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A man has some hens and cows. If the number of heads be 48 and the number of feet equals 140, then the number of hens will be
If the true discount on s sum due 2 years hence at 14% per annum be Rs. 182, the sum due is:
Cuboid volume and Base area are 144 m^3 and 18m^3 respectively.Find the height of a cuboid?
A train covers a distance of 12 km in 10 min. If it takes 6 sec to pass a telegraph post, then the length of the train is?
The average mark of 20 students in a class is 70 years. The average age of 10 students is 65. What is the total mark of remaining 10 students?
A coin has two sides. One side has the number 1 on it and the other side has the number 2 on it. If the coin is flipped three times what is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the landing side of the coin will be greater than 6?
Rs. 6000 is lent out in two parts. One part is lent at 7% p.a simple interest and the other is lent at 10% p.a simple interest. The total interest at the end of one year was Rs. 480. Find the ratio of the amounts lent at the lower rate and higher rate of interest?
If 4 and 8 are factors of 60n, what is the minimum value of n?
In how many ways can be 3 boys and 3 girls sit around circular table so that no two boys sit next to each other?
A driving school claims an average test pass rate of 76.8 percent. What is the least number of pupils required to achieve this result?
If (x + yi) / i = ( 7 + 9i ) , where x and y are real, what is the value of (x + yi)(x - yi)?
A 600 meter long train crosses a signal post in 40 seconds. How long will it take to cross a 3 kilometer long bridge, at the same speed?
The difference of the cubes of two consecutive even integers is divisible by which of the following integers?
From a total of 5 boys and 5 girls, how many 4-person committees can be selected if the committee must have exactly 2 boys and 2 girls?
If a two-digit positive integer has its digits reversed, the resulting integer differs from the original by 54. By how much do the two digits differ?
If x+y=280, x-y=200, for integers of x and y, y=?
How many multiples of 7 are there between 14 and 343, exclusive ?
The probability of a team winning a match given Matt is playing the match is 0.75. The probability of the team winning a match given Matt is not playing the match is 0.7. The probability of Matt playing any match is 0.8. If it is known that the team has won the last match, what is the probability that Matt played the match?
A luxury liner, Queen Marry II, is transporting several cats as well as the crew (sailors, a cook, and captain) to a nearby port. Altogether, these passengers have 15 heads and 42 legs. How many cats does the ship host?
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 6, 12, 21, x , 48
Sunil invested $ 1800 fir 2 years and $ 1400 for 3 years at the same rate of Simple Interest. If the total interest from these investments is $ 810, what is the rate of interest?
A shepherd has 1million sheep at the beginning of Year 2010. The no's grow by xx during the yr. A famine hits his village in the next year & many of his sheep die. The sheep population decreases by yy during 2001 and at the beginning of 2011 the shepherd finds that he is left with 1million sheep. Which of the following is correct?
To furnish a room in a model home an interior decorator is to select 2 chairs and 2 tables from the collection of chairs and tables in a warehouse that are all different from each other. If there are 5 chairs in the warehouse and if 150 different combinations are possible, how many tables are there in the warehouse?
Two kinds of Vodka are mixed in the ratio 1:2 and 2:1 and they are sold fetching the profit 10% and 10% respectively. If the vodkas are mixed in equal ratio and the individual profit percent on them are increased by 4/3 and 5/3 times respectively, then the mixture will fetch the profit of
Money invested at x%, compounded annually, triples in value in approximately every 112/x years. If $3500 is invested at a rate of 8%, compounded annually, what will be its approximate worth in 28 years?
If a man lost 5% by selling apples at the rate of 15 a rupee at how many a rupee must he sell them to gain 25%?
A cistern is two-third full of water. Pipe A can fill the remaining part in 12 minutes and pipe B in 8 minutes. Once the cistern is emptied, how much time will they take to fill it together completely?
An investment compounds annually at an interest rate of 34.1% What is the smallest investment period by which time the investment will more than triple in value?
In a bag containing 3balls, a white ball was placed and then 1ball was taken out at random. What is the probability that the extracted ball would turn on to be white, if all possible hypothesis concerning the color of theballs that initiallyin the bag were equally possible ?
The function f is defined by subtracting 25 from the square of a number and the function a is defined as the square root of one-half of a number. If a(f(x))=10, then which of the following is a possible value of x?
The triplicate ratio of 1:2 is?
