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The cost price of an article is 55% of the marked price. Calculate the gain percent after allowing a discount of 15%.
A sum of Rs. 25000 becomes Rs. 27250 at the end of 3 years when calculated at simple interest. Find the rate of interest.
The age of father 7 years ago was five times the age of his son. Five years hence, father's age will be thrice that of his son. The ratio of their present ages is:
Place a number in each of the following empty boxes so that the sum of the numbers in any 3 consecutive boxes is 2015. What is the number that should go in the box with the question mark?
Nirmala gains 10% by selling her bicycle for a certain price. If she sells it at 2 times the price, the percentage of profit will be :
A question paper has 2 parts, A & B, each containing 8 questions. If a student has to choose 8 from part A &4 from part B, in how many ways can he choose the questions?
In what ratio P:Q should the Mixture P of milk and water in the ratio of 5:4 be mixed with another Mixture Q of milk and water in the ratio 2:7 so that the resultant mixture contains equal quantities of milk and water?
If 36x = 216^y, which of the following expresses x in terms of y?
Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 37 1/2 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. Both pipes are opened. The cistern will be filled in just half an hour, if the pipe B is turned off after?
What will the ratio of simple interest earned by certain amount at the same rate of interest for 5 years and that for 11 years.
2, 3, 6, 0, 10, -3, 14, (...)
Tanks A and B are each in the shape of a right circular cylinder. The interior of tank A has a height of 10 meters and a circumference of 6 meters, and the interior of tank B has a height of 6 meters and a circumference of 10 meters. The capacity of tank A is what percent of the capacity of tank B?
At what rate percent on simple interest will Rs.750 amount to Rs.900 in 5 years?
On decreasing the price of a Air Conditioner by 20%, its sale is increased by 40%. The effect on the revenue is?
Three workers have a productivity ratio of 1 to 2 to 3. All three workers are working on a job for 5 hours. At the beginning of the 6th hour, the slowest worker takes a break. The slowest worker comes back to work at the beginning of the 9th hour and begins working again. The job is done in ten hours. What was the rati...
Jennifer had $150 to spend on herself. She spent 1/5 of the money on a sandwich, 1/6 for a ticket to a museum, and 1/2 of it on a book. How much money does Jennifer have left over?
The cost price of 16 articles is equal to the selling price of 11 articles. Find the profit percent?
For a party 240 guests were invited.Contracted have gained 12.5% profit but 30 guest were absent.He charged same cost , lost 100 rs. what is the meal cost?
A certain basketball team that has played 2/3 of its games has a record of 16 wins and 4 losses. What is the greatest number of the remaining games that the team can lose and still win at least 3/4 of all of its games?
Present ages of Sameer and Anand are in the ratio of 5:4 respectively. Three years hence, the ratio of their ages will become 11:9 respectively. What is Anand's present age in years?
The owner of a furniture shop charges his customer 20% more than the cost price. If a customer paid Rs. 8337 for a computer table, then what was the cost price of the computer table?
A trader sells 85 meters of cloth for Rs. 8925 at the profit of Rs. 10 per metre of cloth. What is the cost price of one metre of cloth?
The sum of the numbers is 550. If the first number be twice the second and third number be one-third of the first, then the second number is:
In how many ways can a committee consisting of three men and four women be formed from a group of six men and seven women?
Find the number which is nearest to 3105 and is exactly divisible by 21?
A Sum of Rs.2600, is lent out in 2 parts SI at 10% for 5yrs is equal to SI on 2nd part at 9% rate for 6 yrs. find the ratio of parts.
If 102y = 25, then 10-y equals:
Anand and Deepak started a business investing Rs. 4,500 and Rs. 8,000 respectively. Out of a total profit of Rs. 3,000. Deepak's share is?
What will be the difference in simple and compound interest on 7000 after three years at the rate of 10 percent per annum?
16 men went to a restaurant. Fifteen of them paid Rs.80 each and the sixteenth man paid Rs.75 more than the average of all the 16 men. What is the total bill?
A is thrice as efficient as B and is, therefore, able to finish a piece of work 10 days earlier than B. In how many days A and B will finish it together?
A book store bought copies of a new book by a popular author, in anticipation of robust sales. The store bought 400 copies from their supplier, each copy at wholesale price x. The store sold the first 150 copies in the first week at 80% more than x, and then over the next month, sold a 100 more at 20% more than x. Fina...
A dice is rolled 3times & sum of 3 no.'sappearing on the uppermost face is 15. The chance that the first roll was four is?
