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An 80-liter solution of cool-drink is made from 10% jasmine water. If 8 liters of jasmine and 12 liters of water were added to the solution, what percent of the solution is jasmine?
The ratio of two numbers is 2 : 3 and their H.C.F. is 6. Their L.C.M. is
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?
In a certain store, the profit is 320% of the cost. If the cost increases by 25% but the selling price remains constant, approximately what percentage of the selling price is the profit?
If the sum of the first n positive integers is x, then which of the following is the sum of the first 2n even positive integers?
Two trains 140 m and 160 m 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?
A and B can do a piece of work in 6 2/3 days and 5 days respectively. They work together for 2 days and then A leaves. In how many days after that B will complete the work alone.
If x ≠ 0 and x - (2- x^2)/x = y/x, then y =
If takes 25.5 minutes to download a file using Modem A. Modem B work at 17% of the speed of Modem A. How long does it take to download a file using a Modem B?
If the selling price of 5 books is same as the cost price of 10 books. Find the gain or loss percentage?
Two trains of equal length, running with the speeds of 50 and 40 kmph, take 50 seconds to cross each other while they are running in the same direction. What time will they take to cross each other if they are running in opposite directions?
A man is 24 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of the son is:
if b is a positive integer greater than 8, which of the following must be divisible by 4?
The percentage increase in the area of a rectangle, if each of its sides is increased by 20% is:
3,9,27,81,....
A student scored an average of 80 marks in 3 subjects: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. If the average marks in Physics and Mathematics is 90 and that in Physics and Chemistry is 70, what are the marks in Physics?
A group of college friends plan to rent a house together for x dollars per month, which is to be shared equally among them. If five, rather than six people rent the house together, how many more dollars, in terms of x, will each person have to pay for rent per month?
If P represents the product of the first 13 positive integers, which of the following must be true? I. P is an even number II. P is a multiple of 6 III. P is a multiple of 24
The price of 5 kilograms of premium fertilizer is the same as the price of 8 kilograms of regular fertilizer. If the price of premium fertilizer is y cents per kilogram more than the price of regular fertilizer, what is the price, in cents, per kilogram of premium fertilizer?
s(n) is a n-digit number formed by attaching the first n perfect squares, in order, into one integer. For example, s(1) = 1, s(2) = 14, s(3) = 149, s(4) = 14916, s(5) = 1491625, etc. How many digits Q are in s(99)?
If 6 (A's capital) = 8 (B's capital) = 10 (C's capital). Then the ratio of their capitals is?
A pizzeria in Castroville creates its own special blend of shredded cheese at a cost of $696.05 per kilogram. The blend includes Mozzarella, at $504.35 per kilogram, and Romano cheese, at $887.75 per kilogram. If the employees have already shredded 19 kilograms of Mozzarella cheese, how many kilograms of Romano cheese will they need to shred now?
A sum of money becomes triple itself in 16 years. In how many years will it become 5 times at the same rate?
How many positive integers less than 50 are multiples of 6 but NOT multiples of 8?
Find the area of the quadrilateral of one of its diagonals is 30 cm and its off sets 10 cm and 6 cm?
A heap of coconuts is divided into groups of 2, 3 and 5 and each time one coconut is left over. The least number of Coconuts in the heap is? A. 31 B. 41 C. 51 D. 61
Which of the following is the sum of all the even numbers between 1 and 93, inclusive?
A cube is divided into 216 identical cubelets. Each cut is made parallel to some surface of the cube. But before doing that, the cube is painted with green on one set of opposite faces, red on another set of opposite faces, and blue on the third set of opposite faces. How many cubelets are painted with exactly one colour?
A man engaged a servant on the condition that he would pay him Rs.710 and a uniform after a year service. He served only for 8 months and got Rs.460 and a uniform. Find the price of the uniform?
Tanya prepared 4 different letters to 3 different addresses. For each letter, she prepared one envelope with its correct address. If the 4 letters are to be put into the four envelopes at random, what is the probability that only one letter will be put into the envelope with its correct address?
Set R has a mean of 11 and a standard deviation of 1.5. We are going to add two additional numbers to Set S. Which pair of numbers would decrease the standard deviation the most?
There are 9 orators A, B, C, D, E, F, G,H and I. In how many ways can the arrangements be made so that A always comes before B and B always comes before C.
