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In a consumer survey, 70% of those surveyed liked at least one of three products: 1, 2, and 3. 50% of those asked liked product 1, 30% liked product 2, and 20% liked product 3. If 5% of the people in the survey liked all three of the products, what percentage of the survey participants liked more than one of the three products?
Three partners A, B, C in a business invested money such that 3(A’s capital) = 2(B’s capital) = 5(C’s capital) then, The ratio of their capitals is
Rs. 850 becomes Rs. 956 in 3 years at a certain rate of simple interest.If the rate of interest is increased by 4% ,What amount will Rs. 850 become in 3 years ?
Of the films Empty Set Studios released last year, 60% were comedies and the rest were horror films. 75% of the comedies were profitable, but 75% of the horror moves were unprofitable. If the studio made a total of 41 films, and broke even on none of them, how many of their films were profitable?
Instead of multiplying a number by 2, the number is divided by 10. What is the percentage of error obtained ?
Eight years ago, P was half of Q's age. If the ratio of their present ages is 3:4 what will be the total of their present ages?
Albert invested amount of 4000 in a fixed deposit for 2 years at compound interest rate of 5 % per annum. How much Albert will get on the maturity of the fixed deposit
Total dinning bill for 6 people was $211.00.If they add 15% tip and divided the bill evenly ,approximate.What was each persons find share
The probability is 0.6 that an “unfair” coin will turn up tails on any given toss. If the coin is tossed 3 times, what is the probability that at least one of the tosses will turn up tails?
If x is a positive even number, then each of the following is even odd EXCEPT
Barbata invests $2400 in the National Bank at 5%. How much additional money must she invest at 10% so that the total annual income will be equal to 6% of her entire investment?
The length of a rectangle is twice its breadth. If its length is decreased by 5 cm and breadth is increased by 5 cm, the area of the rectangle is increased by 75 sq.cm. What is the length of the rectangle?
54 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?
How many bricks, each measuring 25 cm x 11.25 cm x 6 cm, will be needed to build a wall of 8 m x 6 m x 22.5 cm?
There are 18 stations between Hyderabad and Bangalore. How many second class tickets have to be printed, so that a passenger can travel from any station to any other station?
Find the area of trapezium whose parallel sides are 20 cm and 18 cm long, and the distance between them is 15 cm.
Four car rental agencies A, B, C and D rented a plot for parking their cars during the night. A parked 15 cars for 12 days, B parked 12 cars for 20 days, C parked 18 cars for 18 days and D parked 16 cars for 15 days. If A paid Rs. 1125 as rent for parking his cars, what is the total rent paid by all the four agencies?
Car X began traveling at an average speed of 35 miles per hour. After 48 minutes, car Y began traveling at an average speed of 39 miles per hour. When both cars had traveled the same distance, both cars stopped. How many miles did car X travel from the time car Y began traveling until both cars stopped?
A, B, C together started a business. A invested Rs.6000 for 5 months B invested Rs.3600 for 6 months and C Rs.7500 for 3 months. If they get a total profit of Rs.9880. Find the share of A?
If the cost price of 12 items is equal to the selling price of 16 items, the loss percent is
Avinash covers a distance of 8km in 50 minutes. If he covers 3km distance in 2/5th of time then, What speed should he maintain to cover the remaining distance in the remaining time?
Carl is facing very difficult financial times and can only pay the interest on a $10,000 loan he has taken. The bank charges him a quarterly compound rate of 5%. What is the approximate interest he pays annually?
The population of a town is 45000; 5/9th of them are males and the rest females 40% of the males are married. What is the percentage of married females?
How many odd numbers are possible between 1 to 100000000? find out the number of odd number of digits?
If a no. when divided by 44, gives 432 as quotient and 0 as remainder. What will be the remainder when dividing thesame no. by 31
Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 12 and 15 minutes respectively. Both are opened together but after 4 minutes A is turned off. After how much more time will the cistern be filled?
If √a+√b=a+b means then (√a+√b)^2=?
At a particular graduation party with 300 guests, 70% of the guests brought gifts, and 40% of the female guests brought gifts. If 36 males did not bring gifts to the party, how many females did bring gifts?
A train 280 m long, running with a speed of 63 km/hr will pass a tree in?
If a particular is never chosen, in how many ways can a cricketbe chosen out of 15 players?
There are 300 seniors at Morse High School, and 40% of them have cars. Of the remaining grades (freshmen, sophomores, and juniors), only 10% of them have cars. If 15% of all the students at Morse have cars, how many students are in those other three lower grades?
Calculate the circumference of a circular field whose radius is 2 centimeters.
