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In jar X there are 3 silver coins and 5 gold coins, in jar Y there are 4 silver coins and 2 gold coins. A jar is randomly picked, what is the probability of picking up a gold coin out of jar Y?
The charge for a single room at Hotel P is 25 percent less than the charge for a single room at Hotel R and 15 percent less than the charge for a single room at Hotel G. The charge for a single room at Hotel R is what percent greater than the charge for a single room at Hotel G ?
If the perimeter of square region D 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 D
How many natural numbers are there between 43 and 200 which are exactly divisible by 6?
If x and y are positive integers and 25x=10y what is the least possible value of xy?
A person's present age is two-fifth of the age of his mother. After 10 years, he will be one - half of the age of his mother. How old is the mother at present ?
It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
In covering a distance of 30 km, A takes 2 hours more than B. If Abhay doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less than B. A's speed is:
In a division sum, the remainder is 0. As student mistook the divisor by 12 instead of 21 and obtained 49 as quotient. What is the correct quotient ?
Three solid metallic balls of radii, 3 cm, 4cm and 5 cm are melted and moulded into a single solid ball. The radius of the new ball is
The average of first six prime numbers which are between 30 and 70 is
JAK, KBL, LCM, MDN, _____
If G is to be chosen at random from the set {5,8,7,1} and K is to be chosen at random from the set {14,8,3}, what is the probability that GK will be even?
A pump can fill a tank with water in 2 hours. Because of a leak, it took 7/3 hours to fill the tank. The leak can drain all the water of the tank in?
Find the simple interest on Rs. 68,000 at 16 2/3% per year for 9 months.
The total of company C's assets in 1994 was 150% greater than the total in 1993, which in turn was 400% greater than the total in 1992. If the total of company C's assets in in 1992 was N dollars, which one of the following represents company C's assets in 1994:
Two spherical balls lie on the ground touching. If one of the balls has a radius of 9 cm, and the point of contact is 10 cm above the ground, what is the radius of the other ball (in centimeters)?
Peeta asks Katniss, 'It is 6 pm as per my watch right now.Do you know what will be the time 23, 999, 999 hours later?' Katniss knows the answer. Do you ?
If a tap could fill entire tank in 18 hrs due to leakage, then in how much time tank can be emptied by leakage if tap can fill entire tank in 12 hrs without leakage
In a simultaneous throw of two coins, the probability of getting atleast one headis:
A circular logo is enlarged to fit the lid of a jar. The new diameter is 20 per cent larger than the original. By what percentage has the area of the logo increased?
Two teams are distributing information booklets. Team A distributes 60% more boxes of booklets than Team H, but each box of Team A’s has 60% fewer booklets than each box of Team H’s. Which of the following could be the total number of booklets distributed by the two groups?
Linda spent 3/4 of her savings on furniture and the rest on a TV. If the TV cost her $250, what were her original savings?
To produce an annual income of Rs. 1200 from a 15 % stock at 90,the amount of stock needed is :
The boys in the class have an average height of 140 cm and the girls in the class have an average height of 150 cm. If the overall class average height is 144 cm, what is the ratio of boys to girls in the class?
Two numbers are respectively 20% and 50% more than a third number. The ratio of the two numbers is:
One-fourth of the students at a nursery school are 5 years old or older. If 15 students have not yet reached their fourth birthday, and a total of 25 students are not between 4 years old and 5 years old, how many children are in the nursery school?
Find the HCF of 2/3,4/6,8/27
A can do a piece of work in 20 days. B in 15 days A and C in 12 days. In how many days can A finish the work if he is assisted by B on one day and C on the next, alternately?
what are the total number of divisors of 600?
In Solution P, the proportion of water to alcohol is 3:1. In Solution Q, the proportion of water to alcohol is 2:1. If the two solutions are combined, what is the concentration of alcohol in the new solution if the original solutions were mixed in equal amounts?
Eddy and Freddy start simultaneously from city A and they travel to City B and City C respectively. Eddy takes 3 hours and Freddy takes 4 hours to complete the journey. If the distance between City A and City B is 600 kms and City A and City C is 360 kms. What is the ratio of their average speed of travel? (Eddy: Freddy)
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 48 years now, the son's age 4 years back was:
The average age of 36 students in a group is 18 years. When teacher's age is included to it, the average increases by one. What is the teacher's age in years ?
For which of the following values of n is (100+n)/n NOT an integer?
How many different ways can you select a pilot and a co pilot if you have 80 people to choose from?
