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Find the nest term in series ? 25 16 9 4 1 0 ?
A man can row upstream at 30 kmph and downstream at 60 kmph, and then find the speed of the man in still water?
The greatest possible length which can be used to measure exactly the length 7m, 3m 85cm, 12 m 95 cm is
If two positive numbers are in the ratio 1/8 : 1/5, then by what percent is the second number more than the first?
In how many ways can 5 boysand 2 girls be arranged at a table if 2 girls are never together?
A garrison of 400 men had a provision for 31 days. After 28 days 280 persons re-enforcement leave the garrison. Find the number of days for which the remaining ration will be sufficient?
In a recent election, Ms. Robbins received 7,200 votes cast by independent voters, that is, voters not registered with a specific political party. She also received 10 percent of the votes cast by those voters registered with a political party. If N is the total number of votes cast in the election and 40 percent of th...
Look at this series: 53, 53, 48, 48, 43, 43, ... What number should come next?
A worker is paid x rupees for painting every 20 metres of a wall and y rupees for painting every extra metre. During one week, he painted 20 metres on Monday, 22 metres on Tuesday, 24 metres on Wednesday, 26 metres on Thursday and 28 metres on Friday. What is his average daily earning rupees for the five day week?
How many 4 digit numbers are there, if it is known that the first digit is even, the second is odd, the third is prime, the fourth (units digit) is divisible by 3, and the digit 3 can be used only once?
In a hostel there were 100 students. To accommodate 25 more students the average is decreased by some rupees. But total expenditure increased by Rs.500. If the total expenditure of the hostel now 8500, find decrease of average budget?
If a man lost 10% by selling oranges at the rate of 18 a rupee at how many a rupee must he sell them to gain 32%?
The owner of a local jewelry store hired four watchmen to guard his diamonds, but a thief still got in and stole some diamonds. On the way out, the thief met each watchman, one at a time. To each he gave 1/5 of the diamonds he had then, and 4 more besides. He escaped with three diamonds. How many did he steal originall...
An agent, gets a commission of 2.5% on the sales of cloth. If on a certain day, he gets Rs. 21 as commission, the cloth sold through him on that day is worth
(3 x 10^2) + (2 x 10) + 4 =
A greengrocer was selling apple at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children. What did each child get?
8, 12, 18, 27, 40.5, (...)
In a series of six consecutive odd numbers, the sum of the third and fifth numbers is 50. What are the third and fifth number respectively?
The speed of a boat in still water in 20 km/hr and the rate of current is 4 km/hr. The distance travelled downstream in 24 minutes is:
14 men can complete a piece of work in 32 days. In how many days can 16 men complete that piece of work?
In a dairy farm, 40 cows eat 40 bags of husk in 40 days. In how many days one cow will eat one bag of husk ?
I have 20 rupees. I bought 1, 2, 5 rupee stamps. They are different in numbers by the reason of no change, the shop keeper gives 3 one rupee stamps. So how many stamp(s) I have.
A student took 6 courses last year and received an average (arithmetic mean) grade of 100 points. The year before, the student took 5 courses and received an average grade of 50 points. To the nearest tenth of a point, what was the student’s average grade for the entire two-year period?
If a 10 lit. mixture contains milk and water in the ratio 2:1 then, how much more mixture should be added to change the ratio to 1:2 ?
How many four letter combinations can be formed using the letters of the word TRIPS?
At a certain supplier, a machine of type A costs $20,000 and a machine of type B costs $65,000. Each machine can be purchased by making a 20 percent down payment and repaying the remainder of the cost and the finance charges over a period of time. If the finance charges are equal to 40 percent of the remainder of the c...
Andy has 20 pairs of matched gloves. If he loses 14 individual gloves, which of the following is NOT a possible number of matched pairs he has left?
Out of a total of 1,000 employees at a certain corporation, 52 percent are female and 40 percent of these females work in research. If 45 percent of the total number of employees work in research, how many male employees do NOT work in research?
Which is the middle even number between 12 and 24?
Ten percent of Ram's monthly salary is equal to eight percent of Shyam's monthly salary. Shyam's monthly salary is twice Abhinav's monthly salary. If Abhinav's annual salary is Rs. 1.92 lakhs, find Ram's monthly salary?
A box contains five bulbs out of which 4 are defective. If four bulbs are chosen at random, find the probability that at least one bulb is good?
In a rectangular coordinate system, what is the area of a triangle whose vertices have the coordinates (-1, 0), (7, 4), and (7, -4)?
