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A pharmaceutical company made 3000 strips of tablets at a cost of Rs. 4800. The company gave away 1000 strips of tablets to doctors as free samples. A discount of 25% was allowed on the printed price. Find the ratio profit if the price is raised from Rs. 3.25 to Rs. 4.25 per strip and if at the latter price, samples to doctors were done away with. (New profit / Old profit).
In shop contains 500 articles each of a cost of $10. He sold them at a price of $20. If the shop keeper has a order of 200 articles, how much profit he will get?
7 points are marked on a straight line and another 8 points are marked on a second straight line with no points in common. How many triangles can be constructed with vertices from among the above points?
During a sale, the price of a pair of shoes is marked down 13% from the regular price. After the sale ends, the price goes back to the original price. What is the percent of increase to the nearest percent from the sale price back to the regular price for the shoes?
Working alone, A can complete a certain kind of job in 3 hours. A and D, working together at their respective rates, can complete one of these jobs in 2 hours. In how many hours can D, working alone, complete one of these jobs?
There are 8 students. 4 of them are men and 4 of them are women. If 4 students are selected from the 8 students. What is the probability that the number of men is equal to that of women?
The diagonals of a rhombus are 15 cm and 12 cm. Find its area?
The current of a stream at 1 kmph. A motor boat goes 35 km upstream and back to the starting point in 12 hours. The speed of the motor boat in still water is?
If 45-[28-{37-(15-*)}]= 59, then * is equal to:
A sum of money lent out at S.I. amounts to Rs. 820 after 2 years and to Rs. 1020 after a further period of 5 years. The sum is?
At a contest with 2000 participants, 1/2 of the people are aged 16 to 18. Next year, the number of people aged 16 to 18 will increase by 1/4. After this change, what percentage of the total 2000 people will the 16- to 18- year-olds represent?
Four milkmen rented a pasture. A grazed 24 cows for 3 months, B 10 cows for 5 months, C 35 cows for 4 months and D 21 cows for 3 months. If A’s share of rent is Rs.720, find the total rent of the field.
Sandy purchased 20 dozen toys at the rate of $144 per dozen. Sandy sold each toy at the rate of $15. What was the percentage profit?
The total number of digits used in numbering the pages of a book having 366 pages is
If x is odd and y is odd, then x + y is
A box contains 3 blue marbles, 4 red, 6 green marbles and 2 yellow marbles. If two marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that they are either blue or yellow?
A company has two types of machines, type R and type S. Operating at a constant rate, a machine of type R does a certain job in 55 hrs and a machine of type S does the same job in 22 hours. If the company used the same number of each type of machine to do the job in 5 hours, how many machines of type R were used?
A highway is to be divided into four lanes. For this purpose, three yellow stripes are painted so that stripes divide the highway into four lanes. If 3 gallons of paint cover an area of 5P square feet of highway, how many gallons of paint are needed to paint two stripes x inches wide on a stretch of highway m miles long? (1 mile = 5280 feet and 1 feet = 12 inches)
In how many years, Rs. 75 will produce the same interest at 6% as Rs. 800 produce in 2 years at 4½% ?
Three 6 faced dice are thrown together. The probability that all the three show the same number on them is ?
If two dice are thrown together, the probability of getting an even number on one die and an odd number on the other is ?
If S is a positive integer, which of the following must be odd?
Present birth rate is 32 per thousand while death rate is 11 per thousand. What will be the percentage increase in the rate of population?
What will be the output of the following code statements? Integer a = 13, b = 39, c = 10 print (a × b / c) – c
The instructions state that Cheryl needs 2/9 square yards of one type of material and 1/8 square yards of another type of material for a project. She buys exactly that amount. After finishing the project, however, she has 4/18 square yards left that she did not use. What is the total amount of square yards of material Cheryl used?
The concentration of spirit in three different vessels A, B and C are 30%, 30% and 25% respectively. If 4 litres from vessel A, 5 litres from vessel B and 6 litres from vessel C are mixed, find the concentration of spirit in the resultant solution.
Arnold wanted to create a perfect shade of pink for his new canvas painting. He started out replacing 25% of a 100% red colored paint with white. He then further replaced 15% of this shade with white. Finally, he repeated the process by replacing 10% of the shade with white. What was the final percentage of red in Arnold's pink paint?
If an item costs Rs.3 in '99 and Rs.203 in '00.What is the % increase in price?
In a certain random experiment, exactly one of the outcomes A, B, and M will occur. In each random experiment, the probability that outcome A will occur is 1/3 , and the probability that outcome B will occur is 1/3. What is the probability that when the random experiment is conducted 6 independent times, each of outcomes A, B, and M will occur twice?
