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Elena’s bread recipe calls for 3 ounces of butter for each 4 cups of flour used. She needs to make 4 times the original recipe. If 12 ounces of butter is used, then how many cups of flour are needed?
Average temperature of first 4 days of a week is 6°C and that of the last 4 days is 40.3°C. If the average temperature of the week be 39.1°C, the temperature on 4th day is?
If the price of an item is decreased by 40% and then increased by 40%, the net effect on the price of the item is
What is the rate percent when the simple interest on Rs.800 amount to Rs.160 in 4 Years?
In a box, there are 20 red, 15 blue and 10 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is green?
A cab driver 5days income was $40, $50, $60, $65 , $80. Then his average income is?
A 18% stock yielding 12% is quoted at:
The area of a square is 4096 sq cm. Find the ratio of the breadth and the length of a rectangle whose length is twice the side of the square and breadth is 24 cm less than the side of the square.
An article was bought for 2000 and sold for 2200. Find the gain or loss.
One out of every 4000 computer chips is defective. If 2 out of every 30 defective chips have defective processors and there are 30 defective processors in the first batch, how many computer chips are there in the first batch?
At an art exhibit the entrance costs is $1.15 per person, and every print sold costs $5. Assuming that you bought prints that came in a bag that could hold 12, and another that holds %50 more. How much money do you end up spending all together at the exhibition?
A 450 m long train crosses a platform in 39 sec while it crosses a signal pole in 18 sec. What is the length of the platform?
Look at this series: 7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12, 10, 13, 11, ... What number should come next?
How many 1's are there preceded by 2 but not followed by 0? 5 9 3 2 1 7 4 2 6 9 7 4 2 1 3 2 8 7 0 1 3 8 3 2 5 6 7 4 3 9 5 8 2 2 1 0 7 4 6 3
Pipe A can fill a tank in 6 hours. Due to a leak at the bottom, it takes 9 hours for the pipe A to fill the tank. In what time can the leak alone empty the full tank?
Three coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two tails?
In the Olympic track represented above 8 runners are going to compete to reach the finish line in the shortest amount of time. Between Tom in line 1 and Jack in line 2 there's a distance of 1.2 meters, the same as in the subsequent lanes. If each runner is to race onto their assigned line (and not in the middle of the lane), and Tom is to run on line 1 and Bob on line 8. Bob will have to start-position himself approximately how many meters in front of Tom for the two to run the same distance before reaching the finishing line?
The average of first five multiples of 4 is?
A man can row a boat three quarters of a kilometre in 11.25 minutes. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
Two men Amar and Bhuvan have the ratio of their monthly incomes as 6 : 5. The ratio of their monthly expenditures is 3 : 2. If Bhuvan saves one-fourth of his income, find the ratio of their monthly savings?
If u r genius solve it:- 40 * 14 = 11 30 * 13 = 12 20 * 12 = 6 10 * 11 = ?
YES bank offers an interest of 5% per annum compounded annually on all its deposits. If $10,000 is deposited, what will be the ratio of the interest earned in the 4th year to the interest earned in the 5th year?
3 men and 2 women are lined up in a row. What is the number of cases where they stand with each other in turn? (The number of cases in which men (or women) do not stand next to each other)
The ratio of the length and the breadth of a rectangle is 4 : 3 and the area of the rectangle is 6912 sq cm. Find the ratio of the breadth and the area of the rectangle?
Ayesha's father was 38 years of age when she was born while her mother was 36 years old when her brother four years younger to her was born. What is the difference between the ages of her parents?
A small, rectangular park has a perimeter of 560 feet and a diagonal measurement of 300 feet. What is its area, in square feet?
Right triangle ABC is the base of the prism in the figure above. If AB=AC=√2 and the height of the prism is 3, what is the volume of the prism?
A,B,C invested the capitals in a business. If A invested Rs. 5000 more than B and C invested Rs.20,000 more than A, then how should a profit of Rs.36,000 be divided among A,B and C? Given : Capital of B is Rs.10,000
John want to buy a $100 Trouser at the store, but he think it’s too expensive. Finally, it goes on sale for $30. What is the percent decrease?
The cost price of a radio is Rs.1500 and it was sold for Rs.1230, find the loss %?
A man and his wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The probability of husband's selection is (1/7) and the probability 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? of wife's selection is (1/5). What is the probability that only one of them is selected ?