John weighs twice as much as Susan. Susan's weight is 60% of Sam's weight. Mark weighs 50% of Lynn's weight. Lynn weighs 170% of John's weight. Which of these 5 people weighs the least?
Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be formed?
In a 1000 m race, A beats B by 200 meters or 25 seconds. Find the speed of B?
If each digit in the set of A = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} is exactly used once, in how many ways can the digits be arranged such that the 2 and 5 are not adjacent?
Three taps A, B and C can fill a tank in 12, 15 and 20 hours respectively. If A is open all the time and B and C are open for one hour each alternately, the tank will be full is?
If Re.1 amounts to Rs.9 over a period of 10 years. What is the rate of simple interest?
If a and b are the roots of the equation x2 - 7x + 7 = 0, then the value of a2 + b2 is:
If the simple interest on a certain sum of money for 4 years is one–fifth of the sum, then the rate of interest per annum is
A train 180 m long passed a pole in 10 sec. How long will it take to pass a platform 800 m long?
A basketball coach will select the members of a five-player team from among 10 players, including John and Peter. If the five players are chosen at random, what is the probability that the coach chooses a team that includes both John and Peter?
If two numbers are in the ratio 2:3. If 17 is added to both of the numbers then the ratio becomes 3:4 then find the smallest number?
The area of a square field is 900 km2. How long will it take for a horse to run around at the speed of 12 km/h ?
If a and b are two different prime numbers, which of the following cannot be true?
The sum of the ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 80 years. What is the age of the youngest child?
The ratio between the number of sheep and the number of horses at the Stewart farm is 4 to 7, If each horse is fed 230 ounces of horse food per day and the farm needs a total 12,880 ounces of horse food per day, what is the number of sheep in the farm?
A cistern can be filled by a tap in 4 hours while it can be emptied by another tap in 9 hours. If both the taps are opened simultaneously, then after how much time cistern will get filled ?
At a certain diner, Joe ordered 3 doughnuts and a cup of coffee and was charged $ 2.25. Stella ordered 2 doughnuts and a cup of coffee and was charged $ 1.60. What is the price of 2 doughnuts?
An aeroplane covers a certain distance of 480 Kmph in 4 hours. to cover the same distance in 4 1/3 hours, it Must travel at a speed of
The list price of an article is Rs.65. A customer pays Rs.56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts, one of them being 10%. The other discount is?
Three 6 faced dice are thrown together. The probability that exactly two dice show the same number on them is
Two trains are running at 40 km/hr and 20 km/hr respectively in the same direction. Fast train completely passes a man sitting in the slower train in 5 sec. What is the length of the fast train?
Both Robert and Alice leave from the same location at 7:00 a.m. driving in the same direction, but in separate cars. Robert drives 30 miles per hour while Alice drives 50 miles per hour. After 6 hours, Alice’s car stops. At what time will Robert’s car reach Alice’s car?
If the diameter of circle R is 40% of the diameter of circle S, the area of circle R is what percent of the area of circle S?
What is the area of square field whose side of length 13 m?
Look at this series: 53, 53, 40, 40, 27, 27, ... What number should come next?
Each student is given a five-character identification code. The first two characters are selected from the numbers 0 to 9 inclusive, and the last three characters are selected from the 26 letters of the alphabet. If characters may be repeated and the same characters used in a different order constitute a different code, how many different identification codes can be generated following these rules?
A box contains nine bulbs out of which 4 are defective. If four bulbs are chosen at random, find the probability that all the four bulbs are defective?
find S.P when CP=Rs 80.40,loss=5%
How many words can be formed by using all letters of the word ‘DAUGHTER’ so that the vowels always come together?
A man gets a simple interest of Rs.500 on a certain principal at the rate of 5% p.a in two years. Find the compound interest the man will get on twice the principal in two years at the same rate.
Jacob is 18years old. He is 2 times as old as his brother. How old will Jacob be when he is twice as old?
The price for a loaf of bread in April was $1.23, in May the price was $1.22, and in June the price was $1.08. If 2/3 as much bread was sold in April as in May, and twice as much was sold in June as in April, what was the average price for a loaf of bread sold during the three-month period?
The total price of a basic computer and printer are $2,500. If the same printer had been purchased with an enhanced computer whose price was $500 more than the price of the basic computer, then the price of the printer would have been 1/4 of that total. What was the price of the basic computer?
To fill a tank, 25 buckets of water is required. How many buckets of water will be required to fill the same tank if the capacity of the bucket is reduced to 3/10 of its present?
