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Find the probability if a two digit number multiplied by 3 but not 5
In Rwanda, the chance for rain on any given day is 1/2. What is the probability that it rains on 5 out of 8 consecutive days in Rwanda?
The pilot of a small aircraft with a 40-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...
Average of 5 numbers is zero. At most how many numbers may be greater than zero
A table is bought for Rs.400/- and sold at Rs.500/- find gain or loss percentage
A train is moving at a speed of 132 km/hr. If the length of the train is 150 meters, how long will it take to cross a railway platform 235 meters long
If x is a sum of all even integers on the interval 13...65 and y is their number, what is the GCD (x, y)?
How many pages the book have, if total 300 digits are used to form the page numbers?
The sum of two numbers is 16. The difference is 4. What are the two numbers?
How many four digit even numbers can be formed using the digits {2, 3, 5, 1, 7, 9}
For the sequence a1, a2, a3. ..an, an is defined by an=1/2n−1−1/2n for each integer n≥1. What is the sum of the first 8 terms of the sequence?
A can do a piece of work in 15 days and B alone can do it in 10 days. B works at it for 5 days and then leaves. A alone can finish the remaining work in
A trader mixes 26 kg of rice at Rs. 20 per kg with 30 kg of rice of other variety at Rs. 36 per kg and sells the mixture at Rs. 30 per kg. His profit percent is:
Excluding stoppages,the speed of the bus is 54kmph and including stoppages,it is 9kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hr
I have only 1$ and 2$ note. I want to give 95$ to John. How many maximum number of 1$ note I need?
Given that there are 11 cricket players per team, how many ways can you select 10 cricket players from 2 teams if no more than 3 players can be selected from each team?
There are 100 students in a certain geometry class. If one half of the students are boys and one fifth of the boys are under six feet tall, how many boys in the class are under six feet tall?
A company has 600 employees, 40% of whom are employed full time. If it hires 80 new employees, 15% of whom are employed part time, what will be the percent increase in part time employees?
Four friends are pooling their money for pizza. Emma has 8 dollars. Daya has 25% more money than Emma, Jeff has 2/5 of the money Daya has, and Brenda has 4 more dollars than Jeff. How much money does Brenda have?
If a sample of data has mean of 20 and SD of 3, which of the following values is more than 2.7 SDs from the mean?
In a flower shop there were 8 flowers in each bouquet. If the seller has doubled the number of flowers in each bouquet then the new average of flowers in each bouque is
If n is the greatest positive integer for which 2^n is a factor of 6!, then n =?
For any numbers w and z, w#z = w^3z(8 - w^2). If both z and w#z are positive numbers, which of the following could be a value of w?
Fresh fruit contains 55% water and dry fruit contains 10% water. How much dry fruit can be obtained from 100kg of fresh fruit?
Two trains 111 meters and 165 meters in length respectively are running in opposite directions, one at the rate of 80 km and the other at the rate of 65 kmph. In what time will they be completely clear of each other from the moment they meet?
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?
Gate A runs 3000 liters of water per minute out of a check dam that has a total volume of 360000 liters. Gate B drains a third of the dam in 6 hours. Working together how long will it take both gates to drain the dam completely ?
How many real roots does the equation x^2y+16xy+60y=0 have if y < 0?
A container contains a dry mixture of sand and stones. Mass of sand and stones in the container is in the ratio 1:3. If 12 kg sand is added to the container, the ratio of masses of sand and stones becomes 5:3. Originally, how much more was the mass of stones than sand in the container?
In how many different number of ways 4 men and 2 women can sit on a shopa which can accommodate persons?
A and B walk around a circular track. A and B walk at a speed of 2 rounds per hour and 3 rounds per hour respectively. If they start at 8 a.m. from the same point in opposite directions, how many times shall they cross each other before 10.30 a.m.?
A person borrows Rs.5000 for 2 years at 5% p.a. simple interest. He immediately lends it to another person at 61⁄4% p.a for 2 years. Find his gain in the transaction per year.
A group of college friends plan to rent a house together for x dollars per month, which is to be shared equally among them. If four, rather than five people rent the house together, how many more dollars, in terms of x, will each person have to pay for rent per month?
