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If a - b = 3 and a2 + b2 = 29, find the value of ab?
5 men are equal to as many women as are equal to 8 boys. All of them earn Rs.210 only. Men’s wages are?
a man can row 20 kmph in still water.it takes him thrice as long to row up as to row down the river.find the rate of stream
A welder received an order to make a 1 million liter cube-shaped tank. If he has only 4x2 meter sheets of metal that can be cut, how many metal sheets will be required for this order R? (1 cubic meter = 1,000 liters)
An empty fuel tank with a capacity of 200 gallons was filled partially with fuel A and then to capacity with fuel B. Fuel A contains 12% ethanol by volume and fuel B contains 16% ethanol by volume. If the full fuel tank contains 22 gallons of ethanol, how many gallons of fuel A were added?
A certain team has 16 members, including Joey. A three-member relay team will be selected as follows: one of the 16 members is to be chosen at random to run first, one of the remaining 15 members is to be chosen at random to run second, and one of the remaining 14 members is to be chosen at random to run third. What is the probability that Joey will be chosen to run second or third?
There are some pigeons and hares in a zoo. If heads are counted, there are 200. If legs are counted, there are 780. The number of hares in the zoo is?
How many paying stones, each measuring 2 1/2 m * 2 m are required to pave a rectangular court yard 30 m long and 16 1/2 m board?
A boy has five trousers and 15 shirts. In how many different ways can he select a trouser and a shirt?
Three candidates contested an election and received 1000, 2000 and 4000votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate got?
A, B, K start from the same place and travel in the same direction at speeds of 30 km/hr, 40 km/hr, 120 km/hr respectively. B starts two hours after A. If B and K overtake A at the same instant, how many hours after A did K start?
How many positive integers less than 27 are prime numbers, odd multiples of 5, or the sum of a positive multiple of 2 and a positive multiple of 4?
Including Cara and Dan, there are five members on the board of directors for a company. If the board is to be split up into a three-person subcommittee, what fraction of all the possible subcommittees that include Cara, also include Dan?
There is 60% increase in an amount in 6 years at S.I. What will be the C.I. of Rs. 12,000 after 3 years at the same rate?
The cost price of a radio is Rs.1500 and it was sold for Rs.1230, find the loss %?
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 15 min and 27 min respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but after 4 min, pipe A is turned off. What is the total time required to fill the tank?
Lake A has a duck population of 30 females and 35 males. Lake B’s duck population consists of the same ratio of females to males. If 6 new female ducks are added to Lake B and no other ducks are added or removed, the new total duck population of Lake B could be which of the following?
Which of the following numbers is between 2⁄5 and 1⁄4?
In a class, there are 20 boys whose average age is decreased by 2 months, when one boy aged 18 years is replaced by a new boy. The age of the new boy is ?
If d is the mean of x, y, and z, what is the mean x - 5, y - 5, z - 5 ?
Yearly subscription to professional magazines cost a company $940.00. To Make a 30% cut in the magazine budget, how much less must be spent?
A, B and C rents a pasture for Rs.870. A put in 12 horses for 8 months, B 16 horses for 9 months and 18 horses for 6 months. How much should C pay?
what is the remainder when 45820 is divided by 45
Lucy invested $10,000 in a new mutual fund account exactly three years ago. The value of the account increased by 10 percent during the first year, increased by 6 percent during the second year, and decreased by 10 percent during the third year. What is the value of the account today?
A, B and C enter into a partnership by investing Rs. 15000, Rs.21000 and Rs.27000 respectively. At the end of 8 months, B receives Rs.1260 as his share. Find the share of A.
If two pipes function simultaneously, the reservoir will be filled in 12 days.One pipe fills the reservoir 10 hours faster than the other. How many hours does it take the second pipe to fill the reservoir.
Megala bought an electric drill at 85% of the regular price. She paid $850 for the drill. What was the regular price?
A man took loan from a bank at the rate of 12% p.a. simple interest. After 3 years he had to pay Rs. 5400 interest only for the period. The principal amount borrowed by him was:
What is the Compound Interest on Rs.8500 at 7.5% p.a. compounded half-yearly for 2 1/2 years.
