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Find the no.of ways of arranging the boy and 6 guests at a circular table so that the boy always sits in a particular seat?
Today is Monday. After 61 days, it will be:
Each truck from Kanes Removal Company can haul 750 pounds of trash at a time. On Wednesday the company has jobs to remove 1,500 pounds of trash from one site, 750 from another site, and 3,000 from a third site. How many total pounds of trash will be moved by Jones Company that day? How many trips will it take for the J...
A rectangular field is 52 yards long and 20 yards wide. A fence is needed for the perimeter of the field. Fencing is also needed to divide the field into three square sections. How many feet of fencing are needed? (It is a good idea to make a drawing for this one.)
A rectangular parking space is marked out by painting three of its sides. If the length of the unpainted side is 9 feet, and the sum of the lengths of the painted sides is 37 feet, then what is the area of the parking space in square feet ?
The principal that amounts to Rs. 4813 in 3 years at 6 1/4 % per annum C.I. compounded annually, is?
In a family, there are six members A, B, C, D, E and F. A and B are a married couple, A being the male member. D is the only son of C, who is the brother of A. E is the sister of D. B is the daughter-in-law of F, whose husband has died. How many male members are there in the family ?
If A's salary is 20% less than B's salary, by how much percentage is B's salary more than A's?
In the manufacture of a certain product, 10 percent of the units produced are defective and 5 percent of the defective units are shipped for sale. What percent of the units produced are defective units that are shipped for sale?
Cars emerging from a motorway arrive at a junction that splits the road into two separate lanes. The number of cars per hour that continue in either lane is constant. If 14 cars per hour were diverted from the left lane to the right lane, the number of cars entering the right lane per hour would be twice as big as the ...
(3x + 1) (2x - 5) = ax^2 + kx + n . What is the value of a - n + k ?
At a certain store, the price of a pair of shoes is twenty dollars more than three times the price of a pair of jeans and the price of a sweater is forty percent more than the price of a pair of shoes. If the price of a pair of jeans is j dollars at this store, then what is the price, in dollars, of a pair of shoes, a ...
A trader bought a car at 5% discount on its original price. He sold it at a 40% increase on the price he bought it. What percent of profit did he make on the original price?
0.009/x=0.01. find the value of X
What is the next number of the following sequence 1,3,4,1,9...
A 1200 m long train crosses a tree in 120 sec, how much time will I take to pass a platform 700 m long?
By selling 99 pens, a trader gains the cost of 33 pens. Find his gain percentage?
The profit earned by selling an article for Rs.832 is equal to the loss incurred when the same article is sold for Rs.448. What should be the sale price for making 50% profit?
A group of four women and two men have tickets for seven adjacent seats in one row of a theatre. If the three men will not sit in two adjacent seats, how many possible different seating arrangements are there for these 6 theatre-goers?
In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 5.2. What should be the run rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 282 runs?
If the average of 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 62, 62, 63, 65 and x is 60, what is the value of x?
A man can row a boat at 20 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 6 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 62 km downstream?
Each week, Harry is paid x dollars per hour for the first 12 hours and 1.5x dollars for each additional hour worked that week. Each week, James is paid x dollars per per hour for the first 40 hours and 2x dollars for each additional hour worked that week. Last week James worked a total of 41 hours If Harry and James we...
50 numbers average is 30. If two numbers, 35 and 40 discarded, then the average of the remaining numbers is nearly:
If a coin has an equal probability of landing heads up or tails up each time it is flipped , what is the probability that the coin will land heads up exectly twice in 3 consecutive flips ?
If E = x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the following is true?
Which of the following cannot be the range of a set consisting of 5 odd multiples of 15?
If the area of a circle is 16pi square feet, find its circumference.
A number is doubled and 9 is added. If resultant is trebled, it becomes 63. What is that number
How long does a train 100 m long traveling at 60 kmph takes to cross a bridge of 170 m in length?
Find the fourth proportional to 2.6, 4.6 and 7.6?
The population of a town is 45000; 5/9th of them are males and the rest females 40% of the males are married. What is the percentage of married females?
A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 60% apples and still has 300 apples. Originally, he had:
If line L passes through point (m, n) and (– m, – n), where m and n are not 0, which of the following must be true? I. The slope of L is positive II. The slope of L is need not be negative III. L exactly passes through 2 quadrants
The cost of an article is decreased by 50%. If the original cost is $200, find the decrease cost.
