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If 325/999=0.125, what is the 81st digit to the right of the decimal point in the decimal equivalent of the fraction?
Thomas has age that is twice of Matt now, two years from now Thomas's age would be 1.5 times that of Matt. How old is the Matt now?
The difference between a number and its three-fifth is 50. What is the number?
Three 6 faced dice are thrown together. The probability that exactly two dice show the same number on them is?
If after 100 grams of water were added to the 20%-solution of alcohol, the strength of the solution decreased by one-fourth, how much of the 20%-solution was used?
Cindy paddles her kayak upstream at b kilometers per hour, and then returns downstream the same distance at n kilometers per hour. How many kilometers upstream did she travel if she spent a total of p hours for the round trip?
Which of the following points is symmetric with y=x at (-3,-4)?
Narendra started a business, investing 40000. Six months later, Chandan joined him with 20000. If they make a profit of 10000 at the end of the year, what should be the share of Narendra?
If the average cost of a house was $40,000 in 1965 and was x in 2005, what was the average increase in home prices per year over this period?
In a right isosceles triangle, the lengths of the two nonhypotenuse sides are designated a. What is the area of the triangle in terms of a?
If 3 people can do 3 times of a particular work in 3 days, then how many days would it take 9 people to do 9 times of that particular work?
If cost of sugar increases by 50%. How much percent consumption of sugar should be decreased in order to keep expenditure fixed?
The set X = {7,8,9,10}. The set Y = {2,3,4,5}. We will randomly choose one element x from set X and one element y from set Y. What is the probability that x / y will be an integer?
When the integer x is divided by the integer y, the remainder is 60. Which of the following is a possible value of the quotient x/y? I. 15.15 II.18.16 III. 17.18
It takes one machine to paint 1000 sq.m. surface in 24 minutes.Another machine does the same job in 40 seconds.How much time will it take if both machines are put on the same work?
Over a three-week period, the price of an ounce of gold increased by 10% in the first week, decreased by 20% in the following week, and increased by 30% in the third week. If the price of gold was G dollars per ounce at the beginning of the three weeks, what was the price at the end of the three weeks?
If x=kc and y=kt,then 2y-x =?
The pilot of a small aircraft with a 60-gallon fuel tank wants to fly to Cleveland, which is 480 miles away. The pilot recognizes that the current engine, which can fly only 10 miles per gallon, will not get him there. By how many miles per gallon must the aircraft’s fuel efficiency be improved to make the flight to Cl...
a^2*b^2+a^2+b^2=259 b^2*c^2+b^2+c^2=1299 c^2*a^2+c^2+a^2=499 then find a+b+c=?
There are 4 books on fairy tales, 5 novels and 3 plays. In how many ways can you arrange these so that books on fairy tales are together, novels are together and plays are together and in the order, books on fairy tales, novels and plays.
One side of a rectangular field is 15 m and one of its diagonal is 17 m. Find the area of the field.
A hollow cube of size 5cm is taken, with the thickness of 1cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1cm .If the outer surface of the cube is painted how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?
The numerator of a certain fraction is 8 less than the denominator. If 3 is added to the numerator and 3 is subtracted from the denominator, the fraction becomes 3/4. Find the original fraction?
A, B and C are partners. A receives 2/3 of profits, B and C dividing the remainder equally. A's income is increased by Rs.200 when the rate to profit rises from 5 to 7 percent. Find the Capital of B?
A positive integer, which when added to 1000, gives a sum which is greater than when it is multiplied by 1000. This positive integer is
If a number x is 10% less than another number y and y is 10% more than 125, then x is equal to
Solution P is 20 percent lemonade and 80 percent carbonated water by volume; solution Q is 45 percent lemonade and 55 percent carbonated water by volume. If a mixture of PQ contains 75 percent carbonated water, what percent of the volume of the mixture is P?
Three cubes of iron whose edges are 6cm, 8cm and 10cm respectively are melted and formed into a single cube. The edge of the new cube formed is
which of the following options is the correct value of r, given the equation 6^r +1^(-r) = 217?
Which of the following is equal to 2^k*3^(k-1)?
A does half as much work as B in three- fourth of the time. If together they take 18 days to complete the work, how much time shall B take to do it?
A number a is squared and then multiplied by negative 1. The result of this operation is equal to 2 times the sum of 4 times a and 8. What is one possible value of a ?
2 persons allotted to one work. John can do piece of work in 30 days while Bruce alone can do it in 40 days. In how many days can John and Bruce working together to do it?
A problem is given to three students whose chances of solving it are 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 respectively. What is the probability that the problem will be solved?
A certain sum becomes four times itself at simple interest in eight years. In how many years does it become ten times itself?