Prints a page 64 pg per min .If the printed for 3 hours except 10 min.Where there was an paper jam,how many page did it print
(17)3.5 x (17)? = 178
A unit square is subdivided into a grid composed of 9 squares each with sidelength 1/3 . A circle is drawn through the centers of the 4 squares in the outermost corners of the grid. Compute the area of this circle.
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?
By how much is three-fifth of 360 greater than four-seventh of 210 ?
Shalu started a business by investing Rs.50,000. After six months , Nitesh joined her with a capital of Rs.80,000. After 3 years , they earned a profit of Rs. 24,500. What was Shalu's share in the profit?
I have a three digit number in my mind. In that number, the tens digit is seven more than the ones digit and the hundreds digit is six less than the tens digit. What is the number?
A certain box has 8 cards and each card has one of the integers from 1 to 8 inclusive. Each card has a different number. If 2 different cards are selected at random, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers written on the 2 cards is less than the average (arithmetic mean) of all the numbers written on the 8 cards?
Stacy has a 66 page history paper due in 6 days. How many pages per day would she have to write to finish on time?
For arranging a picnic, each student contributed an amount equal to the number of students while the teacher contributed an amount equal to twice the number of students. However, if each student would have contributed an amount equal to twice the number of students and the teacher would have contributed an amount equal to the number of students, they would have generated Rs. 1056 more. Find the number of students in the group?
A can do a piece of work in 10 days, B in 15 days. They work together for 5 days, the rest of the work is finished by C in two more days. If they get Rs. 3000 as wages for the whole work, what are the daily wages of A, B and C respectively (in Rs):
The smallest 3 digit prime number is?
If 5 gallons of gasoline are added to a tank that is already filled to 3/4 of its capacity, the tank is then filled to 9/10 of its capacity. How many gallons does the tank hold?
Right triangle ABC is to be drawn in the xy-plane so that the right angle is at A and AB is parallel to the y-axis. If the x- and y-coordinates of A, B, and C are to be integers that are consistent with the inequalities -5 ≤ x ≤ 2 and 4 ≤ y ≤ 9 , then how many different triangles can be drawn that will meet these conditions?
What is the cost price of an article sold by a trader at 10% loss, given that the trader would have made a profit of 9% if he had sold it for $60 more?
For all positive integers m and v, the expression m Θ v represents the remainder when m is divided by v. What is the value of (( 90 Θ 33 ) Θ 17 ) - ( 99 Θ (33 Θ 17)) ?
2^46655 mod 9 = ?
A man engaged a servant on the condition that he would pay him Rs.1000 and a uniform after one year service. He served only for 9 months and received uniform and Rs.550, find the price of the uniform?
Find the number of terms in an arithmetic progression with the first term 2 and the last term being 62, given that common difference is 2.
A tank is filled by three pipes with uniform flow. The first two pipes operating simultaneously fill the tank in the same during which the tank is filled by the third pipe alone. The second pipe fills the tank 5 hours faster than the first pipe and 4 hours slower than the third pipe. The time required by the first pipe is?
If 8 ∙ 2x = 5(y+8), then when y = -8, x =
To fill an art exhibit, the girls in an art course are assigned to create one piece of artwork each in the following distribution: 1/3 are sculptures, 1/8 are oil paintings, 1/2 are watercolors, and the remaining 10 pieces are mosaics. How many girls are in the art class?
Out of 200 donors, ¼ are men and remaining are women. Each male donor donates Rs.3000 per year and each female donor donates ½ of that amount. What is the total yearly collection through donations?
The principal that amounts to Rs. 4903 in 3 years at 6 1/4 % per annum C.I. compounded annually, is?
Two pens and three pencils cost 86. Four pens and a pencil cost 112. What is the difference between the cost of a pen and that of a pencil?
Three friends had dinner at a restaurant. When the bill was received, Akshitha paid 2/5 as much as Veena paid and Veena paid 1/2 as much as Lasya paid. What fraction of the bill did Veena pay ?
In the first week of the Year, Jancy saved $1. In each of the next 51 weeks, she saved $1 more than she had saved in the previous week. What was the total amount that Jancy saved during the 52 weeks?
If 8 ministers are to be seated at a round table conference, then how many different ways can they be seated?
Simplify: (4 – 5) – (13 – 18 + 2).
A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his average by 2. Find his average after 17th inning.
If green means red, red means black, black means blue, blue means orange and orange means green, what is the colour of sky in night ?
