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Foodmart customers regularly buy at least one of the following products: milk, chicken, or apples. 60% of shoppers buy milk, 50% buy chicken, and 35% buy apples. If 5% of the customers buy all 3 products, what percentage of Foodmart customers purchase exactly 2 of the products listed above?
If one-third of one fourth of a number is 15, then three-tenth of that number is:
In what time will a train 100 m long cross an electric pole, it its speed be 144 km/hr?
If the cp of 12 rubbers is equal to the sp of 8 rubbers, the gain %is ?
Today is Monday. After 29 days, it will be :
A hiker walking at a constant rate of 4 miles per hour is passed by a cyclist travelling in the same direction along the same path at a constant rate of 36 miles per hour. the cyclist stopswaits for the hiker 5 min after passing her while the hiker continues to walk at her constant rate. how many minutes must the cycli...
Pipe A can fill a tank in 4 hours, pipe B in 12 hours and pipe C in 40 hours. If all the pipes are open, in how many hours will the tank be filled ?
Two letters from the word FARTHING are selected at random. What is the probability that at least one of the selected letters is a consonant? Two letters from the word FARTHING are selected at random. What is the probability that at least one of the selected letters is a consonant?
A cube of edge 15cm is immersed completely in a rectangular vessel containing water. If the dimensions of the base of vessel are 20cm * 15cm , find the rise in water level?
Rs.800 amounts to Rs.920 in 3 years at simple interest. If the interest is increased by 3%, it would amount to how much?
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 6 m, the volume of the box (in m3) is:
Two people are playing with a pair of dice. Instead of numbers, the dice have different colors on their sides. The first person wins if the same color appears on both the dice and the second person wins if the colors are different. The odds of their winning are equal. If the first dice has 5 red sides and 1 blue side, ...
When the integer k is divided by 7, the remainder is 4. Which of the following expressions below when divided by 7, will have a remainder of 5? I. 4k + 3 II. 6k + 2 III. 8k + 4
Two trains run in opposite directions on a circular track. Train A travels at a rate of 4π miles per hour and Train B runs at a rate of 6π miles per hour. If the track has a radius of 6 miles and the trains both start from Point S at the same time, how long, in hours, after the trains depart will they again meet at Poi...
What simple interest will produce Rs.84000 as in 4 years at 3 1/2 percent?
A sum of Rs. 2900 amounts to Rs. 3422 in 3 years. Had the rate of interest be 6% higher then what would the sum amount in the same time period?
Chauncy, an English bulldog, received 1,618 votes in the Mr. Bulldog USA competition, giving him approximately 20 percent of the vote. Approximately what percent of the remaining votes would he have needed to receive in order to win 30 percent of the total votes?
If a particular player is always chosen, in how many ways can a cricketbe chosen out of 15 players?
The total age of A and B is 12 years more than the total age of B and C. C is how many years younger than A.?
The sum of money at compound interest amounts to thrice itself in 3 years. In how many years will it be 9 times itself?
By selling a bat for Rs.630/- a man loses 10% what is that bat cost price
in a soccer bet,we play 4 teams.first team odd 1.28,second 5.23,third 3.25,fourth 2.05.we place the bet with 5.00 euros. how much money we expect to win?
Find the no.of ways of arranging the boy and 8 guests at a circular table so that the boy always sits in a particular seat?
Anil and Suresh are working on a special assignment. Anil needs 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer and Suresh needs 5 hours to type 40 pages. If both of them work together on two different computers, how much time is needed to type an assignment of 110 pages?
An industrial loom weaves 0.128 metres of cloth every second. Approximately, how many seconds will it take for the loom to weave 29 metre of cloth ?
Johnson has a corporate proposal. The probability that vice-president Adams will approve the proposal is 0.7. The probability that vice-president Baker will approve the proposal is 0.4. The probability that vice-president Corfu will approve the proposal is 0.4. The approvals of the three VPs are entirely independent of...
The speed of a boat in upstream is 30 kmph and the speed of the boat downstream is 80 kmph. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the stream?
2, 3, 6, 0, 10, -3, 14, (...)
In a regular week, there are 5 working days and for each day, the working hours are 8. A man gets Rs. 2.10 per hour for regular work and Rs. 3.20 per hours for overtime. If he earns Rs. 432 in 4 weeks, then how many hours does he work for ?
Two friends plan to walk along an 18-km trail, starting at opposite ends of the trail at the same time. If Friend P's rate is 25% faster than Friend Q's, how many kilometers will Friend P have walked when they pass each other?
The average of four consecutive even numbers is 27. find the largest of these numbers?
