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A circular racetrack is 3 miles in length and has signs posted to indicate each 1/10 mile increment. If a race car starts at a random location on the track and travels exactly one half mile, what is the probability that the car ends within a half mile of the sign indicating 2 1/2 miles? |
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 five years back was: |
If the average of 5 positive integers is 70 and the difference between the largest and the smallest of these 5 numbers is 10, what is the maximum value possible for the largest of these 5 integers? |
The volumes of two cones are in the ratio 1 : 10 and the radii of the cones are in the ratio of 1 : 2. What is the length of the wire? |
A courtyard is 24 meter long and 14 meter board is to be paved with bricks of dimensions 25 cm by 15 cm. The total number of bricks required is : |
At the store, Sam bought a shirt and a toaster. There was a 9% sales tax on each item, and with tax, Sam paid a total of K. If the price of the toaster before tax was T, what, in terms of K and T, is the price of the shirt before tax? |
A and B started a business in partnership investing Rs.20,000 and Rs.15,000 respectively. After six months, C joined them with Rs.20,000. What will be B's share in the total profit of Rs.27,000 earned at the end of 2 years from the starting of the business? |
How much is 80% of 40 is greater than 4/5 of 25? |
Find the value of x. (47% of 1442 - 36% of 1412) + 65 = x? |
By selling an article at Rs.800, a shopkeeper makes a profit of 25%. At what price should he sell the article so as to make a loss of 25%? |
The North-South Express is a pair of trains between Jammu and Chennai. A train leaves Jammu for Chennai exactly at 12 noon everyday of the week. Similarly, there's a train that leaves Chennai bound for Jammu on everyday of the week exactly at 12 noon. The time required by a train to cover the distance between Chennai and Jammu is exactly 7 days and 1 minute. Find the number of trains from Chennai to Jammu which a train from Jammu to Chennai would cross in completing its journey, assuming all the trains are on time. |
0.99998+0.11112=? |
Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 and 24 minutes respectively and a waste pipe can empty 3 gallons per minute. All the three pipes working together can fill the tank in 15 minutes. The capacity of the tank is? |
In a two-digit number, if it is known that its unit's digit exceeds its ten's digit by 2 and that the product of the given number and the sum of its digits is equal to 144, then the number is: |
At present the ratio between the ages of Arun and Deepak is 2:5. After 10 years Arun's age will be 30 years. What is the age of the Deepak? |
Fifthty percent of the members of a swim club have passed the lifesaving test. Among the members who havenotpassed the test, 10 have taken the preparatory course and 30 have not taken the course. How many members are there in the swim club? |
How many words of 3 letters can be formed from the letters "AABBCC"? |
Which of the following numbers is not prime? |
Which of the following triples of numbers have the same standard deviation as the numbers u, v and w?
I. u-2, v-2, w-2
II. 0, u-v, w-v
III. u-4, v+5, w-1 |
AAA manufacturing owns 2 plants. Tikon plant and Mikon plant. The policy is that 50% of all workers get bonuses every year. If the ratio of employees at the plants is 3:2, respectively, and the percentage of employees getting bonuses at Tikon is 55%, what percentage of employees at Mikon get bonuses? |
The number of ways in which six boys and six girls can be seated in a row for a photograph so that no two girls sit together is? |
A ferry can transport 50 tons of vehicles. Automobiles range in weight from 1,800 to 3,200 pounds. What is the greatest number of automobiles that can be loaded onto the ferry? |
A train passes a station platform in 36 sec and a man standing on the platform in 20 sec. If the speed of the train is 99 km/hr. What is the length of the platform? |
A certain rectangular crate measures 6 feet by 8 feet by 10 feet. A cylindrical gas tank is to be made for shipment in the crate and will stand upright when the crate is placed on one of its six faces. What should the radius of the tank be if it is to be of the largest possible volume? |
The speed of a boat in upstream is 60 kmph and the speed of the boat downstream is 80 kmph. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the stream? |
In filling a lot with sand, that is 40 m * 20 m * 2m the volumes of the sand filled will be? |
what is the smallest integer that is multiple of 5,7,20 |
One student's mark was wrongly entered as 73 instead of 63. Due to that the average marks for the class got increased by 1/3. What is the number of students in the class? |
A person walks at a speed of 4 km/hr and runs at a speed of 8 km/hr. How many hours will the person require to cover a distance of 12 km, if the person completes half of the distance by walking and the other half by running? |
The average age of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of boys in the class is 16.4 years while that of girls is 15.4 years. What is the ratio of boys to girls in the class? |
When positive integer n is divided by 3, the remainder is 1. When n is divided by 5, the remainder is 3. What is the smallest positive integer k such that k+n is a multiple of 15? |
How many three-digit integers exist such that all their digits are