If in a race of 100m, A covers the distance in 20 seconds and B in 25 seconds, then A beats B by:
The sequence of numbers a1, a2, a3, ..., an is defined by an = 1/n - 1/(n+2) for each integer n >= 1. What is the sum of the first 30 terms of this sequence?
Fresh grapes contain 90% by weight while dried grapes contain 20% water by weight. What is the weight of dry grapes available from 20 kg of fresh grapes?
The area of a square is equal to five times the area of a rectangle of dimensions 125 cm * 64 cm. What is the perimeter of the square?
Solve This 6 + 7 = 12 8 + 9 = 16 5 + 6 = 10 7 + 8 = 14 Then, 10 + 5 = ??
In a group of 250 readers who read science fiction or literacy works or both, 180 read science fiction and 88 read literacy works. How many read both science fiction and literacy works?
At Veridux Corporation, there are 180 employees. Of these, 90 are female, and the rest are males. There are a total of 40 managers, and the rest of the employees are associates. If there are a total of 135 male associates, how many female managers are there?
Two electric trains of length 120 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 cube is painted red on all faces. It is then cut into 27 equal smaller cubes. How many V cubes are painted on only 2 faces?
2n boys are randomly divided into two sub-groups containing n boys each. Find the probability that two TOP RANK-HOLDER are in differed groups.
Two brothers took the GMAT exam, the higher score is M and the lower one is N. If the difference between the two scores is equal to their average, what is the value of N/M ?
Find the average of all the numbers between 6 and 34 which are divisible by 5
In an animal behavior experiment, 50 tagged white pigeons and 200 tagged gray pigeons were released from a laboratory. Within one week, 90 percent of the white pigeons and 80.5 percent of the gray pigeons had returned to the laboratory. What percent of the total number of pigeons returned to the laboratory?
Price of a product is reduced by 30% . What percentage should be increased to make it 100%
Rates for having a manuscript typed at a certain typing service are $10 per page for the first time a page is typed and $6 per page each time a page is revised. If a certain manuscript has 100 pages, of which 40 were revised only once, 10 were revised twice, and the rest required no revisions, what was the total cost o...
Today is Saturday. A person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the before day of the day after tomorrow? On which day the lawyer asks the person to come?
The population of a bacteria colony doubles every day. If it was started 7 days ago with 2 bacteria and each bacteria lives for 12 days, how large is the colony today?
From the below series find the remainder? 1201×1203×1205×1207 is divided by 6?
A shepherd had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many was he left with ?
If the probability Q of rain on any given day in city x is 50% what is the probability it with rain on exactly 3 days in a five day period?
A coin is tossed live times. What is the probability that there is at the least one tail?
A three-character password consists of one letter of the alphabet and two different digits between 0 and 9, inclusive. The letter must appear as the second or third character of the password. How many different passwords are possible?
A man can row upstream at 4km/hr and down stream at 11km/hr find mans rate in still water ?
For which of the following functions is f(w+b)=f(w)+f(b) for all positive numbers w and b?
A family consists of two grandparents, two parents and three grandchildren. The average age of the grandparents is 65 years, that of the parents is 45 years and that of the grandchildren is 8 years. What is the average age of family?
The present ages of three persons are in proportions 4:7:9 Eight years ago ,the sum of their ages was 56.Find their present ages (in years)
A certain college's enrollment at the beginning of 1992 was 40 percent greater than it was at the beginning of 1991, and its enrollment at the beginning of 1993 was 15 percent greater than it was at the beginning of 1992. The college's enrollment at the beginning of 1993 was what percent greater than its enrollment at ...
What is the remainder if 7^4 is divided by 100?
There are two concentric circles with radii 8 and 6. If the radius of the outer circle is increased by 25% and the radius of the inner circle decreased by 50%, by what percent does the area between the circles increase?
By selling an article at Rs.600, a profit of 25% is made. Find its cost price?
A garrison has provisions for 90 soldiers for 160 days. After 100 days 45 more soldiers will join the group. For how many more days will the provisions last?
Three faces of a fair die are Yellow, two faces red and one blue.The die is tossed three times. The probability that the colours, yellow, red and blue appear in the first, second and third tosses respectively is
A reduction of 20% in the price of salt enables a lady to obtain 10kgs more for Rs.100, find the original price per kg?
A certain lab experiments with white and brown mice only. In one experiment, 3/7 of the mice are white. If therare24 brown mice in the experiment, how many mice in total are in the experiment?
A right circular cylinder and a cone are there. Base radius of cone is equal to radius of cylinder. What is the ratio of height to slant side if their volume are the same?
