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What is the average of xx, 2x2x, and 66?
A teacher of 6 students takes 2 of his students at a time to a zoo as often as he can, without taking the same pair of children together more than once. How many times does the teacher go to the zoo?
What percent of 60 is 90?
In a bread recipe, the ratio of water to flour is 13 to 20. There is 168 g more flour than water. How much flour does the recipe call for?
Five persons - A, B, C, D and E are being compared in weight and height. The second heaviest person. D is the shortest. A is the 2nd tallest and shorter than E, The heaviest person is the third tallest person. There is only one person shorter than B, who is lighter than E and A respectively. What is the position of A in height and weight respectively?
I bought two books; for Rs.480. I sold one at a loss of 15% and other at a gain of 19% and then I found each book was sold at the same price. Find the cost of the book sold at a loss?
Evaluate combination 100C98=100!/(98)!(2)!
A certain company expects quarterly earnings of $0.80 per share of stock, half of which will be distributed as dividends to shareholders while the rest will be used for research and development. If earnings are greater than expected , shareholders will receive an additional $0.04 per share for each additional $0.10 of per share earnings. If quarterly earnings are $1.10 per share, what will be the dividend paid to a person who owns 300 shares of the company's stock?
If (1 – 1.25)N = 2, then N =
During the second quarter of 1984, a total of 2,976,000 domestic cars were sold. If this was 18% greater than the number sold during the first quarter of 1984, how many were sold during the first quarter ?
John Traveled from point A to B in 4 merter per sec and from B to A in 6 meter per sec. What is his average speed?
In an election only two candidates contested. A candidate secured 70% of the valid votes and won by a majority of 172 votes. Find the total number of valid votes?
A man can row upstream at 8 kmph and downstream at 13 kmph. The speed of the stream is
What is 120% of 13/24 of 840?
There are 81 people in a certain community who belong to the local golf club, tennis club or both clubs. If twice as many people belong to the tennis club as belong to the golf club, what could be the number of people who belong to both clubs?
In a mixture of 60 liters, the ratio of milk and water is 2:1. What amount of water must be added to make the ratio of milk and water as 1:2?
Pavan travelled for 11 hours. He covered the first half of the distance at 30 kmph and remaining half of the distance at 25 kmph. Find the distance travelled by Pavan.
The average of 11 numbers is 10.7. If the average of first six is 10.5 and that of the last six is 11.4 the sixth number is?
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 15 min and 21 min respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but after 4 min, pipe A is turned off. What is the total time required to fill the tank?
A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days and 16 days respectively. Both work for 3 days and then A goes away. Find how long will B take to complete the remaining work?
A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21 . What is the remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D?
A batsman makes a score of 90 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his averages by 3. What is his average after 17th inning?
On a certain road, 10% of the motorists exceed the posted speed limit and receive speeding tickets, but 60% of the motorists who exceed the posted speed limit do not receive speeding tickets. What percent of the motorists on that road exceed the posted speed limit?
A shopping cart contains only apples, oranges, and pears. If there are four times as many oranges as apples, and five times as many pears as oranges, then the apples are equivalent to what fraction of the pears?
Which of the following correctly lists the data sets in order of least to greatest standard deviation? I. 2, 2, 2 3, 3, 2 II. 32, 32, 32, 30, 30, 32 III. 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, 42
How many 3-letter words can be formed using the letters of the English alphabet that contain 1 different vowels and 2 different consonants?
If (x+4)2−−−−−−−√=3(x+4)2=3, which of the following could be the value of x−4x−4?
what is the smallest number should be added to 5377 so that the sum is completely divisible by 7?
Amy has to visit towns B and C in any order. The roads connecting these towns with her home are shown on the diagram. How many different routes can she take starting from A and returning to A, going through both B and C (but not more than once through each) and not travelling any road twice on the same trip?
if each of its sides of a rectangle is increased by 18%, what is the percentage increase in the area of the rectangle, ?
If 4 : 6 :: x : 36, then find the value of x
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. 1,50,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in Public Provident Fund ?
A is thrice as good as workman as B and therefore is able to finish a job in 60 days less than B. Working together, they can do it in?
Ten circular coins are thrown on the street so that no two of them overlap or touch, and no three of them have a tangent line in common. What is the total number of lines which are tangent to two of the coins?
The diameter of a wheel of cycle is 21 cm. It moves slowly along a road. How far will it go in 500 revolutions?
