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A sum of money is divided among A, B, C & D in the ratio 3:5:8:9 respectively. If the share of D Rs.1872 more than the share of A, then what is the total amount of money of B & C together?
Train X and train Y pass one another traveling in opposite directions. Twenty minutes later they are 100 miles apart. If train X’s constant speed is 30 miles per hour greater than train Y’s, how far does train X travel during that time?
The speed of a boat in still water in 42 km/hr and the rate of current is 7 km/hr. The distance travelled downstream in 44 minutes is:
A man buys 60 pens at marked price of 46 pens from a whole seller. If he sells these pens giving a discount of 1% , what is the profit percent?
What will be the difference between simple and compound interest at 10% per annum on a sum of Rs. 1000 after 4 years?
Two 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 big container is 30% full with water. If 36 liters of water is added, the container becomes 3/4 full. What is the capacity of the big container?
Find the middle one when The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 36?
10 men can complete a work in 7 days. But 10 women need 14 days to complete the same work. How many days will 5 men and 10 women need to complete the work?
A couple decides to have 3 children. If they succeed in having 3 children and each child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl, What is the probability that they will have exactly 1 girl and 2 boys?
The average of first five multiples of 3 is
In how many years, Rs. 200 will produce the same interest @ 5 % as Rs. 900 produce in 2 years @ 3 ½ %?
In the new budget the price of Petrol rose by 20%. By how much percent must a person reduce his consumption so that his expenditure on it does not increase?
At what price must an article costing Rs.57 be marked in order that after deducting 5% from the list price. It may be sold at a profit of 25% on the cost price?
If the diameter of circle R is 20% of the diameter of circle S, the area of circle R is what percent of the area of circle S?
If 3^e- 3^(e-1) = 162 then e(e-1) =
The average age of 15 students of a class is 15 years. Out of these, the average age of 6 students is 14 years and that of the other 9 students is 16 years, The age of the 15th student is
The speed of a boat in still water is 60kmph and the speed of the current is 20kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?
A woman has three blouses of different colors, two skirts of different colors, and two different pairs of shoes. She refuses to wear her pink blouse with her green skirt. How many different blouseskirt-shoe combinations could she wear?
How many halves are there in one-fourth?
A, B and C have Rs.500 between them, A and C together have Rs.200 and B and C Rs.350. How much does C have?
What will be the percentage increase in the area of the cube's surface if each of the cube's edges grows by 10%?
In a colony of 50 residents, the ratio of the number of men and women is 3:2. Among the women, the ratio of the educated to the uneducated is 1:3. If the ratio of the number of education to uneducated persons is 4:6, then find the ratio of the number of educated and uneducated men in the colony?
Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:
If x and y are positive integers such that x < y and z=x/y, which of the following must be true? I. z<(x − 1)/y II. z<(x − 1)/(y − 1) III. z>(x + 1)/(y + 1)
Divide Rs. 1500 among A, B and C so that A receives 1/3 as much as B and C together and B receives 2/3 as A and C together. A's share is?
Ten stickers numbered 1 to 10 are placed in a bowl, mixed up thoroughly and then one sticker is drawn randomly. If it is known that the number on the drawn sticker is more than 3, what is the probability that it is an even number?
In a renowned city, the average birth rate is 10 people every two seconds and the death rate is 2 people every two seconds. Estimate the size of the population net increase that occurs in one day.
A man can row his boat with the stream at 6 km/h and against the stream in 3 km/h. The man's rate is?
This topic is locked. If you want to discuss this question please re-post it in the respective forum. The sum of the first 53 positive even integers is 2550. What is the sum of the even integers from 96 to 200 inclusive?
Carmelo and LeBron participate in a five-person footrace on the basketball court during All-Star Weekend. If all five contestants finish (including Charles Barkley) and there are no ties, how many different arrangements of finishes are there in which Carmelo defeats LeBron?
Given the equation 7^p-3^(-p)=6.7, which of the following options is the correct value of p?
There is a 50 cm line marked at each centimeter and an insect is placed at every centimeter. 9 frogs are trained to jump a constant distance. The first one jumps 2 cm in every leap, the second one jumps 3 cm and so on until the 9th one jumps 10 cm in every leap and they eat any insect that is available at that spot. If...
If each digit in the set A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} is used exactly once, in how many ways can the digits be arranged?
One half of a two digit number exceeds its one third by 6. What is the sum of the digits of the number?
For any non-zero a and b that satisfy |ab| = ab and |a| = -a, |b-3| + |ab-b| =
There are 9 cities numbered 1 to 9.From how many cities the flight can start so as to reach the city 8 either directly or indirectly such that the path formed is divisible by 3.
