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A young girl counted in the following way on the fingers of her left hand. She started collang the thumb 1, the index finger 2, the middle finger 3, the ring finger 4, the little finger 5, then reversed direction calling the ring finger 6, the the middle finger 7, the index finger 8, the thumb 9 then back to the index finger for 10, the middel finger for 11, and so on. She counted up to 1998. She ended on her
A light has a rating of 60 watts, it is replaced with a new light that has 12% higher wattage. How many watts does the new light have?
A reduction of 10% in the price of a pen enabled a trader to purchase 9 more for Rs. 540. What is the reduced price of the pen?
The C.I. on a certain sum for 2 years Rs.41 and the simple interest is Rs.40. What is the rate percent?
In February Wilson’s earnings were 40 percent of his family’s total income. In March Wilson earned 25 percent less than in February. If the rest of his family’s income was the same in both months, then, in March, Wilson’s earnings were approximately what percent Q of his family’s total income?
Initially 150. Reduced by 20%. How it is to be reduced to become 108?
For the past n days, the average (arithmetic mean) daily production at a company was 50 units. If today's production of 95 units raises the average to 55 units per day, what is the value of n?
The sum of the squares of two consecutive positive integers exceeds their product by 91. Find the integers?
5 identical snow plows can clear an iced parking lot in 6 hours. How long would it take 6 such snow plows to clear the same parking lot?
The average of five consecutive odd numbers A, B, C, D and E is 13. What percent of B is C ?
Cost of 16 mirror and 8 comb is Rs.336 and the cost of 4 mirror and 4 comb is Rs.96. Find the cost of each mirror?
In Goshawk-Eurasian nature reserve 30 percent of the birds are Hawks, and 40 percent of the non-Hawks are Paddyfield-Warblers. If there are 25 percent as many Kingfishers as Paddyfield-Warblers in the reserve, then what percent of the birds R in the nature reserve are not Hawks, Paddyfield-Warblers, or Kingfishers?
A marketing survey of Anytown found that the ratio of trucks to sedans to motorcycles was 3:7:2, respectively. Given that there are 11,200 sedans in Anytown, how many motorcycles are there?
Three hundred gallons of fuel are purchased at $0.80 per gallon. The fuel is consumed at a rate of $0.30 worth of fuel per hour. At this rate, how many hours are required to consume the 300 gallons of fuel?
A, B, C and D enter into partnership. A subscribes 1/3 of the capital B 1/4, C 1/5 and D the rest. How much share did A get in a profit of Rs.2475?
A boat can move upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 35 kmph, then the speed of the current is? A. 5 kmph
The decimal 0.1 is how many times greater than the decimal (0.01)^3?
60% of a number is added to 160, the result is the same number. Find the number?
A box contains 20 electric bulbs, out of which 4 are defective. Two bulbs are chosen at random form this box. The probability that at least one of these is defective is:
There are 2 sections A and B in a class, consisting of 50 and 50 students respectively. If the average weight of section A is 60kg and that of section B is 80kg, Find the average of the whole class?
A rectangular-shaped carpet that measures x feet by y feet is priced at $7. What is the cost of the carpet, in dollars per square yard? (1 square yard = 9 square feet)
Three independent strategies A, B and C have been initiated for cost cutting in a company producing respectively 30%, 30% and 10% savings. Assuming that they operate independently, what is the net saving achieved?
John want to buy a $100 Trouser at the store, but he think it’s too expensive. Finally, it goes on sale for $20. What is the percent decrease?
A, B and C rent a pasture. If A puts 10 oxen for 7 months, B puts 12 oxen for 5 months and C puts 15 oxen for 3 months for grazing and the rent of the pasture is Rs. 280, then how much amount should C pay as his share of rent?
A man can row a boat at 20 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 6 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 60 km downstream?
At a loading dock, each worker on the night crew loaded 3/4 as many boxes as each worker on the day crew. If the night crew has 4/9 as many workers as the day crew, what fraction of all the boxes loaded by the two crews did the day crew load?
The sum of two numbers is 33. Five times one number is equal to 6 times the other. The smaller of the two numbers is
Income and expenditure of a person are in the ratio 5 : 4. If the income of the person is Rs. 19000, then find his savings?
In a store, the profit is 320% of the cost. If the cost increases by 25% but the SP remains constant, approximately what %of the sp is the profit?
What is the area of a square field whose sides have a length of 12 meters?
If 4x + y = 8 and 3x-4y = 5, then what is the value of 7x - 3y?
Rajan borrowed Rs.4000 at 5% p.a compound interest. After 2 years, he repaid Rs.2210 and after 2 more year, the balance with interest. What was the total amount that he paid as interest?
On a Saturday night, each of the rooms at a certain motel was rented for either $40 or $60. If 10 of the rooms that were rented for $60 had instead been rented for $40, then the total rent the motel charged for that night would have been reduced by 40 percent. What was the total rent the motel actually charged for that night ?
Two express trains start at the same hour in the day from two different stations and move towards each other at the rate of 16 kmph and 21 kmph respectively. When they meet, it is found that one train has traveled 60 km more than the other one. The distance between the two stations is?
How much time will take for an amount of Rs. 300 to yield Rs. 81 as interest at 4.5% per annum of simple interest?
If it takes a tub 5 minutes to drain 5/7 of its content, how much more time will it take for the tub to be empty?
In what time will a train 100 m long cross an electric pole, it its speed be 72 km/hr?
A train 495 m long is running at a speed of 63 km/hr. In what time will it pass a bridge 240 m long?
Ram, who is half as efficient as Krish, will take 21 days to complete a task if he worked alone. If Ram and Krish worked together, how long will they take to complete the task?
A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward and backward, such as 343. How many odd, 6-digit numbers are palindromes?
The average (arithmetic mean) of eight numbers is 41.5. If the sum of half of these numbers is 152.4, what is the average of the other half?
A gets 3 times as much money as B gets, B gets only Rs.25 more then what C gets. The three gets Rs.675 in all. Find the share of B?
In a class of 230 students, 130 study Spanish and 100 study French. If a student must study at least one of these two languages, what percent of the students study French but NOT Spanish?
Simple interest on a certain sum at a certain annual rate of interest is 1/9 of the sum. If the numbers representing rate percent and time in years be equal, then the rate of interest is:
A cistern is normally filled in 4 hrs,but takes 2 hrs longer to fill because of a leak on its bottom,if Cistern is full ,how much time citern would empty?
The sum of two number is twice their difference, If one of the number is 10, the other number is ? 31/ 3
Jithin bought six books at an average price (arithmetic mean) of 20$. If jithin returned two books to the retailer, at an average price of the remaining book was 14.5$, then what is the average price, in dollar, of the two returned books ?
The average score in an examination of 10 students of a class is 60. If the scores of the top five students are not considered, the average score of the remaining students falls by 5. The pass mark was 50 and the maximum mark was 100. It is also known that none of the students failed. If each of the top five scorers had distinct integral scores, the maximum possible score of the topper is
Marsha and Wenbao picked strawberries one afternoon. They combined all of their strawberries together and divided them evenly (50/50). If Marsha picked an odd number of strawberries which of the following is true?
Seven mobsters have arrived at the theater for the premiere of the film “Goodbuddies.” One of the mobsters, Frankie, is an informer, and he's afraid that another member of his crew, Joey, is on to him. Frankie, wanting to keep Joey in his sights, insists upon standing behind Joey in line at the concession stand, though not necessarily right behind him. How many ways can the six arrange themselves in line such that Frankie’s requirement is satisfied?
The sum of ages of 10 children born at the intervals of 1 years each is 105years. What is the age of the youngest child?
A 25 cm wide path is to be made around a circular garden having a diameter of 4 meters. Approximate area of the path is square meters is?
Three is the largest number that can be divided evenly into 27 and the positive integer x, while 10 is the largest number that can be divided evenly into both 100 and x. Which of the following is the largest possible number that could be divided into x and 1800
Two trains having length of 140 metre and 160 metre long run at the speed of 60 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively in opposite directions (on parallel tracks). The time which they take to cross each other, is
The distance from town A to town B is five miles. C is six miles from B. Which of the following could be the maximum distance from A to C?
A, B and C jointly thought of engaging themselves in a business venture. It was agreed that A would invest Rs. 6500 for 6 months, B, Rs. 8400 for 5 months and C, Rs. 10,000 for 3 months. A wants to be the working member for which, he was to receive 5% of the profits. The profit earned was Rs. 7400. Calculate the share of B in the profit.
How many four-digit positive integers can be formed by using the digits from 1 to 9 so that two digits are equal to each other and the remaining two are also equal to each other but different from the other two ? .
12 machines can do a work in 10days. How many machines are needed to complete the work in 40days?
Grace packed 5 pairs of shoes, 3 pairs of pants, 8 shirts, and 3 jackets for her business trip. If an outfit consists of one of each item of clothing except shirts, of which she will wear 2, how many different outfits S can does Grace have available during her trip?
January 1, 2007 was Monday. What day of the week lies on Jan. 6, 2008?
Robin is traveling from one end of a forest to the other. In order to find his way back, he is leaving morsels of bread in the following pattern: 2 morsels of wheat, 3 morsels of white, and 1 morsel of bap. The pattern repeats after he leaves the morsel of bap. If Robin drops 2,000 morsels of bread, what are the last 3 morsels of bread that he drops?
The integer T has a tens digit of 6 and a units digit of 7. The units digit of integer y is 8. The product of T and y has a tens digit of 8. Which of the following is a possible tens digit of integer y?
When a random experiment is conducted, the probability that event A occurs is 1/6. If the random experiment is conducted 4 independent times, what is the probability that event A occurs exactly twice?
A gunstore uses 400gm of powder in place of 1kg for their bullets. Find the actual % profit or loss, when the bullets are sold pending on 10% gain on cost price?
For any triangle T in the xy–coordinate plan, the center of T is defined to be the point whose x–coordinate is the average (arithmetic mean) of the x–coordinates of the vertices of T and whose y–coordinate is the average of the y–coordinates of the vertices of T. If a certain triangle has vertices at the points (0,0) and (9,0) and center at the point (4,3), what are the coordinates of the remaining vertex?
If the radius of a circle is increased by 10% then the area is increased by:
Last year, the price per transaction of certain company increases P percent from the year before, and the number of transactions increase N percent from the year before. Total revenue is simply the number of transactions times the price per transaction. Assume this one transaction is this company's only source of revenue. Which of the following is the percent increase in revenue last year, from the year before?
A shopkeeper buys mangoes at the rate of 6 a rupee and sells them at 3 a rupee. Find his net profit or loss percent?
In 1937, the ship of the great sailor SINBAD left an Egyptian port heading Ivory coast at E mile/month . One month later another ship of the greatest pirate ever CHENG I SAO was 5000 miles due south of the same Egyptian port and heading due north at Y miles/month. Six months later after the leaving of Sinbad’s ship from Egyptian port, how far apart were the ships? [Ivory coast is in the west of Egypt]
3889 + 12.808 - ? = 3854.002
What is the units' digit of the following expression (13)^5*(19)^5*(17)^5?
Nitin ranks 24th in a class of 58 students. What is rank from the last ?
The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 24 years old and the wicket keeper is 7 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?
Train A and Train B began traveling towards each other from opposite ends of a 540-mile long track at 1:00 PM. If Train A traveled at 35 miles per hour and Train B traveled at 25 miles per hour, at what time did the trains meet?
If n and k are integers whose product is 1600, which of the following statements must be true?
In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 272 runs?
Think of a number, divide it by 5 and add 10 to it. The result is 21. What is the number thought of?
Ajay and Sasi start walking towards each other at 6am at speed of 4kmph and 5kmph. They were initially 20km apart. At what time do they meet?
A bought 100kg of rice for Rs 1100 and sold it at a loss of as much money as he received for 2o kg of rice. At what price did he sell the rice?
March 11, 2003 is a Tuesday. What will be the day on which march 11 2004 comes??
If two sides of a triangle are 3 and 12, respectively, which of the following could NOT be the area of this triangle?
The measure of the side of a square is doubled. If x represents the perimeter of the original square, what is the value of the new perimeter?
3 pig’s and 10 goats are brought for Rs.1100. If the average price of a goat be Rs.50. What is the average price of a pig.
If a man buys 10 lollipops for $80 and sold them for $3 dollars determine his loss.
12.1212+17.0005 - 9.1104 = ?
A thief goes away with a SANTRO car at a speed of 50 kmph. The theft has been discovered after half an hour and the owner sets off in a bike at 60 kmph when will the owner over take the thief from the start?
If you roll a fair-sided die twice, what is the probability of getting 1 ,1 ?
A cone of height 9 cm with diameter of its base 18 cm is carved out from a wooden solid sphere of radius 9 cm. The percentage of the wood wasted is :
The length of the bridge, which a train 130 metres long and travelling at 108 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is:
The speed of a car is 90 km in the first hour and 50 km in the second hour. What is the average speed of the car?
A man can row upstream at 26 kmph and downstream at 30 kmph, and then find the speed of the man in still water?
A train 520 meters long is running with a speed of 52 kmph. The time taken by it to cross a tunnel 160 meters long is?
If Rs. 782 be divided into three parts, proportional to 1/2:2/3:3/4, then the second part is?
A jogger running at 9 km/hr along side a railway track is 240 m ahead of the engine of a 120 m long train running at 45 km/hr in the same direction. In how much time will the train pass the jogger?
A number when divided by 221 gives a remainder 43, what remainder will be obtained by dividing the same number 17?
what is the next number of following series 1,5,5,3,10,10,5,6,...
The total cost of a vacation was divided among 3 people. If the total cost of the vacation had been divided equally among 4 people, the cost per person would have been $60 less. What was the total cost cost of the vacation?
Out of first 20 natural numbers, one number is selected at random. The probability that it is either an even number or a prime number is?
The average (arithmetic mean) of 20, 40, and 60 is 4 more than the average of 10, 70, and what number?
A can do a particular work in 6 days . B can do the same work in 8 days. A and B signed to do it for Rs. 3200. They completed the work in 3 days with the help of C. How much is to be paid to C?