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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 4 children take to complete the work? |
Ayesha's father was30 years of age when she was born while her mother was 26 years old when her brother four years younger to her was born. What is the difference between the ages of her parents? |
Set T includes elements {8, 2, 11, x, 3, y} and has a mean of 7 and a median of 5.5. If x < y, then which of the following is the maximum possible value of x? |
If x ¤ y = (x + y)^2 - (x - y)^2. Then √3 ¤ √3 = |
A book club rented the party room of a local restaurant to meet and discuss its current novel over dinner. The total charge, including food and service, was $800. If each member of the club paid at least $53, then what is the greatest possible number of members in the club? |
A rectangular field 30 m long and 20 m broad. How much deep it should be dug so that from the earth taken out, a platform can be formed which is 8 m long, 5.5 m broad and 1.5 m high where as the earth taken out is increase by 10/5? |
What number is 60 more than two-fourth of itself? |
The triplicate ratio of 1:6 is? |
One-third of Rahul’s savings in National Savings Certificate is equal to one-half of his savings in Public Provident Fund. If he has Rs. 1,50,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in Public Provident Fund ? |
In Orange County one fourth of the people are gathering mushrooms and one seventh of the people are collecting apples. What can be the number of people in Orange County? |
Sushil got thrice as many marks in English as in Science. His total marks in English, Science and Maths are 162. If the ratio of his marks in English and Maths is 3:5, find his marks in Science? |
A man sitting in a train which is travelling at 15 kmph observes that a goods train, travelling in opposite direction, takes 9 seconds to pass him. If the goods train is 280 m long, find its speed? |
If (2)^n=(1/2)^2, what is the value of n? |
If a is an odd integer and b is an even integer, which of the following CANNOT be true? |
A person jogged 10 times along the perimeter of a rectangular field at the rate of 12 kilometers per hour for 30 minutes. If field has a length that is twice its width, find the area of the field in square meters. |
Integer X represents the product of all integers between 1 to 26 (inclusive). The smallest prime factor of (x+1) must be |
If the price of gold increases by 50%, find by how much the quantity of ornaments must be reduced, so that the expenditure may remain the same as before? |
A car travels first half distance between two places with a speed of 40 km/hr and rest of the half distance with a speed of 60 km/hr. The average speed of the car is: |
If the time is currently 1:30 pm, what time will it be in exactly 645 hours? |
Which of the following is satisfied with |x-4|+|x-3|<6? |
A person spends 40% of his salary on food, 25% on house rent, 15% on entertainment and 5% on conveyance. If his savings at the end of the month is Rs. 1200, then his salary per month in rupees is: |
The compound and the simple interests on a certain sum at the same rate of interest for two years are Rs.11730 and Rs.10200 respectively. Find the sum? |
How many different ways can you select a pilot and a co pilot if you have 40 people to choose from? |
In a garden, there are 10 rows and 16 columns of mango trees. The distance between the two trees is 2 metres and a distance of one metre is left from all sides of the boundary of the garden. The length of the garden is |
Goldenrod and No Hope are in a horse race with 6 contestants. How many different Y arrangements of finishes are there if No Hope always finishes before Goldenrod and if all of the horses finish the race? |
P and Q started a business investing Rs. 85,000 and Rs. 25,000 respectively. In what ratio the profit earned after 2 years be divided between P and Q respectively? |
Two years ago, Arthur gave each of his five children 20 percent of his fortune to invest in any way they saw fit. In the first year, three of the children, Alice, Bob, and Carol, each earned a profit of 50 percent on their investments, while two of the children, Dave and Errol, lost 40 percent on their investments. In ... |