In 1998 the profits of company N were 10 percent of revenues. In 1999, the revenues of company N fell by 20 percent, but profits were 20 percent of revenues. The profits in 1999 were what percent of the profits in 1998?
2 dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of getting a multiple of 2 on 1 dice and multiple of 3 on the second dice?
John makes $60 a week from his job. He earns a raise and now makes $120 a week. What is the % increase?
A professional gambler has won 40% of his 25 poker games for the week so far. If, all of a sudden, his luck changes and he begins winning 80% of the time, how many more games must he play to end up winning 60% of all his games for the week?
If two-third of a bucket is filled in four minutes then the time taken to fill the bucket completely will be .
Can you tell Which of the following fractions is the largest?
The product of two positive integers is 323 and their difference is 2. What is the smaller number?
A merchant marks his goods up by 20% and then offers a discount of 5% on the marked price. What % profit does the merchant make after the discount?
The monthly incomes of A and B are in the ratio 5 : 2. B's monthly income is 12% more than C's monthly income. If C's monthly income is Rs. 15000, then find the annual income of A?
Vinod climbs 60 steps in 40 seconds. At that rate, how many steps could he climb in 150 seconds?
Bookman purchased 60 copies of a new book released recently, 10 of which are hardback and sold for $20 each, and rest are paperback and sold for $10 each. If 14 copies were sold and the total value of the remaining books was 660, how many paperback copies were sold?
If a fair 6-sided die is rolled three times, what is the probability that exactly one 6 is rolled?
Company A imported 10,000 widgets made of either brass or aluminum. The widgets are painted blue, red or green. If 20 percent of the widgets are made of brass and of those 20 percent are painted green and 40 percent are painted red how many brass widgets painted blue were imported?
What is the probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays and 52 Mondays?
Some of the people in Town A are left-handed, some are tall, some are both, and some are neither. In Town Y, three times as many people are left-handed > as are left-handed in Town A, three times as many people are tall as are tall in Town A, three times as many people are both as are both in Town A, but no one is neit...
What is the difference between the local value of 6 and 6 in the number 2664?
Company X sells a selection of products at various price points. Listed below are unit sales made for one particular day. How many unit sales on that day were greater than the mean sale price but less than the median sale price? $50, $50, $97, $97, $97, $120, $155, $155, $155, $199, $199
Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose product is not an even ?
If x and y are positive odd integers, then which of the following must also be an odd integer? I. x^(y+2) II. x(y+3) III. (y+1)^(x-1) + 1
Bills' school is 10 miles from his home. He travels 4 miles from school to football practice, and then 2 miles to friend's house. If he is then x miles from home, what is the range of possible values for x?
A man whose speed is 4 kmph in still water rows to a certain upstream point and back to the starting point in a river which flows at 1 kmph, find his average speed for the total journey?
If a shirts can be purchased for c rupees, how many shirts can be purchased for t rupees?
A certain sum of money is invested for one year at a certain rate of simple interest. If the rate of interest is 3% higher, then the invest earned will be 25% more than the interest earned earlier. What is the earlier rate of interest?
How many 4 digit numbers can be formed with the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 6?
A basketball coach is making the starting lineup for his team of 10 players. There are 4 guards on the team and 6 post players. How many different groups of 5 players could he choose assuming he must pick 2 guards and 3 post players?
A, B and C invests Rs.2000, Rs.3000 and Rs.4000 in a business. After one year A removed his money; B and C continued the business for one more year. If the net profit after 2 years be Rs.3200, then A's share in the profit is?
A white paper 2 inches wide is placed around a rectangular black paper with dimensions 8 inches by 12 inches. What is the area of the white paper, in square inches?
A number exceeds by 25 from its 3/8 part. Then the number is?
As x Decreases from 169 to 166, which of the following must increase? I. 2x - 5 II. 1 - 1/x III. 1/(x^2 - x)
If a is the sum of p consecutive positive integers and b is the sum of q consecutive positive integers. For which of the following values of p and q is it impossible that a = b?
The least perfect square, which is divisible by each of 21, 36 and 66 is:
In a square box of side 16 centimeters small square boxes of side 4 centimeters are arranged. How many small square boxes fit into the large square box?
Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 20 and 30 minutes respectively, and a third pipe C can empty it in 40 minutes. How long will it take to fill the cistern if all the three are opened at the same time?
The average temperature for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 48 degrees and for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 46 degrees. If the temperature on Monday was 42 degrees. Find the temperature on Friday?
A four-character password consists of one letter of the alphabet and three different digits between 2 and 9, inclusive. The letter must appear as the second or third character of the password. How many different passwords are possible?
if remainder is 19 , quotient is 61 and dividend is 507 then what is divisor ?