A circular rim A having a diameter of 24 inches is rotating at the rate of x inches/min. Another circular rim B with a diameter of 30 inches is rotating at the rate of y inches/min. What is the value of y in terms of x, if both the rims reach their starting positions at the same time after every rotation.
What is the value of 1×1!+2×2!+3!×3!+............n×n!;where n! means n factorial or n(n−1)(n−2)...1
Fortuner, the latest SUV by Toyota Motors, consumes diesel at the rate of 1400×[1000x+x]1400×[1000x+x] litres per km, when driven at the speed of xx km per hour. If the cost of diesel is Rs 35 per litre and the driver is paid at the rate of Rs 125 per hour then find the approximate optimal speed (in km per hour) of Fortuner that will minimize the total cost of the round trip of 800 kms?
The ratio of two numbers is 3:4 and their sum is 21. The greater of the two numbers is?
A plane flies 880 km with the wind and 720 km against the wind in the same length of time. If the speed of the wind is 20 km/h, what is the speed of the plane in still air?
Two trains, each 100 meters long, moving in opposite directions, completely pass each other in 24 seconds. If one train is moving twice as fast the other, then what is the speed of the faster train (in km/hr)?
We can rent a cabin for x dollars per day for the first 5 days and then y dollars for each additional day. How much will it cost to rent a cabin for z days, where z>5?
If 4a – 2b – 2c = 32 and √3a-√(2b+2c)=4, what is the value of a + b + c?
By selling a book for 290, 20% profit was earned. What is the cost price of the book?
One year payment to the servant is Rs. 200 plus one shirt. The servant leaves after 9 months and receives Rs. 120 and a shirt.Then find the price of the shirt.
Three friends Ram, Rahul and Raj divide $1000 amongs them in such a way that if $1, $2 and $8 are removed from the sums that Ram, Rahul and Raj received respectively, then the share of the sums that they got will be in the ratio of 6 : 7 : 10. How much did Raj receive?
What is the smallest possible common multiple of three integers, all larger than 22?
The annual birth and death rate in a country per 1000 are 39.4 and 19.4 respectively . the number of years R in which the population would be doubled assuming there is no emigration or immigration is
If Jan 1, 2006 was a Friday, What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
A 6-liter solution is 35% alcohol. How many liters of pure alcohol must be added to produce a solution that is 50% alcohol?
At what rate of interest (compounded yearly)will Rs.10,000 amount to Rs.12100 in 2 years?
A thief is spotted by a policeman from a distance of 160 meters. When the policeman starts the chase, the thief also starts running. If the speed of the thief be 8km/hr and that of the policeman 10 km/hr, how far the thief will have run before he is overtaken?
A watch passes through three hands and each gains 25%. If the 3rd sells it for Rs250, what did the 1st pay for it?
A man can row upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 35 kmph, and then find the speed of the man in still water?
((1^5m)/(5^5m))((1^18)/(4^18)) = 1/(2(10)^35) What is m?
Mary's income is 40 percent more than Tim's income, and Tim's income is 40 percent less than Juan's income. What percent of Juan's income is Mary's income?
What strength of 20 ml alcohol should be added to 10ml of 50% alcohol to get an average strength of 20% alcohol.
In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was:
How much is 80% of 45 is greater than 4/5 of 25?
A gets 3 times as much money as B gets, B gets only Rs.25 more then what C gets. The three gets Rs.695 in all. Find the share of B?
A train having a length of 240 m passes a post in 24 seconds. How long will it take to pass a platform having a length of 630 m?
In the coordinate plane, a circle centered on point (-3, 4) passes through point (1, 1). What is the area of the circle?
A coin is tossed two times. What is the probability that there is at the least one tail?
Two-third of a positive number and 144/216 of its reciprocal are equal. The number is:
A son and father goes for boating in river upstream . After rowing for 1 mile son notices the hat of his father falling in the river. After 5 min he tells his father that his hat has fallen. So they turn round and are able to pick the hat at the point from where they began boating after 5min. Find the speed of river in miles/hours ?
The balance of a trader weighs 20% less than it should. Still the trader marks up his goods to get an overall profit of 30%. What is the mark up on the cost price?
A bullet train 140 m long is running at 60 kmph. In how much time will it pass a platform 310 m long?
If a and b are integers and (2^a)(3^b) is a factor of 180^40, what is the largest possible value of ab?