A man buys a cycle for Rs. 1600 and sells it at a loss of 15%. What is the selling price of the cycle?
Which of the following data sets has the largest standard deviation?
At present, the ratio between the ages of Arun and Deepak is 5:4. After 5 years, Arun's age will be 40 years. What is the age of Deepak at present?
Twenty four men can do a work in 35 days. How many men are required to complete the work in 21 days?
An express traveled at an average speed of 100 km/hr, stopping for 3 min after every 75 kn. How long did it take to reach its destination 600 km from the starting point?
In a kilometer race, A beats B by 20 meters or 10 seconds. What time does A take to complete the race?
A group of 4 students bought movie tickets in one row next to each other. If Bob and Lisa are in this group, what is the probability that Bob and Lisa will each sit next to only one of the three other students from the group?
AB +BA ___ 141 In the addition problem above, A and B represent digits in two different two-digit numbers. What is the sum of A and B?
If 6 (A's capital) = 8 (B's capital) = 10 (C's capital). Then the ratio of their capitals is:
Find the invalid no.from the following series 3, 7, 15, 27, 63, 127, 255
(1.00001)(0.99999) - (1.00006)(0.99994) =
Find ? x 11 = 555555
In 1982 and 1983, Company B’s operating expenses were $12.0 million and $13.0 million, respectively, and its revenues were $15.6 million and $18.8 million, respectively. What was the percent increase in Company B’s profit (revenues minus operating expenses) from 1982 to 1983 ?
Avg cost of 3 sharpners and 6 erasers is Rs.72. The avg cost of 6 sharpners and 8 erasers is Rs.112. Find the total cost of 20 sharpners and 20 erasers?
Sachin is younger than Rahul by 4 years. If their ages are in the respective ratio of 7:9, how old is Sachin?
A vessel contains 20 liters of a mixture of milk and water in the ratio 3:2. 10 liters of the mixture are removed and replaced with an equal quantity of pure milk. If the process is repeated once more, find the ratio of milk and water in the final mixture obtained?
Simplify 80−[5−(6+2(7−8−5¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯))]
In a game of 90 points, A can give B 5 points and C 15 points. then how many points B can give C in a game of 60?
ABCD is a square where AB =√6016. Let X be a point on AB and Y be a point on CD such that AX = CY . Compute the area of trapezoid AXYD.
12 is what % of 80?
33 a3 +4b ___ 88 If a and b represent positive single digits in the correctly worked computation above, what is the value of the two digit integer ab?
A train running at 1/4 of its own speed reached a place in 12 hours. How much time could be saved if the train would have run at its own speed?
A collector collects stamps from foreign countries. In June, she gave 20 percent of her stamps to her friend. In July, she gave 35 percent of her remaining stamps to another friend. If these were the only changes in the number of stamps in the stamp collection during those two months, what percent of her collection at the beginning of June did she give to away in June and July?
How much pure alcohol should be added to 400ml of a 15% solution to make the strength of solution 32%?
The tailor has a 10 meter long piece of fabric for which to sew a ball room dress. She has to cuts this fabric into strips of 200 centimeters each. How long will it take the tailor to complete this tasks if each 200 centimeter took 5 minutes to cut ?
Find the largest number of four digits which is exactly divisible by 26,18,12,15
Set R has a mean of 15 and a standard deviation of 1.5. We are going to add two additional numbers to Set S. Which pair of numbers would decrease the standard deviation the most?
Eggs are sold in packages of six or eleven only. If Doris bought 78 eggs exactly, what could be the number of large packs Doris bought?
There 3 kinds of books in the library physics, chemistry and biology. Ratio of physics to chemistry is 3 to 2; ratio of chemistry to biology is 4 to 3, and the total of the books is more than 3000. Which one of following can be the total W of the book?
The sum of squares of two numbers is 80 and the square of their difference is 36. The product of the two numbers is.
A salesperson receives a base salary of $900 per month and a commission of 7.5% of the selling price of each item sold above the first 50 item. If this month she sold 210 items for $150 each, what will her monthly salary be?
If both 112 and 33 are factors of the number a * 43 * 62 * 1311, then what is the smallest possible value of a?
Of the students at a certain high school, 90 percent took a course in algebra or geometry and 10 percent took courses in both. If the percent of students who took a course in algebra was 3 times the percent of students who took a course in geometry, what percent of the students took a course in algebra but not geometry?
If a certain sample of data has a mean of 25.0 and a standard deviation of 3.0, which of the following values is more than 2.5 standard deviations from the mean?
At the time of marriage, a man was 7 years elder to his wife. 10 years after their marriage, his age is 4/3 times the age of his wife. What was wife's age at the time of marriage ? Choose one answer.