A book club rented the party room of a local restaurant to meet and discuss its current novel over dinner. The total charge, including food and service, was $ 900. If each member of the club paid at least $ 40, then what is the greatest possible number of members in the club?
When 28 is divided by the positive integer a, the remainder is 1. What is the sum of all the possible values of a for which this is true?
Aamir saves 32% of his monthly salary. If he spends Rs. 27200, then find his savings?
If a sample of data has mean of 20 and SD of 3, which of the following values is more than 2.4 SDs from the mean?
If an object travels at 85 feet per second, how many feet does it travel in 30 minutes?
The average marks of a class of 28 students is 40 and that of another class of 50 students is 60. Find the average marks of all the students?
100 liters of a mixture contains milk and water in the ratio 4:1. If 10 liters of this mixture be replaced by 10 liters of milk, the ratio of milk to water in the new mixture would be?
A number is missing from the number series below. Can you find it ? ?, 155, 258, 399 , 584, 819.
-74x29+265=?
Find the odd man out 3, 5, 7, 11, 14, 17, 19, 23
A certain lab experiments with white and brown mice only. In one experiment, 2/3 of the mice are white. If there are 9 brown mice in the experiment, how many mice in total are in the experiment?
Every Monday, Marina eats one croissant and every Tuesday she eats two croissants. On each subsequent day of the week, she eats a number of croissants equal to the sum of the croissants eaten on the two previous days, with the exception that if she eats more than four croissants on any particular day, the next day she will eat only one croissant. At the end of the week (which runs from Monday through Sunday), the cycle resets, and Marina goes back to eating one croissant on Monday, two on Tuesday, and so forth. If a particular month begins on a Thursday, how many croissants will Marina eat on the 27th of that month?
A and B together do a work in 20 days.B and C together in 15 days and C and A in 12 days.then B alone can finish same work in how many days?
A and B start a business with Rs.6000 and Rs.8000 respectively. Hoe should they share their profits at the end of one year?
Three brothers live in a farm. They agreed to buy new seeds: Adam and Ben would go and Charlie stayed to protect fields. Ben bought 75 sacks of wheat in the market whereas Adam bought 45 sacks. At home, they split the sacks equally. Charlie had paid 1400 dollars for the wheat. How much dollars did Ben and Adam get of the sum, considering equal split of the sacks?
In how many E ways can the letters of the word JUPITER be arranged in a row so that the vowels appear in alphabetic order?
A man is facing northwest. He turns 90 degrees in the clockwise direction and then 135degrees in the anti-clockwise direction. Which direction is he facing now?
If two letters are taken at random from the word HOME, what is the probability that none of the letters would be vowels?
If LCM of two number is 693, HCF of two numbers is 11 and one number is 99, then find other
A man bought 20 shares paying 9% dividend. The man wants to have an interest of 12% on his money. The market value of each share is
Alan buys 4 TVs, a 26 inch, a 28 inch, a 30 inch, and a 32 inch, for his new house. Each TV costs $200 more than the size below it. Alan spends a total of $4,400. How much would he have spent if he had bought only the 28 inch and 30 inch TVs?
If a and b are integers and (2^a)(3^b) is a factor of 900^40, what is the largest possible value of ab?
Aarti can do a piece of work in 9 days. In how many days will she complete three time of work of same type?
50 men do a work in 100days. How many men are needed to finish the work in 20days?
Pipe A can fill a tank in 9 hours. Due to a leak at the bottom, it takes 12 hours for the pipe A to fill the tank. In what time can the leak alone empty the full tank?
85% of a number is added to 24, the result is the same number. Find the number?
What is the units digit of (52^5)(37^3)(71^9)?
In how many ways can 21 books on English and 19 books on Hindi be placed in a row on a shelf so that two books on Hindi may not be together?
The average amount with a group of seven numbers is Rs. 20. If the newly joined member has Rs. 20 with him, what was the average amount with the group before his joining the group?
If 1 tic equals 4 tacs and 5 tacs equal 8 tocs, what is the ratio of one tic to one toc?
In a class there are 20 boys and 30 girls. In how many ways can a boy and a girl be selected?
Two pipes A and B can separately fill a tank in 2 minutes and 15 minutes respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but 4 minutes after the start the pipe A is turned off. How much time will it take to fill the tank?
