisions last now?
What profit percent is made by selling an article at a certain price, if by selling at 2/3rd of that price, there would be a loss of 25%?
The distance between two planets is 3.00 × 10^6 light years. What is the distance between the two planets, in parsecs? (1 parsec = 3.26 light years)
The slant height of a cone is 12 cm and radius of the base is 4cm, find the curved surface of the cone.
The average weight of a group of boys is 35 kg. After a boy of weight 40 kg joins the group, the average weight of the group goes up by 1 kg. Find the number of boys in the group originally ?
Two trains, each 100 m long, moving in opposite directions, cross other in 8 sec. If one is moving twice as fast the other, then the speed of the faster train is?
A man buys an item at Rs. 1200 and sells it at the loss of 20 percent. Then what is the selling price of that item
An alloy is to contain copper and zinc in the ratio 7 : 3. The zinc required (in kg) to be melted with 35 kg of copper, is?
In a class of 140 students, 60% of them passed. By what percent is the number of students who passed more than the number of failed students?
3 candidates in an election and received 1136, 7636 and 11628 votes respectively. What % of the total votes did the winningcandidate got in that election?
If the President and Vice President must sit next to each other in a row with 8 other members of the Board, how many different seating arrangements are possible?
A person lent a certain sum of money at 4% per annum at simple interest and in 8 years the interest amounted to Rs.204 less than the sum lent. What was the sum lent?
On the xy-coordinate plane, point A lies on the y-axis and point B lies on the x-axis. Points A, B, and C form a right triangle with a 90-degree angle at point C and the triangle has an area of 18. If AC is parallel to the x-axis, and BC is parallel to the y-axis, which of the following could be the coordinates of poin...
Product of two natural numbers is 19. Then, the sum of reciprocals of their squares is
5/8 of 3/10 of a number is greater than 4/9 of 1/4 of the same number by 55. What is half of that number?
The average of 30 numbers is 48. If three numbers namely 45, 55 and 43 are discarded, the average of remaining numbers is?
If an item that originally sold for z dollars was marked up by x percent and then discounted by y percent, which of the following expressions R represents the final price of the item?
If 10 litres of an oil of Rs.50 per litres be mixed with 5 litres of another oil of Rs.67 per litre then what is the rate of mixed oil per litre?
List K consists of 10 consecutive integers. If -3 is the least integer in list K, what is the range of the positive integers in list K?
At a dinner party, 8 people are to be seated around a circular table. Two seating arrangement are considered different only when the positions of the people are different relative to each other. What is the total number of different possible seating arrangements for the group?
On a certain Monday, Carlos drove to work at an average speed of 20 miles per hour and home from work along exactly the same route at an average speed of 40 miles per hour. Which of the following is closest to his average speed for both trips combined?
If 5 workers collect 48 kg of cotton in 4 days, how many kg of cotton will 9 workers collect in 2 days?
Three numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5 : 7. The sum of its longest and smallest numbers equals the sum of the third number and 50. Find the third number?
The compound interest earned by Sunil on a certain amount at the end of two years at the rate of 8% p.a. was Rs.2828.80. Find the total amount that Sunil got back at the end of two years in the form of principal plus interest earned.
Find the least number must be subtracted from 105829 so that remaining no.is divisible by 21?
A wholesaler makes a 10% commission on the selling price for each bag of cat food it sells. If it sells 100 bags of cat food and makes $160 in commission, what was the selling price of each bag?
If x+y=5z, then which of the following represents the average (arithmetic mean) of x, y, and z, in terms of z?
In what time will a train 110 m long cross an electric pole, it its speed be 144 km/hr?
For a group of n people, k of whom are of the same sex, the (n-k)/n expression yields an index for a certain phenomenon in group dynamics for members of that sex. For a group that consists of 25 people, 8 of whom are females, by how much does the index for the females exceed the index for the males in the group?
A retail item is offered at a discount of c percent (where c > 10), with a 5% state sales tax assessed on the discounted purchase price. If the state sales tax were not assessed, what percent discount from the item’s original retail price, in terms of c, would result in the same final price?
Ravi purchased a refrigerator and a mobile phone for Rs. 15000 and Rs. 8000 respectively. He sold the refrigerator at a loss of 4 percent and the mobile phone at a profit of 10 percent. Overall he make a.