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The banker’s discount on Rs. 1600 at 8% per annum is the same as true discount on Rs. 1680 for the same time and at the same rate. The time is :
A man spends 10% of his income in house rent, 20% of the rest on his children’s education, 25% of the rest miscellaneous causes. If he now posses Rs. 1944 then his income is?
At what time between 5.30 and 6 will the hands of a clock be at right angles?
there are 30 students in a classroom. The ratio of the # of girls to boys was 1:2, how many boys are there?
The length of a room is 5.5 m and width is 3.75 m. What is the cost of paying the floor by slabs at the rate of Rs.800 per sq. metre.
When ticket sales began, Pat was the nth customer in line for a ticket, and customers purchased their tickets at the rate of r customers per minute. Of the following, which best approximates the time, in minutes, that Pat had to wait in line from the moment ticket sales began?
Set P is composed of nine numbers, labeled P1 through P9. Set Q is also composed of nine numbers, labeled Q1 through Q9. Set Q is defined as follows: Q1 = 1 + P1; Q2 = 2 + P2; and so on, including Q9 = 9 + P9. How much larger is the sum of set Q's mean and range than the sum of set P's mean and range?
From a pack of cards, two cards are drawn one after the other, with replacement. What is the probability that the first card is a club and the second card is a red king?
The average age of 8 men increases by 2 years when two women are included in place of two men of ages 20 and 24 years. Find the average age of the women?
A polygon has 135 diagonals. How many sides does it have? Self made
The average age of a group of 10 students was 25. The average age increased by 3 years when two new students joined the group. What is the average age of the two new students who joined the group?
Find the invalid no.from the following series 15 46 63 71 75 77 78
If m and n are negative integers, which of the following statements must be true? I. (-m)^n is positive. II. (-m)^(-n) is positive. III. m^(-n) is positive.
If r = 199,999 and s = 991,999, which of the following is the units digit of r^2 + s^2?
What is the greatest possible length which can be used to measure exactly the lengths 180 m, 500 m and 15m 20 cm?
If the simple interest on a certain amount in at 4% rate 5 years amounted to Rs.2080 less than the principal. What was the principal?
If (1/2)^25 (1/81)^k = 1/18^25, then k =
A tea expert claims that he can easily find out whether milk or tea leaves were added first to water just by tasting the cup of tea. In order to check this claims 6 cups of tea are prepared, 3 in one way and 3 in other. Find the different possible ways of presenting these 6 cups to the expert.
Two passenger trains start at the same hour in the day from two different stations and move towards each other at the rate of 17 kmph and 21 kmph respectively. When they meet, it is found that one train has traveled 60 km more than the other one. The distance between the two stations is?
One night 18 percent of the female officers on a police force were on duty. If 144 police officers were on duty that night and half of these were female officers, how many female officers were on the police force?
If the sample interest on a sum of money 10% per annum for 2 years is $1200, find the compound interest on the same sum for the same period at the same rate?
If a + b + c = 13, a2 + b2 + c2 = 69 then find the ab + bc + ca :
When 2/9 of the votes on a certain resolution have been counted, 3/4 of those counted are in favor of the resolution. What fraction w of the remaining votes must be against the resolution so that the total count will result in a vote of 2 to 1 against the resolution?
Look at this series: 36, 34, 30, 28, ..., ... What numbers should come next?
Of three numbers, the third is thrice the second and the second is 5 times the first. If their average is 105, the smallest of the three numbers is:
Every year an amount increases by 1/8th of itself. How much will it be after two years if its present value is Rs.64000?
The average age of a group of n people is 14 years old. One more person aged 32 joins the group and the new average is 16 years old. What is the value of n?
What should be added to 5021 so that it may become a perfect square?
In the x-y plane, point (x, y) is a lattice point if both x and y are integers. Circle C has a center at (0, 1) and a radius of 2. Some points, such as the center (0, 1), are inside the circle, but a point such as (0, 3) is on the circle but not in the circle. How many lattice points are in circle C?
