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If x^3 > y^2 > z, which of the statements could be true? I. x > y > z II. x < z < y III. y < x < z
A Boeing 757 flies a direct route from Dallas, TX, to Phoenix, AZ and then returns to Dallas, TX. The flight is 900 miles one way. It took 2 hrs and 15 minutes for the flight to Phoenix and 2 hrs for the flight back to Dallas. What was the speed of the wind in mph?
7% of the total quantity of rice is lost in grinding when a country has to import 6 million tonnes, but when only 7 3/4% is lost, it can import 3 million tonnes. Find the quantity of rice grown in the country.
Line k is in the rectangular coordinate system. If the v-intercept of k is -2, and the y-intercept is 3, which of the following is an equation of line k?
Sum of two numbers prime to each other is 8 and their L.C.M. is 15. What are the numbers?
Meg and Bob are among the 3 participants in a cycling race. If each participant finishes the race and no two participants finish at the same time, in how many different possible orders can the participants finish the race so that Meg finishes ahead of Bob?
If 9 persons meet at a reunion and each person shakes hands exactly once with each of the others, what is the total number of handshakes?
Pablo plays 3 rounds of a game, in which his chances of winning each round are 1/4, 1/8, and 1/n, respectively. If n ≠ 0, what is the probability that Pablo wins the first two rounds, but loses the third?
On dividing 199 by a number, the quotient is 11 and the remainder is 1. Find the divisor.
Median R of price of the car is 52,000. which could be the median of the other two. 35000, 44000, x, y, 57000.
Find the L.C.M. of 72, 108 and 2100.
A sum of money is to be distributed among A, B, C, D in the proportion of 5 : 2 : 4 : 3. If C gets Rs. 1100 more than D, what is B's share?
Tarun bought a T.V with 20% discount on the labelled price. Had he bought it with 25% discount? He would have saved Rs. 500. At what price did he buy the T.V? A. Rs. 5000 B. Rs. 10000
It is known that no more than 7 children will be attending a party. What is the smallest number of cookies that must be brought to the party so that each child receives the same number of cookies?
We had $3500 left after spending 30% of the money that we took for shopping. How much money did we start with?
If y > 0, (2y)/20 + (3y)/10 is what percent of y?
If 148/x is an integer and 108/x is an integer, which of the following must be true? I. 9/x is an integer II. 12/x is an integer III. 36/x is an integer
Find the no.of ways of arranging the boy and 8 guests at a circular table so that the boy always sits in a particular seat?
A person covered one-fourth of the total distance at 26 kmph and remaining distance at 24 kmph. What is the average speed for the total distance?
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 15 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but after 4 minutes, pipe A is turned off. What is the total time required to fill the tank?
The probability that a man will be alive for 10more yrs is 1/4 & the probability that his wife will alive for 10 more yrs is 1/3. The probability that none of them will be alive for 10 more yrs, is
The speed of a train is 90 kmph. What is the distance covered by it in 10 minutes?
The simple interest accrued on an amount Rs.10,000 at the end of two years is same as the compound interest on Rs.8,000 at the end of two years. The rate of interest is same in both the cases. What is the rate of interest?
The present age of a father is 3 years more than three times the age of his son. Three years hence, father's age will be 16 years more than twice the age of the son. Find the present age of the father.
For every order, a certain mail-order company charges a shipping fee of $3 plus an additional $2 if the value of the order is over $50 but not over $100 or an additional $3 if the value of the order is over $100. How much greater are the total shipping fees for 2 orders of $75 each than the total shipping fee for 2 order of $150 ?
The average height of 60 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 ?
The sale price shirts listed for Rs.400 after successive discount is 10% and 5% is?
If the price of gasoline increases by 25% and a driver intends to spend only 10% more on gasoline, by how much percent should the driver reduce the quantity of gasoline that he buys?
A bus travel 5/7 of its speed covers 42 km in 1 hr 40 min48 sec. What is theactual speed of the bus ?
A tank is 25% full of oil. The oil consists of 25% WTI Crude Oil and 75% Brent Crude Oil. 2/3 rd of the remainder of the tank is filled with 400 barrels of WTI Crude Oil. How much WTI Crude Oil is in the tank?
What is the maximum value of x3y3 + 3 x*y when x+y = 8?
A sum of money at simple interest amounts to Rs. 845 in 3 years and to Rs. 854 in 4 years. The sum is:
In the set of positive integers from 1 to 70, what is the sum of all the odd multiples of 5?
If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men and 48 boys can do the same in 2 days, the time taken by 15 men and 20 boys in doing the same type of work will be?
David has d books, which is 3 times as many as Jeff and 2/3 as many as Paula. How many books do the three of them have altogether, in terms of d?
A can do a piece of work in 10 days. He works at it for 4 days and then B finishes it in 9 days. In how many days can A and B together finish the work?