How many 3 digit numbers are divisible by 6 in all ?
By how much is 30% of 80 greater than 4/5th of 25 ?
An industrial loom weaves 0.128 metres of cloth every second. Approximately, how many seconds will it take for the loom to weave 25 metre of cloth ?
In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'DETAIL' be arranged in such a way that the vowels occupy only the odd positions ?
A woman has $133,982 in her savings account. What is the least amount of money (in whole number of dollars) that she must add to her account if she wants to split this money evenly among her Three children?
A teacher grades students’ tests by subtracting twice the number of incorrect responses from the number of correct responses. If Student A answers each of the 100 questions on her test and receives a score of 70, how many questions did Student A answer correctly?
If Tom paid $250 toward buying a brand new oven, which represents 20% of the total cost of the oven, how much remains to be paid?
Fred purchased an item for $15.00. Fred sees the same item a week later on sale for $12.00. What percentage has the item been marked down from what Fred paid?
P works 25% more efficiently than Q and Q works 50% more efficiently than R. To complete a certain project, P alone takes 50 days less than Q alone. If, in this project P alone works for 60 days and then Q alone works for 145 days, in how many days can R alone complete the remaining work?
210 college students were asked in a survey if they preferred Windows or Mac brand computers. 90 Students claimed that they preferred Mac to Windows brand computers. One third as many of the students who preferred Mac to Windows, equally preferred both brands. 60 of the students had no preference. How many of the stude...
A boy was asked to find the arithmetic mean of the numbers 23, 17, 19, 25, 23, 18, 29, 27, 31 and P. He found the mean to be 24. What should be the number in place of P?
The workforce of Company X is 60% female. The company hired 30 additional male workers, and as a result, the percent of female workers dropped to 55%.How many employees did the company have after hiring the additional male workers?
Sanya prepared 4 different letters to 4 different addresses. For each letter, she prepared one envelope with its correct address. If the 4 letters are to be put into the four envelopes at random, what is the probability that only one letter will be put into the envelope with its correct address?
Four person are chosen at random form a group of 3 men, 2 women and 4 children. The chance that exactly 2 of them are children, is:
25% of 30% of 45% is equal to?
A boy goes to his school from his house at a speed of 3km/hr and return at a speed of 2km/hr. If he takes 5 hours in going and coming, the distance between his house and school is?
The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of the first six numbers is 10.5 and that of the last six numbers is 11.4, then the middle number is
If 4 cats can kill 4 rats in 4 minutes, how long will it take 100 cats to kill 100 rats?
The difference between the two digit number and the number obtained by interchanging its digits is 54. The difference between the digits is?
A housing society has been allotted a square piece of land measuring 2550.25 sq.m. What is the side of the plot?
If the tens digit x and the units digit y of a positive integer n are reversed, the resulting integer is 36 more than n. What is y in terms of x ?
Find the value of (45 + 23/89) × 89
if log 3 = 0.47712, the number of digits in 3128 is
A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10 sec. The speed of the train is?
A and B started a business investing Rs. 90,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively. In what ratio the profit earned after 2 years be divided between A and B respectively?
A and B can do a piece of work in 8 days. B and C can do it in 12 days and A and C in 16 days. Working together they will complete the work in how many days?
Which of the following numbers is two more than the square of an odd integer?
A man took loan from a bank at the rate of 12% p.a. simple interest. After 3 years he had to pay Rs. 5400 interest only for the period. The principal amount borrowed by him was:
Sakshi can do a piece of work in 20 days. Tanya is 25% more efficient than Sakshi. The number of days taken by Tanya to do the same piece of work is:
The set S has 36 different subsets each of which contains exactly two elements. How many subsets of S could contain exactly four elements each?
Victor's job requires him to complete a series of identical jobs. If Victor is supervised at work, he finishes each job three days faster than if he is unsupervised. If Victor works for 144 days and is supervised for half the time, he will finish a total of 36 jobs. How long W would it take Victor to complete 10 jobs w...
A box measuring 90 inches long by 45 inches wide by 9 inches deep is to be filled entirely with identical cubes. No space is to be left unfilled. What is the smallest number of cubes that can accomplish this objective?