An analyst will recommend a combination of 3 industrial stocks, 2 transportation stocks, and 2 utility stocks. If the analyst can choose from 4 industrial stocks, 5 transportation stocks, and 3 utility stocks, how many different combinations of 7 stocks are possible? --
Find the odd man out 3,12, 24,48, 56, 96
Two bullet train s 140 m and 210 m long run at the speed of 60 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively in opposite directions on parallel tracks. The time (in seconds) which they take to cross each other, is:
A can do a piece of work in 10 days and B can do it in 15 days and C can do it 20 days. They started the work together and A & B leaves after 2 days simultaneously from the beginning. How long will work lost?
A computer system uses alphanumeric case sensitive characters for its passwords. When the system was created it required users to create passwords having 4 characters in length. This year, it added the option of creating passwords having 5 characters in length. Which of the following gives the expression for the total number of passwords the new computer system can accept? Assume there are 65 unique alphanumeric case sensitive characters.
155 liters of a mixture of milk and water contains in the ratio 3:2. How much water should now be added so that the ratio of milk and water becomes 3:4?
Let a be a positive integer. If q is divisible by 2^a and q is also divisible by 3^(2a), then it is possible that q is NOT divisible by
A small, experimental plane has three engines, one of which is redundant. That is, as long as two of the engines are working, the plane will stay in the air. Over the course of a typical flight, there is a 1/3 chance that engine one will fail. There is a 55% probability that engine two will work. The third engine works only half the time. What is the probability that the plane will crash in any given flight?
A boat takes 90 minutes less to travel 36 miles downstream than to travel the same distance upstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 10 mph, the speed of the stream is
A boat goes 100 km downstream in 10 hours, and 75 m upstream in 15 hours. The speed of the stream is?
Find the value of 10 + 2 • (8 – 3)
A person crosses a 300 m long street in 4 minutes. What is his speed in km per hour?
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 Raja,Kamal, Baskar, and Dinesh get lockers with the numbers 100, 400, 150, and 420, respectively, who is the most popular student?
The radius of a wheel is 25.4 cm. What is the distance covered by the wheel in making 500 resolutions?
5 men are equal to as many women as are equal to 8 boys. All of them earn Rs.90 only. Men’s wages are?
Two brothers took the exam, the higher score is X and the lower one is Y. If the difference between the two scores is equal to their average, what is the value of Y/X ?
The numbers in which of the following pairs do NOT have a pair of distinct prime divisors in common?
Rahul went to a shop and bought things worth Rs. 28, out of which 30 Paise went on sales tax on taxable purchases. If the tax rate was 6%, then what was the cost of the tax free items?
Two vessels P and Q contain 62.5% and 87.5% of alcohol respectively. If 2 litres from vessel P is mixed with 4 litres from vessel Q, the ratio of alcohol and water in the resulting mixture is?
A walks around a circular field at the rate of one round per hour while B runs around it at the rate of three rounds per hour. They start in the same direction from the same point at 7.30 a.m. They shall first cross each other after ___ minutes?
0, 1, 5, 14, 30, ____
What is the least number of digits (including repetitions) needed to express 10^300 in decimal notation?
A train 120 meters long takes 6 seconds to cross a man walking at 5 kmph in the direction opposite to that of the train. Find the speed of the train.
A boat can move upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 31 kmph, then the speed of the current is?
9 - 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1 = ?
In the last set of tests, a student scored marks in each of 5 subjects in the ratio 4:5:6:7:8 and got an overall average score of 72%. If a mark of 50% in a subject is a pass and the maximum marks of each subject is the same, how many subjects did the student pass?
A basket contains 7 apples, of which 1 is spoiled and the rest are good. If we select 2 apples from the basket simultaneously and at random, what is the probability that the 2 apples selected will include the spoiled apple?
Find the number of elements in the power set of {1,2}
A “Sophie Germain” prime is any positive prime number p for which 2p + 1 is also prime. The product of all the possible units digits of Sophie Germain primes greater than 8 is
The perimeter of a triangle is 28 cm and the inradius of the triangle is 2.5 cm. What is the area of the triangle?
A newly-wed couple is using a website to design an eBook Wedding Album to distribute to their friends and families. The template they have chosen has places for 3 large photos and 19 smaller photos. The couple has 5 large photos they could use for those three slots, and 21 smaller photos they could use for those 19 slots. Given these choices, how many different possible albums could they create?
Two cars start from the same places in opposite directions. One is going towards north at 60 kmph and the other is going towards south 40kmph. What time will they take to be 100km apart?
Two teams are distributing information booklets. Team A distributes 60% more boxes of booklets than Team Z, but each box of Team A’s has 60% fewer booklets than each box of Team Z’s. Which of the following could be the total number of booklets distributed by the two groups?