A bat is bought for Rs.400 and sold at a gain of 20% find its selling price
If the number is divided by 3, it reduced by 34. The number is
As a treat for her two crying children, a mother runs to the freezer in which she has three cherry ice pops, three orange ice pops, and four lemon-lime ice pops. If she chooses two at random to bring outside to the children, but realizes as she runs out the door that she cannot bring them different flavors without one invariably being jealous of the other and getting even more upset, what is the probability that she has to return to the freezer to make sure that they each receive the same flavor?
If 2^z is a factor of 30!, which of the following could be the value of z? I. 23 II. 26 III. 24
If 4 (P's Capital) = 6 (Q's Capital) = 10 (R's Capital), then out of the total profit of Rs 4650, how much R will receive?
How many four letter words are formed using the letters of the word ENTERTAINMENT?
What will be the difference between simple and compound interest at 10% per annum on a sum of Rs. 1000 after 4 years?
In a certain animal shelter, the ratio of the number of catsto the number of dogs is 15 to 7. If 16 additional dogs were to be taken in by the shelter, the ratio of the number of cats to the number of dogs would be 15 to 11. How many cats are in the shelter?
In the new budget the price of ghee rose by 50%. By how much percent must a person reduce his consumption so that his expenditure on it does not increase?
A train 400 m long is running at a speed of 78 km/hr. If it crosses a tunnel in 1 min, then the length of the tunnel is?
The compound interest earned on a sum for the second and the third years are $1400 and $1498 respectively. What is the rate of interest?
Ashok secured average of 78 marks in 6 subjects. If the average of marks in 5 subjects is 74, how many marks did he secure in the 6th subject?
Six bells start ringing together and ring at intervals of 4, 8, 10, 12, 15 and 20 seconds respectively. How many times will they ring together in 60 minutes ?
y = 248 - 390x Which of the following values of x gives the greatest value of y in the equation above?
21 ball numbered 1 to 21. A ballis drawn and then another ball is drawn without replacement.
A man whose speed is 4.5 kmph in still water rows to a certain upstream point and back to the starting point in a river which flows at 1.5 kmph, find his average speed for the total journey?
A, Band C are three contestants in a kmrace. If A can give B a start of 40 m and A can give C a start of 64m how many metre's start can B give C ?.
A train speeds past a pole in 15 seconds and a platform 100 m long in 25 seconds. Its length is
A man, a woman and a boy can complete a job in 3,4 and 12 days respectively. How many boys must assist 1 man and 1 woman to complete the job in ¼ of a day?
Once upon a time in ancient times there was a king who was very found of wines. He had a huge cellar, which had 1000 different varieties of wine all in different caskets (1000 caskets in all). In the adjoining kingdom there was a queen who was envious of the king’s huge wine collection. After some time when she could not bear it any more show conspired to kill her by poisoning all his wine caskets. So she sent one sentry to poison all the caskets, but no sooner had the sentry poisoned only one wine casket, he was caught and killed by the Royal guards. Now the king had a major problem in his hand so as to identify the poisonous casket, which he gave to the Minister. But the situation had two peculiarities. I: Any one who takes even one drop from the poisonous casket will die. II: He will die only after one month. The king also handed over few prisoners to the Minister as “taster” of those caskets, as their lives was of little value. If the Minister is allowed only 1 month to find out the poisonous casket, what is the minimum number of prisoners he should use as “tasters”?
Three numbers are in the ratio 3:5:7. The largest number is 21. What is the difference between smallest and largest number?
A wheel that has 6 cogs is meshed with a larger wheel of 14 cogs. If the smaller wheel has made 42 revolutions, what will be the number of revolutions made by the larger wheel?
Shipment ------No. of Defective Chips/shipment---Total Chips in shipment S2 -------------- 5 ------------------------ ----------------------12000 S3 -------------- 6 ----------------------------------------------- 18000 S4 -------------- 4 ----------------------------------------------- 16000 A computer chip manufacturer expects the ratio of the number of defective chips to be total number of chips in all future shipments equal to the corresponding ratio for shipmemts S1,S2,S3 and S4 comined as shown in the table above. What is the expected number T of defective chips in a shipment of 60000 chips?
The number of new words that can be formed by rearranging the letters of the word 'UP' is ?
Mercy's income is 10 percent more than Timothy's income, and Timothy's income is 22 percent less than Ryan's income. What percent of Ryan's income is Mary's income?
The length of a train and that of a platform are equal. If with a speed of 90 k/hr, the train crosses the platform in one minute, then the length of the train (in metres) is:
16 men can do a piece of work in 16 days .4 days after they started the work, 8 more men joined them. How many days will they now take to complete the remaining work
A rectangular box measures internally 1.6 m long, 1 m broad and 60 cm deep. The number of cubical blocks each of edge 20 cm that can be packed inside the box is
The present average age of a family of five members is 24 years. If the present age of the youngest member in the family is ten years, then what was the average age of the family at the time of the birth of the youngest member ? (Assume no death occurred in the family since the birth of the youngest)
In a partnership between A, B and C. A's capital is Rs.5500. If his share of a profit of Rs.800 is Rs.200 and C's share is Rs.130, what is B's capital?