If x percent of 400 is 20 percent of 700, then x =
10 women can complete a work in 7 days and 10 children take 14 days to complete the work. How many days will 5 women and 10 children take to complete the work?
Two goods trains each 500 m long are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 90 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one?
In a rectangular coordinate system, what is the area of a rectangle whose vertices have the coordinates (-5, 1), (1, 1), (1, -4) and (-5, -4)?
John buys good worth Rs. 6650. He gets a rebate of 6% on it. After getting the rebate, he pays sales tax @ 10%. Find the amount he will have to pay for the goods.
If x is to be chosen at random from the set {1, 2, 3} and y is to be chosen at random from the set {5, 6, 7}, what is the probability that xy will be even?
In a fort, there are 1200 soldiers. If each soldier consumes 3 kg per day, the provisions available in the fort will last for 30 days. If some more soldiers join, the provisions available will last for 25 days given each soldier consumes 2.5 kg per day. Find the number of soldiers joining the fort in that case?
Look at this series: 72, 76, 73, 77, 74, __, 75, ... What number should fill the blank?
A 250 metres long train running at the speed of 120 kmph crosses another train running in opposite direction at the speed of 80 kmph in 9 seconds. What is the length of the other train?
Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
Find the compound interest and the amount on Rs.8000 at 5% per annum for 3 years when C.I is reckoned yearly?+ 1611 + 647 equals
In covering a distance of 30 km, Abhay takes 2 hours more than Sameer. If Abhay doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less than Sameer. Abhay's speed is
Given a certain number (x), find x given that 5.76 is 12% of 40% of x?
In what ratio tea of Rs.80 per kg be mixed with 12kg tea of Rs.64 per kg, so thai cost price of mixture is Rs.74 per kg?
At Rahul's party, there were five times as many females as males. There were three times as many adults as children. Which of the following could NOT be the number of people at the party?
A train 135 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?
6 boysand 8 girls can do job in 10 days ,26 boys & 48 women do work in 2 days find time taken by 15 boys and 20 girls to do same work
A cubical block of metal weighs 4 pounds. How much will another cube of the same metal weigh if its sides are twice as long?
The cost price of a radio is Rs.1500 and it was sold for Rs.1230, find the loss %?
Which number need to add to 956734 to get a number exactly divisible by 412?
If x is a number such that x^2 + 4x - 5 = 0 and x^2 - 5x + 4 = 0, then x =
There is a square with side ‘a’ and one octagon is inscribed in it. What will be perimeter of octagon.
By selling an article at Rs.600, a profit of 25% is made. Find its cost price?
Find the number of factors T of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), where k is a non-negative integer?
If a is an integer from 1 to 96, what is the probability for a*(a+1)*(a+2) being divisible by 8?
The total age of A and B is 15 years more than the total age of B and C. C is how many years younger than A?
The arithmetic mean of the scores of a group of students in a test was 80. The brightest 20% of them secured a mean score of 80 and the dullest 25% a mean score of 31. The mean score of remaining 55% is?
You keep tossing a fair coin for twenty times. Each time, the coin lands up with tails up. What is the probability that if you toss it now, the coin will land with heads up this time?
The length of the bridge, which a train 150 metres long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is:
A gardener wants to plant trees in his garden in such a way that the number of trees in each row should be the same. If there are 7 rows or 6 rows or 4 rows, then no tree will be left. Find the least number of trees required
A woman buys an article for 10% less than its value and sells it for 10% more than its value. His gain or loss percent is:
The arithmetic mean of the set S = {8, K, 7, 13, M, 8} is 9. If K and M are integers, and K ≠ M, what is the median of the numbers in the set?
In an election, candidate X got 75% of the total valid votes. If 15% of the total votes were declared invalid and the total numbers of votes is 560000, find the number of valid vote polled in favour of candidate?
If a boat goes 7 km upstream in 42 minutes and the speed of the stream is 6 kmph, then the speed of the boat in still water is
A person is traveling at 40 km/hr and reached his destiny in 6 hr then find the distance?
How many odd and even numbers are there between 42 and 400?? Find the sum of odd numbers and the sum of even numbers!
How many 4-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of the word, 'LOGARITHMS', if repetition of letters is not allowed?