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In a function they are distributing noble prize. In how many ways can 3 prizes be distributed among 9 boys when No boy gets more than one prize?
Kramer can pack 10 boxes of cigarettes per minute. If there are 5 boxes of cigarettes in one case, how many cases can Kramer pack in 2 hours?
If x=1/5, which expression has the greatest value?
An alloy of copper and zinc contains copper and zinc in the ratio 8 : 2. Another alloy of copper and zinc contains copper and zinc in the ratio 4 : 6. In what ratio should the two alloys be mixed so that the resultant alloy contains equal proportions of copper and zinc?
2 44 4 41 6 38 8 - Look carefully for the pattern, and then choose which pair of numbers comes next.
The average weight of A, B and C is 45 kg. If the average weight of A and B be 40 kg and that of B and C be 43 kg, then the weight of B is:
John buys an old scooter for Rs. 2000 and spends Rs. 200 on its repairs. If he sells the scooter for Rs. 2640, his gain percent is :
Ben worked for 7 days on a task that will take him 14 days to complete alone before he was joined by Blake. both of them completed the remaining task in 1 and half days. how many days will it take both of them to complete the entire job?
What is the greatest prime factor of (12!11!) + (12!13!)?
A square mirror has exactly half the area of the rectangular wall on which it is hung. If each side of the mirror is 24 inches and the width of the wall is 42 inches, what is the length of the wall, in inches?
David covered a distance of 50 miles on his first trip. On a later trip he traveled 75 miles while going six times as fast. His new time compared with the old time was:
Mr. Kramer, the losing candidate in a two-candidate election, received 942,568 votes, which was exactly 30 percent of all votes cast. Approximately what percent of the remaining votes would he need to have received in order to have won at least 50 percent of all the votes cast?
A man has Rs. 400 in the denominations of one-rupee notes, five-rupee notes and ten rupee notes. The number of notes of each denomination is equal. What is the total number of notes that he has?
What percent of 120 are 90?
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?
Simplify: (4 – 5) – (13 – 18 + 2).
If the wheel is 10 cm then the number of revolutions to cover a distance of 1200 cm is?
What is the place value of 1 in the numeral 2134?
In how many different ways can the letters of the word FACETIOUS be arranged in such a way that the vowels occupy only the odd positions?
You are filling up your car with gas. Your tank can hold 19 gallons. Your car started with x gallons in it. You paid $20 in gas. What was the cost of gas per gallon?
If a and b are two numbers one if then is negative integer and other one is a prime number, which of the following CANNOT be the value of ab?
An analyst will recommend a combination of 3 industrial stocks, 2 transportation stocks, and 2 utility stocks. If the analyst can choose from 5 industrial stocks, 4 transportation stocks, and 4 utility stocks, how many different combinations of 7 stocks are possible? --
Jill works as a waitress at the local diner where she earns an hourly wage of $4.00 per hour and a standard tip rate of 15% of the cost of the orders she serves. If she worked four 8-hour shifts this week and averaged $40 in orders per hour, how much did Jill earn this week?
The speed of a train is 90 kmph. What is the distance covered by it in 10 minutes?
A car travels at a speed of 75 miles per hour. How far will it travel in 5 hours?
Mrs. Evans gave a test to her freshmen economics class, which has 25 students enrolled and 22 of them answered question 1 correctly. If 20 answered question 2 correctly and 3 did not take the test then how many answered both questions correctly?
Three mobsters have arrived at the theater for the premiere of the film “Goodbuddies.” One of the mobsters, Frankie, is an informer, and he's afraid that another member of his crew, Joey, is on to him. Frankie, wanting to keep Joey in his sights, insists upon standing behind Joey in line at the concession stand, though...
List I: 3, 4, 8, 19 List II: x, 3, 4, 8, 19
The average of first four prime numbers greater than 50 is?
3/5 * [(2/3 + 3/8)/2] - 1/16 =
Two trains, B and C, started simultaneously from opposite ends of a 50-mile route and traveled toward each other on parallel tracks. Train B, traveling at a constant rate, completed the 50-mile trip in 4 hours; Train C, traveling at a constant rate, completed the 50-mile trip in 2 hours. How many miles had train B trav...
40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 70, 75, 100, 100, 100. The list above shows the scores of 10 schoolchildren on a certain test. If the standard deviation of the 10 scores is 22.3, rounded to the nearest tenth, how many of the scores are more than 1 standard deviation below the mean of the 10 scores?
The slant height of a cone is 13 cm and radius of the base is 9 cm, find the curved surface of the cone?
