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Two trains of length 140 m and 280 m are running towards each other on parallel lines at 42 kmph and 30 kmph respectively. In what time will they be clear of each other from the moment they meet? |
Prints a page 64 pg per min .If the printed for 3 hours except 10 min.Where there
was an paper jam,how many page did it print |
A car started running at a speed of 30 km/hr and the speed of the car was increased by 2 km/hr at the end of every hour. Find the total distance covered by the car in the first 10 hours of the journey. |
In a school of 800 students, 45% wear blue shirts, 23% wear red shirts, 15% wear green shirts, and the remaining students wear other colors. How many students wear other colors (not blue, not red, not green)? |
The simple interest accrued on an amount of Rs.49500 at he end of three is Rs.17820. What would be the compound interest accured on the same amount at teh same rate in the same period? (Round off your answer to two decimal places) |
The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is 25% then determine the value of x. |
Tough and Tricky questions: Word Problems.
If Bill's salary increased by 16 percent, he would earn $812 per month. If instead, his salary were to increase by only 10 percent, how much money R would he earn per month? |
Two trains of equal length are running on parallel lines in the same directions at 46km/hr. and 36km/hr. The faster trains pass the slower train in 36 seconds. The length of each train is: |
The cost per unit of electricity during a 4 year period is as follows:
Year 1, $0.75 per unit;
Year 2, $1.50 per unit;
Year 3, $2.25 per unit;
Year 4, $3 per unit.
If a factory spent equal dollars on electricity each year, what was the average cost of a unit of electricity during the 4 year period? |
A motorist knows six different routes from Bristol to Birmingham. From Birmingham to Sheffield he knows three different routes and from Sheffield to Carlisle he knows two different routes. How many routes does he know from Bristol to Carlisle ? |
In a room with 8 people, 5 people have exactly 1 friend in the room and 4 people have exactly 2 friends in the room (Assuming that friendship is a mutual relationship, i.e. if Jane is Paul's friend, Paul is Jane's friend). If two individuals are selected from the room at random, what is the probability that those two individuals are NOT friends? |
At 6′o a clock ticks 6 times. The time between first and last ticks is 25 seconds. How long does it tick at 12′o clock |
A shop owner professes to sell his articles at certain cost price but he uses false weights with which he cheats by 12% while buying and by 20% while selling. What is his percentage profit? |
An outlet pipe can empty 2/3 rd of a cistern in 12 minutes. In 8 minutes, what part of the cistern will be emptied? |
In how many different ways can 5 people be seated in a room with 7 chairs? |
Using all the letters of the word "NOKIAS", how many words can be formed, which begin with N and end with A? |
Chris mixed 5 pounds of raisins with 4 pounds of nuts. If a pound of nuts costs 3 times as much as a pound of raisins, then the total cost of the raisins was what fraction of the total cost of the mixture? |
How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7,150 ? |
Five coins are tossed simultaneously. In how many of the outcomes will the third coin turn up a head? |
What is the next number of the following sequence
1,3,4,5,6,1,9,16,25,... |
One vessel contains a mixture of 6 parts pure wine and 4 parts soda, whereas the other vessel contains a mixture of 9 parts pure wine and 5 parts soda. Compare the strength of the wine. |
Three partners A,B,C starts a business. Twice A's capital is equal to thrice B's capital and B's capital is four times C's capital. Out of a total profit of Rs.14000 at the end of the year, B's share is |
Which of the following is not a prime number ? |
A reduction of 35% in the price of apples would enable a man to obtain 42 more for Rs.20, what is reduced price per dozen? |
A certain sum of money is divided among A, B and C so that for each Rs. A has, B has 65 paisa and C 40 paisa. If C's share is Rs.40, find the sum of money? |
If 15 ≤ x ≤ 25, and 0.2 ≤ y ≤ 0.6, what is the greatest possible value of 3/(x·y)? |
In a diving competition, each diver has a 35% chance of a perfect dive. The first perfect dive of the competition, but no subsequent dives, will receive a perfect score. If Janet is the third diver to dive, what is her chance of receiving a perfect score? (Assume that each diver can perform only one dive per turn.) |
A beekeeper has 1200,000 bees living in 13 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? |
The average age of a group of 10 persons was decreased by 3 years when one person, whose age was 42 years, was replaced by a new person. Find the age of the new person? |
John is traveling to a meeting that is 22 miles away. He needs to be there in 30 minutes. How fast does he need to go to make it to the meeting on time? |
Which of the following cannot be the range of a set consisting of 5 odd multiples of 5? |
Each truck from David Removal Company can haul 1000 pounds of trash at a time.
