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Jonathan can type a 20 page document in 50 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?
How many integers are between 3 and 86/7, inclusive?
A milkman purchases the milk at Rs. x per litre and sells it at Rs. 2x per litre still he mixes 2 litres water with every 6 litres of pure milk. What is the profit percentage?
what is the unit digit in the product (3^68 x 6^59 x 7^71) ?
Country C imposes a two-tiered tax on imported cars: the first tier imposes a tax of 10% of the car's price up to a certain price level. If the car's price is higher than the first tier's level, the tax on the portion of the price that exceeds this value is 8%. If Ron imported a $14,000 imported car and ended up paying $1440 in taxes, what is the first tier's price level?
9 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?
A pair of articles was bought for Rs. 37.40 at a discount of 15%. What must be the marked price of each of the articles ?
Five persons - A, B, C, D and E are being compared in weight and height. The second heaviest person. D is the shortest. A is the 2nd tallest and shorter than E, The heaviest person is the third tallest person. There is only one person shorter than B, who is lighter than E and A respectively. Who is the heaviest person?
There are 600 military people in a division of the army. There is one Officer for every 29 soldiers in that division. Now the question is how many officers are in the division?
If the average (arithmetic mean) of a and b is 80, and the average of b and c is 180, what is the value of a − c?
An bus covers a certain distance at aspeed of 320 kmph in 5 hours. To cover the same distance in 1hr, it must travel at a speed of?
A trader purchased two colour televisions for a total of Rs. 35000. He sold one colour television at 30% profit and the other 40% profit. Find the difference in the cost prices of the two televisions if he made an overall profit of 32%?
Which of the following number is divisible by 24 ?
A train 120 m in length crosses a telegraph post in 16 seconds. The speed of the train is?
Current age of Bruce and Tomy are in the ratio of 5 : 4 respectively. Three years hence, the ratio of their ages will become 11 : 9 respectively. What is Tomy 's present age in years?
A box contains four dime coins, of which two coins have heads on both their faces, one coin has tail on both its faces and the fourth coin is a normal one. A coin is picked at random and then tossed. If head is the outcome of the toss, then find the probability that the other face (hidden face) of the coin tossed is also a head.
On Monday, a certain animal shelter housed 50 cats and dogs. By Friday, 1/5 of the cats and 1/4 of the dogs had been adopted; no new cats or dogs were brought to the shelter during this period. What is the greatest possible number of pets that could have been adopted from the animal shelter between Monday and Friday?
A student needed to find the arithmetic mean of the numbers 3, 11, 7, 9, 15, 13, 8, 19, 17, 21, 14 and x. He found the mean to be 12. What is the value of x?
What is the ratio A of the surface area of a cube to the surface area of a rectangular solid identical to the cube in all ways except that its length has been doubled?
In western Europe, q bicycles were sold in each of the years 1990 and 1993. The bicycle producers of Western Europe had a 42 percent share of this market in 1990 and a 33 percent share in 1993. Which of the following represents the decrease in the annual number of bicycles produced and sold in Western Europe from 1990 to 1993?
In a maths test, students were asked to find 5/16 of a certain number. One of the students by mistake found 5/6th of that number and his answer was 300 more than the correct answer. Find the number.
The sum of the present ages of two persons A and B is 60. If the age of A is twice that of B, find the sum of their ages 8 years hence?
Find the length of a rope by which a cow must be tethered in order that it may be able to graze an area of 2244 sq. metres.
In what time will a railway train 65 m long moving at the rate of 32 kmph pass a telegraph post on its way?
Find the greatest number that will divide 43, 91 and 183 so as to leave the same remainder in each case.
difference between LCM and HCF of following number 20 30 40?
Carrey rented a car for Rs.20 plus Rs.0.25 per kilometer driven. Samuel rented a car for Rs.24 plus Rs.0.16 per kilometer driven. If each drove d km. and each was charged exactly the same amount for the rental, then d equals ?
Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting 3 heads and 1 Tail?
Two trains 140 m and 160 m long run at the speed of 60 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively in opposite directions on parallel tracks. The time (in seconds) which they take to cross each other, is:
An eccentric casino owner decides that his casino should only use chips in $5 and $9 denominations. Which of the following amount cannot be paid out using these chips?
The diameter of a garden roller is 1.4 m and it is 2 m long. How much area will it cover in 5 revolutions ? (use π = 22⁄7)
The base of a triangular field is three times its altitude. If the cost of cultivating the field at Rs. 24.68 per hectare be Rs. 333.18, find its base and height.
A chemist mixes one liter of pure water with x liters of a 75% salt solution, and the resulting mixture is a 15% salt solution. What is the value of x?