A train 220 meters long is running with a speed of 60 kmph. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 kmph in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going?
The cross-section of a cannel is a trapezium in shape. If the cannel is 14 m wide at the top and 8 m wide at the bottom and the area of cross-section is 550 sq m, the depth of cannel is?
A square, with perimeter 32, is inscribed in a circle. What is the area of the circle?
Number between 1 to 301. Find the non prime numbers is not divisible by 2,3,5,7.
A circular road runs round a circular ground. If the difference between the circumferences of the outer circle and inner circle is 66 metres, the width of the road is:
f the sum of a list of consecutive odd integers is 5, which of the following could be true? I. The average (arithmetic mean) of the list is equal to 5. II. The median of the list is equal to 5. III. The range of the list is equal to 5.
In one hour, a boat goes 6 km along the stream and 2 km against the stream. the sped of the boat in still water (in km/hr) is :
Look at this series: 2, 6, 18, 54, ... What number should come next?
If 13 persons meet at a reunion and each person shakes hands exactly once with each of the others, what is the total number of handshakes?
On a track for remote controlled racing cars, racing car A completes the track in 59 seconds, while racing car B completes it in 35 seconds. If they both start at the same time after how many seconds will they be side by side again.
The average salary/head of all the workers in a workshop is Rs.1000, if the average salary/head of 10 technician is Rs.1200 and the average salary/head of the rest is Rs.820, the total no. of workers in the work-shop is ?
A car travels at a speed of 65 miles per hour. How far will it travel in 8 hours?
If it takes 6 identical printing presses exactly 4 hours W to print 5,000 newspapers, how long would it take 3 of these presses to print 3,000 newspapers?
Mangala completes a piece of work in 30 days, Raju completes the same work in 70 days. If both of them work together, then the number of days required to complete the work is
Seats for Maths, Physics and Biology are in the ratio of 6 : 7 : 8 respectively. There is a proposal to increase these seats by 40%, 50% and 75% respectively. What will be the respective ratio of increased seats?
There are two examinations rooms A and B. If 10 students are sent from A to B, then the number of students in each room is the same. If 20 candidates are sent from B to A, then the number of students in A is double the number of students in B. The number of students in room A is:
If the probability that the Cleveland Browns win the Super Bowl is 1/100 and the probability that the Cleveland Indians win the World Series is 1/10, what is the probability that either the Browns win the Super Bowl or the Indians win the World Series (but not both)?
In a group of ducks and cows, the total number of legs are 24 more than twice the no. of heads. Find the total no.of buffaloes.
Calculate how much time could be saved if the train would run at its usual speed, given that it ran at 5/7 of its own speed and got to its destination in 15 hours?
Find the average of all the numbers between 6 and 34 which are divisible by 5
What annual payment dischargea debit of Rs.12900, due in 4yrs.At 5% rate?
A gardener increased the length of a rectangle-shaped garden by 25 percent and decreased its width by 10 percent. The area of the new garden
An employer pays 3 workers P, Q and R a total of $610 a week. p is paid 125% of the amount Q is paid and 80% of the amount R is paid. How much does P earn in a week?
√289 - √625 ÷ √25 is equal to ?
IF THE PROBABILITY is 0.6 that an “unfair” coin will turn up tails on any given toss. If the coin is tossed 3 times, what is the probability that at least one of the tosses will turn up tails?
A train covers a distance of 12 km in 10 minutes. If it takes 5 seconds to pass a telegraph post, then the length of the train is
If M:N = 3:5 and N:O = 5:8 then M:N:O is
Last year, the price of a vacation package was P. At the beginning of this year, the price went up 60%. Lucas used a travel voucher to purchase the vacation package at 25% off this year’s price. In terms of P, how much did Lucas pay?
At what price must an article costing Rs.47.50 be marked in order that after deducting 8% from the list price. It may be sold at a profit of 25% on the cost price?
Ten boys picked up 30 mangoes .In how many ways can they divide them if all mangoes be identical?
