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Martin bought 10 concert tickets, some at the full price of $2.00 per ticket, and some at a discounted price of $1.60 per ticket. If he spent a total of $17.20, how many discounted tickets did he buy?
A and B can do a piece of work in 2 days. With the help of C they finish the work in 1 days. C alone can do that piece of work in?
A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C together can do it in 3 hours, while A and C together can do it in 2 hours. How long will B alone take to do it?
If the average (arithmetic mean) of 5 positive temperatures is x degrees Fahrenheit, then the sum Q of the 3 greatest of these temperatures, in degrees Fahrenheit, could be
Find the area of a parallelogram with base 21 cm and height 11 cm?
A farmer built a fence around his square plot. He used 27 fence poles on each side of the square. How many poles did he need altogether ?
Ram professes to sell his goods at the cost price but he made use of 500 grms instead of a kg, what is the gain percent? A. 11%
Two pipes A and B can separately fill a tank in 12 and 15 minutes respectively. A third pipe C can drain off 45 liters of water per minute. If all the pipes are opened, the tank can be filled in 15 minutes. What is the capacity of the tank?
If x : y = 3 : 5, find the value of (2x + 4y) : (4x – y)
The average marks of 14 students was calculated as 71. But, it was discovered later that the marks of one student was taken as 42 instead of 56 and the marks of another student was wrongly taken as 74 while it was actually 32. If these corrections are now made then what is the average of the 14 students?
If s is the product of the integers from 40 to 50 inclusive, and if t is the product of the integers from 40 to 51 inclusive, what is 1/s + 1/t in terms of t?
A train starts full of passengers at the first station it drops 1/3 of the passengers and takes 280 more at the second station it drops one half the new total and takes twelve more .on arriving at the third station it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the no of passengers in the beginning?
19/6 = 4/27. Which method did you use to determine whether this proportion is true or false?
Balls of equal size are arranged in rows to form an equilateral triangle. the top most row consists of one ball, the 2nd row of two balls and so on. If 253 balls are added, then all the balls can be arranged in the shape of square and each of the sides of the square contain 8 balls less than the each side of the triang...
2 gears one with 12 teeth and other one with 14 teeth are engaged with each other. One teeth in smaller and one tooth in bigger are marked and initially those 2 marked teeth are in contact with each other. After how many rotations of the smaller gear with the marked teeth in the other gear will again come into contact ...
A total of m different points are selected on a particular line, and a total of n different points are selected on another line parallel to the first, where each of m and n is greater than 1. In how many different ways can a triangle be made with its vertices at three of the selected points?
A basket has 5 apples and 4 oranges. Three fruits are picked at random. The probability that at least 2 apples are picked is?
At what rate percent on simple interest will Rs.1750 amount to Rs.2000 in 5 years?
How many times the keys of a writter haveto be pressedin order to write first 400 counting no.'s?
In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?
The average age of 25 students of a class is 25 years. Out of these, the average age of 10 students is 22 years and that of the other 14 students is 28 years. The age of the 25th student is?
A teacher gave the same test to three history classes: A, B, and C. The average (arithmetic mean) scores for the three classes were 65, 95, and 77, respectively. The ratio of the numbers of students in each class who took the test was 4 to 6 to 5, respectively. What was the average score for the three classes combined?
A train 280 m long is running with a speed of 60 km/hr. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 km/hr in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going?
How many integers between 324,805 and 458,705 have tens digit 1 and units digit 3?
Two trains of length 100 m and 200 m are 100 m apart. They start moving towards each other on parallel tracks, at speeds 54 kmph and 90 kmph. In how much time will the trains cross each other?
Find the least number which when divided by 35 and 11 leaves a remainder of 1 in each case.
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?
A tank is filled in 5 hours by three pipes A, B and C. The pipe C is twice as fast as B and B is twice as fast as A. How much time will pipe A alone take to fill the tank?
If a positive even number n is not divisible by 3 or 4, then the product (n + 6)(n + 8)(n + 10) must be divisible by which of the following? I. 24 II. 32 III. 96
Mysoon collects glass ornaments. Ten more than 1/6 of the ornaments in her collection are handmade, and 1/2 of the handmade ornaments are antiques. If 1/10 of the ornaments in her collection are handmade antiques, how many ornaments are in her collection?
Every letter in the alphabet has a number value that is equal to its place in the alphabet. Thus, the letter A has a value of 1, the letter B has a value of 2, the letter C has a value of 3, etc... The number value of a word is obtained by adding up the value of the letters in the word and then multiplying that sum by ...
The owner of a cell phone shop charges his customer 23% more than the cost price. If a customer paid Rs.7,011 for a cell phone, then what was the cost price of the cell phone?
A cube of edge 5 cm is cut into cubes of each edge 1 cm. The ratio of the total surface area of one of the small cubes to that of the large cube is equal to
In a school of 650 boys, 44% of Muslims, 28% Hindus, 10% Sikhs and the remaining of other communities. How many belonged to the other communities?