On Wednesday the company has jobs to remove 2,500 pounds of trash from one
site, 500 from another site, and 3,500 from a third site. How many total pounds of
trash will be moved by Jones Company that day? How many trips will it take for the
Jones Company to remove all of the trash? |
12 men can complete a piece of work in 4 days, while 15 women can complete the same work in 4 days. 6 men start working on the job and after working for two days, all of them stopped working. How many women should be put on the job to complete the remaining work, if it is to be completed in 3 days? |
The difference of two numbers is 1355. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder. What is the smaller number ? |
Two trains are traveling on parallel tracks in the same direction. The faster train travels at 130 miles per hour, while the slower train travels at 100 miles per hour. At 2 o’clock the faster train is 5 miles behind the slower one. How far apart are the two trains at 5 o'clock? |
A motorcyclist goes from Bombay to Delhi, a distance of 200 kms at an average of 50 kmph speed. Another man starts from Bombay by car 2 ½ hours after the first, and reaches Delhi ½ hour earlier. What is the ratio of the speed of the motorcycle and the car? |
Two cars start from the opposite places of a main road, 150 km apart. First car runs for 25 km and takes a right turn and then runs 15 km. It then turns left and then runs for another 25 km and then takes the direction back to reach the main road. In the mean time, due to minor break down the other car has run only 62 km along the main road. What would be the distance between two cars at this point? |
A monkey starts climbing up a tree of 20 feet tall. Each hour it hops 3 feet and slips back 2 feet. How long monkey will take to reach the top of the tree? |
The average of first six prime numbers greater than 20 is? |
The ratio between the perimeter and the width of a rectangle is 5:1. If the area of the rectangle is 384 square centimeters, what is the length of the rectangle in centimeters? |
Three persons invested Rs.9000 in a joint business. The second person invested Rs.1000 more than the first and the third Rs.1000 more than second. After two years, they gained Rs.5400. How much third person will get? |
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's salary? |
There are two candles of equal lengths and of different thickness. The thicker one lasts of six hours. The thinner 2 hours less than the thicker one. Ramesh lights the two candles at the same time. When he went to bed he saw the thicker one is twice the length of the thinner one. How long ago did Ramesh light the two candles . |
2 people meet for a business lunch. Each person shakes hands once with each other person present. How many handshakes take place? |
After 10% of the inhabitants of a village disappeared, a panic set in during which 25% of the remaining inhabitants left the village. At that time, the population was reduced to 4725. What was the number of original inhabitants? |
38 69 55 73 31 47 91 82
Which of the following numbers is greater than three fourths of the numbers but less than one fourth of the numbers in the list above? |
Average weight of 10 people increased by 1.5 kg when one person of 45 kg is replaced by a new man. Then weight of the new man is |
Entry fee in an examination was Re. 1. Later, this was reduced by 25% which increased the sale by 20%. The percentage increase in the number of visitors is |
If integers ending in zero are excluded, what is the unit digit of the product of the even integers from 102 to 198, inclusive? |
Arnold and Danny are two twin brothers that are celebrating their birthday. The product of their ages today is smaller by 15 from the product of their ages a year from today. What is their age today? |