Two trains, each 100 m long are moving in opposite directions. They cross each other in 8 seconds. If one is moving twice as fast the other, the speed of the faster train is
A car crosses a 600 m long bridge in 5 minutes. Whatis the speed of car in km per hour?
How long does a train 110 m long running at the speed of 72 km/hr takes to cross a bridge 132 m length?
When the positive integer x is divided by 9,the remainder is 5.What is the remainder when 4x is divided by 9?
In how many ways can 16 different gifts be divided among four children such that each child receives exactly four gifts?
Consider below info to be a table: AMOUNT OF BACTERIA TIME - AMOUNT 1PM - 10gms 4PM - x gms 7PM - 19.6 gms Data for a certain biology experiment are given in the table above. If the amount of bacteria present increased by the same factor during each of the two 3-hour periods shown, how many grams of bacteria were present at 4PM ?
The area of a square field 3136 sq m, if the length of cost of drawing barbed wire 3 m around the field at the rate of Rs.1.50 per meter. Two gates of 1 m width each are to be left for entrance. What is the total cost?
Find the numbers which are in the ratio 3:2:2 such that the sum of the first and the second added to the difference of the third and the second is 20?
There is a church tower 150 feet tall and another catholic tower at a distance of 350 feet from it which is 200 feet tall. There is one each bird sitting on top of both the towers. They fly at a constant speed and time to reach a grain in b/w the towers at the same time. At what distance from the church is the grain?
How many 3-digit numbers are completely divisible 6 ?
In each series, look for the degree and direction of change between the numbers. In other words, do the numbers increase or decrease, and by how much Look at this series: 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4), ... What number should come next?
A train running at 1/3 of its own speed reached a place in 9 hours. How much time could be saved if the train would have run at its own speed?
The ratio of two numbers is 1:3 and the sum of their cubes is 945. The difference of number is?
An article is bought for Rs.600 and sold for Rs.500, find the loss percent?
If ‘DELHI’ is coded as ‘EFMIJ’, then ‘PUNE’ is coded as
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:
In a shower, 5 cm of rain falls. The volume of water that falls on 1.5 hectares of ground is:
The effective annual rate of interest corresponding to a nominal rate of 6% per annum payable half-yearly is:
The compound interest earned on a sum for the second and the third years are $1400 and $1540 respectively. What is the rate of interest?
For how many integers pair (x,y) satisfies the result (1/x)+((1/y)=1/19
P can do a work in the same time in which Q and R together can do it. If P and Q work together, the work can be completed in 10 days. R alone needs 30 days to complete the same work. then Q alone can do it in
53, 53, 40, 40, 27, 27, ?
what is the smallest integer that is multiple of 3,7 and 20
If a: b :: 3 : 7, then what is (5a+6b): (a-4b)?
The average height of 35 boys in a class was calculated as 180cm. It has later found that the height of one of the boys in the class was wrongly written as 166 cm whereas his actual height was 106 cm. Find the actual average height of the boys in the class (Round off your answer to two decimal places).
If it takes a hrs for x to repair 1 machine and b hrs for y to repair 1 machine then how many hrs will they take to repair 750 machines if they work together?
In a box of 11 pens, a total of 3 are defective. If a customer buys 2 pens selected at random from the box, what is the probability that neither pen will be defective?
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?
A tradesman by means of his false balance defrauds to the extent of 30%? in buying goods as well as by selling the goods. What percent does he gain on his outlay?
If A earns 99/3% more than B,how much percent does B earn less then A ?
The sum of the present ages of a son and his father is 60 years. Six years ago, father's age was five times the age of the son. After 6 years, what will be son's age?
From the word 'HEARTLESS', how many independent words can be made with-out changing the order of the letters and using each letter only once ?
By the how much is two-fifth of 150 greater than three -fifths of 25?
A gardener wants to plant trees in his garden in such a way that the number of trees in each row should be the same. If there are 4 rows or 5 rows or 6 rows, then no tree will be left. Find the least number of trees required
Baker Adam is storing cake boxes in cartons that measure 25 inches by 42 inches by 60 inches. If the measurement of each cake box is 8 inches by 7 inches by 5 inches, then what is the maximum number of cake boxes that can be placed in each carton?
During the second quarter of 1984, a total of 3,976,000 domestic cars were sold. If this was 32% greater than the number sold during the first quarter of 1984, how many were sold during the first quarter ?
What is the difference between the place value and face value of 3 in the numeral 1375?
A certain sum of money doubles itself in 12 years in how much many years will it trible itself at the same rate?