Three rugs have a combined area of 200 square meters. By overlapping the rugs to cover floor area of 140 square meters, the area that is covered by exactly two layers of rug is 22 square meters. What is the area that is covered with three layers of rug ?
A thief is noticed by a policeman from a distance of 450 m. The thief starts running and the policeman chases him. The thief and the policeman run at the rate of 10 km and 11 km per hour respectively. What is the distance between them after 6 minutes ?
How many bricks, each measuring 80 cm x 11.25 cm x 6 cm, will be needed to build a wall of 8 m x 6 m x 22.5 cm?
A scale 6 ft. 8 inches long is divided into 4 equal parts. Find the length of each part.
A and B are two multiples of 14, and Q is the set of consecutive integers between A and B, inclusive. If Q contains 14 multiples of 14, how many multiples of 7 are there in Q?
What will be the difference in simple and compound interest on 4000 after three years at the rate of 10 percent per annum?
A hiker walking at a constant rate of 4 miles per hour is passed by a cyclist travelling in the same direction along the same path at a constant rate of 16 miles per hour. the cyclist stopswaits for the hiker 5 min after passing her while the hiker continues to walk at her constant rate. how many minutes must the cyclist wait until the hiker catches up
The average height of 50 pupils in a class is 150 cm. Five of them whose height is 146 cm, leave the class and five others whose average height is 156 cm, join. The new average height of the pupils of the class (in cm) is?
Excluding stoppages, the speed of a train is 60 kmph and including stoppages it is 40 kmph. Of how many minutes does the train stop per hour?
A man can do a piece of work in 10days, but with the help of his son, he can finish it in 5days. In what time can the son do it alone?
Three bells chime at intervals of 18 min., 24 min. and 32 min. respectively. At a certain time they begin together. What length Q of time will elapse before they chime together again?
Marks of a student were wrongly entered in computer as 83, actual marks of that student were 63. Due to this mistake average marks of whole class got increased by half (1/2). Find the total number of students in that class.
A mathematics teacher tabulated the marks secured by 35 students of 8th class. The average of their marks was 62. If the marks secured by Reema was written as 50 instead of 85 then find the correct average marks up to two decimal places.
Find the largest number that will divide 43,91,183 so as to leave the same reminder in each case.
Marla is hanging a banner diagonally across a rectangular room. The length of the room is 2 feet shorter than its width. If the total area of the room is 120 square feet, what is the length of the banner (in feet)?
A cyclist rides a bicycle over a route which is 1/3 uphill, 1/3 level, and 1/3 downhill. If the cyclist covers the uphill part of the route at the rate of 10 km per hour and the level part at the rate of 15 km per hour, what rate in km per hour would the cyclist have to travel the downhill part of the route in order to average 15 km per hour for the entire route?
On the xy-plane, each point on circle C has coordinates such that x 0 and y 0. If the center of circle C is the point (3; 9), what is the maximum possible area of C?
If a certain sample of data has a mean of 24.0 and a standard deviation of 3.0, which of the following values is more than 2.5 standard deviations from the mean?
A not-so-good clockmaker has four clocks on display in the window. Clock #1 loses 25 minutes every hour. Clock #2 gains 15 minutes every hour relative to Clock #1 (i.e., as Clock #1 moves from 12:00 to 1:00, Clock #2 moves from 12:00 to 1:15). Clock #3 loses 20 minutes every hour relative to Clock #2. Finally, Clock #4 gains 20 minutes every hour relative to Clock #3. If the clockmaker resets all four clocks to the correct time at 12 noon, what time will Clock #4 display after 6 actual hours (when it is actually 6:00 pm that same day)?
If HCF of two numbers is 11 and the product of these numbers is 363, what is the the greater number?
A man can row with a speed of 10 kmph in still water. If the stream flows at 30 kmph, then the speed in downstream is?
Find the ones digit of 73^356
10^25 - 250 is divisible by all of the following except:
If A speaks the truth 85% of the times, B speaks the truth 60% of the times. What is the probability that they tell the truth at the same time
Amar takes as much time in running 18 meters as a car takes in covering 48 meters. What will be the distance covered by Amar during the time the car covers 1.6 km?
A sum of Rs.4800 is invested at a compound interest for three years, the rate of interest being 10% p.a., 20% p.a. and 25% p.a. for the 1st, 2nd and the 3rd years respectively. Find the interest received at the end of the three years?
A person travels equal distances with speed of 3 km/hr, 4 km/hr and 5 km/hr and takes a total of 47 minutes. Find the total distane
An item is being sold for $10 each. However, if a customer will “buy at least 3” they have a promo discount of 32%. Also, if a customer will “buy at least 10” items they will deduct an additional 8% to their “buy at least 3” promo price. If Sam buys 10 pcs of that item how much should he pay?
A can run 4 times as fast as B and gives B a start of 66 m. How long should the race course be so that A and B might reach in the same time?
