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in the coordinate plane a slope of the line k is 0.5 times the y - intercept of the line k . what is the x - intercept of the line k ?
0general
a metallic sheet is of rectangular shape with dimensions 48 m x 36 m . from each of its corner , a square is cut off so as to make an open box . if the length of the square is 8 m , the volume of the box ( in m 3 ) is
3geometry
a motorboat can go at 21 kmph and still water . it takes 7 hours to row from a to b and back . what is the distance between a and b if the speed of the stream is 3 kmph ?
1physics
the sum of all the digits of the integers from 18 to 21 inclusive is 24 ( 1 + 8 + 1 + 9 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 24 ) . what is the sum r of all the digits of the integers from 0 to 99 inclusive ?
0general
a total of $ 20,000 was invested in two certificates of deposit at simple annual interest rates of 4 percent and 8 percent , respectively . if the total interest on the two certificates was $ 1,440 at the end of one year , what fractional part of the $ 20.000 was invested at the higher rate ?
2gain
in traveling from a dormitory to a certain city , a student went 1 / 5 of the way by foot , 2 / 3 of the way by bus , and the remaining 6 kilometers by car . what is the distance , in kilometers , from the dormitory to the city ?
1physics
when positive integer x is divided by positive integer y , the remainder is 9 . if x / y = 96.12 , what is the value of y ?
0general
tom read a book containing 1000 pages by reading the same number of pages each day . if he would have finished the book 5 days earlier by reading 15 pages a day more , how many days did tom spend reading the book ?
0general
find the compound interest on $ 16,000 at 20 % per annum for 9 months , compounded quarterly
2gain
the number of students in each section of a school is 24 . after admitting new students , three new sections were started . now , the total number of sections is 16 and there are 21 students in each section . the number of new students admitted is :
1physics
a man crosses a 600 m long street in 5 minutes . what is his speed in km per hour ?
1physics
if the sum of the 4 th term and the 12 th term of an arithmetic progression is 24 , what is the sum of the first 15 terms of the progression ?
0general
how many 4 - digit positive integers are there , where each digit is positive , and no 3 adjacent digits are same ?
0general
15 lts are taken of from a container full of liquid a and replaced with liquid b . again 15 more lts of the mixture is taken and replaced with liquid b . after this process , if the container contains liquid a and b in the ratio 9 : 16 , what is the capacity of the container w ?
0general
a number when divided by 45 , gives 30 as quotient and 0 as remainder . what will be the remainder when dividing the same number by 15
0general
a vendor buys 10 t - shirts at an average price of $ 14 per t - shirt . he then buys 15 more t - shirts at an average price of $ 11 per t - shirt . what is the average price s per t - shirt that the vendor paid for these purchases ?
0general
of the families in city x in 1904 , 50 percent owned a personal computer . the number of families in city x owning a computer in 1908 was 30 percent greater than it was in 1904 , and the total number of families in city x was 5 percent greater in 1908 than it was in 1904 . what percent of the families in city x owned a personal computer in 1908 ?
0general
a merchant marks his goods up by 40 % and then offers a discount of 20 % on the marked price . what % profit does the merchant make after the discount ?
2gain
the perimeter of a triangle is 36 cm and the in radius of the triangle is 2.5 cm . what is the area of the triangle ?
3geometry
during a certain two - week period , 70 percent of the movies rented from a video store were comedies , and of the remaining movies rented , there were 4 times as many dramas as action movies . if no other movies were rented during that two - week period and there were a action movies rented , then how many comedies , in terms of a , were rented during that two - week period ?
0general
there were two candidates in an election . winner candidate received 58 % of votes and won the election by 288 votes . find the number of votes casted to the winning candidate ?
2gain
4 / 15 of 5 / 7 of a number is greater than 4 / 9 of 2 / 5 of the same number by 8 . what is half of that number ?
0general
a producer of tea blends two varieties of tea from two tea gardens one costing rs 18 per kg and another rs 20 per kg in the ratio 5 : 3 . if he sells the blended variety at rs 20 per kg , then his gain percent is
2gain
what is the total number of y integers between 100 and 200 that are divisible by 3 ?