odd? |
A hollow iron pipe is 21 cm long and its external diameter is 8 cm. If the thickness of the pipe is 1 cm and iron weights 8g/cm cube, then find the weight of the pipe. |
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? |
Two cards are selected at random from 10 cards numbered 1 to 10. Find the probability that the sum is odd if two cards are drawn together. |
A man sitting in a train which is traveling at 50 kmph observes that a goods train, traveling in opposite direction, takes 9 seconds to pass him. If the goods train is 280 m long, find its speed.? |
The ratio of males to females in a class is 2:3. The career preferences of the students in the class are represented in a circle graph. If the area of the graph allocated to each career preference is proportional to the number of students who have that career preference, how many degrees of the circle should be used to represent a career that is preferred by one-half of the males and one-fourth of the females in the class? |
On a sum of money, the S.I. for 2 years is Rs. 660, while the C.I. is Rs. 696.30, the rate of interest being the same in both the cases. The rate of interest is? |
Jonathan can type a 50 page document in 40 minutes, Susan can type it in 30 minutes, and Jack can type it in 24 minutes. Working together, how much time will it take them to type the same document? |
A wheel that has 6 cogs is meshed with a larger wheel of 21 cogs. When the smaller wheel has made 21 revolutions, then the number of revolutions made by the larger wheel is: |
What is the sum of all the multiples of 9 between 0 and 99? |
Compound interest earned on a sum for the second and the third years are Rs.1200 and Rs.1440 respectively. Find the rate of interest? |
A can do a piece of work in 3 hours; B and C together can do it in 6 hours, while A and C together can do it in 9 hours. How long will B alone take to do it? |
If N is a positive integer and 14N/60 is an integer, then N has how many different positive prime factors? |
Calculate the value of 2.71 x 10^9 ? |
A is thrice good a workman as B and therefore is able to finish a job in 60 days less than B. Working together they can do it in? |
If s=(10^10)-47, what is the sum of all the digit of s? |
Two trains are running at 40 km/hr and 20 km/hr respectively in the same direction. Fast train completely passes a man sitting in the slower train in 5 seconds. What is the length of the fast train? |
If the product of all the factors of a positive integer, N, is 2 ^ 18 * 3 ^ 12, how many values can N take? |
Ramya took a loan of Rs. 1400 with simple interest for as many years as the rate of interest. If she paid Rs.686 as interest at the end of the loan period, Find the rate of the interest? |
MAN1 is 30% more efficient than MAN2. How much time will they, working together, take to complete a job which MAN1 alone could have done in 23 days? |
In a class there are 20 boys and 25 girls. In how many ways can a boy and a girl be selected? |
The cross-section of a water channel is a trapezium in shape. If the channel is 14 meters wide at the top and 8 meters wide at the bottom and the area of cross-section is 990 square meters, what is the depth of the channel (in meters)? |
Rs.8000 become Rs.9261 in a certain interval of time at the rate of 5% per annum of C.I. Find the time? |
There are 6 gentlemen and 3 ladies to dine at a round table. In how many ways can they seat themselves so that no two ladies are seated together. |
A regular octagon is inscribed in a circle. If A and B are adjacent vertices of the pentagon and O is the center of the circle, what is the value of ∠OAB ? |
Given distinct positive integers 1, 10, 3, x, 2, and 9, which of the following could be the median? |
Two trains of length 100 m and 200 m are 100 m apart. They start moving towards each other on parallel tracks, at speeds 54 kmph and 36 kmph. In how much time will the trains cross each other? |
The sides BC, CA, AB of triangle ABC have 3, 4, 5 interior points respectively on them. How many triangles can be formed using these points as vertices. |
The greatest number of four digits which is divisible by 15, 25, 40 and 75 is: |
find two integers, neither of which ends in a zero, and whose product is exactly 1,000 |
When x is multiplied by 3, the result is 16 more than the result of subtracting x from 36. What is the value of x? |
Three vehecle speed ratio 1:2:3 & time ratio 3:2:1...Distance ratio ?? |
After allowing a discount of 15% on the marked price, the selling price is Rs. 6800 for an article. If it was sold at marked price, there would have been a profit of 60%. The cost price of the article is? |
A certain number when divided by 39 leaves a remainder 15, what is the remainder when the same number is divided by 13? |
What will be the reminder when (19^19+19) is divided by 20? |
8 liters of solution is removed from 20% milk solution and 8 liters of water is added to the solution. The resulting solution has 16% milk in it. What was the initial quantity of the 20% milk solution? |
The sides of a rectangular field are in the ratio 3 : 4. If the area of the field is 8748 sq. m, the cost of fencing the field @ 25 paise per metre is |
Water boils at 212°F or 100°C and melts at 32°F or 0°C . If the temparature of the particular day is 35°C , it is equal to : |