Man1 alone can do a piece of work in 6 days and Man2 alone in 8 days. Man1 and Man2 undertook to do it for Rs. 3200. With the help of Man3, they completed the work in 3 days. How much is to be paid to Man3?
A ratio between two numbers is 7:9 and their L.C.M. is 189. The Second number 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 seconds. The speed of the train is?
1.12.91 is the first Sunday. Which is the fourth Tuesday of December 91?
A rectangular parking space is marked out by painting three of its sides. If the length of the unpainted side is 9 feet, and the sum of the lengths of the painted sides is 37 feet, find out the area of the parking space in square feet?
Working at their respective constant rates, Paul, Abdul and Adam alone can finish a certain work in 3, 4, and 5 hours respectively. If all three work together to finish the work, what fraction Q of the work will be done by Adam?
The average weight of 10 oarsmen in a boat is increased by 1.8 kg when one of the crew, who weighs 53 kg is replaced by a new man. Find the weight of the new man.
Which number, when found in the denominator of any given fraction, gives a terminating decimal?
A man sold 18 toys for Rs. 21000, gaining thereby the cost price of 3 toy find the cost price of a toy
If the tens digit x and the units digit y of a positive integer n are reversed, the resulting integer is 45 more than n. What is y in terms of x ?
A man has Rs. 630 in the denominations of one-rupee notes, five-rupee notes and ten-rupee notes. The number of notes of each denomination is equal. What is the total number of notes that he has ?
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. 1,90,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in Public Provident Fund ?
A shopkeeper buys mangoes at the rate of 6 a rupee and sells them at 5 a rupee. Find his net profit or loss percent?
In how many different number of ways 5 men and 3 women can sit on a shopa which can accommodate persons?
The list price of an article is Rs.66. A customer pays Rs.56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts, one of them being 10%. The other discount is?
A shopkeeper buys two articles for Rs.1000 each and then sells them, making 30% profit on the first article and 30% loss on second article. Find the net profit or loss percent?
Excluding the stoppages, the speed of a bus is 12 km/hr and including the stoppages the speed of the bus is 6 km/hr. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
A square is of side 1 km. A man travels first 2 sides with the 30 mph and third side with 60 kmph. What is the speed that man has to travel the fourth side if the average speed is 60 kmph
A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sunday and 240 on other days. The average number of visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday is
If a store adds 100 chairs to its current inventory, the total number of chairs will be the same as three-halves the current inventory of chairs. If the manager wants to increase the current inventory by 10%, what will the new inventory of chairs be?
A can do a work in 24 days and B can do it in 12 days. In how many days A and B can do the work?
How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 143?
Solve below question y : 6y - 27 + 3y = 4 + 9 - y
In the fifth grade at Parkway elementary school there are 420 students. 296 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?
The ratio of investments of two partners P and Q is 7:5 and the ratio of their profits is 7:10. If P invested the money for 5 months, find for how much time did Q invest the money?
what is the area of a circle having the same perimeter as that of a square whose area is 121.
A password for a computer uses five digits from 0 to 9, inclusive. What is the probability that the digits of the password solely consist of prime numbers or zero?
A train passes a man standing on the platform. If the train is 170 meters long and its speed is 72 kmph, how much time it took in doing so?
Erik's mother gave him $86 to go to the store. Erik bought 3 loaves of bread and 3 cartons of orange juice. Each loaf of bread cost $3 and each carton of orange juice cost $6. How much money does Erik have left?
A can lay railway track between two given stations in 16 days and B can do the same job in 12 days. With help of C, they did the job in 4 days only. Then, C alone can do the job in:
If x and y are integers such that |y + 3| ≤ 3 and 2y – 3x + 6 = 0, what is the least possible value E of the product xy?
Look at this series 8, 22, 8, 28, 8, ... What number should come next?
2+2+2²+2³ ... +2^11
One fourth of one third of two fifth of a number is 30. What will be40% of that number
30 square stone slabs of equal size were needed to cover a floor area of 67.5 sq.m. Find the length of each stone slab?
If a = 105 and a^3= 21 * 25 * 15 * b, what is the value of b?
Eight litres are drawn off from a vessel full of water and substituted by pure milk. Again eight litres of the mixture are drawn off and substituted by pure milk. If the vessel now contains water and milk in the ratio 9:40, find the capacity of the vessel.