Which of the following can be expressed as a terminating decimal?
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 40 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
Oranges are bought at 7 for Rs.3. At what rate per hundred must they be sold to gain 33%?
The prices of tea and coffee per kg were the same in june. In july the price of coffee shot up by 20% and that of tea dropped by 10%. if in july , a mixture containing equal quantities of tea and coffee costs 50/kg. how much did a kg of coffee cost in june ?
A box contains nine bulbs out of which 4 are defective. If four bulbs are chosen at random, find the probability that all the four bulbs are defective?
The average of 12 result is 55. Average of the first 6 of them is 42 and that of the last 6 is 48. Find the 8th result?
After replacing an old member by a new member, it was found that the average age of five members of a club is the same as it was 3 years ago. What is the difference between the ages of the replaced and the new member ?
If x = a!, which of these following values of a is the least possible value (in this list) for which the last 8 digits of the integer x will all be zero?
Sreedhar and Sravan together can do a work in 25 days. With the help of Pavan, they completed the work in 8 days and earned Rs. 225. What is the share of Sravan, if Sreedhar alone can do the work in 75 days?
If logx y =100 and log2 x =10, then the values of y is
P can lay railway track between two stations in 16 days. Q can do the same job in 12 days. With the help of R, they completes the job in 4 days. How much days does it take for R alone to complete the work?
In how many ways can a committee consisting of 4 men and 5 women be formed from a group of 7 men and 7 women?
Each week, Harry is paid x dollars per hour for the first 24 hours and 1.5x dollars for each additional hour worked that week. Each week, James is paid x dollars per per hour for the first 40 hours and 2x dollars for each additional hour worked that week. Last week James worked a total of 41 hours If Harry and James were paid the same amount last week, how many hours did Harry work last week ?
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 1/8 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?
To produce an annual income of Rs. 800 from a 8% stock at 90, What is the amount of stock needed?
In Arun’s opinion, his weight is greater than 65 kg but less than 72 kg. His brother doest not agree with Arun and he thinks that Arun’s weight is greater than 60 kg but less than 70 kg. His mother’s view is that his weight cannot be greater than 68 kg. If all are them are correct in their estimation, what is the average of different probable weights of Arun?
The difference in compound interest earned on a deposit (compounded annually) in year 1 and year 2 is $ 40. Had the interest rate been three times its present value, the difference would have been how much?
Carrie likes to buy t-shirts at the local clothing store. They cost $9.95 each. One day, she bought 20 t-shirts. How much money did she spend?
A man can row at 5 kmph in still water. If the velocity of current is 1 kmph and it takes him 2 hour to row to a place and come back, how far is the place?
A van takes 5 hours to cover a distance of 600 km. What speed in kph should the van maintain to cover the same distance in 3/2 of the previous time?
The sum of the ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 year each is 50 year. what is the age of the eldest child ?
A batsman makes a score of 110 runs in the 11th inning and thus increases his average by 5. Find his average after 11th inning.
In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'CORPORATION' be arranged so that the vowels always come together?
In a factory, there are 80% technicians and 20% non-technicians. If the 80% of the technicians and 20% of non-technicians are permanent employees, then the percentage of workers who are temporary is?
One-third of Rahul's savings in National Savings Certificate is equal to one-half of his savings in Public Provident Fund. If he has Rs. 1,80,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in Public Provident Fund?
The average of six numbers is x and the average of three of these is y. If the average of the remaining three is z, then
In how many ways 2 students can be chosen from the class of 20 students?
1939392 * 625
In how many different number of ways 4 man and 3 woman can sit on a bench such that girls always sit together.
Two employees X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 440 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week?
Find the greatest number that will divide 43, 91 and 183 so as to leave the same remainder in each case
10 women can complete a work in 7 days and 10 children take 14 days to complete the work. How many days will 5 women and 10 children take to complete the work?
A cube of side one meter length is cut into small cubes of side 20 cm each. How many such small cubes can be obtained?
A man sold 18 toys for Rs. 25200, gaining thereby the cost price of 3 toy find the cost price of a toy
If in a certain sequence of consecutive multiples of 50, the median is 625, and the greatest term is 850, how many terms that are smaller than 625 are there in the sequence?
23,8,34,81,33,...
If 2ab - 3c = 2a(b - c), which of the following must be true?
Anita has 360 apples. There are 60 students are studying in her class. She would like to give each student the same amount of apples, how much should she give to each student?