0general
if each participant of a chess tournament plays exactly one game with each of the remaining participants , then 136 games will be played during the tournament . find the number of participants .
0general
a , b and c can do a piece of work in 4 days , 8 days and 20 days respectively . how long will they taken , if all the three work together ?
1physics
for the past n days , the average ( arithmetic mean ) daily production at a company was 40 units . if today ' s production of 90 units raises the average to 45 units per day , what is the value of n ?
0general
in the johnsons ' monthly budget , the dollar amounts allocated to household expenses , food , and miscellaneous items are in the ratio 5 : 4 : 1 , respectively . if the total amount allocated to these 3 categories is $ 1800 , what is the amount allocated to food ?
0general
one ton has 2600 pounds , and one pound has 16 ounces . how many packets containing wheat weighing 16 pounds and 4 ounces each would totally fill a gunny bag of capacity 13 tons ?
0general
what is the remainder when 8 ^ 381 is divided by 5 ?
0general
the average age of students of a class is 15.8 years . the average age of boys in the class is 16.4 years and that of the girls is 15.4 years , the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in the class is
0general
in a certain boys camp , 20 % of the total boys are from school a and 30 % of those study science . if there are 35 boys in the camp that are from school a but do not study science then what is the total number of boys in the camp ?
2gain
of the female students at barkely university , 5 / 6 are on the honor roll . of the male students , 2 / 3 are on the honor roll . if 2 / 5 of the students are female , what fraction of all the students are on the honor roll ?
0general
a train running at the speed of 60 km / hr crosses a pole in 18 seconds . find the length of the train .
1physics
the length of rectangle is thrice its breadth and its perimeter is 88 m , find the area of the rectangle ?
3geometry
the ratio of the volumes of two cubes is 729 : 2197 . what is the ratio of their total surface areas ?
3geometry
a monkey ascends a greased pole 22 meters high . he ascends 2 meters in the first minute and then slips down 1 meter in the alternate minute . if this pattern continues until he climbs the pole , in how many minutes would he reach at the top of the pole ?
1physics
a can run 256 metre in 28 seconds and b in 32 seconds . by what distance a beat b ?
1physics
if | x | = 4 x - 2 , then x = ?
0general
two circular signs are to be painted . if the diameter of the larger sign is 7 times that of the smaller sign , how many times more paint is needed to paint the larger sign ? ( we can assume that a given amount of paint covers the same area on both signs . )
3geometry
when a merchant imported a certain item , he paid a 9 percent import tax on the portion of the total value of the item in excess of $ 1,000 . if the amount of the import tax that the merchant paid was $ 76.50 , what was the total value of the item ?
0general
a man swims downstream 40 km and upstream 30 km taking 5 hours each time , what is the speed of the man in still water ?
1physics
a train 125 m long passes a man , running at 8 km / hr in the same direction in which the train is going , in 10 seconds . the speed of the train is ?
1physics
85 % of a number is added to 24 , the result is the same number . find the number ?
2gain
the ratio of 2 numbers is 1 : 2 and their h . c . f . and l . c . m are 10 and 20 . find the numbers .
5other
if x is 20 percent greater than 88 , then x =
0general
set a consists of all the prime numbers between 15 and 36 . what is the range of set a ?
0general
in one hour , a boat goes 21 km along the stream and 9 km against the stream . the speed of the boat in still water ( in km / hr ) is :
1physics
in the faculty of reverse - engineering , 226 second year students study numeric methods , 423 second year students study automatic control of airborne vehicles and 134 second year students study them both . how many students are there in the faculty if the second year students are approximately 70 % of the total ?
0general
machines x and y produce bottles at their respective constant rates . machine x produces k bottles in 6 hours and machine y produces k bottles in 12 hours . how many hours does it take machines x and y , working simultaneously , to produce 24 k bottles ?
1physics
on the number line , if x is halfway between - 4 and 4 , and if y is halfway between - 2 and 6 , what number is halfway between x and y ?
