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1,245 1,254 1,425 ..... .... +5,421 The addition problem above shows four of the 24 different integers that can be formed by using each of the digits 1,2,4,5 exactly once in each integer. What is the sum of these 24 integers?
A man spends 15% of his income in house rent, 25% of the rest on his children’s education, 20% of the rest miscellaneous causes. If he now posses Rs. 2988 then his income is?
How many times do the hands of a clock coincide in a day?
A bat is bought for Rs.410 and sold at a gain of 20% find its selling price
The speed of a car is 10 km in the first hour and 60 km in the second hour. What is the average speed of the car?
If 0.10 of a number is equal to 0.070 of another number, the ratio of the numbers is :
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 49.5. The difference between the unit digit and hundreds digit of that number is :
A man is 28 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of his son is
An uneducated retailer marks all its goods at 50% above the cost price and thinking that he will still make 25% profit,offers a discount of 25% on the marked price.what is the actual profit on the sales?
Look at this series: 97, 97, 97, 87, 87, 87, 67, 67, 67 ... What number should come next?
Group A has 3 boys and 4 girls, group B has 2 boys and 2 girls and group C has 4 boys and 4 girls. One student is selected from each of the group. Find the probability that one girl and two boys are among the three selected?
A restaurant meal cost $40 and there was no tax. If the tip was more than 10 percent but less than 15 percent of the cost of the meal, then the total amount paid must have been between
The arithmetic mean and standard deviation of a certain normal distribution are 14.0 and 1.5, respectively. What value is exactly 2 standard deviations less than the mean?
Worker A takes 4 hours to do a job. Worker B takes 10 hours to do the same job. How long it take both A & B, working together but independently, to do the same job?
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?
We can rent a car for x dollars per day for the first 3 days and then y dollars for each additional day. How much will it cost to rent a car for z days, where z>3?
The average of 11 numbers is 12.9. If the average of first six is 12.5 and that of the last six is 11.4 the sixth number is?
A boat running downstream covers a distance of 16 km in 2 hours while for covering the same distance upstream, it takes 4 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
A sum of Rs. 4500 amounts to Rs. 9000 in 4 years at the rate of simple interest. What is the rate of interest?
The L.C.M of two numbers is 2310 and their H.C.F is 30. If one number is 462 the Other is
Crew A can build a complete car in 20 minutes and Crew B can build a complete car in 25 minutes. If both crews work independently and start at the same time, what is the shortest amount of time Q it could take for 10 cars to be complete?
Find the area of trapezium whose parallel sides are 20 cm and 18 cm long, and the distance between them is 11 cm.
Three fair coins are labeled with a zero (0) on one side and a one (1) on the other side. Jimmy flips all three coins at once and computes the sum of the numbers displayed. He does this over 1000 times, writing down the sums in a long list. What is the expected standard deviation of the sums on this list?
A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every third day?
How many positive 5-digit integers have the odd sum W of their digits?
A company organized a recruiting process for 3 vacant positions of assistant manager for its product launches. The company's efforts yielded 13 eligible candidates. How many sets of 3 candidates can the company choose to fill the 3 assistant manager positions?
A committee of 6 is chosen from 8 men and 5 women so as to contain at least 2 men and 3 women. How many different committees could be formed if two of the men refuse to serve together?
John want to buy a $100 Trouser at the store, but he think it’s too expensive. Finally, it goes on sale for $70. What is the percent decrease?
There are 35 students in a hostel. If the no. of students increases by 7, the expenses of the mess increase by Rs.42/day while the average expenditure per head diminishes by Rs1. Find the original expenditure of the mess?
A man is 46 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of his son is:
The number of livestock in a farm at the beginning of year 2000 was 100,000. During the year, the number increased by p%. During the next year 2001, there was a famine and the number decreased by q%. A census at the end of year 2001 revealed that the number of livestock in the farm was 100,000. Which of the following e...
A number consists of 3 digit whose sum is 10. The middle digit is equal to the sum of the other two and the number will be increased by 99 if its digits are reversed. The number is:
A train 110 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 owner of an electronic store charges his customer 9% more than the cost price. If a customer paid 1,26440 for an LED T.V., then what was the original price of the T.V.?
If x is an odd negative integer and y is an even integer, which of the following statements must be true? I. (3x - 2y) is odd II. xy^2 is an even negative integer III. (y^2 - x) is an odd negative integer
If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 50, 55, 60, what is the average marks of all the students?
