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At a certain supplier, a machine of type A costs $30,000 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...
A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 56 years now, the son's age five years back was:
John and Rose play the following game with n sticks on a table. Each must remove 1,2,3,4, or 5 sticks at a time on alternate turns, and no stick that is removed is put back on the table. The one who removes the last stick (or sticks) from the table wins. If John goes first, which of the following is a value of n such t...
A train of 24 carriages, each of 60 meters length, when an engine also of 60 meters length is running at a speed of 60 kmph. In what time will the train cross a bridge 1.1 km long?
5: 3 = 4/3: x. The value of x is?
In what ratio mental A at Rs.68 per kg be mixed with another metal at Rs.96 per kg so that cost of alloy (mixture) is Rs.72 per kg?
A certain sum of money doubles itself in 20 years in how much many years will it trible itself at the same rate?
A train is running at a speed of 40 km/hr and it crosses a post in 22.5 seconds. What is the length of the train?
Which of the following must be an integer if the integer x is divisible by both 27 and 21?
In how many ways can live 2boys and 4 girls sit in a row such that all boys sit together?
David decides to attend a base ball game with six friends. If the party of seven sits together in seven consecutive seats, and David must NOT sit in between two of his friends, how many ways can the seven friends be arranged?
A, B and C enter into a partnership. They invest Rs. 80,000, Rs. 80,000 and Rs. 1,20,000 respectively. At the end of the first year, B withdraws Rs. 40,000, while at the end of the second year, C withdraws Rs. 80,000. In what ratio will the profit be shared at the end of 3 years ?
Two trains are running at 40 km/h and 20 km/h respectively in the same direction. Fast train completely passes a man sitting in the slower train in 5 seconds. What is the length of the fast train?
131,95,70,54, ?
Ram buys a plot of 5200 sq. ft. The cost of the Plot is Rs.48 per sq. ft.He has to pay 17% of the total cost as the booking cost for the plot.How much he has to pay as booking cost?
A real estate agent received a 6% commission on the selling price of a house. If his commission was $8,880, what was the selling price of the house?
If w = (x – 5)^2 + (x + 1)^2 – 6, then y is least when x =
What annual instalment will discharge a debt of Rs 1092 due in 3 years at 12% simple interest?
If a real number x is chosen at random in the interval [0,4] and a real number y is chosen at random in the interval [0,5], what is the probability that x < y?
List I: 3, 4, 6, 19 List II: x, 3,4, 6, 19
How many Books each of Volume 250 meter cube can be packed into a crate of volume 4500 meter cube
If 8^x = 2^18, what is x?
A company has 15 managers and 75 associates. The 15 managers have an average salary of $60,000. The 75 associates have an average salary of $30,000. What is the average salary for the company?
If p=n-8 , m=n+10; then in terms of p,m is ?
When asked what the time is,a person answered that the amount of time left is 2/6 of the time already completed.what is the time.
Linda spent 2/4 of her savings on furniture and the rest on a TV. If the TV cost her $300, what were her original savings?
617 + 6.017 + 0.617 + 6.0017 = ?
All the stocks on the over-the-counter market are designated by either a 2 letter or 3 letter codes that is created by using the 26 letters of the alphabet. Which of the following gives the maximum number of different stocks that can be designated with these codes?
The simple interest on Rs.13000 at a certain rate of interest in five years is Rs.7200. Find the compound interest on the same amount for two years at the same rate of interest.
If x^2 + 1/x^2 = 3,what is the value of x^4 + 1/x^4 ?
The value of x + x(xx) when x = 2
A software programmer does 20% of the work in 60% of the time, and 80% of the work in the remaining 20% of the time. If the code he writes is X lines long and he was given one month (30 days) to accomplish the task, then, assuming that the programmer works at a constant rate in each of the two stages, How many lines of...
Find the area of a rhombus one side of which measures 20 cm and one diagonal is 24 cm.
A person can swim in still water at 4 km/h. If the speed of water 2 km/h, how many hours will the man take to swim back against the current for 6km?
The value of x + x(xx) when x = 7 is:
A 4-letter code word consists of letters A, B. If the code includes all the three letters, how many such codes are possible?
A and B can do a piece of work in 3 days, B and C in 4 days, C and A in 6 days. How long will C take to do it?