0general
5 % people of a village in sri lanka died by bombardment , 15 % of the remainder left the village on account of fear . if now the population is reduced to 3294 , how much was it in the beginning ?
0general
tanks a and b are each in the shape of a right circular cylinder . the interior of tank a has a height of 6 meters and a circumference of 8 meters , and the interior of tank b has a height of 8 meters and a circumference of 10 meters . the capacity of tank a is what percent of the capacity of tank b ?
1physics
the number of singles that a baseball player hit increased 12 percent from her first season to her second season , and the number of doubles that she hit in the same time period decreased by 2 percent . if the total number of singles and doubles that she hit increased 2 percent from her first season to her second season , what is the ratio of the number of singles she hit in her first season to the number of doubles she hit in her first season ?
0general
on the independence day , bananas were be equally distributed among the children in a school so that each child would get two bananas . on the particular day 350 children were absent and as a result each child got two extra bananas . find the actual number of children in the school ?
0general
every digit of a number written in binary is either 0 or 1 . to translate a number from binary , multiply the nth digit ( reading from right to left ) by 2 ^ ( n - 1 ) what is the largest prime number ( written in binary ) that is a factor of both 10010000 and 100100000 ?
0general
a cistern is normally filled in 8 hours but takes two hours longer to fill because of a leak in its bottom . if the cistern is full , the leak will empty it in ?
1physics
find the distance covered by a man walking for 24 min at a speed of 10 km / hr ?
1physics
the diagonals of a rhombus are 30 cm and 20 cm . find its area ?
3geometry
at what price must an article costing rs . 50 be marked in order that after deducting 10 % from the list price . it may be sold at a profit of 25 % on the cost price ?
2gain
every letter in the alphabet has a number value that is equal to its place in the alphabet . thus , the letter a has a value of 1 , the letter b has a value of 2 , the letter c has a value of 3 , etc . . . the number value of a word is obtained by adding up the value of the letters in the word and then multiplying that sum by the length of the word . what is the number value of the word ` ` cat ' ' ?
0general
a man two flats for $ 512456 each . on one he gains 20 % while on the other he loses 20 % . how much does he gain or lose in the whole transaction ?
2gain
a train travels 225 km in 3.5 hours and 370 km in 5 hours . find the average speed of train .
1physics
the cash difference between the selling prices of an article at a profit of 4 % and 8 % is rs 3 . the ratio of two selling prices is
2gain
if | 4 x + 6 | = 36 , then find the sum of the values of x ?
0general
the speed of a boat in still water in 42 km / hr and the rate of current is 8 km / hr . the distance travelled downstream in 44 minutes is :
1physics
an article is sold at a certain price . by selling it at 2 / 3 of that price one loses 10 % . find the gain percent at original price .
2gain
120 + 520 ÷ 5.00 = ?
0general
if 50 apprentices can finish a job in 4 hours , and 30 journeymen can finish the same job in 6 hours , how much of the job should be completed by 10 apprentices and 15 journeymen in one hour ?
1physics
a shopkeeper sells 600 metres of cloth for rs . 36000 at a loss of rs . 10 per metre . find his cost price for one metre of cloth ?
2gain
how long will take a leak at the bottom of a tank to empty it if it will take 8 hours to fill it without the leak , but due to the leak it will take 9 hours to be filled ?
1physics
on a sum of money , the simple interest for 2 years is rs . 325 , while the compound interest is rs . 340 , the rate of interest being the same in both the cases . the rate of interest is
2gain
a reduction of 20 % in the price of salt enables a lady to obtain 10 kgs more for rs . 400 , find the original price per kg ?
2gain
the product of a and b is equal to 1 more than twice the sum of a and b . if b = 7 , what is the value of b - a ?
0general
he greatest possible length which can be used to measure exactly the lengths 7 m , 3 m 85 cm , 12 m 95 cm is :
1physics
12 is 6 % of a , and 6 is 12 % of b . c equals b / a . what is the value of c ?
