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the time taken by a man to row his boat upstream is twice the time taken by him to row the same distance downstream . if the speed of the boat in still water is 57 kmph , find the speed of the stream ?
1physics
a dishonest dealer professes to sell goods at the cost price but uses a weight of 650 grams per kg , what is his percent ?
2gain
the slant height of a cone is 12 cm and radius of the base is 4 cm , find the curved surface of the cone .
3geometry
what is the remainder when ( 55 ) ( 57 ) is divided by 7 ?
0general
the sum of ages of 4 children born 2 years different each is 40 yrs . what is the age of the elder child ?
0general
the ratio , by volume , of bleach to detergent to water in a certain solution is 2 : 40 : 100 . the solution will be altered so that the ratio of bleach to detergent is tripled while the ratio of detergent to water is halved . if the altered solution will contain 200 liters of water , how many liters of detergent will it contain ?
5other
a tank is 25 m long 12 m wide and 6 m deep . the cost of plastering its walls and bottom at 75 paise per sq m is
1physics
it takes printer a 4 more minutes more than printer b to print 40 pages . working together , the two printers can print 50 pages in 6 minutes . how long will it take printer a to print 140 pages ?
1physics
there is a total of 100 marbles in a box , each of which is red , green , blue , or white . if one marble is drawn from the box at random , the probability that it will be white is 1 / 4 and the probability that it will be green is 1 / 5 . what is the probability that the marble will be either red or blue ?
0general
you and your friend spent a total of $ 11 for lunch . your friend spent $ 3 more than you . how much did your friend spend on their lunch ?
0general
what is the square root of 9 ?
5other
3 business people wish to invest in a new company . each person is willing to pay one third of the total investment . after careful calculations , they realize that each of them would pay $ 2200 less if they could find two more equal investors . how much is the total investment in the new business ?
0general
haresh went to buy fruits . she bought 1 apple , 3 bananas , 5 oranges and paid 21 rupees . another person bought 7 apple , 5 bananas , 3 oranges and paid 51 rupees . if i want to buy 1 apple , 1 banana , 1 orange then how much i have to pay ?
0general
5 cylinders are built successively , the first is 4 meters tall and the following cylinders are each 4 meters taller than the previous . if the perimeter is 10 pi m , what is the total surface area of the 5 cylinders , excluding the bases of each cylinder ?
3geometry
mahesh can do a piece of work in 60 days . he works at it for 20 days and then rajesh finished it in 30 days . how long will y take to complete the work ?
1physics
a land owner needs to fence his semicircular land leaving an opening of length of 3 m for access . the radius of the semicircular plot is 7 m . how long would be the fence in meters ?
1physics
two passenger trains start at the same hour in the day from two different stations and move towards each other at the rate of 16 kmph and 21 kmph respectively . when they meet , it is found that one train has travelled 60 km more than the other one . the distance between the two stations is ?
1physics
a contest will consist of n questions , each of which is to be answered eithertrueorfalse . anyone who answers all n questions correctly will be a winner . what is the least value of n for which the probability is less than 1 / 10000 that a person who randomly guesses the answer to each question will be a winner ?
0general
if a = 105 and a ^ 3 = 21 × 25 × 45 × q , what is the value of q ?
0general
what number should replace the question mark ? 5 , 24 , 11 , 20 , 17 , 16 , - - - ?
0general
the average ( arithmetic mean ) of 4 different integers is 72 . if the largest integer is 90 , what is the least possible value of the smallest integer ?
0general
stacy has a 66 page history paper due in 6 days . how many pages per day would she have to write to finish on time ?
1physics
jane makes toy bears . when she works with an assistant , she makes 80 percent more bears per week and works 10 percent fewer hours each week . having an assistant increases jane ’ s output of toy bears per hour by what percent w ?
1physics
diana took out a charge account at the general store and agreed to pay 7 % simple annual interest . if she charges $ 75 on her account in january , how much will she owe a year later , assuming she does not make any additional charges or payments ?
0general
a rower whose speed is 9 km / hr in still water rows to a certain point upstream and back to the starting point in a river which flows at 3 km / hr . what is the rower ' s average speed ( in km / hr ) for the total journey ?
0general
a man completes of a job in 10 days . at this rate , how many more days will it takes him to finish the job ?
2gain
in a sample of 800 high school students in which all students are either freshmen , sophomores , juniors , or seniors , 22 percent are juniors and 74 percent are not sophomores . if there are 160 seniors , how many more freshmen than sophomores are there among the sample of students ?
2gain
a student needs 60 % of the marks on a test to pass the test . if the student gets 80 marks and fails the test by 100 marks , find the maximum marks set for the test .
2gain
a football player scores 2 goals in his fifth match thus increasing his average goals score by 0.1 . the total number of goals in his 5 matches would be
0general
if the weight of 12 meters long rod is 14 kg . what is the weight of 6 meters long rod ?