45 x ? = 60% of 900
A 500 meter long train crosses a signal post in 40 seconds. How long will it take to cross a 3 kilometer long bridge, at the same speed?
If an amount of Rs 42,460 is distributed equally amongst 22 persons, how much amount would each person get?
What is the average of four tenths and two thousandths
If x^2 - 1 = 0 and x < 0, which of the following must be equal to 0 ?
A factory has 500 workers, 18 percent of whom are women. If 50 additional workers are to be hired and all of the present workers remain, how many of the additional workers must be women in order to raise the percent of women employees to 20 percent?
An airplane flies along the four sides of a square field at the speeds of 200, 400, 600 and 800 km/h. The average speed of the plane around the field in km/h is
If N = 2^0.1 and N^b = 16, b must equal
A can run 4 times as fast as B and gives B a start of 63 m. How long should the race course be so that A and B might reach in the same time?
Find the amount on Rs.5000 in 2 years, the rate of interest being 4% per first year and 5% for the second year?
A straight fence is to be constructed from posts 6 inches wide and separated by lengths of chain 9 feet long. If a certain fence begins and ends with a post, which of the following could not be the length of the fence in feet? (12 inches = 1 foot)
In how many ways can the letters of the word ED456 be rearranged such that the numbers always appear together?
A, B, C, D and E play a game of cards. A says to B, "If you give me 3 cards, you will have as many as I have at this moment while if D takes 5 cards from you, he will have as many as E has." A and C together have twice as many cards as E has. B and D together also have the same number of cards as A and C taken together. If together they have 150 cards, how many cards has C got ?
Two employees X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 330 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week?
A certain car increased its average speed by 4 miles per hour in each successive 5-minute interval after the first interval. If in the first 5-minute interval its average speed was 20 miles per hour, how many miles did the car travel in the third 5-minute interval?
Two trains of length 100 m and 200 m are 100 m apart. They start moving towards each other on parallel tracks, at speeds 24 kmph and 48 kmph. After how much time will the trains meet?
A man sells a horse for Rs.800 and loses something, if he had sold it for Rs.980, his gain would have been double the former loss. Find the cost price of the horse?
Find the lowest common multiple of 24, 36 and 40.
The measurement of a rectangular box with lid is 25cmx4cmx18cm. Find the volume of the largest sphere that can be inscribed in the box (in terms of πcm3). (Hint: The lowest measure of rectangular box represents the diameter of the largest sphere)
Length of a rectangular plot is 10 mtr more than its breadth. If the cost of fencing the plot at 26.50 per meter is Rs. 5300, what is the length of the plot in mtr?
The concentration of spirit in three different vessels A, B and C are 30%, 50% and 25% respectively. If 4 litres from vessel A, 5 litres from vessel B and 6 litres from vessel C are mixed, find the concentration of spirit in the resultant solution.
The side of a rhombus is 24 m and length of one of its diagonals is 18 m. The area of the rhombus is?
If the C.I. on a sum for 2 years at 12 1/2 % per annum is Rs. 510, the S.I. on the same sum at the same rate for the same period of time is?
If the number a60,858,61b is evenly divisible by 88, what are the values of a and b?
From a pack of cards, two cards are drawn one after the other, with replacement. What is the probability that the first card is a club and the second card is a king or queen?
Select the non termination decimal among the following.
Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 9 and 18 minutes respectively, and a third pipe C can empty it in 24 minutes. How long will it take to fill the cistern if all the three are opened at the same time?
How many liters of water must be evaporated from 50 liters of a 8-percent sugar solution to get a 10-percent solution?
The salary of a worker is first increased by 20% and afterwards reduced by 20%. What is the net change in the worker's salary?
A family consists of grandparents, parents and three grand children. The average age of the grandparents is 67 years, that of the parents is 36 years and that of the grandchildren is 6 years. What is the average age of the family?
How many digits to the right of the decimal point are there in the product of .32655 * 65.01?
Laura has a deck of standard playing cards with 18 of the 54 cards designated as aheart.If Laura shuffles the deck thoroughly and then deals 10 cards off the top of the deck, what is the probability that the 10th card dealt is a heart?
A man who goes to work long before sunrise every morning gets dressed in the dark. In his sock drawer he has 6 black and 8 blue socks. What is the probability that his first pick was a black sock, but his second pick was a blue sock?
If y exceeds x by 20%, then x is less than y by?
1600 men have provisions for 28 days in the temple. If after 4 days, 400 men leave the temple, how long will the food last now?
A positive integer is divisible by 3 if and only if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3. If the six-digit integer is divisible by 3, and n is of the form 4k2,k21, where k represents a digit that occurs twice, how many values could n have?