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In a two digit number, the digit in the units place is five times the digit in ten's place and sum of the digits is equal to six. What is the number?
Half the people on a bus get off at each stop after the first, and no one gets on after the first stop. If only one person gets off at stop number 9, how many people got on at the first stop?
The length of a rectangular floor is more than its breadth by 200%. If Rs. 240 is required to paint the floor at the rate of Rs. 3 per sq m, then what would be the length of the floor?
A rectangular plot measuring 90 metres by 50 metres is to be enclosed by wire fencing. If the poles of the fence are kept 5 metres apart, how many poles will be needed ?
How many ways can 8 friends be arranged around a circular dinner table?
The owner of a local jewelry store hired two 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 1/2 of the diamonds he had then, and 2 more besides. He escaped with two diamonds. How many did he steal originally?
Find the fraction which has the same ratio to 2/13 that 5/34 has to 7/48.
If 6 women can color 180 m long cloth in 3 days, then 5 women can color 200 m long cloth in?
If a*b denotes the greatest common divisor of a and b, then ((12*15)*(18*24)) = ?
The cost of 4 bags and 12 purses is Rs.620, what is the cost of 10 bags and 30 purses?
X men can do a work in 120 days. If there were 20 men less, the work would have taken 60 days more. What is the value of X?
P and Q invested in a business. They earned some profit which they divided in the ratio of 2:3. If P invested Rs.50, 000, the amount invested by Q is:
If x and y are positive integers, and x^3*y^4 = 10125, which of the following is the value of xy?
Three of the following four are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?
In a race of 1000 m, A can beat by 100 m, in a race of 800m, B can beat C by 100m. By how many meters will A beat C in a race of 600 m?
'a' and 'b' are positive integers such that their LCM is 20 and their HCF is 1. What is the difference between the minimum and maximum possible values of 'a + b'?
What is the sum of the first 22 natural numbers (starting from 1)?
Some of the workers at a hedge fund are analysts; the others are not analysts. There are a total of 2x/3 analysts at the hedge fund. A total of x hedge fund workers have an MBA. Furthermore, x/3 analysts have an MBA, y/4 of the hedge fund workers are neither analysts nor have an MBA, and 40 workers are not analysts. If...
In a jar there are balls in different colors: blue, red, green and yellow. The probability of drawing a blue ball is 1/8. The probability of drawing a red ball is 1/5. The probability of drawing a green ball is 3/10. If a jar cannot contain more than 50 balls, how many yellow balls are in the Jar?
An article is bought for Rs.600 and sold for Rs.550, find the loss percent?
The capacity of a cylindrical tank is 246.4 litres. If the height is 4 metres, what is the diameter of the base?
The numerator of a certain fraction is 8 less than the denominator. If 3 is added to the numerator and 3 is subtracted from the denominator, the fraction becomes 3/4. Find the original fraction?
Ram purchased a flat at Rs. 1 lakh and Prem purchased a plot of land worth Rs. 1.1 lakh. The respective annual rates at which the prices of the flat and the plot increased were 10% and 5%. After two years they exchanged their belongings and one paid the other the difference. Then
How many gallons of milk that is 10 percent butter-fat must be added to 8 gallons of milk that is 50 percent butterfat to obtain milk that is 20 percent butterfat?
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+4) III. (y+1)^(x-1) + 2
The present worth of Rs.1404 due in two equal half-yearly instalments at 8% per annum. Simple interest is:
A train overtakes two persons who are walking in the same direction to that of the train at 2 kmph and 4 kmph and passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds respectively. What is the length of the train?
If Q = {1, 7, 18, 20, 29, 33}, how much less is the mean of the numbers in Q than the median of the numbers in Q?
4 persons a, b, c, d are to be lined up in a row. If a, b, and c adhere always together, how many possible cases are there?
At Company X, senior sales representatives visit the home office once every 20 days, and junior sales representatives visit the home office once every 15 days. The number of visits that a junior sales representative makes in a 2-year period is approximately what percent greater than the number of visits that a senior r...
Otto and Han are driving at constant speeds in opposite directions on a straight highway. At a certain time they are driving toward each other and are 10 miles apart. One and a half hours later, they are again 10 miles apart, driving away from each other. If Otto drives at a speed of x miles per hour, then, in terms of...
At 11:00 a.m., Tom begins traveling on a certain bike path from Riverdale at a constant rate of 10 mph. If, at 3:00 p.m., Jim begins traveling from Riverdale on the same path at a constant rate of 20 mph, at what time will he catch up to Peter?
A train 125 m long pass a telegraph pole in 5 seconds. Find the speed of the train
Express 25 mps in kmph?
How many shots of 1cm radius can be prepared from a sphere of 3cm radius?
