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Sixteen percent of the programmers in a startup company weigh 200 pounds or more. Twenty-five percent of the programmers that are under 200 pounds in that same company weigh 100 pounds or less. What percent of the programmers in the startup company weigh between 100 and 200 pounds?
If the average (arithmetic mean) of five consecutive negative integers is 12k – 1, what is the difference between the greatest and least of the five integers?
The maximum length of a pencil that can be kept in a rectangular box of dimensions 8cm×6cm×2cm, is :
An inspector rejects 0.05% of the meters as defective. How many will he examine to reject 2?
the average distance between the sun and a certain planet is approximatly 3.7 10^13 inches. which of the following is the closest to the average distence between sun and the planet in kelometers? (1 km is approx 3.9 x 10^4 inches)
In the Hillside summer camp there are 50 children. 85% of the children are boys and the rest are girls. The camp administrator decided to make the number of girls only 5% of the total number of children in the camp. How many more boys must she bring to make that happen?
At the end of three years what will be the compound interest at the rate of 10% p.a. on an amount of Rs.20000?
There are some birds in cage, 1/3rd fly away . Then 2/5th of the remaining left the cage , then 2/3rd of the remaining left the cage . At last 8 were remaining . How many birds were in total ?
David obtained 74, 65, 82, 67 and 90 marks (out of 100) in English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. What are his average marks?
In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 4000, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was:
The total car population in a Mumbai is 2,94,00 out of which 1,50,00 are made by Honda. Out of every 100 Honda cars, 98 are red in color, but only 53% of the total car population is red. Find the % of non-Honda cars that are red
Look at this series: V, VIII, __, XIV, XVII, XX, ... What number should fill the blank?
A train passes a station platform in 39 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20 seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?
An intern wants to label folders with numbers using digit stickers only. If the intern uses 999 stickers, how many folders have been numbered? (The numbers of the folders are consecutive and the number of the first folder is 1).
A train 440 meters long is running with a speed of 65 kmph. The time taken by it to cross a tunnel 180 meters long is?
If x is an integer, then x(x - 1)(x - y) must be evenly divisible by three when y is any of the following values EXCEPT
A tank contains 10,000 gallons of a solution that is 5 percent sodium chloride by volume. If 2,000 gallons of water evaporate from the tank, the remaining solution will be approximately what percent sodium chloride?
If a particular player is always chosen, in how many ways can a cricket-be chosen out of 15 players?
Solution X is 10 percent alcohol by volume, and solution Y is 30 percent alcohol by volume. How many milliliters of solution Y must be added to 200 milliliters of solution X to create a solution that is 25 percent alcohol by volume?
6) A marketing firm determined that , of 300 households surveyed, 80 used neither Brand A nor Brand B soap.60 used only Brand A soap and for every household that used both brands of soap, 3 used only brand B soap.how many of the 200 household surveyed used both brands of soap?
There are 6 red shoes, 4 green shoes. If one draw randomly a shoe what is the probability of getting a red shoe
The cross-section of a cannel is a trapezium in shape. If the cannel is 10 m wide at the top and 6 m wide at the bottom and the area of cross-section is 640 sq m, the depth of cannel is?
If the a radio is sold for Rs 490 and sold for Rs 465.50.find loss%.
Find the value of 72519 x 9999 = m?
A cube with its sides numbered 1 through 6 is rolled twice, first landing on a and then landing on b. If any roll of the cube yields an equal chance of landing on any of the numbers 1 through 6, what is the probability Q that a + b is prime?
A car gets 40 kilometers per gallon of gasoline. How many gallons of gasoline would the car need to travel 180 kilometers?
The number of boys in a class is (7/2) times the number of girls. Which one of the following numbers cannot represent the total number of children in the class ?
What is the rate percent when the simple interest on Rs.1500 amount to Rs.250 in 5 Years?
If 40% of a number is 16, then the number is
In how many ways can the letters of the word CAVES be arranged in a row so that the vowels appear in alphabetic order?
According to the directions on a packet of smoothie mix, 1 3-ounce packet of smoothie mix is to be combined with 15 ounces of water to make a smoothie. How many 3-ounce packets of smoothie mix are required to prepare 150 12-ounce smoothies?
A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward and backward, such as 616. How many even, 4-digit numbers are palindromes?
David was born 8 years after his father's marriage. His mother is 4 years younger than his father but 30 years older than David who is 8 years old. At what age did the father get married ?
I sold a book at a profit of 10%. Had I sold it for $150 more, 15% would have been gained. Find the cost price?
A marble shop contains 6 blue marbles, 6 red marbles, and 6 green marbles. If 4 marbles are purchased at random from the shop, what is the probability that the 4 marbles will be the same color?