A room is 15m long, 4m broad and 3m height. Find the cost of white washing its four walls at 50p per m2 ?
In a camp, there is a meal for 120 men or 200 children. If 170 children have taken the meal, how many men will be catered to with remaining meal?
A family had dinner in a restaurant and paid $30 for food. They also had to pay 9.5% sale tax and 10% for the tip. How much did they pay for the dinner?
Two coins are tossed, find the probability that two Tails are obtained
Tom and Linda stand at point A. Linda begins to walk in a straight line away from Tom at a constant rate of 2 miles per hour. One hour later, Tom begins to jog in a straight line in the exact opposite direction at a constant rate of 7 miles per hour. If both Tom and Linda travel indefinitely, what is the positive diffe...
The average runs scored by a batsman in 20 matches is 40. In the next 10 matches the batsman scored an average of 13 runs. Find his average in all the 30 matches?
A certain airline's fleet consisted of 110 type A planes at the beginning of 1980. At the end of each year, starting with 1980, the airline retired 3 of the TYPE A planes and acquired 4 new type B plans. How many years did it take before the number of type A planes left in the airline's fleet was less than 50 percent o...
The circumferences of the wheels of a carriage are 6 3/14 dm and 8 1/18 dm. What is the least distance in which both wheels simultaneously complete an integral number of revolutions ? How often will the points of the two wheels which were lowest at the time of starting touch the ground together in 1 kilometre ?
A tour group of 25 people paid a total of $630 for entrance to a museum. If this price included a 10% sales tax, and all the tickets cost the same amount, what was the face value of each ticket price without the sales tax? Choices
What is the next number in the sequence below? 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64__ ?
A rectangular swimming pool is 20 feet by 28 feet. A deck that has uniform width surrounds the pool. The total area of the pool and deck is 884 square feet. What is the width of the deck?
The probability that B can shoot a target two out of two times is 0.35. What is the probability that the target will be missed by B immediately after such two shots?
Rectangular Floors X and Y have equal area. If Floor X is 8 feet by 18 feet and Floor Y is 9 feet wide, what is the length of Floor Y, in feet?
When 2/9 of the votes on a certain resolution have been counted, 3/4 of those counted are in favor of the resolution. What fraction x of the remaining votes must be against the resolution so that the total count will result in a vote of 2 to 1 against the resolution?
How many positive integers less than 250 are there such that they are multiples of 15 or multiples of 16?
A boy can reach a certain place in 18 hours. If he reduces his speed by 1/30th, he goes 3 km less in that time. Find his speed.
There are 6 identical pens and 8 identical books. In how many different ways can a person select at least one object from this set?
A boat takes 19 hours for travelling downstream fro poin A to point B and coming back to a point C midway between A and B. If the velocity of the stream is 4 kmph and the speed of the boat in still water is 14 kmph, what is the distance between A and B?
If the cost price of 10 articles is same as the selling price of 25 articles. Find the gain or loss percentage?
If 5 women or 8 girls can do a work in 84 days. In how many days can 10 women and 5 girls can do the same work ?
If 1/12 of the passengers on a ship are from North America, 1/4 are Europeans, 1/9 are from Africa, 1/6 are from Asia and the remaining 42 people are citizens of other continents, then how many passengers are on board the ship?
A women purchased 3 towels @ Rs.100 each, 5 towels @ Rs.150 each and two towels at a certain rate which is now slipped off from his memory. But she remembers that the average price of the towels was Rs.160. Find the unknown rate of two towels?
What is the minimum value of |x-4| + |x+5| + |x-5| ?
How many positive integers less than 100 are neither multiples of 2 or5.
Two representatives must be selected from each of two groups of students. One group consists of three men and two 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 ?
Divide Rs.32000 in the ratio 1:7?
If the same letters represent the same digit and different letters represent different digits, what digit does the letter A represent?
Convert the following in a fraction: 0.75%
A bowl was filled with 100 ounces of milk, and 0.0001 ounce of the milk evaporated each day during a 50-day period. What percent of the original amount of milk evaporated during this period?
Ashley and Vinie work on a sales staff with 8 other salespeople. If five members of the staff will be chosen at random to attend a sales workshop, what is the probability that both Ashley and Vinie will be chosen?