A metallic sheet is of rectangular shape with dimensions 40m x 30 m. From each of its corners, a square is cut off so as to make an open box. If the length of the square is 8 m, the volume of the box (in m cube) is:
A work can be finished in 13 days by ten women. The same work can be finished in fifteen days by ten men. The ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman is
A 3% stock produces 10%. The market value of the stock is:
In how many different ways can the letters of the word ‘ARMOUM’ be arranged?
There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each pole. A car takes 20 second to reach the 12th pole. How much will it take to reach the last pole.
Murali travelled from city A to city B at a speed of 40 kmph and from city B to city C at 60 kmph. What is the average speed of Murali from A to C given that the ratio of distances between A to B and B to C is 10 : 5?
An outlet pipe can empty 2/3 rd of a cistern in 12 minutes. In 8 minutes, what part of the cistern will be emptied?
From a pack of 52 cards, 1 card is drawn at random. Find the probability of a face card drawn
A sells a bicycle to B at a profit of 70% and B sells it to C at a loss of 40%. Find the resultant profit or loss.
Consider the sequence of numbers beginning 23, 27, 28, 32, 33... It continues in such a way that by adding 5 to the nth term, one obtains the (n + 2)th term. What is the sum of the first 15 members of this sequence?
An empty pool being filled with water at a constant rate takes 5 hours to fill to 3/5 of its capacity. How much more time will it take to finish filling the pool?
If 5x + y = 15, 5y + z = 25 and 2z + x = 2, what is the value of x ?
7^8 is equal to which of the following?
If a company allocates 15 percent of its budget to advertising, 10 percent to capital improvements, and 55 percent to salaries, what fraction of its budget remains for other allocations?
A can finish a work in 8 days and B can do same work in half the time taken by A. then working together, what part of same work they can finish in a day?
A pharmaceutical company received $2 million in royalties on the first $15 million in sales of generic equivalent of one of its products and then $6 million in royalties on the next $72 million in sales. By approximately what percent did the ratio of royalties to sales decrease from the first $15 million in sales to the next $72 million in sales?
The workforce of Company X is 60% female. The company hired 22 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?
If each side of the square is increased by 25% find the percentage change in its area?
A circular mat with diameter 16 inches is placed on a square tabletop, each of whose sides is 24 inches long. Which of the following is closest to the fraction of the tabletop covered by the mat?
A AND B CAN DO A WORK IN 12 DAYS, B AND C IN 15 DAYS, C AND A IN 20 DAYS. IF A, B AND C WORK TOGETHER, THEY WILL COMPLETE THE WORK IN:
A student scored an average of 85 marks in 3 subjects: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. If the average marks in Physics and Mathematics is 90 and that in Physics and Chemistry is 70, what are the marks in Physics?
The distance from City A to City B is 30 miles. While driving from City A to City B, Bob drives at a constant speed of 40 miles per hour. Alice leaves City A 30 minutes after Bob. What is the minimum constant speed in miles per hour that Alice must exceed in order to arrive in City B before Bob?
Sreenivas sells a table to Shiva at 10% profit and Shiva sells it to Mahesh at 10% loss. At what price did Sreenivas purchase the table if Mahesh paid Rs. 2178?
If 1/a^2 + a^2 represents the diameter of circle O and 1/a + a = 4, which of the following best approximates the circumference of circle O?
The difference between simple and compound interest on Rs. 1500 for one year at 10% per annum reckoned half-yearly is?
If -3x+2y=28 and 3x+6y=84, what is the product of x and y?
A vessel contains 20 liters of a mixture of milk and water in the ratio 3:2. 10 liters of the mixture are removed and replaced with an equal quantity of pure milk. If the process is repeated once more, find the ratio of milk and water in the final mixture obtained?
0.03 x 0.5 = ?
A train 100 meters long takes 6 seconds to cross a man walking at 5 kmph in the direction opposite to that of the train. Find the speed of the train.
A present value of a machine is $2000. Its value depletiation rate is 20% per annum then find the machine value before 2 years?
Calculate the cost of p meters of rope given that the cost of m meters of said rope is q rupees?
Amit and Ian paint a wall in alternating shifts. First Amit paints alone, then Ian paints alone, then Amit paints alone, etc. During each of his shifts, Amit paints 1/2 of the remaining unpainted area of the wall, while Ian paints 1/3 of the remaining unpainted area of the wall during each of his shifts. If Amit goes first, what fraction of the wall's area will remain unpainted after Amit has completed his 2th shift?
If two letters are taken at random from the word HOME, what is the probability that none of the letters would be vowels?
If n is a positive integer and n^2 is divisible by 134, then the largest positive integer that must divide n is
An bus covers a certain distance at a speed of 250 kmph in 5 hours. To cover the samedistance in 1hr, it must travel at a speed of?