1physics
a man can row downstream at 18 kmph and upstream at 16 kmph . find the speed of the man in still water and the speed of stream respectively ?
1physics
after giving a discount of rs . 45 the shopkeeper still gets a profit of 20 % , if the cost price is rs . 180 . find the markup % ?
2gain
if x , y , and z are positive integers and 3 x = 2 y = 4 z , then the least possible value of x + y + z is
0general
a train travelling 80 kmph to pass through a tunnel of 70 km at 5 : 12 am . the train leaves the tunnel at 5 : 18 am . find the length of train ?
1physics
if x is equal to the sum of the integers from 30 to 50 , inclusive , and y is the number of even integers from 30 to 50 , inclusive , what is the value of x + y ?
0general
of the 100 people in a room , 2 / 5 are women . if 1 / 4 of the people are married , what is the maximum number of women in the room who could be unmarried ?
0general
the length of the bridge , which a train 160 meters long and travelling at 45 km / hr can cross in 30 seconds , is :
1physics
yesterday ' s closing prices of 1,760 different stocks listed on a certain stock exchange were all different from today ' s closing prices . the number of stocks that closed at a higher price today than yesterday was 20 percent greater than the number that closed at a lower price . how many of the stocks closed at a higher price today than yesterday ?
2gain
if a certain toy store ' s revenue in november was 2 / 5 of its revenue in december and its revenue in january was 1 / 5 of its revenue in november , then the store ' s revenue in december was how many times the average ( arithmetic mean ) of its revenues in november and january ?
0general
john was thrice as old as tom 6 years ago . john will be 3 / 2 times as old as tom in 6 years . how old is tom today ?
0general
a rainstorm increased the amount of water stored in state j reservoirs from 130 billion gallons to 160 billion gallons . if the storm increased the amount of water in the reservoirs to 60 percent of total capacity , approximately how many billion gallons of water were the reservoirs short of total capacity prior to the storm ?
0general
what is the 8 th digit to the right of the decimal point in the decimal equivalent of 73 / 11 ?
0general
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 ?
0general
if p # q denotes the least common multiple of p and q , then p = ( ( 12 # 16 ) # ( 18 # 24 ) ) = ?
0general
if ( 18 ^ a ) * 9 ^ ( 3 a – 1 ) = ( 2 ^ 6 ) ( 3 ^ b ) and a and b are positive integers , what is the value of a ?
0general
there are 8 teams in a certain league and each team plays each of the other teams exactly twice . if each game is played by 2 teams , what is the total number of games played ?
0general
a shopkeeper buys mangoes at the rate of 4 a rupee and sells them at 3.5 a rupee . find his net profit or loss percent ?
2gain
solution a is made up of alcohol and water mixed in the ratio of 21 : 4 by volume ; solution b is made up of alcohol and water mixed in the ratio of 2 : 3 by volume . if solution a and solution b are mixed in the ratio of 5 : 6 by volume , what percent of the resultant mixture is alcohol ?
5other
at veridux corporation , there are 180 employees . of these , 90 are female , and the rest are males . there are a total of 40 managers , and the rest of the employees are associates . if there are a total of 135 male associates , how many female managers are there ?
0general
keats library purchases a number of new books , all in the category of biography , and the library does not acquire any other books . with the addition of the new biographies , the biography collection of the library amounts to 55 % of the total number of books in the library . if prior to the purchase , only 20 % of the books in keats library were biographies , by what percent has the number of biographies in the library increased ?
0general
after decreasing 24 % in the price of an article costs rs . 836 . find the actual cost of an article ?
2gain
two isosceles triangles have equal vertical angles and their areas are in the ratio 16 : 36 . find the ratio of their corresponding heights .
3geometry
in a weight - lifting competition , the total weight of joe ' s two lifts was 1500 pounds . if twice the weight of his first lift was 300 pounds more than the weight of his second lift , what was the weight , in pounds , of his first lift ?
0general
the cash realised on selling a 14 % stock is rs . 109.25 , brokerage being 1 / 4 % is
0general
if 47.5 % of the 880 students at a certain college are enrolled in biology classes , how many students at the college are not enrolled in a biology class ?
5other
two ships are sailing in the sea on the two sides of a lighthouse . the angle of elevation of the top of the lighthouse is observed from the ships are 30 ° and 45 ° respectively . if the lighthouse is 100 m high , the distance between the two ships is :
1physics
a tank can supply water to a village for 80 days . if a leak at the bottom of the tank drains out 10 liters per day , the supply lasts for 60 days only . for how many days will the supply last if the leak drains out 20 liters per day ?
1physics
a can do a work in 25 days and b can do it in 10 days . in how many days a and b can do the work ?
1physics
a ' and ' b ' are positive integers such that their lcm is 20 and their hcf is 1 . what is the difference between the maximum and minimum possible values of ' a - b ' ?
0general
the size of a television screen is given as the length of the screen ' s diagonal . if the screens were flat , then the area of a square 18 - inch screen would be how many square inches greater than the area of a square 16 - inch screen ?
