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Three numbers are in the ratio 3:5:7. The largest number value is 42. Find difference between Smallest & largest number is?
In an office, 50 percent of the workers have at least 5 years of service, and a total of 16 workers have at least 10 years of service. If 90 percent of the workers have fewer than 10 years of service, how many of the workers have at least 5 but fewer than 10 years of service?
At a florist shop on a certain day, all corsages sold for either $40 or $45. If 8 of the corsages that sold for $30 had instead sold for $20, then the store's revenue from corsages that day would have been reduced by 20 percent. What was the store's actual revenue from corsages that day?
Ten percent of Country Y's yearly exports come from fruit exports. One-fifth of all fruit exports from Country Y are orange exports. If country Y generates $400 million from its orange exports, how much money does it generate from its yearly total of exports?
In how many ways 8 different tickets Q can be distributed between Jane and Bill if each is to receive any even number of tickets and all 8 tickets to be distributed.
If a is an integer larger than 1, and x=60a, then x must be a multiple of which of the following?
Out of 8 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants and 1 vowels can be formed?
The unit digit in the product (784x618x917x463) is
A toy factory stores its toys in either a big box or a small box. The big box can store 35 toys while the small box can store 14 toys. If the factory is to store 86 newly manufactured toys, what is the least number of toys that will be left unboxed?
Which of these lines in the xy-plane does not contain any point with two negative coordinates?
A man can row with a speed of 15 kmph in still water. If the stream flows at 10 kmph, then the speed in downstream is?
An association of mathematics teachers has 1,260 members. Only 640 of these members cast votes in the election for president of the association. What percent of the total membership voted for the winning candidate if the winning candidate received 60 percent of the votes cast?
John purchased a fridge and a mobile for Rs. 15000 &Rs. 8000 respectively. He sold the fridgeat a loss of 4% and the mobile phone at a profit of 10%. Overall how much he make a profit.
If m is an integer such that (-2)^2m=2^(15-m) then m=?
Denise is trying to open a safe whose combination she does not know. IF the safe has 3000 possible combinations,and she can try 75 different possibilities,what is the probability that she does not pick the one correct combination.
Two goods trains each 1250 m long are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 45 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one?
A triangle has a perimeter 13. The two shorter sides have integer lengths equal to x and x + 1. Which of the following could be the length of the other side?
An athlete runs 100 meters race in 12sec. His speed is?
If A : B = 4 : 7 and B : C = 5 : 8 then A : B : C is :
Find the value of (2 − 1/3) (1 − 1/4)(1 − 1/5)……… (1 − 1/99)(1 − 1/100)
A certain football coach allows his quarterback to call three plays in a row. If the quarterback can choose from 3 passing plays, 4 running plays, and 2 trick plays, how many different E arrangements of plays can be run, if the same play can’t be run more than once?
A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20 seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?
Because of the economic slowdown, a multinational company curtailed some of the allowances of its employees. John, the marketing manager of the company whose monthly salary has been reduced to Rs.42,000 is unable to cut more on his expenditure. He finds that there is a deficit of Rs.2,000 between his earning and expens...
What value will come in place of question mark in the following equation? 0.006 +? = 0.6
How many seconds will a 500 m long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr?
Find the positive number which when increased by 17 is equal to 60 times the reciprocal of the number
If after 400 grams of water were added to the 24%-solution of alcohol, the strength of the solution decreased by one-third, how much of the 24%-solution was used?
a is an integer greater than 19 but less than 32, b is an integer greater than 29 but less than 42, what is the range of a/b?
If A is 25 kms east of B, which is 12 kms south of C, which is 9 kms west of D. A person starts walking at 3 kms/hr from A towards D. Calculate the distance of the point from A where he is going to meet a person from D walking towards A at 2 kms / hr.
10 years ago Neha's mother was 4 times older than Neha. After 10 years Neha's mother will be twice Neha's age. How old is Neha now?
Find the compound ratio of (2:3), (6:11) and (11:2) is
31 of the scientists that attended a certain workshop were Wolf Prize laureates, and 13 of these 31 were also Nobel Prize laureates. Of the scientists that attended that workshop and had not received the Wolf prize, the number of scientists that had received the Nobel Prize was 3 greater than the number of scientists t...
there is one designed bedsheets having length 6m and breadth 4m.in the middle there is square shape design with 3m side.calculate the % of bedsheet which do not have any design.
There are 18 stations between Hyderabad and Bangalore. How many second class tickets have to be printed, so that a passenger can travel from any station to any other station?