Angelo and Isabella are both salespersons. In any given week, Angelo makes $580 in base salary plus 8 percent of the portion of his sales above $1,000 for that week. Isabella makes 10 percent of her total sales for any given week. For what amount of weekly sales would Angelo and Isabella earn the same amount of money?
A, B and C enter into partnership. A invests some money at the beginning, B invests double the amount after 6 months, and C invests thrice the amount after 8 months. If the annual gain be Rs.18000. A's share is?
A train 140 m long crosses a platform 160 m long in 16 sec; find the speed of the train?
There are 10 solid colored balls in a box, including 1 Green and 1 Yellow. If 3 of the balls in the box are chosen at random, without replacement, what is the probability that the 3 balls chosen will include the Green ball but not the yellow ball.
Four friends, Patricia, Melyssa, Tania, and Cassandra, are pooling their money to buy a $1100 item. Patricia has twice as much money as Melyssa. Tania has $10 more than Patricia. Cassandra has 20% more than Tania. If they put all their money together and spend the $1100, they will have $32 left. How much money does Patricia have?
If two numbers are in the ratio 2:3. If 10 is added to both of the numbers then the ratio becomes 3:4 then find the smallest number?
Simplify : 5793405 x 9999
A bakery has 6 employees. It pays annual salaries of $16,000 to each of 2 employees, $18,000 to 1 employee, and $19,000 to each of the remaining 3 employees. Which number is closest to the average (arithmetic mean) annual salary of these employees?
In the first week of last month, Company X realized an average wholesale profit of $5712 per day from the sale of q units of Product Y. Which of the following CANNOT be the difference between Product Y’s sale price and cost per unit?
If a and b are different positive integers and a + b = b(a + b), then which of the following must be true? I. a = 1 II. b < a III. b = 1
A train sets off at 2 p.m. at the speed of 70 kmph. Another train starts at 1:30 p.m. in the same direction at the rate of 85 kmph. At what time the trains will meet?
Calculate the least possible number of vans needed to transport 280 students, given that each van can only take 12 students each?
If f(x) = x^3/(x^4 - 1), what is f(1/x) in terms of f(x)?
The function f is defined for all positive integers u by the following rule. f(u) is the number of positive integers each of which is less than u and has no positive factor in common with u other than 1. If p is any prime, number then f(p)=
A rectangular paper when folded into two congruent parts had a perimeter of 34cm foer each part folded along one set of sides and the same is 38cm. When folded along the other set of sides. What is the area of the paper?
Five percent of a certain grass seed is timothy. If the amount of the mixture needed to plant one acre contains 2 pounds of timothy, how many acres can be planted with 600 pounds of the seed mixture?
If Jan spent 40% of her monthly income on housing and 20% less than she spent on housing on a car payment, what percent of her monthly income did she have left after making both her housing payment and her car payment?
The speed of a boat in still water is 70kmph and the speed of the current is 20kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?
If v, w, x, y, and z are positive integers, which of the following could not become a terminating decimal?
A mixture of 125 gallons of wine and water contains 20% of water. How much water must be added to the mixture in order to increase the percentage of water to 25% of the new mixture?
Two trains started from the same point. At 8:00 am the first train traveled East at the rate of 80 mph. At 9:00 am, the second train traveled West at the rate of 100 mph. At what time were they 530 miles apart?
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 1. 0, 6, 24, 60, 120, 210, x
The average age of a husband and a wife is 23 years when they were married SIX years ago but now the average age of the husband, wife and child is 20 years(the child was born during the interval). What is the present age of the child?
An article cost is Rs 912 after decreasing 24%. So find the actual cost of the article?
Six machines at a certain factory operate at the same constant rate. If five of these machines, operating simultaneously, take 42 hours to fill a certain production order, how many fewer hours does it take all six machines, operating simultaneously, to fill the same production order?
Grace has 17 jellybeans in her pocket. She has 9 red ones, 4 green ones, and 4 blue ones. What is the minimum number of jellybeans she must take out of her pocket to ensure that she has one of each color?
Salaries of Rajesh and Sunil are in the ratio of 2 : 3. If the salary of each one is increased by 4000 the new ratio becomes 40 : 57. What is Sunil’s present salary?
3 pumps, working 8 hours a day, can empty a tank in 2 days. How many hours a day must 12 pumps work to empty the tank in 1 day?
The sides AB, BC & CA of a triangle ABC have 3, 4 and 5 interior points respectively on them. Find the number of triangles that can be constructed using these points as vertices.
A stationary engine has enough fuel to move 12 hours when its tank is 4/5 full, how much hours will it run when the tank is 1/3 full