The "factor count" of an integer n greater than 1 is the number of distinct prime factors of n. For example, the factor count of 36 is 2, since 2 and 3 are the distinct prime factors of 36 = 2 x 2 x 3 x 3. For which of the following integers is the factor count greatest?
A bag contains 80 black balls and 10 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ball drawn is white?
The average age of a group of 10 persons was decreased by 3 years when one person, whose age was 45 years, was replaced by a new person. Find the age of the new person?
Find out the wrong term in the series 2, 5, 10, 50, 500, 5000
A reduction of 10% in the price of oil enables a house wife to obtain 5kgs more for Rs.800, what is the reduced price for kg?
How many positive integers less than 248 are multiple of 4 but NOT multiples of 6?
How many two-digit numbers yield a remainder of 3 when divided by both 4 and 14?
If 25 toys cost Rs, 234, what do 35 toys cost?
A committee is reviewing a total of 20x black-and-white films and 6y color films for a festival. If the committee selects y/x% of the black-and-white films and all of the color films, what fraction X of the selected films are in color?
The average age of a husband, wife and their child 2 years ago was 27 years and that of wife and the child 5 years ago was 20 years. The present age of the husband is?
In how many different number of ways a Committee of 3 person of can be selected from 5 men and 3 women such that atleast 1 women is included in the committee?
Which of the following fractions is smaller than 17/50?
If x is a positive integer, and two sides of a certain triangle have lengths 30 and 45 respectively, which of the following could be the length of the third side of the triangle? I. 45 II. 75 III. 145
If 3x - 3x-1 = 18, then the value of xx is
On day one, a store sold 96 pens. On each of the next d days, the company sold 44 pens. If the average daily sales of pens over this time period (including day one) is 48 pens, what is the value of d?
4/15 of 5/7 of a number is greater than 4/9 of 2/5 of the same number by 8. What is half of that number?
A man can row upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 39 kmph, and then find the speed of the man in still water?
Tom, Mary and Sue each wrote an essay for their English class. Together, the three of them wrote a total of 650 pages. Mary and Sue wrote a total of 450 pages together, and Mary and Tom wrote a total of 350 pages together. How many pages did Mary write by herself?
In a rectangular coordinate system, points O (2,2), P (2,12), and Q (10,2) represent the sites of three proposed housing developments. If a fire station can be built at any point in the coordinate system, at which point would it be equidistant from all three developments?
The perimeter of a triangle is 42 cm and the inradius of the triangle is 5.0 cm. What is the area of the triangle?
During a clearance sale, a retailer discounted the original price of its TVs by 21% for the first two weeks of the month, then for the remainder of the month further reduced the price by taking 20% off the sale price. For those who purchased TVs during the last week of the month, what percent of the original price did ...
How many three digit numbers are there which are equal to 3434 times the sum of their digits?
The perimeter of a square is 36 m. Find the area of the square.
Of 30 applicants for a j ob, 14 had at least 4 years of exper, 18 had degrees, and 3 had less than 4 years exper and did not have a degree, how many applicants had at least 4 years exper and a degree?
If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 20% and its denominator is diminished by 25% value of the fraction is 2/15. Find the original fraction?
The breadth of a rectangular field is 60% of its length. If the perimeter of the field is 800 m, find out the area of the field.
Last year, for every 100 million vehicles that traveled on a certain highway, 75 vehicles were involved in accidents. If 6 billion vehicles traveled on the highway last year, how many of those vehicles were involved in accidents? (1 billion = 1,000,000,000)
Find the area, diameter = 9 m.
Find the next number in the sequence 1, 2, 6, 21, 88, __?
Two trains A and B start simultaneously in the opposite direction from two points A and B arrive at their destinations 9 and 4 hours respectively after their meeting each other. At what rate dose the second train B travels if the first train travels at 80 km per hour. Option
0.004 × 0.5 = ?
Statement : All the organised persons find time for rest. Sunita, in-spite of her busy schedule, finds time for rest. Conclusions : I. Sunita is an organised person. II. Sunita is an industrious person.
The radius of a wheel is 22.4 cm. What is the distance covered by the wheel in making 500 resolutions?
Line Q has the equation 5y – 3x = 60. If Line S is perpendicular to Q, has an integer for its y-intercept, and intersects Q in the second quadrant, then how many possible Line S’s exist? (Note: Intersections on one of the axes do not count.)