Find the smallest number of 6 digits which is exactly divisible by 111
Eric, Nick and Archi make contributions to the Society Of Nature Protection in the ratio of 5:3:2.5. If altogether they contribute 4452 Nis, how much more money does Nick contribute than Archi?
If c = 9/25, w = 15/32, and m + w + c = 1, which of the following gives the values of m, w, and c in increasing order?
The average salary of the employees in a office is Rs.120/month.The avg salary of officers is Rs.450 and of non officers is Rs 110. If the no.of officers is 15,then find the No of nonofficers in the office.
Valentine day 14 Feb. 2005 was celebrated by Anand and shilpa on Monday. They were very happy. What day of the week would come on 14 Feb. 2013?
Let B represent a set of four distinct prime numbers. If the sum of the numbers in B is even and x is a member of B, then what is the least possible value that x can be?
A dealer purchased an article at 3/4 of its list price and sold 50% more than the list price. Find his gain percent?
During the first week of performances of a certain play, 5,400 tickets were sold, all at reduced price. During the remaining weeks of performances, 5 times as many tickets were sold at full price as were sold at reduced price. If the total number of tickets R sold was 25,200, how many of them were sold at full price?
40 percent of the ducks included in a certain side effects study were male. If some of the ducks had side effects during the study and 20 percent of the ducks who had side effects were male, what was the ratio of the side effect rate for the male ducks to the side effect rate for the female ducks?
What do you get if you add 3 to 989 five times?
On the number line, if x is halfway between -11 and 5, and if y is halfway between -3 and 7, what number is halfway between x and y?
In 1 hour, a boat goes 5 km along the stream and 9 km against the stream. The speed of the boat in still water (in km/hr) is :
Three 6 faced dice are thrown together. The probability that all the three show the same number on them is
Dan can do a job alone in 15 hours. Annie, working alone, can do the same job in just 10 hours. If Dan works alone for 6 hours and then stops, how many hours will it take Annie, working alone, to complete the job?
The remainder when 1!+2!+3!...+50! divided by 4! will be
If the two-digit integers A and B are positive and have the same digits, but in reverse order, which of the following could be the sum of A and B?
A trader marked the selling price of an article at 11% above the cost price. At the time of selling, he allows certain discount and suffers a loss of 1%. He allowed a discount of :
When Jack picks olives for two hours at three times his regular speed, he picks 11 pounds of olives more than Mac working for five hours at 80% of his regular speed. Therefore, if Mac picks olives for one hour at double his regular speeds, and Jack picks olives for four hours at 75% of his regular speed, then
Find the ones digit of 73^320
Mary has a monthly salary of $1200. She spends $280 per month on food. What percent of her monthly salary does she spend on food?
Ratio between Rahul and Deepak is 5:2, After 6 Years Rahul age will be 26 years. What is Deepak present age.
I bought two books; for Rs.480. I sold one at a loss of 15% and other at a gain of 19% and then I found each book was sold at the same price. Find the cost of the book sold at a loss?
What is the sum of the local values of the digits 2, 3, 4, 5 in the number 2345?
The length of the bridge, which a train 120 m long and traveling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 sec is?
What is the least number of squares tiles required to pave the floor of a room 15 m 17 cm long and 9 m 2 cm broad?
In a group of 44 students, each student is registered for at least one of three classes – History, Math and English. Twenty students are registered for History, twenty students are registered for Math, and thirty students are registered for English. If only three students are registered for all three classes, how many students are registered for exactly two classes?
Can you find the missing number in the sequence given below? 11 16 21 12 17 ? 13 18 23 14 19 24
There are 6 people from different countries namely Germany, Italy, Britain, Spain, Poland and France. They are sitting around a table. Polish sits next to British. German sits next to Italian, or British or both. Italian does not sit next to the Frenchman. Spanish sits immediately after British. Who sits on the either side of the German?
Let us say that a table tennis tournament was going on with knock out terms which means the one who loses the match is out of the tournament. 91 players took part in that tournament. How many matches were played?
In a hockey championship, there are 153 matches played. Every two team played one match with each other. The number of teams participating in the championship is:
Students at a school were on average 180 cm tall. The average female height was 170 cm, and the average male height was 188 cms. What was the ratio of men to women?
If the price of gold increases by 50%, find by how much the quantity of ornaments must be reduced, so that the expenditure may remain the same as before?
The number of bacteria in a petri dish increased by 50 percent every 1 hour. If there were 108 million bacteria in the dish at 2: 00 p.m., at what time were there 32 million bacteria in the dish?