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A bus stops for taking passengers. The speed of the bus with stoppages is 36 km/hr and without stoppages is 45 km/hr.For how many minutes bus stopped per hour?
Bert left the house with N dollars. He spent 1/4 of this at the hardware store, then $7 at the dry cleaners, and then half of what was left at the grocery store. When he got home, he had $19 left in his pocket. What was the value of N?
A sum of money is to be distributed among A, B, C, D in the proportion of 5 : 2 : 4 : 3. If C gets Rs. 1200 more than D, what is B's share?
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 G it could take for 10 cars to be complete?
An design manager has 10patterns of chairs & 5patterns of tables. In how many ways can he make a pair of table & chair?
An unbiased die is tossed .find the probability of getting a multiple of 3
The product of three consecutive numbers is 504. Then the sum of the smallest two numbers is ?
A, B, C subscribe Rs. 50,000 for a business. If A subscribes Rs. 4000 more than B and B Rs. 5000 more than C, out of a total profit of Rs. 37,000, what will be the amount A receives?
4 men and 12 boys finish a piece of work in 4 days, 7 men and 6 boys do it in 5 days. The ratio between the efficiencies of a man and boy is?
At a certain restaurant, the price of a sandwich is $ 4.00 more than the price of a cup of coffee. If the price of a sandwich and a cup of coffee is $ 7.35, including a sales tax of 5%, what is the price of a cup of coffee, EXCLUDING the sales tax?
At what rate percent on simple interest will Rs.750 amount to Rs.900 in 5 years?
60% of a number is added to 120, the result is the same number. Find the number?
Based on this year's costs, an orchard grower budgets P dollars for planing N new trees next year. If the average cost of planting each tree were to increase 33% from this year's cost, then the greatest number of trees that the orchard grower could plant next year using P dollars would be:
A sum of money on compound interest amounts to Rs. 8240 in 2 years and Rs. 9888 in 3 years. The rate of interest is
There is an integer, which holds a very special property. If you subtract any number from that integer, the resultant is exactly divisible by the successor of that number. Can you find out that integer?
If a = -1, what is the value of –(a^2 + a^3 + a^4 + a^5+a^6)?
WHEN A PERSON SELLS TWO ITEMS $1656 each, ONE AT A GAIN OF 20% AND OTHER AT A LOSS OF 20%.THEN THE SELLER INCURS A LOSS OR GAIN OF:
A can do a piece of work in 11 days and B in 20 days. They began the work together but 5 days before the completion of the work, A leaves. The work was completed in?
A man rows his boat 90 km downstream and 40 km upstream, taking 2 1/2 hours each time. Find the speed of the stream?
In how many ways can 4 boys and 4 girls be arranged a ta table if 4 girls are never together?
which number need to add to 859622 to get a number exactly divisible by 456?
There were two candidates in an election. Winner candidate received 62% of votes and won the election by 312 votes. Find the number of votes casted to the winning candidate?
In how many ways can you seat 5 people on a bench if one of them, Rohit, does not want to sit on the middle seat or at either end?
Due to construction, the speed limit along an 10-mile section of highway is reduced from 55 miles per hour to 15 miles per hour. Approximately how many minutes more will it take to travel along this section of highway at the new speed limit than it would have taken at the old speed limit ?
How many integers from 0 to 50 inclusive have a remainder of 3 when divided by 11?
How many times do the hands of a clock coincide in a day?
If 2ab - c = 2a(b - c), which of the following must be true?
If r and y are both odd prime numbers and r < y, how many distinct positive integer factors does 2ry have?
A new tower has just been built at the Verbico military hospital; the number of beds available for patients at the hospital is now 5 times the number available before the new tower was built. Currently, 1/3 of the hospital's original beds, as well as 1/5 of the beds in the new tower, are occupied. For the purposes of renovating the hospital's original wing, all of the patients in the hospital's original beds must be transferred to beds in the new tower. If patients are neither admitted nor discharged during the transfer, what fraction of the beds in the new tower will be unoccupied once the transfer is complete?
Which of the following is equal to (x+1)!/x!?
Two trucks each 250m long are running in opposite directions on parallel paths. Their speeds are 30 km/hr and 20 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one?
During a recent track meet, Peter ran x meters of the 100 meter dash in 9 seconds; running at the same rate, how many seconds will it take Peter to run z meters of the 200 meter dash?
Rounded to three decimal places, 1.003^4 =
A man bought an article and sold it at a gain of 5 %. If he had bought it at 5% less and sold it for Re 2 less, he would have made a profit of 10%. The C.P. of the article was
The amount of water (in ml) that should be added to reduce 9 ml. Lotion, containing 50% alcohol, to a lotion containing 30% alcohol, is?
How many 3 digit numbers can be formed from the digits 2,3,5,6,7 and 9 which are divisible by 5 and none of the digits is repeated?