Jerry, an electrician, worked 6 months out of the year. What percent of the year did he work? (round answer to the nearest hundredth) What percent 12 is 6? 12 months = 1 year
A textile manufacturing firm employees 70 looms. It makes fabrics for a branded company. The aggregate sales value of the output of the 70 looms is Rs 5,00,000 and the monthly manufacturing expenses is Rs 1,50,000. Assume that each loom contributes equally to the sales and manufacturing expenses are evenly spread over the number of looms. Monthly establishment charges are Rs 75000. If one loom breaks down and remains idle for one month, the decrease in profit is:
Jeya invested an amount of Rs. 9,500 at the rate of 13% p.a simple interest and another amount at the rate of 15% p.a. simple interest. The total interest earned at the end of one year on the total amount invested became 14% p.a. Find the total amount invested?
In a classroom, 12 students brought apples and 8 students brought bananas. If exactly 10 students brought only one of the two types of fruits, how many students brought both types of fruits?
Helen went to the stationers and bought things worth Euro 45, out of which 30 paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free items?
Find the value of 72519 x 9999 = m?
At a certain university, 69% of the professors are women, and 70% of the professors are tenured. If 90% of the professors are women, tenured, or both, then what percent of the men are tenured?
Two trains of equal lengths take 12 sec and 15 sec respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120 m, in what time will they cross other travelling in opposite direction?
It's Valentine's day and Alan has promised to cook his girlfriend Alana her favorite meal: fish fingers and custard. Alana will be arriving in one hour exactly. Alan only has a microwave. The fish fingers take 13 minutes to defrost in the microwave and 6 minutes to cook in the microwave. The custard must be prepared after the fish fingers and takes 24 minutes to cook in the microwave and then 6 minutes to cool sufficiently so as not to burn someone's tongue. It will take Alan 1 minute to plate the food. However, Alan is on his Xbox and really wants to play one more game of his football video game before Alana arrives. What is the maximum length of each half of the match that Alan can play to ensure the meal is ready for Alana's arrival?
If X-Y = 2X-2Z, X-2Y = 4Z and X+Y+Z = 21, what is the value of Y/Z?
In an exam, Amar scored 64 percent, Bhavan scored 36 percent and Chetan 44 percent. The maximum score awarded in the exam is 400. Find the average mark scored by all the three boys?
A man buys an song for 10% less than its value and sells it for 10% more than its value. His gain or loss percent is:
An empty bucket being filled with paint at a constant rate takes 6 minutes to be filled to 7/10 of its capacity. How much more time B will it take to fill the bucket to full capacity?
The probability that a number selected at random from the first 100 natural numbers is a composite number is ?
A is two years older than B who is twice as old as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C be 27, then how old is B?
If N = 2^0.20 and N^b = 16, b must equal
A cistern is normally filled in 8 hours but takes two hours longer to fill because of a leak in its bottom. If the cistern is full, the leak will empty it in?
Cole drove from home to work at an average speed of 30 kmh. He then returned home at an average speed of 90 kmh. If the round trip took a total of 2 hours, how many minutes did it take Cole to drive to work?
Five years ago, John’s age was half of the age he will be in 6 years. How old is he now?
Two trains of length 180 m and 280 m are running towards each other on parallel lines at 42 kmph and 30 kmph respectively. In what time will they be clear of each other from the moment they meet?
A trader bought a car at 30% discount on its original price. He sold it at a 40% increase on the price he bought it. What percent of profit did he make on the original price?
If s,u, and v are positive integers and 2s=2u+2v, which of the following must be true? i. s>v ii. u is not equal to v iii. s > u
A team of five entered for a shooting competition. The best marks man scored 85 points. If he had scored 92 points, the average scores for. The team would have been 84. How many points altogether did the team score?
A box contains eight bulbs out of which three are defective. If three bulbs are chosen at random, find the probability that all the three bulbs are defective?
The weight of a glass of jar is 40% of the weight of the jar filled with coffee beans. After some of the beans have been removed, the weight of the jar and the remaining beans is 60% of the original total weight. What fraction part of the beans remain in the jar?
The speed of a boat in still water is 15 km/hr and the rate of current is 3 km/hr the distance travelled downstream in 12 minutes is :
In a 1000 m race, A beats B by 60 m and B beats C by 100 m. In the same race, by how many meters does A beat C?
The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team?
A reduction of 40% in the price of bananas would enable a man to obtain 64 more for Rs.40, what is reduced price per dozen?
If (A+B) = 5, (B+C) = 9 and (C+D) = 3, what is the value of (A+D)?