Mr Amin borrowed some money from Mr Vishwas. The rate of interest for first two years is 8% p.a., for the next three years is 11 % p.a. and for the period beyond 5 years 14% p.a. Mr Vishwas got an amount of 10920 as an interest at the end of eight years. Then what amount was borrowed by Mr Amin ?
The ‘moving walkway’ is a 300-foot long conveyor belt that moves continuously at 3 feet per second. When Bill steps on the walkway, a group of people that are also on the walkway stands 120 feet in front of him. He walks toward the group at a combined rate (including both walkway and foot speed) of 6 feet per second, r...
In a graduating class of 232 students, 144 took geometry and 119 took biology. What is the difference between the greatest possible number and the smallest possible number of students that could have taken both geometry and biology?
In a certain circle there are 9 points. What is the number of the triangles connecting 3 points of the 9 points?
In an office, 10 percent of the workers have at least 5 years of service, and a total of 16 workers have at least 10 years of service. If 90 percent of the workers have fewer than 10 years of service, how many of the workers have at least 5 but fewer than 10 years of service?
John makes $50 a week from his job. He earns a raise andnow makes $75 a week. What is the % increase?
The radius of a wheel is 22.4 cm. What is the distance covered by the wheel in making 1000 resolutions?
Two trains are moving in opposite directions @100kmph and 120kmph. Their length are 500m and 700m. The time taken by the slower train to cross faster train in second is?
A vendor bought dog for Rs. 1, and a cat for Rs. 1.20, a pig for Rs.1.34, He totally purchased 100 animals for 100 Rs. Then find no of cats.
A man can row a boat at 24 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 8 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 54 km downstream?
A certain auto manufacturer sold 2% fewer vehicles in 2007 than in 2006. If the manufacturer sold 2.3 million vehicles in 2006, how many vehicles, to the nearest 10,000, did the manufacturer sell in 2007?
You have a bag of 9 letters: 3 Xs, 3 Ys and 3 Zs. You are given a box divided into 3 rows and 3 columns for a total of 9 areas. How many different R ways can you place one letter into each area such that there are no rows or columns with 2 or more of the same letter?
Three number are in the ratio of 3 : 4 : 5 and their L.C.M. is 2400. Their H.C.F. is:
A discount dealer professes to sell his goods at cost price but uses a weight of 960 gms for a Kg weight .Find his gain %?
eight family members: 5 grandchildren (3 brothers and 2 sisters) and their 3 grandparents are to be seated around a circular table. How many different seating arrangements are possible so that 2 sisters are seated between any two of the three brothers?
A large tanker can be filled by two pipes A and B in 30 and 15 hours respectively. How many hours will it take to fill the tanker from empty state if A and B fill it together?
In the fifth grade at Parkway elementary school there are 450 students. 320 students are boys and 250 students are playing soccer. 86% of the students that play soccer are boys. How many girl student are in Parkway that is not playing soccer?
8 is 4% of a, and 4 is 8% of b. c equals b/a. What is the value of c?
A sock drawer contains seven socks, each one a different solid color. The colors of the socks are blue, indigo, and violet. A person reaches into the drawer, pulls out two socks, and puts a single sock on each foot. If each sock can fit either the left or the right foot, and if it matters whether a particular sock is o...
A telephone number contains 10 digit, including a 3-digit area code. Bob remembers the area code and the next 5 digits of the number. He also remembers that the remaining digits are not 0, 1, 2, 3, or 7. If Bob tries to find the number by guessing the remaining digits at random, the probability that he will be able to ...
If b=4p where p is a prime number greater than 2, how many different positive even divisors does b have, including b?
A watch was sold at a loss of 10%. If the watch was sold for $20 more, there would have been a gain of 6%. What is the cost price?
a goes to place x and b goes to place y. after a travelled 180 km more than b they together meet at a point between xy. they together had their lunch for half an hour. after that a took 2 hrs to reach x and b took 4.5 hrs to reach y. find distance between x and y?
The length of the bridge, which a train 180 meters long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is?
A boat having a length 3 m and breadth 2 m is floating on a lake. The boat sinks by 1.2 cm when a man gets on it. The mass of man is
The ‘moving walkway’ is a 300-foot long conveyor belt that moves continuously at 3 feet per second. When Bill steps on the walkway, a group of people that are also on the walkway stands 120 feet in front of him. He walks toward the group at a combined rate (including both walkway and foot speed) of 6 feet per second, r...
The average of runs of a cricket player of 10 innings was 40. How many runs must he make in his next innings so as to increase his average of runs by 4?
The average age of the district level hockey team of eleven is 26 years.The average age gets increased by 2 year when the coach age is also included.what is the age of the coach ?
A glucose solution contains 20 grams of glucose per 1000 cubic centimeters of solution. If 500 cubic centimeters of the solution were poured into an empty container, how many grams of glucose would be in the container?