A car travels at a speed of 65 miles per hour. How far will it travel in 6 hours?
A truck owner will refuel his vehicle at a rate of 2 gallons of diesel fuel every 5 seconds. If diesel fuel costs $ 2 per gallon, how long will it take for the truck owner to refuel his vehicle with $ 50 worth of diesel fuel?
Exactly 12% of the reporters for a certain wire service cover local politics in Country X. If 40% of the reporters who cover politics for the wire service do not cover local politics in Country X, what percent of the reporters for the wire service do not cover politics?
When two dice are rolled, what is the probability that the sum is either 7 or 11?
A mixture contains alcohol and water in the ratio 4 : 3. If 9 litres of water is added to the mixture, the ratio becomes 4: 5. Find the quantity of alcohol in the given mixture
If a^x = b^4y, then
A women purchased 3 towels @ Rs.100 each, 5 towels @ Rs.150 each and two towels at a certain rate which is now slipped off from his memory. But she remembers that the average price of the towels was Rs.150. Find the unknown rate of two towels?
The remainder when dividing the expression (X + Y) by 5 is 4. The remainder of X divided by 10 is 2. What is the remainder S of Y divided by 5?
A baker makes chocolate cookies and peanut cookies. His recipes allow him to make chocolate cookie in batches of 7 and peanut cookies in batches of 6. If he makes exactly 98 cookies, what is the minimum number of chocolate chip cookies he makes?
Lagaan is levied on the 60% of the cultivated land. The revenue department collected total Rs. 3,84,000 through the lagaan from the village of Sukhiya. Sukhiya, a very rich farmer , paid only Rs.480 as lagaan. The percentage of total land of Sukhiya over the total taxable land of the village is:
Xavier, Yvonne, and Zelda each try independently to solve a problem. If their individual probabilities for success are 1/4, 1/3 and 5/8, respectively, what is the probability that Xavier and Yvonne, but not Zelda, will solve the problem?
The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular plot is 7 : 5. If the perimeter of the plot is 72 metres, what is its area?
If the area of circle is 616 sq cm then its circumference?
A man is 22 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of the son is?
Albert invested Rs. 8000 in a scheme for 2 years at compound interest rate 5% p.a. How much amount will Albert get on maturity of the fixed deposit?
1/2 + [(2/3 * 3/4)/4] - 9/16 =
If x is to be chosen at random from the set {1,2,3,4} and y is to be chosen at random from the set {3,4,5}, what`s the probability that xy will be even?
A man spends 75% of his income.If his income increases by 20%,then what will be his new expenditure?
Monica planned her birthday party. She prepared 5 muffins for each of her guests and kept aside two additional muffins in case someone will want extra. After the party, it turned out that one of the guests didn't come but every one of the guests that did come ate six muffins and 5 muffins remained. How many guests did ...
The perimeter of one square is 48 cm and that of another is 20 cm. Find the perimeter and the diagonal of a square which is equal in area to these two combined?
Two trains are running in opposite directions with the same speed. If the length of each train is 120 m and they cross each other in 12 sec, then the speed of each train is?
The simple interest on a sum of money is Rs. 50. What is the sum? I.The interest rate is 10% p.a. II.The sum earned simple interest in 10 years.
Kant and Jaya started a business by investing a certain amount, Jaya’s share is Rs.1400, out of annual profit of Rs.3800, then what is the ratio of investments of Kant and Jaya respectively ?
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 4 and 5 hours respectively. If they are turned up alternately for one hour each, the time taken to fill the tank is?
The sum of 3 consecutive numbers is definitely:
Three 6 faced dice are thrown together. The probability that no two dice show the same number on them is ?
Which of the following options must be true given the equation p=-q^6 I. If q is negative then p is negative. II. q is negative. III. q is non-negative.
5670/(28*13.5) = ?
What is next in series J F M A M ? ?
The HCF of two numbers is 62 and the other two factors of their LCM are 11 and 12. What is the largest number.
A can finish a work in 18 days B can do the same work in 15 days. B worked for 10 days and left the job. In how many days, A alone can finish the remaining work?
A speaks truth in 75% case and B in 80% of the cases. In what percentage of cases are they likely to contradict each other, narrating the same incident?