If a quarter kg of potato costs 60 paise, how many paise does 200 gm cost?
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 5,28,57,88,125
If m is an odd integer and n an even integer, which of the following is definitely odd?
Daniel is playing a dice game in which a dice is rolled 5 times. If a number turns up exactly 3 times then the game is won. Daniel has thrown the dice two times and got number 4 both times. What is the probability that Daniel will win the game ? Note: the dice is an unbiased die with numbers 1 to 6
The price of commodity X increases by 30 cents every year, while the price of commodity Y increases by 20 cents every year. If in 2001, the price of commodity X was $4.20 and the price of commodity Y was $4.40, in which year will commodity X cost 70 cents more than the commodity Y?
In a certain game, a large container is filled with red, yellow, green, and blue beads worth, respectively, 7, 5, 3, and 2 points each. A number of beads are then removed from the container. If the product of the point values of the removed beads is 30,870,000, how many red beads were removed?
In the xy-coordinate system, what is the slope of the line that goes through the origin and is equidistant from the two points P = (4, 6) and Q = (6, 2)?
Of the total amount that Jill spent on a shopping trip, excluding taxes, she spent 50 percent on clothing, 20 percent on food, and 30 percent on other items. If Jill paid a 4 percent tax on the clothing, no tax on the food, and an 8 percent tax on all other items, then the total tax that she paid was what percent of th...
The ratio of a to b to c is 2 to 3 to 4, and a, b, c are positive integers. If the average (arithmetic mean) of the three numbers is 51, what is the value of a?
Two pipes can fill a tank in 12 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. Both pipes are opened together and after some time the first pipe is closed and the tank is full in totally 10 minutes. For how many minutes was first pipe open?
If Rani earns a raise of between 5% and 11%, non-inclusive, by what fraction could her salary have increased?
How many days will there be from 29th January,1996 to 15th May,1996(both days included)?
The parameter of a square is double the perimeter of a rectangle. The area of the rectangle is 480 sq cm. Find the area of the square.
There are 36 people in a certain community who belong to the local golf club, tennis club or both clubs. If twice as many people belong to the tennis club as belong to the golf club, what could be the number of people who belong to both clubs?
Spanish Language Broadcast records last 90 min on each of two sides. If it takes 3 hours to translate one hour of broadcast, how long will it take to translate 16 full records?
In a race where 12 cars are running, the chance that car X will win is 1/6, that Y will win is 1/10 and that Z will win is 1/8. Assuming that a dead heat is impossible, find the chance that one of them will win.
I remember during the school days , the teacher asked the class "can you tell me the sum of the first 50 odd numbers ?". I ran quickly to the teacher and told her "the answer is 2500". The teacher replied "lucky guess". She then asked me "can you tell me the sum of first 71 odd numbers ?". I wait for approx 10 seconds ...
A can do a piece of work in 10 days, while B alone can do it in 15 days. They work together for 5 days and the rest of the work is done by C in 2 days. If they get 450 for the whole work, how should they divide the money ?
The average of 8 numbers is 25, that of the first 2 is 20 and of the next three is 26. The sixth number is less than the seventh by 4, and less than the eighth by 6. The last number is
In a hostel there were 100 students. To accommodate 20 more students the average is decreased by rupees 5. But total expenditure increased by Rs.400. Find the total expenditure of the hostel now?
Find number which is 80% less than 80.
The owner of a furniture shop charges his customer 24% more than the cost price. If a customer paid Rs. 8339 for a computer table, then what was the cost price of the computer table?
By using the numbers 1, 3, 4, 6 and 9 only once, how many five digit numbers can be made that are divisible by 8?
In certain year in Country C, x sets of twins and y sets of triplets were born. If there were z total babies born in Country C in this year, and x and y were both greater than 0, which of the following represents the fraction Q of all babies born who were NOT part of a set of twins or triplets?
Diane find 1 can 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?
The sum of two numbers is 216 and their H.C.F. is 27. The number are:
A committee has 6 men and 6 women. What are the number of ways of selecting 2 men and 3 women from the given committee?
The sum E of the arithmetic sequence a, a+d, a+2d,..., a+(n-1)d is give by En = (n/2)*(2a + n-1)d. What is the sum of the integers 1 to 100 inclusive, with the even integers between 25 and 63 omitted.
In how many ways can Ann, Bob, Chuck, Don and Ed be seated in a row such that Ann and Bob are not seated next to each other?
The original price of a car was $25,200. Because the car owner thought he could get more money for the car, he increased the price of the car to 110% of its original price. After a week, the car had not sold, so the owner then discount ed the price by 10%, and the car was finally sold. What price was the car sold for?