Train X crosses a stationary train Y in 60 seconds and a pole in 25 seconds with the same speed. The length of the train X is 300 m. What is the length of the stationary train Y?
What is the present worth of Rs. 176 due in 2 years at 5% simple interest per annum
if Juan takes 10 seconds to run y yards, how many seconds will it take him to run x yards at the same rate?
The weight of four dogs is determined to be 25 pounds, 31 pounds, 43 pounds and 41 pounds respectively. The weight of a fifth dog is determined to be y pounds. If the average (arithmetic mean) weight of the first four dogs is the same as that of all five dogs what is the value of y?
What is the slope of a line on a standard xy-plane that passes through the point (1, 3) and (4, –3)?
A can run a kilometer race in 4 1/2 min while B can run same race in 5 min. How many meters start can A give B in a kilometer race, so that the race mat end in a dead heat?
Simplify: (4 – 5) – (13 – 18 + 2).
I chose a number and divide it by 5. Then I subtracted 154 from the result and got 6. What was the number I chose?
A rower can row upstream at 7 km/hr and downstream at 13 km/hr. What is the rower's rate in still water?
A work as fast as B. If B can complete a work in 12days independently,the number of days in which A and B can together finish the work in?
The equation of line f is y = 4/3*x - 100. What is the smallest possible distance in the xy-plane from the point with coordinates (0, 0) to any point on line f?
seven children, Arya, Betsy, Chen, Daniel, Emily, and Franco, are to be seated in a single row of six chairs. If Betsy cannot sit next to Emily, how many different arrangements of the six children are possible?
There are 1000 doors that are of the open-close type. When a person opens the door he closes it and then opens the other. When the first person goes he opens-closes the doors in the multiples of 1 i.e., he opens and closes all the doors. when the second goes he opens and closes the doors 2, 4 6 8 respectively. Similarl...
If the simple interest on a sum of money at nineteen percent per annum for two years is Rs.12000, compound interest on the same sum for the same period at the same rate of interest is
How much time will take for an amount of Rs. 360 to yield Rs. 81 as interest at 4.5% per annum of simple interest?
Two buses and a van were employed to transport a class of students on a field trip. 2/5 of the class boarded the first bus. 2/3 of the remaining students boarded the second bus, and the rest of the students boarded the van. When the second bus broke down, 1/2 of the students on the second bus boarded the first bus. Wha...
Ravi purchased 20 dozens of toys at the rate of Rs. 380 per dozen. He sold each one of them at the rate of Rs. 33. What was his percentage profit?
The ratio of the number of ladies to gents at a party was 1:2 but when 2 ladies and 2 gents left, the ratio became 1:3. How many people were at the party originally?
If (x-14)(x-3) < 0, which of the following must be true?
A firm has 4 senior partners and 5 junior partners. How many different groups of 3 partners can be formed in which at least one member of the group is a senior partner. (2 groups are considered different if at least one group member is different)
3251+587+369-?=3007
By mixing two brands of tea and selling the mixture at the rate of Rs. 177 per kg. a shopkeeper makes a profit of 18%. If to every 2 kg of one brand costing Rs. 200 per kg, 3 kg of the other brand is added, then how much per kg does the other brand cost?
A certain experimental mathematics program was tried out in 2 classes in each of 42 elementary schools and involved 55 teachers. Each of the classes had 1 teacher and each of the teachers taught at least 1, but not more than 3, of the classes. If the number of teachers who taught 3 classes is n, then the least and grea...
If the number 617*324 is completely divisible by 3, then the smallest whole number in the place of * will be:
The compound interest on Rs.30,000 at 7% per annum is Rs.4347. The period (in years) is
A certain company had a total annual expenditure of 2.1∗10^7 on employee salaries last year. If the company employed 420 people, what was the average employee salary?
Three years ago the average age of a class of six members was 19 years. A boy have been added, the average age of the class is the same today. What is the age of the boy?
The average weight of 8 person's increases by 2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing 75 kg. What might be the weight of the new person?
If y > 0, which of the following could be true? I. y^3 > y^2 II. y^2 = y III. y^2 > y^3
The length of a room is 5.5 m and width is 3.75 m. Find the cost of paving the floor by slabs at the rate of Rs. 600 per sq. metre.
Bhajan Singh purchased 120 reams of paper at Rs.80 per ream. He spent Rs.280 on transportation, paid octroi at the rate of 40 paise per ream and paid Rs.72 to the coolie. If he wants to have a gain of 8% , what must be the selling price per ream ?
2.205 divided by 0.3 gives
The average of 11 results is 52, if the average of first six results is 49 and that of the last six is 52. Find the sixth result?