Weight of M, D and I is 74. Sum of D and I is 46 greater than M. I is 60% less than D. What is D's weight.
A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 10 seconds. The speed of the train is:
A 300 meter long train crosses a platform in 39 seconds while it crosses a signal pole in 18 seconds. What is the length of the platform?
One fourth of one third of two fifth of a number is 15. What will be the 40% of that number is?
In a restaurant, the profit is 110% of the cost. If the cost increases by 12% but the selling price remains constant, approximately what percentage of the selling price is the profit?
A quadratic function f(x) attains a maximum of 3 at x = 1. The value of the function at x = 0 is 1. What is the value of f(x) at x = 10 ?
A began a business with Rs. 85,000. He was joined afterwards by B with Ks. 42,500. For how much period does B join, if the profits at the end of the year are divided in the ratio of 3 : 1 ?
Potato chips are on sale, buy 2 get 1 free. There are only 9 bags of chips left (4 plain and 5 bbq). A shopper randomly grabs 3 bags. What is the probability the shopper will grab exactly 3 bags of bbq chips?
A train 180 m long passed a pole in 3 sec. How long will it take to pass a platform 330 m long?
The average temperature of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 38∘ and that of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 40∘. If the temperature on Monday was 32∘, the temperature of Friday was :
The probability of a lottery ticket being a prized ticket is 0.2. When 4 tickets are purchased, the probability of winning a prize on atleast one ticket is?
18 beavers, working together in a constant pace, can build a dam in 12 hours. How many hours will it take 12 beavers that work at the same pace, to build the same dam?
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 meters) is?
A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 36 seconds. What is the length of the train?
What is the measure of the angle Y made by the diagonals of the any adjacent sides of a cube.
A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 40 years now, the son's age five years back was:
If the average of w, b, c, 14 and 15 is 12. What is the average value of w, b, c and 29
A train passes a station platform in 36 sec and a man standing on the platform in 20 sec. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr. What is the length of the platform?
n is an integer chosen at random from the set {5, 7, 9, 11 } p is chosen at random from the set {2, 4, 10, 14, 18} What is the probability that n + p = 13 ?
A tank contains 10,000 gallons of a solution that is 5 percent sodium chloride by volume. If 3,000 gallons of water evaporate from the tank, the remaining solution will be approximately what percent sodium chloride?
At a dinner party every two guests used a bowl of rice between them, every three guests used a bowl of dal between them and every four used a bowl of meat between them. There were altogether 65 dishes. How many guests were present at the party ?
Sylvia can buy watches at a price of M dollars per watch, which she marks up by a certain percentage before selling. If she makes a total profit of X by selling Y watches, then in terms of M and X and Y, what is the percent of the markup from her buy price to her sell price?
What profit percent is made by selling an article at a certain price, if by selling at 2/3rd of that price, there would be a loss of 14%?
Find the smallest four-digit number which is a multiple of 112.
25% of 30% of 45% is equal to?
A watch which gains uniformly ,is 5 min,slow at 8 o'clock in the morning on sunday and it is 5 min 48 sec.fast at 8 p.m on following sunday. when was it correct?
Tom, who has 50 math questions, will get 7 points per question if he chooses a correct answer. If he chooses a wrong answer to a question or skips one, he will lose 2 points per question. Then, which of the following can be the score if he solves all the 50 questions?
In how many different number of ways 5 boys and 3 girls can sit on a bench?
If selling price of an article is Rs. 250, profit percentage is 25%. Find the ratio of the cost price and the selling price
If n is a natural number, then 6n^ 2 + 6n is always divisible by?
If the sum of two numbers is 45 and the H.C.F and the sum of the reciprocals of the numbers are 3 and 103/100 respectively, then the LCM of the numbers is equal to:
A lemonade stand sold only small and large cups of lemonade on Tuesday. 2/5 of the cups sold were small and the rest were large. If the large cups were sold for 7/6 as much as the small cups, what fraction of Tuesday's total revenue was from the sale of large cups?
Light glows for every 15 seconds . How many times did it between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am
A 250m long train is travelling at 30km/hr. Another 200m long train travelling at 40km/hr in the same direction overtakes it. How long would it take to pass the first train completely?
A boy is traveling from his house to school at 3km/hr and reached school 9minutes late. Next day he traveled 4km/hr and reached 6minutes early. Then find the distance between house and school?