A telephone number contains 10 digit, including a 3-digit area code. Bob remembers the area code and the next 5 digits of the number. He also remembers that the remaining digits are not 0, 1, 2, 7, or 9. If Bob tries to find the number by guessing the remaining digits at random, the probability that he will be able to find the correct number in at most 2 attempts is closest to which of the following ? |
If a + b + c = 0 and a,b,c, are rational numbers then the roots of the equation
(b + c – a)x2 + (c + a – b) x + (a + b – c) = 0 are |
In a school having roll strength 286, the ratio of boys and girls is 8:5. If 22 more girls get admitted into the school, the ratio of boys and girls becomes |
A, B and C invested Rs.6300, Rs.4200 and Rs.10500 respectively, in a partnership business. Find the share of A in profit of Rs.12100 after a year? |
A & B are two places. C & D start walking from A and B respectively. Before meeting D, C travel 18m more than D. then C takes 13 and half minute and D take 24 minute to reach their destination. |
UBA Capital recently bought Brand new vehicles for office use. UBA capital only went for Toyota and Honda and bought more of Toyota than Honda at the ratio of 9:1. If 90% of the Toyota bought and 10% of the Honda bought were SUV’s. How many SUV’s did UBA capital buy in the aforementioned purchase? |
How many factors of 220 are odd numbers greater than 1? |
What is the 4 digit no.in which the 1st digit is 1/3 of the second, the 3rd is the sum of the 1st and 2nd, and the last is three times the second? |
W(x, y) is the intersection point between the circle (x^2 + y^2 = 4) and the line (y = x +2). Which of the following can be the point W? |
If –3 < x < 3 and x ≠ 0, which of the following inequalities must be true?
I. x^3 < x
II. x^2 < |x|
III. x^4 – x^5 > x^3 – x^2 |
A cylindrical can has a radius of 4 centimeters and a height of 24 centimeters. What is the area, in square centimeters, of a rectangular label that completely covers the curved surface of the can without over-lapping? |
A train running at the speed of 90 km/hr crosses a pole in 9 seconds. Find the length of the train. |
Josh spends a total of $5.5 buying S items in the convenience store. If each of the items is either a 5 cents single bubblegum, or a 50 cents bubblegum pack, then S may be which of the following? |
There are two positive numbers in the ratio 5:8. If the larger number exceeds the smaller by 15, then find the smaller number? |
Evaluate :
28% of 400 + 45 % of 250 |
Each factor of 210 is inscribed on its own plastic ball, and all of the balls are placed in a jar. If a ball is randomly selected from the jar, what is the probability that the ball is inscribed with a multiple of 45? |
At Jefferson Elementary School, the number of teachers and students (kindergarten through sixth grade) totals 510. The ratio of students to teachers is 16 to 1. Kindergarten students make up 1/6 of the student population and fifth and sixth graders account for 1/3 of the remainder. Students in first and second grades account for 1/4 of all the students. If there are an equal number of students in the third and fourth grades, then the number of students in third grade is how many greater or fewer than the number of students in kindergarten? |
If x-y=8, which of the following must be true?
I. If x is negative, y must be negative
II. If x is positive, y must be positive
III.Both x and y are positive |
Runner A passed a post running at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour. Then, 15 minutes later, Runner B passed the same post at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour. If both runners maintained their speeds and both remained on the highway for at least 2 hours, how long after Runner B passed the gas station did he catch up with Runner A? |
At a certain diner, Joe ordered 3 doughnuts and a cup of coffee and was charged $ 2.25. Stella ordered 2 doughnuts and a cup of coffee and was charged $ 1.70. What is the price of 2 doughnuts? |
Tough and Tricky questions: Decimals.