A cube of edge 15 cm is imersed completely in a rectangular vessel containing water. If the dimensions of the base of vessel are 20 cm * 15 cm, find the rise in waer level. |
A train passes a station platform in 36 sec and a man standing on the platform in 20 sec. If the speed of the train is 63 km/hr. What is the length of the platform? |
An accurate clock shows 8 o'clock in the morning. Through how many degrees will the hour hand rotate when the clock shows 9 o'clock in the morning? |
A train moves past a post and a platform 264 metre long in 8 seconds and 20 seconds respectively. What is the speed of the train? |
Two trains are moving in the same direction at 72 kmph and 36 kmph. The faster train crosses a man in the slower train in 27 seconds. Find the length of the faster train? |
In a certain match all the teams were to play with each other. If there are 10 teams, how many matches will have to be played? |
5220/? * 15 = 2175 |
If x - 3 > 2 and x - 3 < 7, the value of x must be between which of the following pairs of numbers? |
Two numbers N and 16 have LCM = 48 and GCF = 4. Find N. |
A man can row with a speed of 30 kmph in still water. If the stream flows at 10 kmph, then the speed in downstream is? |
A trader purchases several articles at the rate of 13 for Rs. 10 and sells them at the rate of 10 for Rs. 13. What is his gain/loss? |
Fresh grapes contain 90% by weight while dried grapes contain 20% water by weight. What is the weight of dry grapes available from 30 kg of fresh grapes? |
Mangoes sell for $3.25 for a piece that costs a total of $2.85 to source. Oranges sell $2.80 for a piece that costs $2.65 to get. If you sell 55,000 mangoes in a month, how many oranges you must sell to make at least as much in total gross profit as for mangoes ? |
A boat running downstream covers a distance of 22 km in 4 hours while for covering the same distance upstream, it takes 5 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water? |
The length of a rectangular floor is more than its breadth by 200%. If Rs. 640 is required to paint the floor at the rate of Rs. 5 per sq m, then what would be the length of the floor? |
If y exceeds x by 15%, then x is less than y by? |
A rectangular-shaped carpet that measures x feet by y feet is priced at $8. What is the cost of the carpet, in dollars per square yard? (1 square yard = 9 square feet) |
A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 26 years now, the son's age 3 years back was: |
An aeroplane covers a certain distance at a speed of 240 kmph in 6 hours. To cover the same distance in 1 2/3 hours, it must travel at a speed of: |
In a sample of National college students, 30 percent are third year students and 60 percent are not second-year students. What fraction of those students who are not third-year students are second-year students? |
In a class of 250 students, 130 study Spanish and 100 study French. If a student must study at least one of these two languages, what percent of the students study French but NOT Spanish? |
Volume of a right circular cylinder is 6o L. If radius of cylinder is doubled, then what will be the increase in volume? |
A 1000 liter tank, half-full of water is being filled from a pipe with a flow rate of 1 kiloliter every 2 minutes. At the same time, the tank is losing water from two drains at a rate of 1 kiloliter every 4 minutes and every 6 minutes. How many minutes does it take to fill the tank completely? |
10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? |
The diagonals of a rhombus are 13 cm and 20 cm. Find its area? |
30^10 / 240^5=? |
The school's basketball team scores for a five game series were 70, 75, 100, 70 and x. If their median score was 5 points lower than their average (arithmetic mean) score in the series, which of the following could be x? |
If the sides of a triangle are 26 cm, 24 cm and 10 cm, what is its area? |
Y is an even number and X is a positive odd number. Which of the following expressions cannot be even? |
A shop sells bicycles and tricycles. In total there are 8 cycles (cycles include both bicycles and tricycles) and 19 wheels. Determine how many of each there are, if a bicycle has two wheels and a tricycle has three wheels. |
How many seconds will a 150 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? |
What is the greatest of 3 consecutive integers whose sum is 24 ? |
Tough and Tricky questions: Word Problems.
