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A rectangular window is twice as long as it is wide. If its perimeter is 16 feet, then what are its dimensions in feet?
A cistern is filled by a tap in 3 1/2 hours. Due to leak in the bottom of the cistern, it takes half an hour longer to fill the cistern. If the cistern is full how long will it take the leak to empty it?
If the annual increase in the population of a town is 4% and the present number of people is 15625, what will the population be in 3 years?
Raviraj invested an amount of 10,000 at compound interest rate of 10 pcpa for a period of three years. How much amount will Raviraj get after three years?
The ratio of three numbers is 1:2:5 and the sum of their squares is 4320. The sum of the numbers is?
A and B can do a piece of work in 10 days. With the help of C they finish the work in 5 days. C alone can do that piece of work in?
Sum of three numbers 308, If the first number be twice then second and third number be one third of the first, then the second number is
There are several bags of same weight. A bag is 6 kgs plus three fourth of the weight of an other bag. What is the weight of a bag?
If a store adds 60 chairs to its current inventory, the total number of chairs will be the same as three-halves the current inventory of chairs. If the manager wants to increase the current inventory by 30%, what will the new inventory of chairs be?
Sushil got thrice as many marks in English as in Science. His total marks in English, Science and Maths are 162. If the ratio of his marks in English and Maths is 3:5, find his marks in Science?
At 15:00 there were 22 students in the computer lab. At 15:03 and every three minutes after that, 3 students entered the lab. If at 15:10 and every ten minutes after that 8 students left the lab, how many students were in the computer lab at 15:44 ?
Pipe A can fill a tank in 16 minutes and pipe B cam empty it in 24 minutes. If both the pipes are opened together after how many minutes should pipe B be closed, so that the tank is filled in 30 minutes?
A motorist covers a distance of 39km in 45min by moving at a speed of x kmph for the first 15min, then moving at double the speed for the next 20 min, and then again moving at his original speed for the rest of the journey. Find x.
A sum of money on compound interest amounts to Rs. 8240 in 2 years and Rs. 9888 in 3 years. The rate of interest is
Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 3 more than twice the third. The third integer is:
A, B and C invested Rs. 27000/-, Rs. 35000/- and Rs. 14000/- respectively in a business. At theend of year, they earn a profit of Rs 5320/-. B’s share of profit is:
Rajeev purchased six calculators at the cost of Rs.690. How many calculators can he purchase for Rs.920?
Working alone, Mary can pave a driveway in 5 hours and Hillary can pave the same driveway in 2 hours. When they work together, Mary thrives on teamwork so her rate increases by 33.33%, but Hillary becomes distracted and her rate decreases by 50%. If they both work together, how many hours will it take to pave the driveway?
Which of the following equations describes a line that is perpendicular to y=x+5?
If c= (a-1)(a+2), then what is the least possible value of c?
A person purchased a TV set for Rs. 16000 and a DVD player for Rs. 6250. He sold both the items together for Rs. 31150. What percentage of profit did he make?
(100 x 60) + (138 x 400) = ? x 60
Yearly subscription to professional magazines cost a company $940.00. To Make a 25% cut in the magazine budget, how much less must be spent?
The population of a city increases by 9% per year but due to migration it decrease by 1% per years. What will be the percentage increase in population in 3 years?
A wizard named Nepo says "I am only three times my son's age. My father is 40 years more than twice my age. Together the three of us are a mere 1240 years old." How old is Nepo?
Smita was making 1 design (again some nonsense) size of larger cube to be made is 5*5*5 using smaller cubes of 1*1*1. She created solid larger cube .Then she decided to make hollow cube of same size. Then how many 1*1*1 cubes required to make hollow larger cube.
4,6,10,14,22,34,38,46 ? what is next term in the series.
In one hour, a boat goes 11km along the stream and 5 km against it. Find the speed of the boat in still water
A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th match and thus increases his average by 3. Find his average after 17th match
Together, Andrea and Brian weigh p pounds; Brian weighs 8 pounds more than Andrea. Brian and Andrea's dog, Cubby, weighs p/4 pounds more than Andrea. In terms of p, what is Cubby's weight in pounds?
Find the area of trapezium whose parallel sides are 20 cm and 18 cm long, and the distance between them is 15 cm.
The average age of applicants for a new job is 30, with a standard deviation of 8. The hiring manager is only willing to accept applicants whose age is within one standard deviation of the average age. Assuming that all applicants' ages are integers and that the endpoints of the range are included, what is the maximum number of different ages of the applicants?
If m and n are the roots of the quadratic equation x^2−(2√5)x−2=0, the value of m2+n2 is:
If x^2 + y^2 = 16 and xy = 3, then (x − y)^2 =
At Veridux Corporation, there are 250 employees. Of these, 90 are female, and the rest are males. There are a total of 40 managers, and the rest of the employees are associates. If there are a total of 150 male associates, how many female managers are there?