The length of a side of a hexagon is 8 inches. What is the perimeter?
Two trains are running in opposite directions with the same speed. If the length of each train is 300 m and they cross each other in 12 sec, then the speed of each train is?
Ms. Lopez deposits $ 150 in an account that pays 20% interest, compounded semiannually. How much money will there be in the account at the end of one year?
How many four digit numbers divisible by 4 can be made with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 if the repetition of digits is not allowed?
A candidate appearing for an examination has to secure 42% marks to pass paper I. But he secured only 60 marks and failed by 20 marks. What is the maximum mark for paper I?
The speed of a boat in upstream is 60 kmph and the speed of the boat downstream is 90 kmph. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the stream?
By selling a watch for Rs.800/-, a man loses 20% what is that watch cost price
If 100!/30^n is an integer, which of the following is the greatest possible value of n?
Find the average of all numbers between 6 and 36 which are divisible by 7
A batch of widgets costs p + 8 dollars for a company to produce and each batch sells for p(7 – p) dollars. For which of the following values of p does the company make a profit?
Find large number from below question The difference of two numbers is 2500. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder
A walks at 30 kmph and 30 hours after his start, B cycles after him at 42 kmph. How far from the start does B catch up with A?
The speed at which a girl can row a boat in still water is 90 kmph. If she rows downstream, where the speed of current is 18 kmph, what time will he take to cover 330 metres?
If p/q =4/5, then the value of 11/7 + {(2q - p) / (2q + p)} is ?
Two cubes of their volumes in the ratio 27 : 125. The ratio of their surface area is:
At a certain supplier, a machine of type A costs $21,000 and a machine of type B costs $50,000. Each machine can be purchased by making a 20 percent down payment and repaying the remainder of the cost and the finance charges over a period of time. If the finance charges are equal to 40 percent of the remainder of the cost, how much less would 2 machines of type A cost than 1 machine of type B under this arrangement?
A lends Rs. 1500 to B and a certain sum to C at the same time at 8% per annum simple interest. If after 4 years, A altogether receives Rs. 1400 as interest from B and C, then the sum lent to C is
Last year, a certain public transportation system sold an average (arithmetic mean) of 41,000 tickets per day on weekdays (Monday through Friday) and an average of 22,000 tickets per day on Saturday and Sunday. Which of the following is closest to the total number of tickets sold last year?
If x is an odd integer, which of the following must also be odd?
If x = (y)(y + 1) and y is a prime number less than 11, which of the following could not be the product of 2 consecutive integers?
A person want to give his money of $600 to his 3 children A,B,C in the ratio 1:2:3. What is the B+C share?
What is the remainder when 1003 * 1005 * 1007 is divided by 15
What approximate value should come in place of (x) in the following question? 139.25 + 223.94 / 4.002 = x
A thief is noticed by a policeman from a distance of 500 m. The thief starts running and the policeman chases him. The thief and the policeman run at the rate of 10 km and 12 km per hour respectively. What is the distance between them after 6 minutes?
Sum of even numbers between 15 and 25 is
If 25% of x is 5 less than 10% of 500, then x is?
A certain plant was 11 feet long on the day it was plantedthe length grows by a constant amount everyday(inc. the first day it was planted). if this plant grew by 30% b/w the 4th day and 10 th day after it was planted ,how many feet per day does the plant grow
A straight fence is to be constructed from posts 6 inches wide and separated by lengths of chain 8 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)
A mathematics teacher tabulated the marks secured by 35 students of 8th class. The average of their marks was 72. If the marks secured by Reema was written as 35 instead of 99 then find the correct average marks up to two decimal places.
Presently the ratio between the ages of David and James is 3:2. after 8 years David will be 29. What is the present age of James?
A bookseller has two display windows. She plans to display 3 new fiction books in the left window, and 3 new non-fiction books in the right window. Assuming she can put the four fiction books in any order, and separately, the three non-fiction books in any order, how many total configurations will there be for the two display windows?
Jim wishes to buy 3 gifts that cost 27 dollars, 9 dollars, and 12 dollars. He has 1/4 of the money he needs. How much more money must he earn in order to buy the gifts?
John goes to his office by car at a speed of 40kmph and reaches 8 minutes earlier. If he goes at a speed of 30kmph , he reaches 4mins late. What is the distance from his house to office?
In how many ways can seven members be selected from a group of fifteen members?
At present, the ratio between the ages of Arun and Deepak is 4 : 3. After 6 years, Arun's age will be 26 years. What is the age of Deepak at present ?
The sum of digits of a two digit number is 12,The difference between the digits is 4. Find the number
X starts a business with Rs.45000. Y joins in the business after 6 months with Rs.30000. What will be the ratio in which they should share the profit at the end of the year?