The average salary of all the workers in a workshop is Rs. 8000. The average salary of 7 technicians is Rs. 16000 and the average salary of the rest is Rs. 6000. The total number of workers in the workshop is :
A train 280 m long, running with a speed of 72 km/hr will pass a tree in?
Abinaya invested an amount of Rs. 12,500 at the rate of 12% 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?
The total circumference of two circles is 49. If the first circle has a circumference that is exactly twice the circumference of the second circle, then what is the approximate sum of their two radii?
Working alone, Printers X, Y, and Z can do a certain printing job, consisting of a large number of pages, in 12, 30, and 40 hours, respectively. What is the ratio of the time it takes Printer X to do the job, working alone at its rate, to the time it takes Printers Y and Z to do the job, working together at their indiv...
A total of Y tourists were transported by bus to a certain museum. If there were Z tourists on each bus, which of the following expresses the number of buses used?
A certain airline's fleet consisted of 80 type A planes at the beginning of 1980. At the end of each year, starting with 1980, the airline retired 3 of the TYPE A planes and acquired 4 new type B plans. How many years did it take before the number of type A planes left in the airline's fleet was less than 50 percent of...
2. Seven movie addicts- Guna, Isha, Leela, Madhu, Rinku, Viji and Yamini attend a film festival. Three films are shown, one directed by Rajkumar Hirani ,one by S.Shankar,and one by Mani Ratnam. Each of the film buffs sees only one of the three films. The films are shown only once, one film at a time. The following rest...
If xy is an integer, which of the following must also be an integer? I. x/y II. x III. y/x
A train covers a distance in 50 min, if it runs at a speed of 48kmph on an average. The speed at which the train must run to reduce the time of journey to 40min will be
If 7 men and 2 boys working together, can do four times as much work per hour as a man and a boy together. Find the ratio of the work done by a man and that of a boy for a given time?
The speed of a boat in still water is 55kmph and the speed of the current is 20kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?
A semicircle is drawn with AB as its diameter. From C, a point on AB, a line perpendicular to AB is drawn, meeting the circumference of the semicircle at D. Given that AC=2cm and CD=6cm, the area of the semicircle in square cm will be ?
In how many ways a committee consisting of 5 men and 6 women can be formed from 8 men and 10 women?
Reena took a loan of Rs. 1200 with simple interest for as many years as the rate of interest. If she paid Rs. 768 as interest at the end of the loan period, what was the rate of interest?
Looking at a portrait of a man, Harsh said, "His mother is the wife of my father's son. Brothers and sisters I have none." At whose portrait was Harsh looking ?
The rate of a certain chemical reaction is directly proportional to the concentration of chemical A present and inversely proportional to the concentration of chemical B present. If the concentration of chemical B present is increased by 100 percent, which of the following is closest to the percent change in the the co...
In a friendship gang Mala has 5 gang, in how many ways can he invite one or more of the gang to his house?
A 12 meter long wire is cut into two pieces. If the longer piece is then used to form a perimeter of a square, what is the probability that the area of the square will be more than 4 if the original wire was cut at an arbitrary point?
A laborer is engaged for 30 days on the condition that he receives Rs.25 for each day he works and is fined Rs.7.50 for each day is absent. He gets Rs.425 in all. For how many days was he absent?
In a certain diving competition, 5 judges score each dive on a scale from 1 to 10. The point value of the dive is obtained by dropping the highest score and the lowest score and multiplying the sum of the remaining scores by the degree of difficulty. If a dive with a degree of difficulty of 3.2 received scores of 7.5, ...
List L: ABC, BCA, CAB In list L above, there are 7 positive integers, where each of A, B, and C is a different nonzero digit. Which of the following is the sum of all the positive integers that MUST be factors of the sum of the integers in list L?
(32^32^32)/9 will leave a remainder?????
The H.C.F. of two numbers is 23 and the other two factors of their L.C.M. are 13 and 15. The larger of the two numbers is:
The food in a camp lasts for 40 men for 50 days. If ten more men join, how many days will the food last?
There are 8 girls and 8 boys. If they are to be seated in a row, what is the probability that no two girls sit together?
Rajesh can finish 1/6 of his home work in one hour. Seema can finish 3/7 of her homework in 70 minutes and Ramya can finish 3/4 of her homework in three and a half hours. If all of them start their home work at 12.00 PM and can go to play as soon as they all finish their homework. When can they start to play, if they t...
Out of 7 persons working on a project, 4 are graduates. If 3 are selected, what is the probability that there is at least one graduate among them?
A code is to be made by arranging 8 letters. four of the letters used will be the letter A, two of the letters used will be the letter B, one of the letters used will be the letter C, and one of the letters used will be the letter D. If there is only one way to present each letter, how many different codes are possible...
A car moves at 102 km/hr. What is the speed of the car in meters per second ?