Two goods trains each 500 m long are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 60 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one?
Each digit 1 through 5 is used exactly once to create a 5-digit integer. If the 1 and the 2 cannot be adjacent digits in the integer, how many 5-digit integers are possible?
John completes a piece of work in 8 days, Rose completes the same work in 16 days. If both of them work together, then the number of days required to complete the work is?
One out of every 6000 computer chips is defective. If 2 out of every 30 defective chips have defective processors and there are 30 defective processors in the first batch, how many computer chips are there in the first batch?
Special codes are designated by either a 5-letter or a 6-letter code that is created by using the 26 letters of the alphabet. Which of the following gives the maximum number of different codes that can be designated with this system?
Two mechanics were working on your car. One can complete the given job in six hours, but the new guy takes 10 hours. They worked together for the first two hours, but then the first guy left to help another mechanic on a different job. How long will it take the new guy to finish your car?
15, 30, 22, 44, 36, 72, ?
Mary has 2 puppies,9 birds, 4 fishes.How many pets are there in all?
A man can row a boat at 25 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 6 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 60 km downstream?
Jhon works for 60 days. for the day he is present he is paid 7.00/- and for the day he is absent he is paid 3.00/- per day. if he is paid 170/-.how many days he is present.
Mary has x dollars more than Kathy has, and together they have a total of y dollars. Which of the following represents the number of dollars that Kathy has?
In 1995, the Johnsons spent $800 on the family’s water bills. Anticipating that water rates would increase in 1996 by 50%, the Johnsons cut back their water usage. By how much must the Johnsons have reduced their 1996 water usage to pay exactly the same amount in 1996 as they paid in 1995?
The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of first six is 10.5 and that of the last six is 11.2 the sixth number is?
Two trains of equal lengths take 12 sec and 20 sec respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120 m, in what time will they cross other travelling in opposite direction?
If 80 percent of 600 is 50 percent of x, then x=?
If Rs.1000 be invested at interest rate of 5% & the interest be added to the principal every 10 yrs, then the no. of yrs in which it will amount to Rs.2000 is:
A man can row upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 65 kmph, and then find the speed of the man in still water?
The average of runs of a cricket player of 10 innings was 32. How many runs must he make in his next innings so as to increase his average of runs by 4?
Eight people are planning to share equally the cost of a rental car. If one person withdraws from the arrangement and the others share equally the entire cost of the car, then the share of each of the remaining persons increased by:
In a class there are 20 boys and 25 girls. In how many ways can a boy and a girl be selected?
65 boys can complete a work in 30 days.how many men need to complete twice the work in 20 days
A certain tire company can produce tires at a cost of $22,500 per batch plus $8 per tire. The company can sell tires to the wholesaler at a cost of $20 per tire. If a batch of 15,000 tires is produced and sold, what is the company’s profit per tire?
Two trains start from P and Q respectively and travel towards each other at a speed of 50 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively. By the time they meet, the first train has traveled 100 km more than the second. The distance between P and Q is?
A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 4 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10 seconds. The speed of the train is:
Marts income is 40 percent more than Tims income and Tims income is 40 percent less than Juans income. What percentage of Juans income is Marts income
The editor of an anthology of short stories will select authors from a pool of 12 authors, of which 5 are female. If the anthology is to include the work of 7 authors of which at least 2 are female, in how many ways can the editor select the authors?
Hammers and wrenches are manufactured at a uniform weight per hammer and a uniform weight per wrench. If the total weight of two hammers and three wrenches is one-third that of 6 hammers and 5 wrenches, then the total weight of one wrench is how many times that of one hammer?
Solve x^2 – 3x – 4 = 0.
Firm A's revenues are described by the equation Ra = 17.12x and its costs by Ca = 12.87x + 2700. Firm B's revenues are described by the equation Rb = 13.27x and its costs by Cb = 8.77x + 1500. (x denotes the quantity of sales). If A's volume of sales increases from 1000 to 2000 over the same period that B's volume increases from 2000 to 3000, the percent increase in profits for the firm with the biggest dollar increase in profits is
A group of four women and three men have tickets for seven adjacent seats in one row of a theatre. If the three men will not sit in three adjacent seats, how many possible different seating arrangements are there for these 7 theatre-goers?
Seed mixture X is 40 percent ryegrass and 60 percent bluegrass by weight; seed mixture Y is 25 percent ryegrass and 75 percent fescue. If a mixture of X and Y contains 30 percent ryegrass, what percent of the weight of this mixture is X ?
How many seconds will a train 100 meters long take to cross a bridge 170 meters long if the speed of the train is 36 kmph?
if m>0 and a is m percent of b, then, in terms of m, b is what percent of a?