Faiza has 8 purses, she gives 3 purse as gift. Now how many purse she have in that?
In a certain diving competition, 5 judges score each dive on a scale from 1 to 10. The point value of the dive is obtained by dropping the highest score and the lowest score and multiplying the sum of the remaining scores by the degree of difficulty. If a dive with a degree of difficulty of 3.2 received scores of 7.5, 7.8, 9.0, 6.0, and 8.5, what was the point value of the dive?
A team of eight entered for a shooting competition. The best marks man scored 85 points. If he had scored 92 points, the average scores for. The team would have been 84. How many points altogether did the team score?
In what time will a train 100 m long cross an electric pole, it its speed be 144 km/hr?
Convert 250 inches into centimeter?
Fox jeans regularly sell for $15 a pair and Pony jeans regularly sell for $18 a pair. During a sale these regular unit prices are discounted at different rates so that a total of $9 is saved by purchasing 5 pairs of jeans: 3 pairs of Fox jeans and 2 pairs of Pony jeans. If the sum of the two discounts rates is 25 percent, what is the discount rate on Pony jeans?
If 12 people contributed a total of $20.00 toward a gift and each of them contributed at least $1.00, then the maximum possible amount any one person could have contributed is
The ratio of sodium chloride to ammonium in 100 kg of mixed ammonium normally used by three chemists is 7: 25. The amount of sodium chloride to be added to 100 kg of mixed ammonium to make the ratio 9 :25 is
A merchant gets a 5% discount on each meter of fabric he buys after the first 2,000 meters and a 7% discount on every meter after the next 1,500 meters. The price, before discount, of one meter of fabric is $2, what is the total amount of money the merchant spends on 4,500 meters of fabric?
A cycle is bought for Rs.900 and sold for Rs.990, find the gain percent?
There are equal numbers of male and female horses in a ranch.The number of brown horses is 30% more than the number of female brown horses.What percentage of female horses are brown if the total number of male horse is ten times more than the number of brown male horses.
Which one of the following is a composite number?
Suppose that f(x) is a function such that for every real number x,i)f(x)+f(1-x) = 12 and (ii) f(1+x) = 3+f(x). Then f(x)+f(-x) must equal
A and B can do a work in 15days, B and C in 30days, C and A in 45days. If A,B and C work together , they will complete the work in?
In 1996, the property tax of a community is increased by 6% over the 1995 tax. An additional surcharge of $200 is also added for a special project. If the Petersons' 1996 tax totals $2108, find their property tax for the year 1995
A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10 seconds. The speed of the train is?
If the cost price of 40 articles is equal to the selling price of 25 articles, what is the % profit or loss made by the merchant?
27 is a perfect cube. When x is added to the prime factor of 27, the result is a prime number. What is x?
If 12 men do a work in 80 days, in how many days will 20 men do it?
A life insurance company insured 25,000 young boys, 14,000 young girls and 16,000 young adults. The probability of death within 10 years of a young boy, young girl and a young adult are 0.02, 0.03 and 0.15 respectively. One insured person dies. What is the probability that the dead person is a young boy?
Integer x is equal to the product of all even numbers from 2 to 60, inclusive. If y is the smallest prime number that is also a factor of x-1, then which of the following expressions must be true?
If a function f is defined by f(x)= -1/x for all non zero numbers x. If f(a) = -1/2 and f(ab) = 1/8 then b= ?
The equal amounts of money are deposited in two banks each at 15% per annum for 3.5 years and 5 years respectively. If the difference between their interests is Rs.144, find the each sum?
What is the place value of 9 in the numeral 2934?
A certain football team played seven games and scored an average of 5 goals per game. If, in the team’s first five games, it scored 5, 4, 2, 5, and 4 goals, what was the average (arithmetic mean) number of goals scored over the last two games?
The cost price of 13 articles is equal to the selling price of 11 articles. Find the profit percent?
The weight of four dogs is determined to be 25 pounds, 31 pounds, 32 pounds and 28 pounds respectively. The weight of a fifth dog is determined to be y pounds. If the average (arithmetic mean) weight of the first four dogs is the same as that of all five dogs what is the value of y?
List I: 3, 6, 14, 19 List II: x, 3, 14, 8, 19
If by selling an article for Rs.60, a person loses 1/7 of money, what would he have gained or lost % by selling it for Rs.77?
In a certain math department, students are required to enroll in either Calculus or Trigonometry, each of which is offered in beginner and advanced courses. The number of students enrolled in Trigonometry is 50% greater than the number of students enrolled in Calculus, and 70% of Calculus students are enrolled in the beginner course. If 4/5 of students are in the beginner courses, and one student is selected at random, what is the probability that an advanced Trigonometry student is selected?