A shopkeeper loses 15%,if an article is sold for Rs. 136. What should be the selling price of the article to gain 20%?
Bullock likes to keep a spare tyre in his car every time. On a certain day, he travels 1, 50,000 km and just to make the most of all the tyres, he changes the tyres between his journey such that each tyre runs the same distance. What is the distance traveled by each tyre?
A man takes 3 hours 45 minutes to row a boat 30 km downstream of a river and 2 hours 30 minutes to cover a distance of 5 km upstream. Find the speed of the current.
There are 7 man and 5 women sitting in a circle, find the all possible way so that two women wont sit together?
In a stockpile of products produced by three machines M1, M2 and M3, 40% and 30% were manufactured by M1 and M2 respectively. 3% of the products of M1 are defective, 1% of products of M2 defective, while 90% of the products of M3 III are not defective. What is the percentage of defective in the stockpile?
Convert the 8/36 m/s into kilometers per hour?
Bill made a profit of 10% by selling a product. If he had purchased that product for 10% less and sold it at a profit of 30%, he would have received $42 more. What was his original selling price?
How many times does a clock from a right angle in 24 hours?
If X is the set of prime single-digit numbers and Y is a set containing each of the numbers in set X raised to the power of 2, how much greater is the median of set Y than the median of set X?
A merchant marks his goods up by 20% and then offers a discount of 10% on the marked price. What % profit does the merchant make after the discount?
A started a business with an investment of Rs. 70000 and after 3 months B joined him investing Rs. 120000. If the profit at the end of a year is Rs. 43000, then the share of B is?
If 3x+y=40, 2x-y=20, for integers of x and y, 3y^2=?
At a certain fast food restaurant, Brian can buy 3 burgers, 7 shakes and 1 order of fries for exactly Rs 120. At the same place it would cost Rs 164.5 for 4 burgers, 10 shakes and 1 order of fries. How much would it cost for an ordinary meal of 1burgers, 1 shakes and 1 order of fries ?
If 0.764 B = 1.236 A, then what is the value of (B - A)/(B + A) ?
A certain car dealership offers its newest model in ten exterior and ten interior colors. If the ten interior colors are identical to the ten exterior colors, and the dealership sells every pair of colors except those that would result in a car with an identically colored interior and exterior, how many different color combinations are possible?
The average of six numbers is 3.65. The average of two of them is 3.4, while the average of the other two is 3.85. What is the average of the remaining two numbers ?
A and B rent a pasture for 10 months. A put in 80 cows for 7 months. How many can B put in for the remaining 3 months, if he pays half as much again as A?
On a certain day, Tim invested $500 at 10 percent annual interest, compounded annually, and Lana invested 900 at 5 percent annual interest, compounded annually.The total amount of interest earned by Tim’s investment in the first 2 years was how much greater than the total amount of interest earned by Lana’s investment in the first 2 years?
If the sum of a set of 5 different positive prime numbers is 94, what is the difference between smaller 2 prime numbers between them?
If 6 (A's capital) = 8 (B's capital) = 12 (C's capital). Then the ratio of their capitals is?
How many seconds will a 500 m long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr?
The ratio of two numbers is 3:4 and their sum is 35. The greater of the two numbers is?
Tough and Tricky questions: Exponents. If a and b are positive integers and x = 26^a and y = 9^b, which of the following is a possible units digit of xy?
A coin is tossed live times. What is the probability that there is at the least one tail?
A train 108 m long moving at a speed of 50 km/hr crosses a train 112 m long coming from opposite direction in 6 seconds. What is the speed of the second train ?
The average of first five multiples of 7 is?
The length of the bridge, which a train 140 meters long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is?
If 2^x + 2^y = x^2 + y^2, where x and y are non negative and non zero integers, what is the greatest possible value of x + y possible from options below?
A jar contains only red, yellow, and orange marbles. If there are 1 red, 5 yellow, and 4 orange marbles, and 3 marbles are chosen from the jar at random without replacing any of them, what is the probability that 2 yellow, 1 red, and no orange marbles will be chosen?
The average age of husband, wife and their child 3 years ago was 25 years and that of wife and the child 5 years ago was 18 years. The present age of the husband is:
a person travels from his house to office from 11:10am to 12:10 am and covers a distence of 20km. find the average speed of the person.
When processing flower-nectar into honey bees' extract, a considerable amount of water gets reduced. How much flower-nectar must be processed to yield 1kg of honey, if nectar contains 50% water, and the honey obtained from this nectar contains 25% water?
Calculate the number of bricks, each measuring 25 cm * 15 cm * 8 cm required to construct a wall of dimensions 10 m * 4 m * 5 m when 10% of its volume is occupied by mortar?
A sum of money is sufficient to pay C's wages for 12 days and D's wages for 4 days. The same money is sufficient to pay the wages of both for?
what is the next term of this series6,10,9,15,12,20,15,25,18...?