Two persons start running simultaneously around a circular track of length 300 m from the same point at speeds of 15 km/hr and 25 km/hr. When will they meet for the first time any where on the track if they are moving in opposite directions?
The ratio between the present ages of P and Q is 6:7. If Q is 4 years old than P, what will be the ratio of the ages of P and Q after 4 years
If x is equal to the sum of the integers from 50 to 70, inclusive, and y is the number of even integers from 50 to 70, inclusive, what is the value of x + y?
Jordan took a bus from home to market, that travels at 20 kmph. While walking back at 2 kmph, halfway through, he suddenly realized he was getting late and he cycled back the remaining distance in 10 kmph. Find the average speed.
A is twice as good a workman as B and together they finish a piece of work in 18 days. In how many days will A alone finish the work?
What is the lowest positive integer that is divisible by each of the integers 1 through 9 inclusive?
At a recent small town election for mayor a total of 963 votes were cast for the four candidates, the winner exceding his opponents by 53, 79 and 105 votes, respectively. How many votes were cast for each candidate?
A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward and backward, such as 242. How many even three-digit numbers are palindromes?
A sum of money deposited at compound interest (compounded yearly) amounts to $1210 in 2 years and to $1452 in 3 years. What is the interest rate?
Convert the following into a fraction: 0.3%
In a game of billiards, A can give B 20 points in 60 and he can give C 30 points in 60. How many points can B give C in a game of 100?
The value of 48 ÷ 12 x (9/8 of 4/3 ÷ 3/4 of 2/3) is ?
There are a lot of houses such that the numbers of their doorplates are odd numbers and the first number of the doorplates is 685, the last number of the doorplates is 705. How many houses are there?
A and B starts a business investing Rs.85000 and Rs.15000 respectively. Find out the ratio in which the profits should be shared.
What is the lowest positive integer that is divisible by each of the odd integers between 15 and 23, inclusive?
A jar is filled with red, white, and blue tokens that are equivalent except for their color. The chance of randomly selecting a red token, replacing it, then randomly selecting a white token is the same as the chance of randomly selecting a blue token. If the number of tokens of every color is a multiple of 5, what is ...
Two trains of equal lengths take 10 sec and 15 sec respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 200 m, in what time will they cross other travelling in opposite direction?
What is the least number to be subtracted from 800 to make it a perfect square?
Working alone at a constant rate, Alan can paint a house in a hours. Working alone at a constant rate, Bob can point 1/4 of the same house in b hours. Working together, Alan and Bob can paint 1/3 of the house in c hours. What is the value of b in terms of a and c?
Two trains, one from Howrah to Patna and the other from Patna to Howrah, start simultaneously. After they meet, the trains reach their destinations after 9 hours and 25 hours respectively. The ratio of their speeds is?
What is the smallest positive integer that can be multiplied by 605 to make it a perfect square?
If 45-[28-{37-(15-*)}]= 54, then * is equal to:
WINK, Inc. follows a certain procedure that requires two tasks to be finished independently in order for a job to be done. On any given day, there is a 5/8 probability that task 1 will be completed on time, and a 3/5 probability that task 2 will be completed on time. On a certain day, what is the probability that task ...
Kim purchased n items from a catalog for $8 each. Postage and handling charges consisted of $3 for the first item and $1 for each additional item. Which of the following gives the total dollar amount for Kim’s purchase, including postage and handling, in terms of n ?
|8 - 3| - |4 - 6| = ?
When m is divided by 9, the remainder is 8. When m is divided by 13, the remainder is 5. If 1 < m < 200, what is the greatest possible value of m?
In a certain year, the population of a certain town was 9000. If in the next year the population of males increases by 4% and that of the females by 9% and the total population increases to 9600, then what was the ratio of population of males and females in that given year?
A library has an average of 540 visitors on Sundays and 240 on other days. The average number of visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday is:
Nil and Ethan are brothers. They left their home at the same time and drove to the same beach. Nil drove at a speed of 60 miles per hour. Ethan drove at a speed of 20 miles per hour. Nil arrived at the beach 0.5 hour earlier than Ethan. What is the distance between their home and the beach?
A volume of 10940 l water is in a container of sphere. How many hemisphere of volume 4l each will be required to transfer all the water into the small hemispheres?
If 20% of a certain number is 60, then what is 80% of that number?
The Racing magic takes 150 seconds to circle the racing track once. The Charging bull makes 40 rounds of the track in an hour. If they left the starting point together, how many minutes will it take for them to meet at the starting point for the second time?
At a simple interest 800 becomes 956 in three years. If the interest rate, is increased by 3%, how much would 800 become in three years?