In a rare coin collection, one in six coins is gold, and all coins are either gold or silver. If 10 silver coins were to be subsequently traded for an additional 10 gold coins, the ratio of gold coins to silver coins would be 1 to 3. Based on this information, how many gold co... |
An electric motor makes 3,000 revolutions per minutes. How many degrees does it rotate in one second? |
The ratio of flour to water to sugar in a recipe is 11:5:2. The ratio in a new recipe calls for a doubling of the ratio of flour to water from the original recipe and a halving of the ratio of flour to sugar. If the new recipe calls for 7.5 cups of water, how much sugar is required? |
If a certain number X is divided by 62, the reminder is 7. what is the reminder when X+11 is divided by 31? |
The population of a city increases by 4% per year but due to migration it decrease by 1% per years. What will be the percentage increase in population in 3 years? |
A shopkeeper loses 15%,if an article is sold for Rs. 102. What should be the selling price of the article to gain 20%? |
At the end of each year, the value of a certain antique watch is "c" percent more than its value one year earlier, where "c" has the same value each year. If the value of the watch was "k" dollars on January 1, 1992, and "m" dollars on January 1, 1994, then in terms of "m" and "k", what was the value of the watch, in d... |
A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8.30 a.m and then lost 2 seconds every 5 minutes. What time was indicated on the watch at 6.30 p.m of the same day if the watch operated continuously that time ? |
Find out the C.I on Rs.8000 at 4% p.a. compound half-yearly for 1 1/2 years |
In a business school case competition, the top three teams receive cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000, and $2,000, respectively, while the remaining teams are not ranked and do not receive any prizes. There are 6 participating teams, named Team A, Team B, Team C, Team D, Team E, and Team F. If Team A wins one of the prizes,... |
ABCD is a parallelogram on xy rectangular coordinate plane, three of the four vertices of parallelogram are (5,15) , (5,35) and (-5,15). Which can be the coordinate of fourth vertex? |
X^Y + Y^X =2408
Find the values of X ? |
30 pens and 75 pencils were purchased for 750. If the average price of a pencil was 2.00, find the average price of a pen. |
The length and breadth of a square are increased by 40% and 30% respectively. The area of the rectangle so formed exceeds the area of the square by ? |
How many odd integers X between 200 and 600 are there such that their tens digit is even? |
Each shelf of a bookcase contained 12 books. If the librarian took out 21 books and rearranged the remaining books so that all shelves but one contained 7 books and the last shelf contained 11 books, how many shelves does the bookcase have? |
The population of a town increased from 1,45,000 to 2,30,500 in a decade. The average percent increase of population per year is: |
An article is bought for Rs.600 and sold for Rs.900, find the gain percent? |
If x ≠ 0 and x - (2+ x^2)/x = y/x, then y = |
tell the smaller no. if its subtraction is 5 and ration is 4:3. |
Vinay got thrice as many marks in Maths as in English. The proportion of his marks in Maths and History is 4:3. If his total marks in Maths, English and History are 250, what are his marks in English ? |
When positive integer N is divided by positive integer J, the remainder is 16. If N/J = 134.08, what is value of J? |
The difference between the ages of A and B is 10 years. Ten years ago, A was twice as old as B. Find the age of A, 10 years hence. |
What is the sum of natural numbers between 40 and 100 |
The length of a rectangular plot is thrice its breadth. If the area of the rectangular plot is 867 sq m, then what is the breadth of the rectangular plot? |
If e is a positive integer, then 3^e + 3^(e +1) = |
In a race of 1000 m, A can beat by 100 m, in a race of 800m, B can beat C by 100m. By how many meters will A beat C in a race of 400 m? |
Two representatives must be selected from each of two groups of students. One group consists of three men and one woman, and the other group consists of two women and one man. What is the probability that 2 men and 2 women will be selected ? |
How many 3-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of the word, 'LOGARITH', if repetition of letters is not allowed? |
Janet has to pay back her bank loan over 10 months following the below sequence.
$50, $55, $65, $80, $85, $95, $110, $115, $125, ?
How much will she pay back on the tenth month? |
The volumes of two cones are in the ratio 1 : 10 and the radii of the cones are in the ratio of 1 : 2. What is the length of the wire? |
If taxi fares were $1.00 for the first 1/5 mile and $0.20 for each 1/5 mile there after, then the taxi fare for a 3-mile ride was |
The average of 20, 100 and 180 is twice the average of 10, 30, and which of the following ? |
A person was dialing a telephone. He forgot the last three digits of the six-digit telephone number but rembered that the number formed by the last three digits in the same order was a perfect square. What is the probability he dialed a right number? |
A straight line in the xy-plane has a slope of 2 and a y-intercept of 2. On this line, what is the x-coordinate of the point whose y-coordinate is 550 ? |
A grandmother lent $20,000 to her grandson at the beginning of the year. At the end of the year, she received y dollars more than than the amount she lent due to interest. She also received an additional amount $300, as a gift. In terms of y, what fraction of the amount that grandmother received was the gift? |
The diagonal of a rectangle is sqrt(41) cm. and its area is 20 sq. cm. The perimeter of the rectangle must be: |
If x and y are different integers and x^2 = xy, which of the following must be true ?
I. x = 0
II. x = 0
III. x =y |
A person buys an article at Rs.500. At what price should he sell the article so as to make a profit of 20%? |
The L.C.M. of 2 numbers is 40. The numbers are in the ratio 4:5. Find their sum? |
For every X, the action [X] is defined: [X] is the greatest integer less than or equal to X. What is the value of [6.5] x [2/3] + [2] x 7.2 + [8.4] - 6.5? |
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