AMS employs 8 professors on their staff. Their respective probability of remaining in employment for 10 years are 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9. The probability that after 10 years at least 7 of them still work in AMS is ?
Virat buys an old car for Rs. 40000 and spends Rs. 4000 on its repairs. If he sells the car for Rs. 60000, his gain percent is:
Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 50 minutes, how many times do they toll together?
If Rs. 782 be divided into three parts, proportional to 1/2:2/3:3/4, then the first part is?
Find out the wrong number in the given sequence of numbers. 1, 2, 6, 15, 31, 56, 91
rahul played weel in this season.his current batting averagge is 46.if he score 78 runs in today match.his batting average will become 54.how many matches had he played in this season.
The simple interest on Rs. 34 for 8 months at the rate of 6 paise per rupeeper month is
A train running at the speed of 58 km/hr crosses a pole in 9 seconds. Find the length of the train?
Calculate the average mark scored by Andrea if he had the following scores in an examination: 66, 60, 72, 77, 55 and 85 marks (out of 100) in English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, French Language and Physics respectively?
A rectangular grassy plot 110 m. by 65 m has a gravel path 2.5 m wide all round it on the inside. Find the cost of gravelling the path at 70 paise per sq. metre
The average of 10 numbers is calculated as 15. It is discovered later on that while calculating the average one number, namely 36 was wrongly read as 26. The correct average is :
A woman sells two articles for Rs.3600 each and he gains 30% on the first and loses 30% on the next. Find his total gain or loss?
A man sells an article at 15% loss. Had he sold it for Rs. 70/- more he could have gained 20%. What is the cost price of the article?
The sector of a circle has radius of 21 cm and central angle 180o. Find its perimeter?
If 40% of a number exceeds 25% of it by 18, then find the number?
Among the first 1 million numbers, 40 is a number that is pretty unique. Can you find out why ?
Ramu bought an old car for Rs. 42000. He spent Rs. 13000 on repairs and sold it for Rs. 64900. What is his profit percent?
If l / r is an integer, which of the following statements must be true?
Amy, Max and Nim, each have a basket full of apples. The number of apples each have is in the ratio 7:8:9 respectively. what could be the product of the number of apples.
A bicyclist's wheel has a circumference of 4 meters. if the bicyclist covers 40 meters in 5 hours at a constant speed, how many rotations does the wheel make per hour at that speed?
How many perfect squares less than 1000 end with the digit 6?
5 friends went to a restaurant and decided to pay the bill amount equally. But 4 of them could pay Rs. 50 each as a result 5th has to pay Rs. 40 extra than his share. Find the amount paid by him.
A glass was filled with 40 ounces of water, and 0.01 ounce of the water evaporated each day during a 20-day period. What percent of the original amount of water evaporated during this period?
If two resistors, A(R1) and B(R2) stand in parallel with each other in electrical wire, the total resistor appears as R1R2/(R1+R2). If three resistors, A(R1), B(R2), and C(2R2) stand in parallel in electrical wire, what is the ratio D of the resistors’ sum of A and C to the resistors’ sum of A and B?
The speed of a car increases by 2 kms after every one hour. If the distance travelling in the first one hour was 35 kms. what was the total distance travelled in 12 hours?
The dimensions of a field are 20 m by 5 m. A pit 10 m long, 4 m wide and 3 m deep is dug in one corner of the field and the earth removed has been evenly spread over the remaining area of the field. What will be the rise in the height of field as a result of this operation ?
79 laboratories raise the bacterium, the laboratory have 48 culture dishes on average, which has about 25,073 bacteria each. How many bacteria are there approximately?
Each shelf of a bookcase contained 11 books. If the librarian took out 32 books and rearranged the remaining books so that all shelves but the last one contained 7 books and that last shelf contained 3 books, how many shelves does the bookcase have?
Five kg of butter was bought by a shopkeeper for 300. One kg becomes unsaleable. He sells the remaining in such a way that on the whole he incurs a loss of 10%. At what price per kg was the butter sold?
If C = 2D+1 where C is an Integer then which of the following is true?
A man can row upstream at 7kmph and downstream at 10kmph. Find man's rate in still water ?
A man can row a boat at 20 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 5 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 60 km downstream?
In how many ways can 5 boysand 2 girls be arranged at a table if 2 girls are never together?
A man can do a piece of work in 5 days, but with the help of his son he can do it in 4 days. In what time can the son do it alone ?