Solve for x the equation log9(x3) = log2(8)
A metallic sheet is of rectangular shape with dimensions 48 m x 36 m. From each of its corners, a square is cut off so as to make an open box. If the length of the square is 8 m, the volume of the box (in m3) is:
A sequence contains an alternation of positive and negative numbers. The sequence contains x numbers, and begins with a positive number. How many positive numbers are in it If x is an odd number?
The average length of 6 ropes is 80 cm. If the average length of one third of the ropes measure to 70 cm, what is the average of the other ropes?
If x and y are even integers, which of the following is an odd integer?
If the complement of a certain angle is five times the measure of that certain angle, then what is the measure of that certain angle?
Of the three numbers, the first is twice as second and three times the third. The average of the three numbers is 55, and the three numbers in order are?
The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the youngest child?
In a bag there are coins of 50 paisa, 25 paisa and one rupee in the proportion 5:6:2. If there are in all Rs.42, the number of 25 paisa coins is?
A group of 8 employees book a full row at a movie theater. There are 2 best buddies and a couple and the 2 people in both those cases must always sit together. in how many arrangements can the students sit?
In seventeen given numbers, the average of first 9 numbers is 4 and that of the last 9 numbers is also 4. If the average of these 17 numbers is 3, the 9th number is
A, B and C are partners. A receives 2/3 of profits, B and C dividing the remainder equally. A's income is increased by Rs.200 when the rate to profit rises from 5 to 7 percent. Find the Capital of B?
The average of 6 no.'s is 3.95. The average of 2of them is 4.4, while the average of theother 2 is 3.85. What is the average of the remaining 2 no's?
A and B started a business in partnership investing Rs.20,000 and Rs.15,000 respectively. After 6months, C joined them with Rs.20,000. Whatwill be B's share in total profit of Rs.20,000 earned at the end of 2years from the startingof the business?
Diesel costs Rs.4 per lit and petrol costs 7.23 per litre. If the price of diesel rise by 10% a month and the price of petrol is unchanged.How many months will it take until a litre of Diesel costs more than a litre of petrol.
The ratio, by volume, of bleach to detergent to water in a certain solution is 2 : 25 : 100. The solution will be altered so that the ratio of bleach to detergent is tripled while the ratio of detergent to water is halved. If the altered solution will contain 300 liters of water, how many liters of detergent will it co...
In digging a pond 20 m * 12 m * 5 m the volumes of the soil extracted will be?
The average of 45 results is 10. The average of first 22 of them is 15 and that of last 22 is 20. Find the 23 result?
Two trains of equal lengths take 10 seconds and 15 seconds respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120 metres, in what time (in seconds) will they cross each other travelling in opposite direction?
The average of a couple was 23Yrs when they were married 5Yrs ago.The avg age of the couple and a child, who was born during the interval, is 20Yrs now. How old is the child now ?
By selling a house for Rs.45000, it was found that 1/8 of the outlay was gained, what ought the selling to price to have been in order to have lost 5 p.c?
A and B can do a work in 4 hours and 12 hours respectively. A starts the work at 6AM and they work alternately for one hour each. When will the work be completed?
What approximate value should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following equation? 95.245 + 25.912 × 7.2 + ? = 905.293
If a number between 10 and 30 (inclusive) at random. What is the probability that the tens digit is greater than ones digit?
Find the ones digit of 73^351
A shopkeeper loses 15%,if an article is sold for Rs. 102. What should be the selling price of the article to gain 20%?
A man took some money for borrowed, for 2 years the total will be Rs.9000/- and 5 years it will be13, Rs.500/-. Then how much amount he borrowed?
A car travels at a speed of 10 miles per hour. How far will it travel in 5 hours?
Anup start a bike at 6am. and rides it at 60kmph. Raghu started at 7pm with his car at 90kmph. When will Raghu overtake Anup?
A shopkeeper buys mangoes at the rate of 7 a rupee and sells them at 3 a rupee. Find his net profit or loss percent?
An apple tree has 30 apples. 10 apples have fallen off of the tree. How many apples remain on the tree?
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?
What approximate value should come in place of question mark (?) in the following equation? 33 1⁄3% of 768.9 + 25% of 161.2 – 67.12 = ?
Find the least number by which (59)(36)(17) has to be multiplied to obtain a perfect square?
What is the least value of x. So that 43x87 is divisible by 3?