On a certain plane, 2/5 of the passengers speak English and 3/4 speak Hebrew. If all of the passengers on the plane speak at least one of these languages, what is the smallest number of passengers that could be on the plane?
In a game of billiards, A can give B 20 points in 60 and he can give C 30 points in 60. How many points can B give C in a game of 100?
On what dates of April, 2001 did Wednesday fall?
A race course is 400 m long. AA and BB run a race and AA wins by 5m. BB and CC run over the same course and BB win by 4m. CC and DD run over it and DD wins by 16m. If AA and DD run over it, then who would win and by how much?
A runs 1 2/3 times as fast as B. If A gives B a start of 80 m, how far must the winning post be so that A and B might reach it at the same time?
Sum of the numbers from 1 to 20 is
In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'CAREER' be arranged?
5KM is how many miles?
In a simultaneous throw of pair of dice .find the probability of getting the total more than 7
Two men and three women working 7 hours a day finish a work in 5 days. Four men and four women working 3 hours a day complete the work in 7 days. The number of days in which only 7 men working 4 hours a day will finish the work is?
Look at this series: 42, 42, 30, 30, 18, 18, .. What number should come next?
A factory has a fixed cost of $45,000 a month, and a cost of $2.5 for every item produced. If the selling price of a single item is $5, what is the number of items must be sold monthly for the factory to cover its cost exactly?
On dividing 83 by a number, the quotient is 9 and the remainder is 2. Find the divisor?
2 + 2^2 + 2^3 + ... + 2^9 = ?
Yesterday it took Robert 4 hours to drive from City A to City B. Today it took Robert 3.5 hours to drive back from City В to City A along the same route. If he had saved 15 minutes in both trips, the speed for the round trip would be 60 miles per hour. What is the distance between city A and city B?
The length of the bridge, which a train 110 meters long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is:
A pump can fill a tank with water in 2 hours. Because of a leak, it took 2x1/3 hours to fill the tank. The leak can drain all the water of the tank in
A painter intends to mixed two jars of paint to create a new color. He chooses one paint jar randomly from a display containing 5 red and 2 blue samples, and a second jar is chosen at random from a different display containing 3 red and 2 blue samples. If he plans on mixing the two chosen jars together, what is the pro...
Which of the following points falls outside of the region defined by 2y≤6x−16?
Look at this series: 6.2, 6.8, 7.4, 8, ... What number should come next?
A Man travelled a distance of 70 km in 9 hours. He travelled partly on foot at 6 km/hr and partly on bicycle at 9 km/hr. What is the distance travelled on foot?
A bookseller sells his books at a 20% markup in price. If he sells a book for $36.00, how much did he pay for it?
Kim bought a total of $2.65 worth of postage stamps in four denominations. If she bought an equal number of 2-cent and 20-cent stamps and twice as many 10-cent stamps as 5-cent stamps, what is the least number of 1-cent stamps she could have bought?
Series C(n) is such that i*C(i) = j*C(j) for any pair of positive integers (i, j). If C(1) is a positive integer, which of the following is possible? I. 2*C(100) = C(99) + C(98) II. C(1) is the only integer in the series III. The series does not contain negative numbers
At a meeting of 8 Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Naval Operations does not want to sit next to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. How many ways can the Chiefs of Staff be seated around a circular table?
A grocery store bought some mangoes at a rate of 5 for a dollar. They were separated into two stacks, one of which was sold at a rate of 4 for a dollar and the other at a rate of 6 for a dollar. What was the ratio of the number of mangoes in the two stacks if the store broke even after having sold all of its mangoes?
A certain country had a total annual expenditure of $9.6 x 10^11 last year. If the population of the country was 240 million last year, what was the per capita expenditure?
What will be the reminder when (31^31+31) is divided by 32?
Shiva decided to drive through the city and on the first day he drove for only 7 miles. On the last day he drove for 51 miles, increasing his journey 4 miles each day. Calculate the number of days he traveled and how far did he travel?
If 10 machines can produce 20 units in 10 hours, how long would it take 40 machines to produce 100 units?
At a game of billiards, A can give B 15 points in 60 and A can give C to 20 points in 60. How many points can B give C in a game of 90?
A certain auto manufacturer sold 3% fewer vehicles in 2007 than in 2006. If the manufacturer sold 2.5 million vehicles in 2006, how many vehicles, to the nearest 10,000, did the manufacturer sell in 2007?
If the cost price is 89% of selling price then what is the profit percentage.
If positive integer n is divisible by both 5 and 18, then n must be divisible by which of the following?