The value of x is derived by summing a, b, and c and then rounding the result to the tenths place. The value of y is derived by first rounding a, b, and c to the tenths place and then summing the resulting values. If a = 5.45, b = 2.95, and c = 3.75, what is y – x? |
In track last week, the boys ran 34 laps. The girls ran 20 more
laps. Each lap is a 1/6th of a mile. How many miles did the girls run? |
A family with 1 mother, 1 father, and 2 children sit in a car with 2 front seats and 3 back seats. If the mother drives with a child in the front, and the father sits in the back center seat with the other two children on either side of him, how many seating arrangements are possible? |
A and B invests Rs.3000 and Rs.10000 respectively in a business. If A doubles his capital after 6 months. In what ratio should A and B divide that year's profit? |
Which of the following fractions T has a decimal equivalent that is a terminating decimal? |
In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, find the probability of getting a total more than 5 |
Three 6 faced dice are thrown together. The probability that exactly two dice show the same number on them is |
In how many ways 3 boys and 3 girls can be seated in a row so that boys and girls are alternate? |
If Rs. 510 be divided among A, B, C in such a way that A gets 2/3 of what B gets and B gets 1/4 of what C gets, then their shares are respectively: |
How many different ways can 2 students be seated in a row of 4 desks, so that there is always at least one empty desk between the students? |
A women in her conversation said " if u reverse my own age, in figures represent my husbands age. he is of course senior to me and difference between our age is one 0ne-eleventh of their sum. what is the woman's and her husbands age? |
A train crosses a platform of 150 m in 15 sec, same train crosses another platform of length 250 m in 20 sec. then find the length of the train? |
A certain barrel, which is a right circular cylinder, is filled to capacity with 200 gallons of oil. The first barrel is poured into a second barrel, also a right circular cylinder, which is empty. The second barrel is twice as tall as the first barrel and has twice the diameter of the first barrel. If all of the oil in the first barrel is poured into the second barrel, how much empty capacity, in gallons, is left in the second barrel? |
Gautami went to the stationers and bought things worth Rs. 100, out of which 50 paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 5%. then what was the cost of the tax free items? |
When a student Joe, weighing 40 kg, joins a group of students whose average weight is 30 kg, the average weight goes up by 1 kg. Subsequently, if two students, excluding Joe, leave the group the average weight comes back to 30 kg. What is the difference between the average weight of the two students who left and the weight of Joe? |
Three men A, B and C working together can do a work in 17 days. They start the work together and A works for 5 days and takes rest on the sixth day, B works for 5 days and takes rest on the next two days and C works for 8 days and takes rest on the next three days. In how many days will the work be completed ? (A, B, C work at the same rate) |
A double decked bus can accomodate 100 passengers,40 in the upper deck and 60 in the lower deck.In how many ways can the passengers be accomodated if 15 refuse to be in the upper deck while 10 others refuse to be in the lower deck? |
In a certain supermarket, a triangular display of cans is arranged in 9 rows, numbered 1 through 9 from top to bottom. Each successively numbered row contains 3 more cans than the row immediately above it. If there are fewer than 120 cans in the entire display, how many cans are in the six row? |
If the height of a cone is increased by 100% then its volume is increased by? |
A number is doubled and 5 is added. If the resultant is trebled, it becomes 135. What is that number? |
If M = s% of t and N = t% of s, then which of the following is true? |
The area of a parallelogram is 128sq m and its altitude is twice the corresponding base. Then the length of the base is? |
Distance between 2 places A and B is given. A man P starts from place A at 9 pm and another man Q goes from B at 10pm . Speed of Q is double of that of P. Both cover 1/4 dist in the same time interval. then A travels the entire dist in time |
The ratio of the length and the breadth of a rectangle is 4 : 3 and the area of the rectangle is 6912 sq cm. Find the ratio of the breadth and the area of the rectangle? |
In the game of Dubblefud, red chips, blue chips and green chips are each worth 1,2 and 5 points respectively. In a certain selection of chips, the product of the point values of the chips is 15, 000. If the number of blue chips in this selection equals the number of green chips, how many red chips are in the selection? |
Zinc and copper are melted together in the ratio 9 : 11. What is the weight of melted mixture, if 28.8 kg of zinc has been consumed in it? |
If x+y=10, x-y=18, for integers of x and y, x=? |
(1^2+2^2+3^2+.....+7^2)=? |
What is the area of an equilateral triangle whose one side length is 50? |
Two thirds of the roads from A to B are at least 5 miles long, and 3/4 of the roads from B to C are at least 5 miles long. If you randomly pick a road from A to B and then randomly pick a road from B to C, what is the probability that at least one of the roads you pick is at least 5 miles long? |
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