In a division sum, the remainder is 6 and the divisor is 5 times the quotient and is obtained by adding 2 to the thrice of the remainder. The dividend is?
There are two sections A and B of a class consisting of 36 and 44 students respectively. If the average weight of section A is 40kg and that of section B is 35kg, find the average weight of the whole class?
Find a sum for first 5 prime no's from number series?
Find large number from below question The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder?
The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular plot is 7 : 5. If the perimeter of the plot is 360 metres, what is its area?
The average (arithmetic mean) of the 5 positive integers k, m, r, s, and t is 16, and k < m < r < s < t. If t is 30, what is the greatest possible value of the median of the 5 integers?
A license plate in the country Kerrania consists of four digits followed by two letters. The letters A, B, and C are used only by government vehicles while the letters D through Z are used by non-government vehicles. Kerrania's intelligence agency has recently captured a message from the country Gonzalia indicating that an electronic transmitter has been installed in a Kerrania government vehicle with a license plate starting with 79. If it takes the police 30 minutes to inspect each vehicle, what is the probability that the police will find the transmitter within three hours?
Given that there are 11 cricket players per team, how many ways can you select 10 cricket players from 2 teams if no more than 5 players can be selected from each team?
A man sitting in a train which is traveling at 45 kmph observes that a goods train, traveling in opposite direction, takes 8 seconds to pass him. If the goods train is 340 m long, find its speed
A 260 m long train running at the speed of 120 km/hr crosses another train running in opposite direction at the speed of 80 km/hr in 9 sec. What is the length of the other train?
In a certain growth fund, 3/5 of the investment capital is invested in stocks, and of that portion, 1/3 is invested in preferred stocks. If the mutual fund has $846,000 invested in preferred stocks, what is the total amount of money invested in the fund?
The length of a rectangular plot is thrice its breadth. If the area of the rectangular plot is 867 sq m, then what is the breadth of the rectangular plot?
The area of square ABCD above is 32. The shaded region is the intersection of the square and a circular region centered at C. What is the area of the shaded region?
The average of 10 numbers was calculated as 19. It is discovered later on that while calculating the average, one number, namely 76, was incorrectly read as 26. What is the correct average?
The positive integers p and r have exactly three prime factors in common: two 2's and one 3. If p has exactly one additional prime factor x and r has exactly one additional prime factor y such that x ≠ y , which of the following represents the least common multiple of p and r?
In power plant, If 36 men can do a piece of work in 25 hours, in how many hours will 15 men do it ?
In a group of hats consisting of only blue hats, green hats, and purple hats, the ratio of blue hats to green hats to purple hats is 7:4:12. If there are a total of 138 hats in this group, how many of these hats are not blue?
This topic is locked. If you want to discuss this question please re-post it in the respective forum. The sum of the first 52 positive even integers is 2550. What is the sum of the even integers from 98 to 200 inclusive?
A juice drink contains 6% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin A. If the juice drink contains 3 units of vitamin A, how many units of vitamin A are recommended daily?
A parallelogram has a height that is the square root of the size of it's base. The total area of this parallelogram is Sq ft. What is the height of the parallelogram?
Sakshi invests a part of Rs. 12,000 in 12% stock at Rs. 120 and the remainder in 15% stock at Rs. 125. If his total dividend per annum is Rs. 1360, how much does he invest in 12% stock at Rs. 120?
Kyle has a custom bicycle shop, from each bicycle he sells for $150, he invest $65.50 in tools, paint and accessories. He also pays a $25 commission to his friend Lucas for each bike he helps him sell. If Lucas helped Kyle sell 6 bikes in one week, how much profit did Kyle made from those sells?
Total number of 4 digit number do not having the digit 3 or 6.
Three consecutive odd integers are in increasing order such that the sum of the last two integers is 13 more than the first integer. Find the three integers?
A teacher gets paid $20 a day for in school classes. For extra classes outside of school, she charges $5 per hour for every child. If she teaches 25 students inside of school, and 12% of these students take extra classes for 4 hours. How much money does the teacher make for a week of five days total from teaching?
In a suite there are men and cats. In all, there are 15 heads and 40 feet. How many men and how many cats are in the suite?
If you roll one fair six-sided die, what is the probability that the number is even or less than 4?
If the perimeter of square region S and the perimeter of rectangular region R are equal and the sides of R are in the ratio 2:3 then the ratio of the area of R to the area of S
If 5/2 artists make 5/2 paintings using 5/2 canvases in 5/2 days then how many artists r required to make 25 paintings using 25 canvases in 25 days?
The speed of a car increases by 2 kms after every one hour. If the distance travelling in the first one hour was 55 kms. what was the total distance travelled in 12 hours?
Ken bought 2Q steaks for W dollars. Jerome buys R steaks for a 50% discount, how much will the steaks cost him in cents?