The area of a triangle is with base 3m and height 4m?
.01 x .3 ÷ .4 x .5 = ?
Which of the following is divisible by the first six positive integer multiples of 19? (i) 52440 (ii) 114600 (iii) 19038
Machine A and machine W are each used to manufacture 660 sprockets. It takes machine A 10 hours longer to produce 660 sprockets than machine W. Machine W produces 10 percent more sprockets per hour than machine A. How many sprockets per hour does machine A produces?
A boat takes 19 hours for travelling downstream from point A to point B and coming back to a point C midway between A and B. If the velocity of the stream is 4 kmph and the speed of the boat in still water is 14 kmph, what is the distance between A and B ?
A cube has a volume of 27 cubic feet. If a similar cube is twice as long, twice as wide, and twice as high, then the volume, in cubic feet of such cube is?
Ele, the circus Elephant, is currently three times older than Lyn, the circus Lion. In 16 years from now, Lyn the circus Lion will be exactly half as old as Ele, the circus Elephant. How old is Ele today?
What is the smallest number which when increased by 3 is divisible by 18, 70, 100 and 21?
What is the probability of flipping a fair coin four times and the coin landing on heads on exactly three flips?
Rectangular Floors X and Y have equal area. If Floor X is 14 feet by 18 feet and Floor Y is 9 feet wide, what is the length of Floor Y, in feet?
There are 8 students. 4 of them are men and 4 of them are women. If 4 students are selected from the 8 students. What is the probability W that the number of men is equal to that of women?
If a committee of 3 people is to be selected from among 5 married couples so that the committee does not include two people who are married to each other, how many Z such committees are possible?
A train sets off at 2 p.m. at the speed of 70 kmph. Another train starts at 3:30 p.m. in the same direction at the rate of 85 kmph. At what time the trains will meet?
4, 5, 7, 11, 19, (...)
Two pyramids are thrown with faces 1,2,4,6. Find the probability to get a sum of even number on an their faces?
A certain number when divided by 39 leaves a remainder 17, what is the remainder when the same number is divided by 13?
Average of all prime numbers between 30 to 50
A snail, climbing a 42 feet high wall, climbs up 4 feet on the first day but slides down 2 feet on the second. It climbs 4 feet on the third day and slides down again 2 feet on the fourth day. If this pattern continues, how many days will it take the snail to reach the top of the wall?
Point X is located on line segment AB and point Y is located on line segment CD. If AB = CD and AX < CY, then
The letters D, G, I, I , and T can be used to form 5-letter strings as DIGIT or DGIIT. Using these letters, how many 5-letter strings can be formed in which the two occurrences of the letter I are separated by at least one other letter?
A 8% stock yields 20%. The market value of the stock is:
At what rate percent on simple interest will Rs.750 amount to Rs.825 in 5 years?
In the formula V = 1/(2r)^3, if r is halved, then V is multiplied by?
If the number 517*324 is completely divisible by 3, then the smallest whole number in the place of * will be:
A vending machine randomly dispenses four different types of fruit candy. There are twice as many apple candies as orange candies, twice as many strawberry candies as grape candies, and twice as many apple candies as strawberry candies. If each candy cost $0.4, and there are exactly 90 candies, what is the minimum amou...
A computer manufacturer produces a certain electronic component at a cost of $80 per component. Shipping costs for delivering the components are $5 per unit. Further, the manufacturer has costs of $16,500 a month related to the electronic component regardless of how many it produces. If the manufacturer produces and se...
A train passes a station platform in 36 sec and a man standing on the platform in 20 sec. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr. What is the length of the platform?
If two positive numbers are in the ratio 1/9 : 1/5, then by what percent is the second number more than the first?
A certain culture of bacteria quadruples every hour. If a container with these bacteria was half full at 8:00 a.m., at what time was it one-eighth full?
C and D enter into partnership with capital as 7:9. At the end of 8 months, C withdraws. If they receive the profits in the ratio of 8:9 find how long D's capital was used?
A tank contains 10,000 gallons of a solution that is 5 percent sodium chloride by volume. If 1,600 gallons of water evaporate from the tank, the remaining solution will be approximately what percent sodium chloride?
The product of two successive numbers is 4160. Which is the smaller of the two numbers?
A basket has 6 apples and 4 oranges. FOUR fruits are picked at random. The probability that at least 3 apples are picked is
A man complete a journey in 10 hrs. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km?
The C.P of 15 books is equal to the S.P of 18 books. Find his gain% or loss%?
A, B and C invests Rs.2000, Rs.3000 and Rs.4000 in a business. After one year A removed his money; B and C continued the business for one more year. If the net profit after 2 years be Rs.3200, then A's share in the profit is?
On Saturday morning, John will begin a camping vacation and he will return home at the end of the first day on which it rains. If on the first three days of the vacation the probability of rain on each day is 0.6, what is the probability that Malachi will return home at the end of the day on the following Monday?