In how many ways a committee consisting of 3 men and 2 women can be formed from 4 men and 7 women?
If 5x = 6y and xy ≠ 0, what is the ratio of 1/4*x to 1/6*y ?
15 girls can complete a rangoli in 12 days, and 10 boys can complete the same work in 15 days. To complete the work earlier 10 boys and 15 girls are employed, in how many days will this work get completed?
Health insurance Plan P requires the insured person to pay $600 but then the insurance pays 80% of the cost over $600. Plan Q requires the insured to pay the initial $300, but then pays 60% of the cost over $300. Which of the following is a cost level for which both insurance plans pay out the same amount?
The third proportional to 2 and 4 is?
What is the perimeter of a square with area 9p^2/16 ?
A and B invests Rs.3000 and Rs.6000 respectively in a business. If A doubles his capital after 6 months. In what ratio should A and B divide that year's profit?
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Calculate the share of profit of 15000 received by Edgar who is the working partner in a business. Edgar invested 22000 in the business while his partner, Eli invested 34000.A is a working partner and B is a sleeping partner in a business. Edgar receives 12% for managing the business, and the rest is divided in proport...
The value of a machine depreciates at the rate of 10% every year. It was purchased 3 years ago. If its present value is Rs. 8748, its purchase price was :
A train speeds past a pole in 15 sec and a platform 130 m long in 25 sec, its length is?
At 30 minutes past 7 o'clock, what is the angle between the two hands?
7, 21, 63, 189, 567, ?
Cole drove from home to work at an average speed of 70 kmh. He then returned home at an average speed of 105 kmh. If the round trip took a total of 2 hours, how many minutes did it take Cole to drive to work?
A train 200 m long running at 54 kmph crosses a platform in 25 sec. What is the length of the platform?
If the sides of a square are multiplied by sqrt(2), the area of the original square is how many times as large as the area of the resultant square?
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The symphony sells two kinds of tickets: orchestra, for $30, and upper tiers, for $12. On a certain night, the symphony sells 90 tickets and gets $1620 in revenue from the sales. How many orchestra tickets did they sell?
Mohit sold an article for $18000. Had he offered a discount of 10% on the selling price, he would have earned a profit of 8%. What is the cost price of the article?
If a certain number when divided by the numbers 5,3,2 one after other successively, leaves a remainder 0,2,1 Then what will be the remainders if it is divided by the numbers 2,3,5
A can finish a work in 48days, B in 9days and C in 2days, B and C start the work but are forced to leave after 3 days. The remaining work was done by A in?
Two trains 141 meters and 165 meters in length respectively are running in opposite directions, one at the rate of 80 km and the other at the rate of 65 kmph. In what time will they be completely clear of each other from the moment they meet?
Diane find 4 cans of paint are just enough to paint one third of her room. How many more cans of paint will she need to finish her room and paint a second room of the same size?
A certain collage has total of 500 seniors each majoring in exactly one of six subjects. A minimum of 20 seniors major in each six subjects. If three quarter of the seniors major in one of four subjects, what is the greatest possible number of seniors majoring in one of the other two subjects?
A polling company reports that there is a 70% chance that a certain candidate will win the next election. If the candidate wins, there is a 60% chance that she will sign Bill X and no other bills. If she decides not to sign Bill X, she will sign either Bill Y or Bill Z, chosen randomly. What is the chance that the cand...
Find the value of (20C18)*(20C20)
A contractor undertook to do a piece of work in 18 days. He employed certain number of laboures but 9 of them were absent from the very first day and the rest could finish the work in only 6 days. Find the number of men originally employed ?
A man gains 50% by selling an article for a certain price. If he sells it at double the price, the percentage of profit will be.
if 2x + 6y = 18,5x = 10y + 20,what is the value of x?
Average of 13 results is 65. If the average of first six results is 61 and average of last six results is 59 Then find the seventh result?
Little Johny went to the toy shop and spent one half of the money that was in his wallet. When he came out, he found that he had as many paise as he had rupees and half as many rupees as he had paise when he went in. Find the money in his wallet when he entered the store.
A train passes a station platform in 20 sec and a man standing on the platform in 12 sec. If the speed of the train is 72 km/hr. What is the length of the platform?
A boat can travel with a speed of 13 km/hr in still water. If the speed of the stream is 4 km/hr, find the time taken by the boat to go 68 km downstream.
22 buses are running between two places P and Q. In how many ways can a person go from P to Q and return by a different bus?