Two carpenters, working in the same pace, can build 2 desks in two hours and a half. How many desks can 3 carpenters build in 4 hours?
A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his averages by 3. What is his average after 17th inning?
A, B and C invested Rs.6300, Rs.4200 and Rs.10500 respectively, in a partnership business. Find the share of A in profit of Rs.12300 after a year?
If the length of the sides of two cubes are in the ratio 2:1, what is the ratio of their total surface area?
The area of the square formed on the diagonal of a rectangle as its side is 108 1/3 % more than the area of the rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 28 units, find the difference between the sides of the rectangle?
If n is a negative integer and p is a positive integer, which of the options below must be positive?
A 75-liter solution of cool-drink is made from 8% jasmine water. If 3 liters of jasmine and 12 liters of water were added to the solution, what percent of the solution is jasmine?
A train 100 m long crosses a platform 125 m long in 30 sec; find the speed of the train?
A certain fraction has the same ratio to 1/18, as 2/5 does to 7/9. What is this certain fraction?
By selling 12 pencils for a rupee a man loses 20%. How many for a rupee should he sell in order to gain 20%?
There are some pigeons and hares in a zoo. If heads are counted, there are 110. If legs are counted, there are 580. The number of hares in the zoo is?
A certain city with a population of 120,000 is to be divided into 11 voting districts , and no district is to have a population that is more than 10 percent greater than the population of any other district What is the minimum possible population that the least populated district could have ?
The length of the bridge, which a train 120 meters long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is:
Using all the letters of the word "THURSDAY", how many different words can be formed?
If 10,000 microns = 1 decimeter, and 10,000,000,000 angstroms = 1 decimeter, how many angstroms equal 1 micron?
At a florist shop on a certain day, all corsages sold for either $20 or $30. If 8 of the corsages that sold for $30 had instead sold for $20, then the store's revenue from corsages that day would have been reduced by 35 percent. What was the store's actual revenue from corsages that day?
A city has a population of 3,00,000 out of which 1,80,000 are males. 50% of the population is literate.If 70% of the males are literate, the number of literate females is :
50% of the population of a village is 23040. The total population of the village is ?
If each side of a square is increased by 25%, find the percentage change in its area?
Thurston wrote an important seven-digit phone number on a napkin, but the last three numbers got smudged. Thurston remembers only that the last three digits contained at least one zero and at least one non-zero integer. If Thurston dials 20 phone numbers by using the readable digits followed by 20 different random comb...
Mr. Smith calculated the average of 10three digit numbers. But due to a mistake he reversed the digits of a number and thus his average increased by 9.9. The difference between the unit digit and hundreds digit of that number is :
Five years ago, the average age of A and B was 15 years. Average age of A, B and C today is 20 years. How old will C be after 16 years?
Two boys starts from the same place walking at the rate of 5.5 kmph and 7.5 kmph respectively in the same direction. What time will they take to be 32 km apart?
At the end of three years what will be the compound interest at the rate of 10% p.a. on an amount of Rs.20000?
Line m lies in the xy-plane. The y-intercept of line m is -2, and line m passes through the midpoint of the line segment whose endpoints are (2, 4) and (6, -10). What is the slope of line m ?
A 140 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?
For a certain exam,a score of 58 was 2 standard deviations below mean and a score of 98 was 3 standard deviations above mean.What was the mean score E for the exam?
A new savings account offers 5 percent annual interest compounded every 6 months. What would be the total balance in an account after 1 year, if the initial amount in the account were $6000?
How many possible cases are there such that 2 stocks are selected at random from 10 stocks?
How many seconds will a 400 meter long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr?
The product of two numbers is 120. The sum of their squares is 289. The sum of the two numbers is :
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 11, 14, 19, 22, 27, 30, x
Out of 8 fruits in a basket, 2 are rotten. If two fruits are drawn at random from the basket, the probability of both being rotten is
Set S contains exactly 10 numbers and has an average (arithmetic mean) of 6.2. If one of the numbers in Set S is increased by 7, while all other numbers remain the same, what is the new average of Set S?
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?
A motorist travel to a place 150 km away at an average speed of 45 km/hr and returns at 30 km/hr.His average speed for the whole journey in km/hr is
Jolene entered an 18-month investment contract that guarantees to pay 2 percent interest at the end of 6 months, another 3 percent interest at the end of 10 months, and 4 percent interest at the end of the 18 month contract. If each interest payment is reinvested in the contract, and Jolene invested $10,000 initially, ...
Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
If c and d are unique prime integers, which of the following must be even?
How many natural numbers are there between 23 and 100 which are exactly divisible by 6 ?
A meal cost $ 37.50 and there was no tax. If the tip was more than 10 pc but less than 15pc of the price, then the total amount paid should be:
Alice and Paul have a plate with 37 cookies on it. They both eat cookies off of the plate every minute. Paul eats two cookies instead of one every third minute. Alice eats three cookies instead of one every fourth minute. How many minutes does it take them to eat all of the cookies?
There are 193 items that are members of set U. Of these items, 49 are members of set B, 59 are not members of either of set A or set B, and 25 are members of both sets A and B. How many of the members of set U are members of set A ?
Aman started a business investing Rs. 40,000. Rakhi joined him after six months with an amount of Rs. 1,05,000 and Sagar joined them with Rs. 1.4 lakhs after another six months. The amount of profit earned should be distributed in what ratio among Aman, Rakhi and Sagar respectively, 3 years after Aman started the busin...
How long does a train 165 meters long running at the rate of 54 kmph take to cross a bridge 660 meters in length?
A dozen eggs and 5 pounds of oranges are currently at the same price. If the price of a dozen eggs rises by 3 percent and the price of oranges rises by 6 %. How much more will it cost to buy a dozen eggs and 10 pounds of oranges .
Speed of a goods train is 72 km/hr. This train crosses a 250 meter platform in 26 seconds. Then find the length of goods train.
The total population of a country is 294000, out of which 150000 are males. Out of every 100 males, 98 can read and write, but only 53% of the total population can do so. Find the percentage of women who can read and write.
A man can row 6 kmph in still water. When the river is running at 1.2 kmph, it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and black. What is the total distance traveled by the man?
The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 60. If one of the sides of the equilateral triangle is the side of an isosceles triangle of perimeter 50, then how long is the base of isosceles triangle?
A man can row upstream at 15kmph and downstream at 45kmph. Find the rate of current ?
There are 1000000 people in city X, out of these 70% people having voting rights and out of those 55% voters votes candidate A and out of them 20% voters are senior citizens.Then find out the number of senior citizens who votes candidate A having voting rights?
The salary of A, B, C, D, E is Rs. 8000, Rs. 5000, Rs. 11000, Rs. 7000, Rs. 9000 per month respectively, then the average salary of A, B, C, D, and E per month is
In certain code 'QUICK' is written as '178DI' and 'QUOTE' is written as '17953'. How is 'TOKE' written in that code?
A certain company retirement plan has arule of 70provision that allows an employee to retire when the employee's age plus years of employment with the company total at least 70. In what year could a female employee hired in 1987 on her 32nd birthday first be eligible to retire under this provision?
17: 71 :: 18 :?
What is the median from the below series 90, 92, 93, 88, 95, 88, 97, 87, and 98
Three hoses work to fill a tub at at different rate. Hose W and B, working together, can fill the tub in 6/5 of an hour. Hoses W and C can fill it in 3/2 an hour. Houses B and C can fill it in 2 hours. How long does it take all 3 hoses, working together, to fill the tub? Edited for accurate solution
Q(x, y) is the intersection point between the circle (x^2 + y^2 = 4) and the line (y = x +2). Which of the following can be the point Q?
In a certain game, a player begins with a bag containing tiles numbered 1 through 12, each of which has an equal probability of being selected. The player draws one tile. If the tile is even, the player stops. If not, the player draws another tile without replacing the first. If this second tile is even, the player sto...
A certain car averages 25 miles per gallon of gasoline when driven in the city and 45 miles per gallon when driving on the highway. According to these rates, which of the following is closest to the number of miles per gallon that the car averages when it is driven 10 miles in the city and then 50 miles on the highway?
Three number are in the ratio of 3 : 4 : 5 and their L.C.M. is 2400. Their H.C.F. is:
On the first day of her vacation, Louisa traveled 200 miles. On the second day, traveling at the same average speed, she traveled 350 miles. If the 200-mile trip took 3 hours less than the 350-mile trip, what was the average speed, in miles per hour?
The average monthly salary of 20 employees in an organisation is Rs. 1500. If the manager's salary is added, then the average salary increases by Rs. 100. What is the manager's monthly salary?
The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average of the team?
A train running at the speed of 40 km/hr crosses a pole in 9 sec. What is the length of the train?