In 1995 a certain store had 1,900 tools in stock that had been purchased for $30 each. If 1,000 of these tools were sold in 1995 for $40 each and the remaining 800 were sold in 1996 for $50 each, how many greater was the gross profit on the tools sold in 1996 than the gross profit on those sold in 1995?
Evaluate: 11 + sqrt(- 4 + 6×4÷3)=....
Right across the street is a fast food outlet that sells chicken in the order of 6, 9 and 20 only. Determine the maximum number of chicken pieces that cannot be ordered from the outlet?
Rohan's income doubles after every one year. If the initial income was Rs. 4 lakhs, What would be the income after 6 years?
In a certain school, 20% of students are below 8 years of age. The number of students above 8 years of age is 2/3 of the number of students of 8 years of age which is 72. What is the total number of students in the school?
A man has Rs. 288 in the denominations of one-rupee notes, five-rupee notes and ten-rupee notes. The number of notes of each denomination is equal. What is the total number of notes that he has ?
A person purchased a TV set for Rs. 19000 and a DVD player for Rs. 7000. He sold both the items together for Rs. 31150. What percentage of profit did he make?
A cloth merchant has announced 25% rebate in prices. If one needs to have a rebate of Rs. 40. Then how many shirts each costing Rs.32 he should purchase?
How many seconds will a 200 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?
In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the run rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 282 runs?
56: 65 :: 68 :?
In an election between two candidates first candidate got 60% of votes polled and second Candidate got 260 votes. The total number of votes polled was?
The ratio of the capacity to do work of A and B is 3 : 2. If they together can complete a work in 18 days, then how long does A take to complete the work alone?
Mike earns $14 per hour and Phil earns $10.5 per hour. Approximately how much less, as a percentage, does Phil earn than Mike per hour?
By selling 50 meters of cloth. I gain the selling price of 15 meters. Find the gain percent?
There are two numbers. If 10% of the first number is added to the second number, then the second number increases to its six-fifth. What is the ratio of the first number to the second number?
There are 200 female managers in a certain company. Find the total number W of female employees in the company, if 2/5 of all the employees are managers and 2/5 of all male employees are managers.
X starts a business with Rs.56000. Y joins in the business after 4 months with Rs.44000. What will be the ratio in which they should share the profit at the end of the year?
In a rectangular coordinate system, what is the area of a triangle whose vertices have the coordinates (-3, 0), (7, 4), and (7, -4)?
The sum of two numbers is 184. If one-third of the one exceeds one-seventh of the other by 8, find the smaller number.
A man sells an article at 15% loss. Had he sold it for Rs. 280/- more he could have gained 20%. What is the cost price of the article?
P software has coding line 5% more than N, N software has coding line 4/13 more than M. M software has 78 lines of coding. find P lines.
The bankers discount of a certain sum of money is Rs. 288 and the true discount on the same sum for the same time is Rs. 240. The sum due is:
Fifty five percent of a number is 21 less than four fifth of that number. What is the number ?
The only contents of a container are 4 blue disks and 8 green disks. If 3 disks are selected one after the other, and at random and without replacement from the container, what is the probability that 1 of the disks selected is blue, and 2 of the disks selected are green?
Which of the following is an integer? I. 12! / 6! II. 12! / 8! III. 12! / 9!6!
a biker notices a certain number(2 digits number) on the milestone before starting the journey. After riding for an hour he notices a milestone with reversed digits of the previous number. Now after riding for another hour he notices that the number on a new milestone had same digits as the first one (in the same order...
Foodmart customers regularly buy at least one of the following products: milk, chicken, or apples. 60% of shoppers buy milk, 50% buy chicken, and 25% buy apples. If 10% of the customers buy all 3 products, what percentage of Foodmart customers purchase exactly 2 of the products listed above?
Abel can complete a work in 10 days, Ben in 12 days and Carla in 16 days. All of them began the work together, but Abel had to leave after 2 days and Ben 4 days before the completion of the work. How long did the work last?
plot ABCD is as shown in figure, where AF = 30 m, CE = 40 m, ED = 50 m, AE = 120 m. Find the area of the plot ABCD?
There are 1100 jelly beans divided between two jars, Jar X and Jar Y. If there are 500 fewer jelly beans in jar X than three times the number of beans in jar Y, how many beans are in jar X?
M = {-6, -5, -4, -3, -2} T = {-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5} If an integer is to be randomly selected from set M above and an integer is to be randomly selected from set T above, what is the probability that the product of the two integers will be negative?
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. How far is the place?
Cindy's elephant balloon animal calls 3 long white balloons and 4 long black balloons. She needs to make 4 balloon animals for a child's party. If 12 long white balloons are used, then how many long black balloons are needed?