A beekeeper has 300,000 bees living in seven beehives. Among these beehives, the sizes of the beehives are proportional to the numbers of bees living in them. No beehive has less than 80% the number of bees of any other beehive. What is the maximum possible number of bees that the greatest beehive could have?
Surekha started a business investing Rs.25,000 in 1999. In 2000, he invested an additional amount of Rs. 10,000 and Rajesh joined him with an amount of Rs. 35,000. In 2001, Surekha invested another additional amount of Rs.10,000 and Jay joined them with an amount of Rs.35,000. What will be Rajesh's share in the profit of Rs.2,40,000 earned at the end of 3 years from the start of the business in 1999?
Rahul can do a work in 3 days while Rajesh can do the same work in 2days. Both of them finish the work together and get $105. What is the share of Rahul?
The odds against ram solving the problem are 5 to 3 and the odds in favour of krishna solving the same are 7 to 5. What is the chance that it will be solved when they both try?
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 54 years now, the son's age five years back was?
The distance between Station Atena and Station Barcena is 90 miles. A train starts from Atena towards Barcena. A bird starts at the same time from Barcena straight towards the moving train. On reaching the train, it instantaneously turns back and returns to Barcena. The bird makes these journeys from Barcena to the train and back to Barcena continuously till the train reaches Barcena. The bird finally returns to Barcena and rests. Calculate the total distance in miles the bird travels in the following two cases: (a) The bird flies at 90 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 60 miles per hour. (b) the bird flies at 60 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 90 miles per hour
At what rate percent of simple interest will a sum of money double itself in 11 years?
The population of a city is 415600.It increased by 25% in the first year and decreased by 30% in the second year.What is the population of the city at the end of second year?
Evaluate: 1222343 - 12*3*2 =?
Jo's collection contains US, Indian and British stamps. If the ratio of US to Indian stamps is 5 to 2 and the ratio of Indian to British stamps is 5 to 1, what is the ratio of US to British stamps?
A completes a work in 12 days and B complete the same work in 24 days. If both of them work together, then the number of days required to complete the work will be?
Of the 50 researchers in a workgroup, 40 percent will be assigned to Team A and the remaining 60 percent to Team B. However, 60 percent of the researchers prefer Team A and 30 percent prefer Team B. What is the lowest possible number of researchers who will NOT be assigned to the team they prefer?
Rs. 2600 is divided into three parts A, B and C. How much A is more than C if their ratio is 1/2:1/3:1/4?
A dishonest dealer professes to sell goods at the cost price but uses a weight of 600 grams per kg, what is his percent?
A trader bought a car at 20% discount on its original price. He sold it at a 40% increase on the price he bought it. What percent of profit did he make on the original price?
A cistern has a leak which would empty the cistern in 20 minutes. A tap is turned on which admits 4 liters a minute into the cistern, and it is emptied in 24 minutes. How many liters does the cistern hold?
The length of a train and that of a platform are equal.If with a speed of 90 kmph the train crosses the platform in one minute,then the length of the train in metres is
A and B started a business with their capitals Rs. 3,00,000 and 18,00,000 respectively. Annual profit will be distributed between them in the ratio
A house seller can deduct 5 percent from the total sales value. If he has sold 5 houses, and the price of two houses is between $150,000 and $200,000, one of them is $300,000 house, two houses are between $500,000 and 750,000, what is the range of his revenue?
Ravi buys 100 5% shares of face value Rs.100 at Rs.15000 .If he sells them off after a year at Rs 155 a share ,what is his yield ?
What percent of 180 is 45?
a is an integer greater than 29 but less than 41, b is an integer greater than 39 but less than 51, what is the range of a/b?
In a mixture 60 litres, the ratio of milk and water 2 : 1. If the this ratio is to be 1 : 2, then the quanity of water to be further added is
A boy rides his bicycle 10 km at an average speed of 12 km/hr and again travels 12 km at an average speed of 10 km/hr. His average speed for the entire trip is approximately.
What distance (in meters) will be covered by a bus moving at 72 km/hr in 40 seconds?
In a certain game there are 6 steps, referred to as step 1, step 2, and so on with the final step being step 6. The steps are played one after the other. In each step a score of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 is obtained. Roslin played the game, getting at least one score of each of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and never getting the same score in consecutive steps. What is the greatest possible score that Roslin could have gotten?
How many seconds will a 500 meter long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr?
At a local beach, the ratio of little dogs to average dogs to enormous dogs is 2:5:8. Late in the afternoon, the ratio of little dogs to average dogs doubles and the ratio of little dogs to enormous dogs increases. If the new percentage of little dogs and the new percentage of average dogs are both integers and there are fewer than 30 total dogs at the beach, which of the following represents a possible new percentage of enormous dogs?
The perimeter of a rhombus is 52 units. One of its diagonal is 24 units. What is its second diagonals length?
In order to obtain an income of Rs. 500 from 30% stock at Rs. 90, one must make an investment of