Each student at a certain university is given a four-character identification code, the rest two characters of which are digits between 0 and 9, inclusive, and the last two characters of which are selected from the 26 letters of the alphabet. If characters may be repeated and the same characters used in a different ord...
Pipe A can fill a tank in 2 hr, pipe B in 4hr and pipe C in 8hr. If all the pipes are open in how many hours will tank be filled?
Find large number from below question The difference of two numbers is 1375. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder
The H.C.F of two numbers is 12 and their L.C.M is 6600. If one of the numbers is 288, then the other is?
Varma can read a book in k minutes. What part of the book can he read in 8 minutes?(k>8)
If Rs. 527 be divided among A, B, C in such a way that A gets 2/3 of what B gets and B gets 1/4 of what C gets, then their shares are respectively?
If six numbers are randomly selected without replacement from set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, what is the probability that the numbers are selected in ascending order?
A man took loan from a bank at the rate of 12% p.a. S.I. After 20 years he had to pay Rs. 2100 interest only for the period. The principal amount borrowed by him was?
In a camp,there is a meal for 120 men or 200 children.If 150 children have taken the meal,how many men will be catered to with the remaining meal ?
The ratio of men to women in a class is 6 to 5. If 3 men drop out of the class and the ratio of men to women after the drop out is 1 to 1, then how many men are currently in the class?
40% of a number is added to 120, the result is the same number. Find the number?
In a shop, the profit is 320% of the cost. If the cost increases by 25% but the selling price remains constant, find out approximately what percentage of the selling price is the profit?
Two cars are driving toward each other. The first car is traveling at a speed of 60 km/h, which is 25% slower than the second car's speed. If the distance between the cars is 770 km, how many hours will it take until the two cars meet?
Aishwarya Rai walks into a bank to cash out her check. By mistake the bank teller gives her dollar amount in change, and her cent amount in dollars. On the way home she spends 5 cent, and then suddenly she notices that she has twice the amount of her check. How much was her check amount ?
Insert the missing number. 2, 7, 10, 22, 18, 37, 26
Working at a constant rate, P can finish a job in 4 hours. Q, also working at a constant rate, can finish the same job in 15 hours. If they work together for 3 hours, how many more minutes will it take P to finish the job, working alone at his constant rate?
66 cubic centimetres of silver is drawn into a wire 1 mm in diameter. The length if the wire in meters will be:
What is the sum of the first 23 natural numbers (starting from 1)?
If the price of sugar rises from Rs. 6 per kg to Rs. 7.50 per kg, a person, to have no increase in his expenditure on sugar, will have to reduce his consumption of sugar by
Of 40 applicants for a job, 32 had at least 5 years of prior work experience, 24 had advanced degrees, and 16 had at least 5 years of prior work experience and advanced degrees. How many of the applicants had neither 5 years of prior work experience nor advanced degrees?
What is the ratio whose term differ by 30 and the measure of which is 2/7?
There are some pigeons and hares in a zoo. If heads are counted, there are 200. If legs are counted, there are 530. The number of hares in the zoo is?
On selling 17 balls at Rs. 720, there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost price of a ball is:
What sum of money put at C.I amounts in 2 years to Rs.8840 and in 3 years to Rs.9261?
The population of a bacteria colony doubles every day. If it was started 3 days ago with 3 bacteria and each bacteria lives for 12 days, how large is the colony today?
Two travelers set out on a long odyssey. The first traveler starts from city X and travels north on a certain day and covers 1 km on the first day and on subsequent days, he travels 2 km more than the previous day. After 3 days, a second traveler sets out from city X in the same direction as the first traveler and on h...
After replacing an old member by a new member, it was found that the average age of five members of a club is the same as it was 3 years ago. What is the difference between the ages of the replaced and the new member?
At a certain resort, each of the 39 food service employees is trained to work in a minimum of 1 restaurant and a maximum of 3 restaurants. The 3 restaurants are the family buffet, the dining room, and the snack bar. Exactly 19 employees are trained to work in the family buffet, 16 are trained to work in the dining room...
If log1087.5 = 5.9421, then the number of digits in (875)10 is?
How many integers between 323,700 and 458,600 have tens digit 1 and units digit 3?
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?
A man invested Rs. 4940 in Rs. 10 shares quoted at Rs. 9.50. If the rate of dividend be 14%, his annual income is
In how many ways can the letters of the word REGULATION be arranged such that all the vowels always appear together?
Each digit 1 through 5 is used exactly once to create a 5-digit integer. If the 3 and the24 cannot be adjacent digits in the integer, how many 5-digit integers are possible?
A girl has exactly 6 quarters, 8 dimes, and 10 nickels in her pocket. If she withdraws a number of these coins at random, how many coins would she have to withdraw to ensure that she has at least a 50 percent chance of withdrawing at least one quarter?