If a 2 cm cube is cut into 1 cm cubes, then what is the percentage increase in the surface area of the resulting cubes?
A dishonest dealer professes to sell goods at the cost price but uses a false weight and gains 25%. Find his false weight age?
The ratio of pens to pencils is 5 to 6. There are 7 more pencils than pens. How many pencils are there?
In a sports club with 30 members, 17 play badminton and 17 play tennis and 2 do not play either. How many members play both badminton and tennis?
Some persons can do a piece of work in 12 days. Two times the number of such persons will do half of that work in
What is the units digit of (147^21)^48 ?
There are 10 person among whom two are brother. The total number of ways in which these persons can be seated around a round table so that exactly one person sit between the brothers , is equal to:
Express a speed of 414 kmph in meters per second?
Ramesh purchased a refrigerator for Rs. 13500 after getting a discount of 20% on the labelled price. He spent Rs. 125 on transport and Rs. 250 on installation. At what price should it be sold so that the profit earned would be 10% if no discount was offered?
By investing Rs. 1620 in 8% stock, Michael earns Rs. 135. The stock is then quoted at:
Of the four-digit positive integers that have no digits equal to zero, how many have two digits that are equal to each other and the remaining digit different from the other two?
The average weight of 8 persons increases by 5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing 65 kg. What might be the weight of the new person ?
Yali builds a tower using only red, green, and blue toy bricks in a ratio of 4:3:1. She then removes 1/2 of the green bricks and adds 1/3 more blue bricks, reducing the size of the tower by 14 bricks. How many red bricks will she need to add in order to double the total number of bricks used to build the original tower...
The ratio of the length and the breadth of a rectangle is 4 : 3 and the area of the rectangle is 6912 sq cm. Find the ratio of the breadth and the area of the rectangle?
Gao earns $25.00 for each house she cleans. She refuses to work weekends. Monday she cleaned 2 houses 1 on Tuesday and only 3 more for the rest of the week. How much money did Gao earn this week?
A train 400 m long can cross an electric pole in 20 sec and then find the speed of the train?
Three boys, two girls, and two women are to be seated on a bench. If one specific boy must be seated on one of the end seats, and one specific girl must me seated exactly in the middle, find the number of possible arrangements Q.
The difference between a two-digit number and the number obtained by interchanging the digits is 36. What is the difference between the sum and the difference of the digits of the number if the ratio between the digits of the number is 1 : 2 ?
An empty wooden vessel weighs 8% of its total weight when filled with paint. If the weight of a partially filled vessel is one half that of a completely filled vessel, what fraction of the vessel is filled.
If the sum of two numbers is 55 and the H.C.F and L.C.M of these numbers are 5 and 120 respectively, then the sum of the reciprocal of the numbers is equal to:
In what time will a railway train 90 m long moving at the rate of 36 kmph pass a telegraph post on its way?
Dawson professes to sell his goods at the cost price but he made use of 600 grams instead of a kg, what is the gain percent?
Three friends (Fred, James and Kelly) are employees of a company. Their respective salaries are in the ratio of 4 : 6 : 7. James and Kelly's salaries together is Rs. 8840. By what percent is Kelly's salary than that of Sarah?
In order to complete a reading assignment on time, Terry planned to read 100 pages per day. However, she read only 50 pages per day at first, leaving 800 pages to be read during the last 6 days before the assignment was to be completed. How many days in all did Terry have to complete the assignment on time?
P is able to do a piece of work in 15 days and Q can do the same work in 20 days. If they can work together for 4 days, what is the fraction of work left?
Given that x = 2^b – (8^32 + 16^5), which of the following values for b yields the lowest value for |x|?
In how many ways can the letters of the word "COMPUTER" be arranged?
Alex deposited x dollars into a new account that earned 4 percent annual interest, compounded annually. One year later Alex deposited an additional x dollars into the account. If there were no other transactions and if the account contained w dollars at the end of two years, which of the following expresses x in terms ...
Two-fifth of one-third of three-seventh of a number is 15. What is 40% of that number?
A certain bacteria colony doubles in size every day for 22 days, a which point it reaches the limit of its habitat and can no longer grow. If two bacteria colonies start growing simultaneously, how many days will it take them to reach the habitat’s limit?