Virginia, Adrienne, and Dennis have taught history for a combined total of 96 years. If Virginia has taught for 9 more years than Adrienne and for 12 fewer years than Dennis, for how many years has Dennis taught?
Today Jim is twice as old as Fred, and Sam is 2 years younger than Fred. Seven years ago Jim was 13 times as old as Sam. How old is Jim now?
In how many different ways can the letters B, E, N, E, F, I, C, I, A, L be arranged?
A computer program assigns consecutive numbers to the days of the week. Sunday is 1, Monday is 2, ..... and Saturday is 7. Every day, the computer program calculates the value of parameter D according to the following definition: D is the number of the day times the value of D on the previous day. If the computer calculated D to be 12 on Wednesday, what would be the value of D calculated on the following Saturday?
4 is what percent of 50?
John purchased a house for Rs.45000 and a site for Rs.25000 respectively, if he sold the house for Rs.55000 and the site for Rs.16000, then find the resultant percentage of gain?
The monthly rent of a shop of dimension 20feet × 18feet is Rs.1440. What is the annual rent per square foot of the shop?
1 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 .........,sum of first 1230 terms of series
A rectangular box of volume Y has width, depth and height in the ratio of 3:2:4 (in that order). What is the height as a function of Y?
Find the principal which yields a simple interest of Rs. 20 and compound interest of Rs. 21 in two years, at the same percent rate per annum?
The total of company C's assets in 1994 was 200% 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:
If n = 8^9 – 8, what is the units digit of n?
How often between 11 O'clock and 12 O'clock are the hands of the clock together at an integral number value?
A bag contains 4 red, 3 blue and 2 green balls. If 2 ballsare picked at random, what is the probability that both are red?
20 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible,if they are in pair of cyclic sequence.
In an election between two candidates, the first candidate got 60% of the votes and the second candidate got 240 votes. What was the total number of votes?
In the manufacture of a certain product, 5 percent of the units produced are defective and 4 percent of the defective units are shipped for sale. What percent of the units produced are defective units that are shipped for sale?
The weight of a glass of jar is 10% of the weight of the jar filled with coffee beans. After some of the beans have been removed, the weight of the jar and the remaining beans is 60% of the original total weight. What fraction part of the beans remain in the jar?
A number is increased by 50 % and then decreased by 50 %. Find the net increase or decrease per cent.
A certain fraction is equivalent to 3/5. If the numerator of the fraction is increased by 4 and the denominator is doubled, the new fraction is equivalent to 1/3. What is the sum of the numerator and denominator of the original fraction?
Sonika deposited Rs.6200 which amounted to Rs.7200 after 5 years at simple interest. Had the interest been 3% more. She would get how much?
From the given choices select the odd man out
If x is a positive integer, which of the following must be odd?
If |x – 9/2| = 5/2, and if y is the median of a set of s consecutive integers, where s is odd, which of the following must be true? I. xys is odd II. xy(s^2 + s) is even III. x^2y^2s^2 is even
When the positive integer p is divided by 9, the remainder is 5. What is the remainder when 3p is divided by 9?
The sum of the squares of the first 15 positive integers (1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + . . . + 15^2) is equal to 1270. What is the sum of the squares of the second 15 positive integers (16^2 + 17^2 + 18^2 + . . . + 30^2) ?
Salaries of Ravi and Sumit are in the ratio 2:3. If the salary of each is increased by Rs 4000, the new ratio becomes 40:57. What is Sumit present salary.
A retailer sold an appliance for $100. If the retailer's gross profit on the appliance was 25 percent of the retailer's cost for the appliance, how many dollars was the retailer's gross profit?
Suresh started a business, investing Rs.18000. After 3 months and 4 months respectively, Rohan and Sudhir joined him with capitals of 12000 and 9000. At the end of the year the total profit was Rs.3982. What is the difference between Rohan’s and Sudhir’s share in the profit?
six friends go to pizza corner where there are different types of pizza available. six different flavours are there and they have to select 2 flavours from 6 flavours.In how many ways they can select?
A card player holds 13 cards of four suits, of which seven are black and six are red. There are twice as many hearts as clubs and twice as many diamonds as hearts. How many spades does he hold?
A certain bag contains 100 balls — 50 white, 30 green, 10 yellow, 7 red, and 3 purple. If a ball is to be chosen at random, what is the probability that the ball will be neither red nor purple?
y and z represents 2 gas stations which are 270 km apart. if two cars leave each gas station and drive towards each other, at what time will they meet each other given that the first car left the gas station at 10 a.m. and travels at a speed of 75 kmph while the second car left the station at 11 a.m. and travels at a speed of 55 kmph.
What should come in place of question mark (?) in the following equation? 5 3⁄5 ÷ 3 11⁄15 + 5 1⁄2 = ?