One pipe can fill a tank three times as fast as another pipe. If together the two pipes can fill the tank in 36 minutes, then the slower pipe alone will be able to fill the tank in
A bag contains 18 purple jellybeans, 14 green jellybeans, and 12 yellow jellybeans; these jellybeans are the only items in the bag. If a person picks a jellybean at random out of the bag, what is the probability that the jellybean will be green?
In what time will a railway train 52 m long moving at the rate of 24 kmph pass a telegraph post on its way?
The weights of three boys are in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6. If the sum of the weights of the heaviest and the lightest boy is 45 kg more than the weight of the third boy, what is the weight of the lightest boy?
A club with a total membership of 25 has formed 3 committees, M, S and R, which have 8, 12 and 5 members respectively. If no members of committee M is on either of the other 2 committees, what is the greatest possible number of members in the club who are on none of the committees?
Solve the equation for x : 19(x + y) + 17 = 19(-x + y) - 21
A is half good a work man as B and together they finish a job in 13 days. In how many days working alone B finish the job?
How many diagonals does a 58-sided convex polygon have?
If 10 persons meet at a reunion and each person shakes hands exactly once with each of the others, what is the total number of handshakes?
The sum of two numbers is 72, and one of them is 12 more than the other. What are the two numbers?
The ratio of the volumes of two cubes is 9261: 12167. What is the ratio of their total surface areas?
At the end of three years what will be the compound interest at the rate of 10% p.a. on an amount of Rs.30000?
How much interest will $2,400 earn at an annual rate of 8% in one year if the interest is compounded every 4 months?
A watch was sold at a loss of 10%. If it was sold for Rs.140 more, there would have been a gain of 5%. What is the cost price?
Tough and Tricky questions: Number Properties. If (z + 3)/9 is an integer, what is remainder when z is divided by 9?
Camel and carriage for Rs. 5000. He SP the camel at a gain of 20% and the carriage at a loss of 10%. If he gains 3% on the whole, then find the CP of the camel?
The length of a rectangle ishalved, while its breadth is tripled. Watis the % change in area?
Stacy and Heather are 25 miles apart and walk towards each other along the same route. Stacy walks at constant rate that is 1 mile per hour fast than heather's constant rate of 5 miles/hour. If Heather starts her journey 24 minutes after Stacy, how far from the original destination has Heather walked when the two meet?...
The radius of a semi circle is 14 cm then its perimeter is?
A letter lock consists of three rings each marked with six different letters. The number of distinct unsuccessful attempts to open the lock is at the most?
O(x) represents the least odd integer greater than x, whereas o(x) represents the greatest odd integer less than x. Likewise, E(x) represents the least even integer greater than x, whereas e(x) represents the greatest even integer less than x. According to these definitions, the value of O(5.3) + E(–6.7) + o(–3.3) + e(...
One woman and one man can build a wall together in five hours, but the woman would need the help of two girls in order to complete the same job in the same amount of time. If one man and one girl worked together, it would take them nine hours to build the wall. Assuming that rates for men, women and girls remain consta...
Which of the following is not a leap year?
Excluding stoppages, the speed of a train is 45 kmph and including stoppages it is 30 kmph. Of how many minutes does the train stop per hour?
Find the area of a parallelogram with base 20 cm and height 40 cm?
A group of 10 representatives is to be selected out of 12 seniors and 10 juniors. In how many different ways can the group be selected if it should have at least one senior?
A bucket full of nuts was discovered by the crow living in the basement. The crow eats a sixth of the total number of nuts in 8 hours. How many hours in total will it take the crow to finish a quarter of the nuts?
Darcy lives 1.5 miles from work. She can walk to work at a constant rate of 3 miles per hour, or she can ride the train to work at a constant rate of 20 miles per hour. If she rides the train, there is an additional x minutes spent walking to the nearest train station, waiting for the train, and walking from the final ...
Mr Jacobs placed his folders on three chairs in a conference room comprising of 12 chairs, if Mrs Roberts walked in and also placed her folders on 3 chairs, what is the probability that she did no place any of her folders on a chair already containing Mr Jacobs folder?.
Amar takes as much time in running 18 meters as a car takes in covering 48 meters. What will be the distance covered by Amar during the time the car covers 1.6 km?
A 110 cm long wire is to be cut into two pieces so that one piece will be 2/5th of the other, how many centimeters will the shorter piece be?