0general
( 17 ) 4.5 x ( 17 ) ? = 178
0general
working alone , printers x , y , and z can do a certain printing job , consisting of a large number of pages , in 15 , 10 , and 20 hours , respectively . what is the ratio of the time it takes printer x to do the job , working alone at its rate , to the time it takes printers y and z to do the job , working together at their individual rates ?
0general
excluding stoppages , the speed of a train is 35 kmph and including stoppages it is 22 kmph . of how many minutes does the train stop per hour ?
1physics
jane and thomas are among the 7 people from which a committee of 3 people is to be selected . how many different possible committees of 3 people can be selected from these 7 people if at least one of either jane or thomas is to be selected ?
4probability
the rate of interest on a sum of money is 8 % p . a . for the first 3 years , 4 % p . a . for the next 4 years , and 5 % for the period beyond 7 years . if the s . i , occured on the sum for the total period of 8 years is rs . 540 / - , the sum is
0general
a team of 8 persons joins in a shooting competition . the best marksman scored 85 points . if he had scored 92 points , the average score for the team would have been 84 . the number of points , the team scored was
0general
if tim had lunch at $ 50.50 and he gave 15 % tip , how much did he spend ?
2gain
if the numbers 1 to 98 are written on 98 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 ?
5other
if ( x + 3 ) ^ 2 / ( 3 x + 65 ) = 2 , then the difference between the two possible values of x is :
0general
if there are only 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in a school located at the heart of the city , find the number of 4 wheelers parked there if the total number of wheels is 70 ?
0general
on a purchase of $ 112 , a store offered a payment plan consisting of a $ 12 down payment and 12 monthly payments of $ 10 each . what percent of the purchase price , to the nearest tenth of a percent , did the customer pay in interest by using this plan ?
2gain
john bought 9.25 m of cloth for $ 425.50 . find the cost price per metre .
1physics
a dog is tied to a tree by a long nylon cord . if the dog runs from the due north side of the tree to the due south side of the tree with the cord extended to its full length at all items , and the dog ran approximately 30 feet , what was the approximate length of the nylon cord e , in feet ?
0general
a can go round a circular path 8 times in 40 minutes . if the diameter of the circle is increased to 10 times the original diameter , then the time required by a to go round the new path once , travelling at the same speed as before is
1physics
find compound interest on rs . 8000 at 15 % per annum for 2 years 4 months , compounded annually .
2gain
x is the product of each integer from 1 to 75 , inclusive and y = 100 ^ k , where k is an integer . what is the greatest value of k for which y is a factor of x ?
0general
a will was written such that an estate would be divided among 3 guys with the remainder donated to charity . one stipulation in the will is that no one from the guys can receive an amount within 30 % of another ' s amount . if one of the guys received $ 20000 , what is the smallest possible range between the highest and lowest amounts ( rounded to the nearest dollar ) among the 3 guys ?
0general
find 40 % of 440
2gain
in a class of 20 students , 2 students did not borrow any books from the library , 8 students each borrowed 1 book , 5 students each borrowed 2 books , and the rest of the students each borrowed at least 3 books . if the average ( arithmetic mean ) number of books borrowed per student was 2 , what is the maximum number of books that any single student could have borrowed ?
0general
mukesh borrowed a sum of rs . 10000 at simple interest from a bank . after two years he takes rs . 12000 more as loan and discharge all the debt at the end of next 3 years depositing rs . 27160 to the bank . what is the rate of interest per annum ?
0general
a player holds 13 cards of 4 suits , of which 7 are black and 6 are red . there are twice as many diamonds as spades and twice as many hearts as diamonds . how many clubs does he hold
4probability
a worker can load one truck in 6 hours . a second worker can load the same truck in 8 hours . if both workers load one truck simultaneously while maintaining their constant rates , approximately how long , in hours , will it take them to fill one truck ?
1physics
here is a simple arithmetical puzzle in his own flowery , poetical language . if one - fifth of a hive of bees flew to the badamba flower , one - third flew to the slandbara , 3 times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour , and one bee continued to fly about , attracted on each side by the fragrant ketaki and malati , what was the total number of bees ?
0general
the largest 5 digit number exactly divisible by 91 is ?
0general