In a garden, trees are planted in rows. In each row there are as many trees as the number of rows in the garden. Each tree bears as many fruits as the number of trees in each row, and each fruit has as many seeds as the number of trees in each row. If the total number of seeds from the trees in that garden is n, then : |
A train 110 m long is running with a speed of 60 km/hr. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 km/hr in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going? |
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are all integers, listed in order of increasing size. When these numbers are arranged on a number line, the distance between any two consecutive numbers is constant. If G and H are equal to 5^12 and 5^15, respectively, what is the value of A? |
How many positive factors do 160 and 96 have in common? |
An engineer undertakes a project to build a road 10 km long in 15 days and employs 30 men for the purpose. After 5 days, he finds only 2 km of the road has been completed. Find the (approximate) number of extra men he must employ to finish the work in time. |
13 ltr of water is added with 11 ltr of a solution containing 16%of alcohol in the water. The %of alcohol in the new mixture is? |
In how many ways T can the crew of a ten oared boat be arranged ,when of the ten persons available, 2 of whom can row only on the bow side and 3 of whom can row only on the stroke side? |
The number of new words that can be formed by rearranging the letters of the word 'IS' is? |
A shopkeeper has 280 kg of apples. He sells 40% of these at 30% profit and remaining 60% at 30% profit. Find his % profit on total. |
The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 25 years old and the wicket keeper is 5 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team? |
When a producer allows 36% commission on retail price of his product, he earns a profit of 8.8%. what would be his profit % if the commision is reduced by 24%? |
A certain company charges $20 per package to ship packages weighing less than 5 pounds each. For a package weighing 5 pounds or more, the company charges an initial fee of $20 plus $5 per pound. If the company charged $65 to ship a certain package, which of the following was the weight of the package, in pounds? |
If –6 and 3 are the solutions to the equation x^2 + bx + c = 0, where b and c are constants, what is the value of b + c? |
In an election contested by two parties, Party A secured 14% of the total votes more than Party B. If party B got 140,000 votes, by how many votes did it lose the election? |
In a division sum, the divisor is ten times the quotient and five times the remainder. If the remainder is 46, the dividend is: |
A furniture dealer purchased a desk for $150 and then set the selling price equal to the purchase price plus a markup that was 50% of the selling price. If the dealer sold the desk at the selling price, what was the amount of the dealer's gross profit from the purchase and the sale of the desk? |
Tommy's seafood restaurant gets a delivery of fresh seafood every day, 7 days per week, and her delivery company charges her dollars per delivery plus cents per item delivered. If lst week Sarah's seafood restaurant had an average of x items per day delivered, then which of the following is the total cost, in dollars, of last week's deliveries ? |
There is a 30% chance that Tigers will not win at all during the whole season. There is a 30% chance that Portugeese will not play at all in the whole season. What is the greatest possible probability that the Tigers will win and Portugeese will play during the season? |
Which of the following is closest to (3!-2!)/(3!+2!)? |
A, Band C enter into a partnership by investing in the ratio of 3 : 2: 4. After 1 year, B invests another Rs. 2,70,000 and C, at the end of 2 years, also invests Rs.2,70,000. At the end of three years, profits are shared in the ratio of 3 : 4 : 5. Find initial investment of each. |
The average of a couple was 28Yrs when they were married 15Yrs ago.The avg age of
the couple and a child, who was born during the interval, is 31Yrs now. How old is the
child now ? |
When n is divided by 19, the remainder is 6. When n is divided by 11, the quotient is equal to Z, and the remainder is equal to 6. Z must be divisible by which of the following numbers? |
Rahim went to a shop and bought things worth Rs. 35, out of which 50 Paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 5%, then what was the cost of the tax free items? |
In a games hour 4 different types of players came to the ground? cricket 10, hokey 12, football 16, softball 13. How many players are present in the ground? |
If 36 men can do a piece of work in 25 hours, in how many hours will 12 men
do it ? |
A 270 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? |
Divide $1000 among A,B in the ratio 1:4. How many $ that B get? |
John is building a rectangular fence around a garden. The length will be 5 feet shorter than its width. If the total area of the garden is 176 square feet, what is the length of the diagonal (in feet)? |
There is a single elimination lacrosse tournament, meaning when one player loses, they are out of the tournament. There are 10 teams in the tournament, how many games are played? |
x, a, z, and b are single digit positive integers. x = ¼ a. z = ¼ b.2*( (10a + b) – (10x + z) )could NOT equal |
The average of 5 numbers is 6.8. If one of the numbers is multiplied by a factor of 2, the average of the numbers increases to 9.2. What number is multiplied by 2? |
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