A couple decides to have 6 children. If they succeed in having 6 children and each child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl, What is the probability that they will have exactly 3 girls and 3 boys?
The length of a rectangular landscape is 4times its breadth. There is a playground in it whose area is 1200 square mtr & which is 1/3rd of the total landscape. What is the length of the landscape?
3648,3648,1216.243.2,34.74,?
A man has some hens and cows. If the number of heads be 100 and the number of feet equals 240, then the number of cows will be:
If I walk at 2 kmph, I miss the train by 2 min, if however, I walk at 4 kmph. I reach the station 2 min before the arrival of the train. How far do I walk to reach the station?
Two goods trains each 500 m long are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 50 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one?
6/9 of the population of the country of Venezia lives in Montague Province, while the rest lives in Capulet Province. In the upcoming election, 80% of Montague residents support Romeo, while 70% of Capulet residents support Juliet; each resident of Venezia supports exactly one of these two candidates. Rounded if necess...
What is the average (arithmetic mean) of all the multiples of ten from 10 to 250 inclusive?
If Jake loses 8 pounds, he will weigh twice as much as his sister Kendra. Together they now weigh 290 pounds. What is Jake’s present weight, in pounds?
Two numbers A and B are such that the sum of 6% of A and 4% of B is two-third of the sum of 6% of A and 8% of B. Find the ratio of A : B.
Imagine a disk spinning like a record player turn table. Half of the disk is black and the other is white. Assume you have an unlimited number of color sensors. How many sensors would you have to place around the disk to determine the direction the disk is spinning? Where would they be placed?
Sum of two number is 1000 and the sum of their recipocal is 2/255.Let the smallest of 2 number be L, so which of the following is correct value range for L?
If a book is sold at 10% profit instead of 10% loss, it would have brought Rs 14 more. Find out the cost price of the book
Thomas's age and Matt's age are in the ratio 6:7. Four years ago the ratio of their ages was 5:6. Find the ratio of their ages 10 years before?
A company has a job to prepare certain number of cans and there are three machines A, B and C for this job. A can complete the job in 5 days, B can complete the job in 25 days and C can complete the job in 2 days. How many days the company will it take to complete the job if all the machines are used simultaneously?
The parameter of a square is equal to the perimeter of a rectangle of length 22 cm and breadth 20 cm. Find the circumference of a semicircle whose diameter is equal to the side of the square.
A group of people were given 2 puzzles. 71% people solved puzzle X and 89% people solved puzzle Y. What is the maximum and minimum percentage of people who could have solved both the puzzles?
40 persons like apple. 7 like orange and mango dislike apple. 10 like mango and apple and dislike orange. 5 like all. How many people like apple?
If the cost price of 12 pens is equal to the selling price of 6 pens, the gain percent is:
Divide Rs. 1500 among A, B and C so that A receives 1/3 as much as B and C together and B receives 2/3 as A and C together. A's share is?
Free notebooks were distributed equally among children of a class. The number of notebooks each child got was one-eighth of the number of children. Had the number of children been half, each child would have got 16 notebooks. Total how many notebooks were distributed ?
Which of the following numbers is divisible by each one of 3, 7, 9 and 11?
The owner of an electronic store charges his customer 14% more than the cost price. If a customer paid Rs.1,65300 for an LED TV, then what was the original price of the TV?
On Saturday, Kramer purchases exactly 3 new shirts, 2 new sweaters, and 4 new hats, On the following day and each subsequent day thereafter, Kramer wears one of his new shirts together with one of his new sweaters and one of his new hats. Kramer avoids wearing the exact same combination of shirt, sweater, and hat for a...
On January 1, 2011, Dimple invests 20% of his retirement savings in Antarctic largecap stocks, 30% in Antarctic midcaps, and 50% in Antarctic smallcaps. In 2011, largecaps rise 20%, midcaps rise 10%, and smallcaps rise 20% in the Antarctic stock market; however, in 2012, largecaps fall 10% and midcaps fall 20%, while s...
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 46080, 3840, 384, 48, 8, 2, x
Ratio between Rahul and Deepak is 4:3, After 6 Years Rahul age will be 34 years. What is Deepak present age?
If the sides of a triangle are 26 cm, 24 cm and 12 cm, what is its area?
An article is bought for Rs.600 and sold for Rs.500, find the loss percent?
A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current in 10 minutes.How long will it take to go 5 km in stationary water ?
What is the dividend. divisor 17, the quotient is 9 and the remainder is 5.
The H.C.F. of two numbers is 23 and the other two factors of their L.C.M. are 13 and 14. The larger of the two numbers is: