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A delegation of 5 members has to be formed from 3 ladies and 5 gentlemen. In how many ways the delegation can be formed, if 2 particular ladies are always included in the delegation? |
In how many ways the letters of the word LOOC be arranged? |
A closed cylindrical tank contains 36 pie cubic feet of water and its filled to half its capacity. When the tank is placed upright on its circular base on level ground, the height of water in the tank is 4 feet. When the tank is placed on its side on level ground, what is the height, in feet, of the surface of the water above the ground? |
The average mark of the students of a class in a particular exam is 80. If 5 students whose average mark in that exam is 60 are excluded, the average mark of the remaining will be 90. Find the number of students who wrote the exam. |
If the square root of p^2 is an integer, which of the following must be true?
I. p^2 has an odd number of factors
II. p^2 can be expressed as the product of an even number of prime factors
III. p has an even number of factors |
Two goods trains each 500 m long are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 45 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one? |
Tom, working alone, can paint a room in 6 hours. Peter and John, working independently, can paint the same room in 3 hours and 4 hours, respectively. Tom starts painting the room and works on his own for one hour. He is then joined by Peter and they work together for an hour. Finally, John joins them and the three of them work together to finish the room, each one working at his respective rate. What fraction of the whole job was done by Peter? |
The list price of an article is Rs.65. A customer pays Rs.56.16 for it. He was given two successive discounts, one of them being 10%. The other discount is? |
What will come in place of the x in the following Number series? 12, 38, 116, 350, 1052, 3158, 9476, x |
Find the simple interest on Rs.500 for 9 months at 6 paisa per month? |
If Teena is driving at 55 miles per hour and is currently 7.5 miles behind Joe, who is driving at 40 miles per hour in the same direction then in how many minutes will Teena be 45 miles ahead of Joe? |
If P(A) = 6/17, P(B) = 5/17, and P(A ∪ B) = 4/17 Find P(B|A)? |
A bag contains 2 red, 2 green, and 3 white balls. Three balls are picked up one by one without replacement. What is the probability that there will be at least one red ball? |
If A is to be chosen at random from the set {8,1} and B is to be chosen at random from the set {2,7,9,6}, what is the probability that AB will be even? |
If a^3 is divisible by 240 what is the least possible value of integer a? |
If the price of bananas goes down by 10%, find the percentage of increase that a family should effect in its consumption so as not to increase expenditure on this account? |
A man distributed Rs. 100 equally among his friends. If there had been 5 more friends, each would have received one rupee less. How many friends had he ? |
If (x - 1)^2 = 361, which of the following could be the value of x - 4? |
A car traveled 35% of the way from Town X to Town Y at an average speed of 35 mph. The car traveled at an average speed of v mph for the remaining part of the trip. The average speed for the entire trip was 50 mph. What is v in mph? |
If the average of 5 positive integers is 65 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? |
A salesperson received a commission of 3 percent of the sale price for each of the first 100 machines that she sold and 4 percent of the sale price for each machine that she sold after the first 100. If the sale price of each machine was $10,000 and the salesperson received a $42,000 commission, how many machines did she sell? |
In a class of 50 students, 20 play Basketball, 15 play Cricket and 11 play Football. 7 play both Basketball and Cricket, 4 play Cricket and Football and 5 play Basketball and football. If 18 students do not play any of these given sports, how many students play exactly two of these sports? |
Three pieces of timber 30 m, 35 m and 45 m long have to be divided into planks of the same length, What is the greatest possible length of each plank ? |
A software programmer does 30% of the work in 80% of the time, and 80% of the work in the remaining 20% of the time. If the code he writes is X lines long and he was given one month (30 days) to accomplish the task, then, assuming that the programmer works at a constant rate in each of the two stages, How many lines of code were written in the last two weeks, in terms of X? |
On a partly cloudy day, Derek decides to walk back from work. When it is sunny, he walks at a speed of s miles/hr (s is an integer) and when it gets rain cloud, he increases his speed to (s + 1) miles/hr. If his average speed for the entire distance is 2.8 miles/hr, what fraction of the total distance did he cover while the sun was shining on him? |
The average age of 35 students in a class is 16 years. The average age of 21 students is 14. What is the average age of remaining 38 students? |
Find the average marks of all the students in 2 separate classes, if the average marks of students in the first class of 58 students is 67 and that of another class of 52 students is 82. |
The average of first six prime numbers: |
A pupil's marks were wrongly entered as 83 instead of 63. Due to that the average marks for the class got increased by half. The number of pupils in the class is |
In an electric circuit, two resistors with resistances G and H are connected in parallel. In this case, if I is the combined resistance of these two resistors, then the reciprocal of I is equal to the sum of the reciprocals of G and H. What is I in terms of G and H? |
What is the sum of the different positive prime factors of 960? |
There are 38 people in a party. If everyone is to shake hands with one another, how many hand shakes are possible? |
If x=−a^4, which of the following must be true?
I. x is negative.
II.If a is negative then x is negative.
III. a is non-negative. |
Two pipes A and B can separately fill a cistern in 60 min and 75 min respectively. There is a third pipe in the bottom of the cistern to empty it. If all the three pipes are simultaneously opened, then the cistern is full in 50 min. In how much time, the third pipe alone can empty the cistern? |
Of the total amount that Jill spent on a shopping trip, excluding taxes, she spent 25 percent on clothing, 25 percent on food, and 50 percent on other items. If Jill paid a 10 percent tax on the clothing, no tax on the food, and an 2 percent tax on all other items, then the total tax that she paid was what percent of the total amount that she spent, excluding taxes? |
A train 100 m long passes a man, running at 15 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 20 seconds. The speed of the train is: |
Mohan purchased 13 kgs of rice at the rate of Rs.26 per kg and 8 kgs of pulses at the rate of Rs.26 per kg. Whaat is the total amount that he paid to the shopkeeper? |
A 90 cm long wire is to be cut into two pieces so that one piece will be 2/7th of the other, how many centimeters will the shorter piece be? |
A student completes a 3 part exam as follows. The student completes sections A in 24 minutes and takes an equal time to complete the two remaining sections. What is the ratio of time spent on section C to section A if the total duration is 1 hour? |
Indu gave Bindu Rs.3750 on compound interest for 2 years at 4% per annum. How much loss would Indu has suffered had she given it to Bindu for 2 years at 4% per annum simple interest? |
If in a $300 mln portfolio of stock, twice as much is invested in stock A as is invested in all the other stocks, how much is invested in all the other stocks? |
Michael has some coins in his pocket consisting of dimes, nickels, and pennies. He has two
more nickels than dimes, and three times as many pennies as nickels. How many of each kind
of coin does he have if the total value is $0.52? |
A school’s annual budget for the purchase of student computers increased by 50% this year over last year. If the price of student computers increased by 50% this year, then the number of computers it can purchase this year is what percent greater than the number of computers it purchased last year? |
If n is a prime number and n ≠ 3, which of the following could be the remainder when 100! + n is divided by 3?
I. 1
II. 0
III. 2 |
Gill drives 120 miles from Los Angeles to San Diego to fetch a package. On her way there she drives at 40 miles per hour. On her way back she drives 50% faster. What is Gill's average velocity E for the round trip? |
10 women will complete a job in 7 days and 10 children take 14 days to complete the job. How many days will 5 women and 10 children take to complete the work? |
Jim and Renee will play one game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. In this game, each will select and show a hand sign for one of the three items. Rock beats Scissors, Scissors beat Paper, and Paper beats Rock. Assuming that both Jim and Renee have an equal chance of choosing any one of the hand signs, what is the probability that Jim or Renee will win? |
Pipe A can fill a tank in 10 hours, pipe B in 15 hours and pipe C in 30 hours. If all the pipes are open, in how many hours will the tank be filled? |
A student got twice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 27 sums in all, how many did he solve correctly ? |
Find the cost of fencing around a circular field of diameter 32 m at the rate of Rs.1.50 a meter? |
A train of 24 carriages, each of 60 meters length, when an engine also of 60 meters length is running at a speed of 60 kmph. In what time will the train cross a bridge 1.2 km long? |
Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds. The ratio of their speeds i |
A carpenter worked alone for 2 day on a job that would take him 6 more days to finish. He and another carpenter completed the job in 4 more days. How many days would it have taken the second carpenter to do the complete job working alone? |
If the numbers 1 to 99 are written on 99 pieces of paper, (one on each) and one piece is picked at random, then What is the probability that the number drawn is neither prime nor composite? |
Positive integer n leaves a remainder of 4 after division by 6 and a remainder of 3 after division by 3. If n is greater than 30, what is the remainder that n leaves after division by 30? |
For any number y, y* is defined as the greatest positive even integer less than or equal to y. What is the value of 5.0– 5.0*? |
Consider a sequence of numbers given by the expression 7 + (a - 1) * 5, where n runs from 1 to 80.What is the sum of this series ? |
If ABC is a quarter circle and a smaller circle is inscribed in it; if radius of quarter circle is 1.414units. Find the radius of smaller circle |
If e and b are positive numbers, and e^3 + b^3 = 75, then the greatest possible value of e is between: |
A row of seats in a movie hall contains 10 seats. 3 Girls and 7 boys need to occupy those seats. What is the probability that no two girls will sit together? |
Tom drives from town R to town B, driving at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour. From town B Tom immediately continues to town C. The distance between R and B is twice the distance between B and C. If the average speed of the whole journey was 36 mph, then what is Tom's speed driving from B to C in miles per hour? |
What is the true discount on a bill of Rs.2916 due in 3 years hence at 8% C.I.? |
A person can swim in still water at 12 km/h. If the speed of water 10 km/h, how many hours will the man take to swim back against the current for 8km? |
Which of the following CANNOT be the median of the 3 positive integers a, b, and c? |
if the length of rectangle is three times of its breadth.if the area of rectangle is 6075 sq.m,then calculate the length? |
30^10 / 210^5=? |
By weight, liquid X makes up 1.5 percent of solution P and 6.5 percent of solution Q. If 200 grams of solution P are mixed with 800 grams of solution Q, then liquid X accounts for what percent of the weight of the resulting solution? |
A square mirror has exactly half the area of the rectangular wall on which it is hung. If each side of the mirror is 18 inches and the width of the wall is 32 inches, what is the length of the wall, in inches? |
If four coins are tossed, the probability of getting two heads and two tails ? |
in how man ways team of four can be formed from four boys and three girls such that atleast one boy and one girl should be there? |
A dice has one of the first 10 prime number on each its six sides ,with no two sides having the same number .the dice is rolled 8 times and the results added.the addition is most likely to be closet to |
A grocer purchased 80 kg of sugar at 13.50 per kg and mixed it with 120 kg sugar at 16 per kg. At what rate should he sell the mixture to gain 21%? |
A person lent a certain sum of money at 4% per annum at simple interest and in 8 years the interest amounted to Rs.306 less than the sum lent. What was the sum lent? |
There are 408 boys and 216 girls in a school which are to be divided into equal sections of either boys or girls alone. Find the total number of sections thus formed. |
The average earning of a for the first 4days of a week is Rs18 and for the last four days is Rs20. If he earns Rs.20 on the fourth day, his average earning forthe whole week is? |
Bruce and Bhishma are running on a circular track of length 600m. Speed of Bruce is 30 m/s and that of Bhishma is 20 m/s .They start fro the same point at the same time in the same direction. When will they meet again for the first time? |
By looking at a rectangular box, a carpenter estimates that the length of the box is between 2 to 2.1 meters, inclusive, the breadth is between 1 to 1.1 meters, inclusive and the height is between 2 to 2.1 centimeters, inclusive. If the actual length, breadth and height of the box do indeed fall within the respective ranges estimated by the carpenter, which of the following is the closest to the maximum possible magnitude of the percentage error T that the carpenter can make in calculating the volume of the rectangular box? |
The following list follows a peculiar pattern. Can you find it out and guess the next number?
2, 12, 36, 80, 150, 252, ? |
In a competitive examination in State A, 6% candidates got selected from the total appeared candidates. State B had an equal number of candidates appeared and 7% candidates got selected with 80 more candidates got selected than A. What was the number of candidates appeared from each State? |
At a certain high school, a student’s popularity is determined by his or her locker number. Whoever has the locker number with the greatest number of distinct prime factors is the most popular student in the school. If Dhoni ,Kamal, Baskar, and Dinesh get lockers with the numbers 100, 400, 150, and 25, respectively, who is the most popular student? |
A farmer used 1,034 acres of land for beans, wheat, and corn in the ratio of 5 : 2 : 4, respectively. How many acres Q were used for corn? |
n denotes the number obtained when n is rounded to the nearest tenth.
For example 4.31 = 4.3
0.089 - 1.135 = |
Jim began driving from home on a trip averaging 30 miles per hour. How many miles per hour must Carla drive on average to catch up to him in exactly 3 hours if she leaves 30 minutes after Jim? |
(2-x)^(x^2)=1^3x
What is the value of x ? |
City A to city B, Andrew drove for 1hr at 46 mph and for 3 hours at 60 mph. What was the average speed for the whole trip? |
A bag contains 12 white and 18 black balls. 2balls are drawn in succession. What is the probability that first is white and second is black? |
A merchant purchased a jacket for $60 and then determined a selling price that equalled the purchase price of the jacket plus a markup that was 20 percent of the selling price. During a sale, the merchant discounted the selling price by 20 percent and sold the jacket. What was the merchant’s gross profit on this sale? |
Mary travels the first 9 hours of her journey at 40 mph speed and the remaining 6 hours at 30 mph speed. What is the average speed of Mary's travel in mph? |
For how many unique pairs of nonnegative integers {a, b} is the equation a^2 - b^2 = 220 true? |
Instead of multiplying a number by 9, the number is divided by 9. What is the percentage of error obtained ? |
Cecilia, Robbie, and Briony all bought stamps. The number of stamps Cecilia purchased was equal to a single digit. The number of stamps only one of them purchased was divisible by 5. The number of stamps one of them bought was an even number. Which of the following could represent the numbers of stamps each purchased? |
The length of a side of a hexagon is 10 inches. What is the perimeter? |
A positive number x is multiplied by 8, and this product is then divided by 3. If the positive square root of the result of these two operations equals x, what is the value of x ? |
Two pipes A and B can fill a cistern in 20 and 40 minutes respectively, and a third pipe C can empty it in 80 minutes. How long will it take to fill the cistern if all the three are opened at the same time? |
A pharmaceutical company received $3 million in royalties on the first $30 million in sales of and then $9 million in royalties on the next $120 million in sales. By approximately what percentage did the ratio of royalties to sales decrease from the first $30 million in sales to the next $120 million in sales? |
A train covers a distance of 12 km in 10 min. If it takes 16 sec to pass a telegraph post, then the length of the train is? |
100 white and black tiles will be used to form a 20x20 square pattern. If there must be at least one black tile in every row and at least one white tile in every column, what is the maximum difference between the number of black and white tiles that can be used? |
Find the remainder T when 12^190 is divided by 1729 ? |
A mixture of 120 liters of wine and water contains 20% water. How much more water should be added so that water becomes 25% of the new mixture? |
Twelve dots are evenly spaced on the circumference of a circle. How many combinations of three dots can we make from these 12 dots that do not form an equilateral triangle? |
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