If a point (x,y) is randomly selected within the square shown in the figure above, (the vertices are on 1,1 1,-1, -1,1 -1,-1) what are the T odds that x^2+y^2>1?
In a competitive examination in state A, 6% candidates got selected from the total appeared candidates. State B had an equal number of candidates appeared and 7% candidates got selected with 80 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from each state?
A can run 256 metre in 28 seconds and B in 32 seconds. By what distance A beat B?
If 1/4 kg of tomato costs 60 paise, how many paise will 200 grams cost ?
6 mat-weavers can weave 6 mats in 6 days. At the same rate, how many mats would be woven by 8 mat-weavers in 8 days?
Mr X, a businessman, had income in the year 1995 such that he earned a profit of 20% on his investment in the business. In the year 1996 his investment was less by 6000 but still had the same income (Income = Investment + Profit) as that in 1995. Thus the per cent profit earned in 1996 increased by 6%. What was his inv...
The last day of a century cannot be :
Two numbers are such that the square of one is 224 less than 8 times the square of the other. If the numbers be in the ratio of 3 : 4, the numbers are
How many kg of sugar costing Rs.9/kg must be mixed with 27kg of sugar costing Rs.7/ kg so that there may be a gain of 10% the mixture at Rs.9.24/kg?
A man walks from B to C, a distance of x miles, at 10 miles per hour and returns at 12 miles per hour. What is his average speed?
Today is Monday. After 61 days, it will be :
If p and e are positive integers such that p > e > 1, what is the remainder when 92p × 5p+e + 11e × 6pe is divided by 10?
The present ages of three persons in proportions 2 : 3 : 5. Five years ago, the sum of their ages was 35. Find their present ages (in years).
The speed of a boat in still water in 20 km/hr and the rate of current is 6 km/hr. The distance travelled downstream in 12 minutes is:
In an entrance test, Deepika came across a mathematical patter problem. If 6 / 7 = 2 3 / 9 = 7 8 / 2 = 6 Then 4 / 5 = ? She was able to solve it in less than a minute. Can you?
The output of a factory was increased by 10% to keep up with rising demand. To handle the holiday rush, this new output was increased by 10%. By approximately what percent would the output now have to be decreased in order to restore the original output?
Mr Sharad started a business investing 50000. Four months later Mr Praveen joined the business by investing 90000. If the profit in the business at the end of the year was 22000 how much amount would Mr Praveen have received as the profit?
Joe needs to paint all the airplane hangars at the airport, so he buys 360 gallons of paint to do the job. During the first week, he uses 1/3 of all the paint. During the second week, he uses 1/5 of the remaining paint. How many gallons of paint has Joe used?
In an election only two candidates contested. A candidate secured 70% of the valid votes and won by a majority of 180 votes. Find the total number of valid votes?
A salesman travels a distance of 100 km in 5hours. How much faster in kilometer per hour, on an average, must he travel to make such trip in 1 hour less time?
At a dinner party, 5 people are to be seated around a circular table. 2 seating arrangements are considered different only when the positions of the people are different relative to each other. what is the total number of different possible seating arrangements for the group? A. B. C. D. E.
In what time will a train 90 m long cross an electric pole, it its speed be 72 km/hr?
What do you get if you add 2 to 308 five times?
If 10 men can reap 120 acres of land in 15 days, how many acres of land can 20 men reap in 30 days?
A WNBA player just signed a new contract in which she will earn a 5% increase in base pay from last year to this year. Last year, she did not have a performance bonus; but this year, she will have the opportunity to earn up to a $40,000 performance bonus. If she earns the full performance bonus, her new effective salar...
A marble shop contains 5 blue marbles, 5 red marbles, and 5 green marbles. If 2 marbles are purchased at random from the shop, what is the probability that the 2 marbles will be of the red?
How many three digits no. can be formed also including the condition that the no. can have at least two same digits ?
Luke and Ben are in a relay race. Luke runs the first leg of the course in 59 seconds. Ben runs the second leg of the course in 48 seconds. What was the average time they took to run a leg of the course?
A sports equipment store sold ping pong rackets for a total of $539. If the average (arithmetic mean) price of a pair of rackets is $9.8, how many pairs were sold?
0.032 x 0.0162 is equal to:
18% of 680 - ? = 68.7
In the floor of a particular kitchen owned by an abstract artist, each row of tiles to the right of the first row contains two fewer tiles than the row directly to its left. If there are nine rows in all and a total of 450 tiles in the floor, how many tiles does the leftmost row contain?
In an examination, a student scores 3 marks for every correct answer and loses 1 mark for every wrong answer. If he attempts all 30 questions and secures 130 marks, the no of questions he attempts correctly is :