207,200,...,186,179,172 Insert the missing number
In 1998 the profits of company N were 10 percent of revenues. In 1999, the revenues of company N fell by 30 percent, but profits were 14 percent of revenues. The profits in 1999 were what percent of the profits in 1998?
A certain store sells small, medium, and large toy trucks in each of the colors red, blue, green, and yellow. The store has an equal number of trucks of each possible color-size combination. If Paul wants a medium, red truck and his mother will randomly select one the trucks in the store, what is the probability that the truck she selects will have at least one of the two features Paul wants?
How many days will there be from 26th January,1996 to 15th May,1996(both days included)?
The present age of a father is 3 years more than three times the age of his son.Three years hence,father as age will be 8 years more than twice the age of the son.Find the present age of the father.
If both 5^2 and 3^4 are factors of the number a*4^3*6^2*13^11, then what is the smallest possible value of a?
The ratio, by volume, of bleach to detergent to water in a certain solution is 2 : 40 : 100. The solution will be altered so that the ratio of bleach(B) to detergent is tripled while the ratio of detergent to water is halved. If the altered solution will contain 300 liters of water, how many liters of detergent will it contain?
How long will it take a sum of money invested at 5% p.a. S.I. to increase its value by 50%?
Find the difference between the average of first n even numbers and the average of all the even numbers up to n (n is an even number).
Which is next KUZ, MOX, OIV, QET
Which of the following is closest to 10^180 – 10^20 ?
The maitre 'd at an expensive Manhattan restaurant has noticed that 60% of the couples order dessert and coffee. However, 20% of the couples who order dessert don't order coffee. What is the probability Y that the next couple the maitre 'd seats will not order dessert?
A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 10 seconds. If the speed of the train is 72 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?
A grocer stacked oranges in a pile. The bottom layer was rectangular with 3 rows of 7 oranges each. In the second layer from the bottom, each orange rested on 4 oranges from the bottom layer, and in the third layer, each orange rested on 4 oranges from the second layer. Which of the following is the maximum number of oranges that could have been in the third layer?
Best friends Sprite and Icey have are playing a game of marbles. They invite 2 of their friends to play with them. There are 36 marbles in the bag. If all 4 people are playing, how many marbles does each person get?
If 5^r is a factor of 30!, which of the following is the maximum possible value of r?
In a 1000 m race, A beats B by 50 m and B beats C by 100 m. In the same race, by how many meters does A beat C?
In how many ways can you line up 7 wrestlers in a row if one of them, The Undertaker, cannot be in the middle or at the either end?
Benny goes to the market for buying some apples to be distributed between her nine kids equally.She takes 360 dollars with her .The cost of each apple is 4 dollars .How many apples does she buy to share them equally between her nine kids?
What amount does an investor receive if the investor invests $3000 at 10% p.a. compound interest for two years, compounding done annually?
Will must choose a 2-character computer password, consisting of 1 letter from the alphabet and 1 distinct digits, in any order.From how many different passwords can Will choose?
A train running at a speed of 60 kmph crosses a pole in 6 seconds.What is the length of the train?
P is able to do a piece of work in 10 days and Q can do the same work in 12 days. If they can work together for 5 days, what is the fraction of work left?
Two equilateral triangles of side 12cm are placed one on top of another, such that a 6 pointed star is formed .if the six verticals lie on a circle what is the area of the circle not enclosed by the star ?
Find the odd man out 253, 136, 352, 329, 631, 244
A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?
The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the youngest child?
A tradesman is marketing his goods 20% above the cost price of the goods. He gives 10% discount on cash payment, find his gain percent.
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, 90, 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?
The average weight of 10 students decreases by 6 kg when one of them weighing 120 kg is replaced by a new student. The weight of the student is
At milk factory, each employee working the second shift produced 2/3 as many widgets as each employee working the first shift. If the first shift has 3/4 as many employees, what fraction of the total widgets did the second shift produce?
The price of a jacket is reduced by 10%. During a special sale the price of the jacket is reduced another 30%. By approximately what percent must the price of the jacket now be increased in order to restore it to its original amount?
An author received $0.80 in royalties for each of the first 100,000 copies of her book sold, and $0.80 in royalties for each additional copy sold. If she received a total of $260,000 in royalties, how many copies of her book were sold?
If P represents the product of the first 16 positive integers, then P is not a multiple of:
A person sold two cows each for Rs.9900. If he gained 10% on one and lost 20% on the other, then which of the following is true ?