The area of a square field 3136 sq m, if the length of cost of drawing barbed wire 3 m around the field at the rate of Rs.1.50 per meter. Two gates of 1 m width each are to be left for entrance. What is the total cost?
When a merchant imported a certain item, he paid a 7 percent import tax on the portion of the total value of the item in excess of $1,000. If the amount of the import tax that the merchant paid was $94.50, what was the total value of the item?
A container contains 40 litres of milk. From this container 4 litres of milk was taken out and replaced by water. This process was repeated further two times. How much milk is now contained by the container.
If the average of 744, 745, 747, 748, 749, 752, 752, 753, 755 and x is 750, what is the value of x?
Two bullet trains of equal lengths take 10 seconds and 30 seconds respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each bullet train be 120 metres, in what time (in seconds) will they cross each other travelling in opposite direction?
What will be the length of the mini-train, if it crosses a pole in 3 sec while travelling at a speed of 75 kmph?
30 is to be divided into two parts such that the sum of 10 times the first and 22 times the second is 780. The bigger part is :
Find the least number which when divided by 20,25,35,40 leaves remainder 14,19,29,34 respectively.
Two trains are running in opposite directions with the same speed. If the length of each train is 180 m and they cross each other in 12 sec, then the speed of each train is?
In a party, there are rows arranged with 12,20 and 30 chairs and there were 3 left in all the cases. When there were 11 rows. There were no chair left. If 30 chairs were added. Then what will be the reminder?
David leaves home everyday at 4 p.m to pick his son from school and returns home at 6 p.m. One day, the school was over at 4 p.m and the son started walking home from school. David, unaware of this, starts from home as usual and meets his son on the way and returns home with him 15 minutes early. If the speed of David is 30 km\hr, find the speed of his son.
If the time is currently 1:30pm, what time will it be in exactly 479 hours?
A train can travel 50% faster than a car. Both start from point A at the same time and reach point B 75 kms away from A at the same time. On the way, however, the train lost about 12.5 minutes while stopping at the stations. The speed of the car is:
The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 61. What is the difference between the highest and lowest numbers ?
Given that 1.75 x 10(power 8), Which of the following options is equal to it?
The length of a rectangular landscape is 4times its breadth. There is a playground in it whose area is 1200 square mtr & which is 1/3rd of the total landscape. What is the length of the landscape?
Two positive integers differ by 4, and sum of their reciprocals is 2. Then one of the numbers is
A Hotel has 6 employees; there are 5 female employees and 1 male employee. In how many ways can a 3-person committee be created if the committee must include the male employee?
The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of first six is 10.5 and that of the last six is 11.4 the sixth number is?
If r and s are positive integers and r-s=6, which of the following has the greatest value W?
The current of a stream runs at the rate of 4 kmph. A boat goes 6 km and back to the starting point in 2 hours, then find the speed of the boat in still water?
In an examination, a student scores 4 marks for every correct answer and loses 1 mark for every wrong answer. If he attempts all 80 questions and secures 120 marks, the number of questions he attempts correctly, is:
In a hostel, there is a meal for 120 men or 200 boys. If 150 boys have taken the meal, how many men will be catered to with remaining meal?
If the average (arithmetic mean) of a and b is 160, and c – a = 200, what is the average of b and c?
Find the ratio in which rice at Rs.7.10 a kg be mixed with rice at Rs.5.70 a kg to produce a mixture worth Rs.6.30 a kg?
Share Rs.4800 among John, Jose & Binoy in the ration 2 : 4 : 6.Find the amount received by John?
A computer can perform c calculations in s seconds. How many minutes will it take the computer to perform m calculations?
If −y ≥ x, and −x < −9, then which of the following must be true?
When x is divided by y, the quotient is u with remainder r. What is x in terms of r, y, and u?
A computer store offers employees a 20% discount off the retail price. If the store purchased a computer from the manufacturer for $1000 dollars and marked up the price 20% to the final retail price, how much would an employee save if he purchased the computer at the employee discount (20% off retail price) as opposed to the final retail price.
A cycle is bought for Rs.900 and sold for Rs.1080, find the gain percent?
If two times A is equal to three times of B and also equal to four times of C, then A:B:C is
if p/q=3/4 then3p+5q=?
Harkamal purchased 9kg of grapes at the rate of 70 per kg and 9 kg of mangoes at the rate of 55 per kg. How much amount did he pay to the shopkeeper?
A man can row at 5 kmph in still water. If the velocity of current is 1 kmph and it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place?