A toy store sells small, medium, and large toy trucks in each of the colors red, green, and yellow. The store has an equal number of trucks of each possible color-size combination. If Paul wants a medium, red truck and his mother will randomly select one the trucks in the store, what is the probability that the truck s...
A sales representative receives a salary of $100 per week and earns a commission of 20% on all sales she makes. How many dollars’ worth of sales does she need to make in order to bring her total weekly income to $600?
Mahesh marks an article 15% above the cost price of Rs. 540. What must be his discount percentage if he sells it at Rs. 496.80?
The perimeter of one face of a cube is 48 cm. Its volume will be:
A train 540 meters long is running with a speed of 54 kmph. The time taken by it to cross a tunnel 180 meters long is?
30% of a number is more than 60% of 50 by 30. Find the number?
N and B are integers. The expression (N+1)(B+1) is even. What can be said about N and B?
15 men take 21 days of 8 hours each to do a piece of work. How many days of 6 hours each would 21 women take to do the same. If 3 women do as much work as 2 men?
If log4X + log4(1/6) = 1/2 then the value of X is?
A car after covering ½ of a journey of 100 km develops engine trouble and later travels at ½ of its original speed. As a result, it arrives 2 hours late than its normal time. What is the normal speed of the car is?
Sum of the squares of 3 no.'s is 138 and the sum of their products taken two at a time is 131. Find the sum?
A certain manufacturer of cake, muffin, and bread mixes has 120 buyers, of whom 50 purchases cake mix, 40 purchase muffin mix, and 20 purchase both cake mix and muffin mix. If a buyer is to be selected at random from the 100 buyers, what is the probability that the buyer selected will be one who purchases neither cake ...
Jason's team scored 60 points in a game basketball and he accounted for 60 percent of their points. How much did he score?
It is well known that a triangle’s area is √(p(p-a)(p-b)(p-c)), when p=(a+b+c)/2, such that a, b, c are the lengths of sides of the triangle. If the triangle has 360, 300, and 360 as the side’s lengths, what is the triangle’s area?
The number 0.5 is how much greater than 1/3 ?
If E and F are non-zero integers, and E/F > 1, then which of the following must be true?
A rectangular field is to be fenced on three sides leaving a side of 10 feet uncovered.If the area of the field is 600 sq.ft, how many feet of fencing will be required ?
4 dice are thrown simultaneously on the board. Find the probability show the same face.
In measuring the sides of a rectangle, one side is taken 5% in excess, and the other 4% in deficit. Find the error percent in the area calculated from these measurements.
If 2x + y = 5 and 3x-2y = 7, then what is the value of 5x - y?
x is the 9 digit largest number(digits are 1 to 9 with out repeat) which is divisible by 11 and y second largest number which also divisible by 11 then difference between x and y is?
For what value of x, is |x – 5| + |x + 4| + |x| = 14?
A and B together can do a piece of work in 4 days. If A alone can do the same work in 20 days, then B alone can do the same work in?
If K is the sum of reciprocals of the consecutive integers from 13 to 18, inclusive, then K is closest in value to which of the following?
A train 400 m long can cross an electric pole in 20 sec and then find the speed of the train?
(18.6 x 17.2 ÷ 0.6) x 27.5 = ?
Pradeep has to obtain 35% of the total marks to pass. He got 185 marks and failed by 25 marks. The maximum marks are
20 women can do a work in 9 days. After they have worked for 6 days. 6 more men join them. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work?
The average weight of a class is x pounds. When a new student weighing 70 pounds joins the class, the average decreases by 1 pound. In a few months the student’s weight increases to 110 pounds and the average weight of the class becomes x + 4 pounds. None of the other students’ weights changed. What is the value of x?
Buses A and B start from a common bus stop X. Bus A begins to travel in a straight line away from bus B at a constant rate of 20 miles per hour. One hour later, bus B begins to travel in a straight line in the exact opposite direction at a constant rate of 80 miles per hour. If both buses travel indefinitely, what is t...
John can complete a given task in 18 days. Jane will take only 12 days to complete the same task. John and Jane set out to complete the task by beginning to work together. However, Jane was indisposed 6 days before the work got over. In how many days did the work get over from the time John and Jane started to work on ...
A rower can row upstream at 15 kph and downstream at 30 kph. What is the speed of the rower in still water?
A man counted his animals, 80 heads and 230 legs (ducks and goats). how many goats are there?