3geometry
an alloy weighing 24 ounces is 70 percent gold . how many ounces of pure gold must be added to create an alloy that is 80 percent gold ?
2gain
find the principle on a certain sum of money at 5 % per annum for 2 2 / 5 years if the amount being rs . 1456 ?
0general
what is the 4 digit no . in which the 1 st digit is 1 / 3 of the second , the 3 rd is the sum of the 1 st and 2 nd , and the last is 3 times the second ?
0general
what number is 76 more than one - fourth of itself ?
0general
a certain shade of gray paint is obtained by mixing 3 parts of white paint with 5 parts of black paint . if 2 gallons of the mixture is needed and the individual colors can be purchased only in one gallon or half gallon cans , what is the least amount of paint w , in gallons , that must be purchased in order to measure out the portions needed for the mixture ?
0general
someone on a skateboard is traveling 15 miles per hour . how many feet does she travel in 30 seconds ? ( 1 mile = 5280 feet )
1physics
a company produces 72000 bottles of water everyday . if a case can hold 10 bottles of water . how many cases are required by the company to hold its one day production
1physics
the sum of 99 consecutive integers is 9999 . what is the greatest integer in the set ?
1physics
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 3.5 km long ?
1physics
the tax on a commodity is diminished by 20 % and its consumption increased by 15 % . the effect on revenue is ?
0general
the length of a rectangular floor is more than its breadth by 200 % . if rs . 484 is required to paint the floor at the rate of rs . 3 / sq m , what would be the length of the floor ?
2gain
a train running at the speed of 50 km / hr crosses a pole in 9 seconds . find the length of the train ?
1physics
the expression x # y denotes the product of the consecutive multiples of 3 between x and y , inclusive . what is the sum of the exponents in the prime factorization of 21 # 33 ?
0general
after decreasing 20 % in the price of an article costs rs . 620 . find the actual cost of an article ?
2gain
90 % of the population of a village is 23040 . the total population of the village is ?
0general
if y is the smallest positive integer such that 8,820 multiplied by y is the square of an integer , then y must be
3geometry
a train 100 m long crosses a platform 125 m long in 40 sec ; find the speed of the train ?
1physics
a group of men decided to do a work in 15 days , but 8 of them became absent . if the rest of the group did the work in 18 days , find the original number of men ?
1physics
x , y , and z are all unique numbers . if x is chosen randomly from the set { 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 } and y and z are chosen randomly from the set { 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 } , what is the probability that x and y are prime and z is not ?
4probability
a and b can do a piece of work in 2 days , b and c in 3 days , c and a in 4 days . how long will c take to do it ?
1physics
a tourist does not have to pay tax on the first $ 600 of goods he purchases in country b , but does have to pay a 12 percent tax on the portion of the total value that is in excess of $ 600 . what tax must be paid by a tourist if he buys goods with a total value of $ 1720 ?
0general
the area of one square is x ^ 2 + 10 x + 25 and the area of another square is 4 x ^ 2 − 20 x + 25 . if the sum of the perimeters of both squares is 36 , what is the value of x ?
0general
when magnified 1000 times by an electron microscope , the image of a certain circular piece of tissue has a diameter of 0.3 centimeter . the actual diameter of the tissue , in centimeters , is
3geometry
a group of n students can be divided into equal groups of 4 with 3 student left over or equal groups of 5 with 3 students left over . what is the sum of the two smallest possible values of n ?
0general
a 600 meter long train crosses a signal post in 40 seconds . how long will it take to cross a 9 kilometer long bridge , at the same speed ?
1physics
q - 1 : how many two digit numbers of distinct digits can be formed by using digits 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 such that the numbers are divisible by 5 ?
0general
a car travels at a speed of 65 miles per hour . how far will it travel in 9 hours ?
1physics
how many of the integers between 45 and 105 are even ?
0general
yearly subscription to professional magazines cost a company $ 940.00 . to make a 50 % cut in the magazine budget , how much less must be spent ?
0general
price of a book increases 15 % successively ( 2 times ) what is the new price of the book more compared to that of the old price :
0general
there are 7 fictions and 6 non - fictions . how many cases are there such that 2 fictions and 2 non - fictions are selected from them ?
0general
andrew purchased 6 kg of grapes at the rate of 74 per kg and 9 kg of mangoes at the rate of 59 per kg . how much amount did he pay to the shopkeeper ?
2gain
the ratio of the incomes of uma and bala is 4 : 3 and the ratio of their expenditure is 3 : 2 . if at the end of the year , each saves $ 5000 then the income of uma is ?
5other
3 / 4 of 1 / 2 of 2 / 5 of 5040 = ?
0general
there are 17 stations between hyderabad and bangalore . how many second class tickets have to be printed , so that a passenger can travel from any station to any other station ?
1physics
there are 18 stations between ernakulam and chennai . how many second class tickets have to be printed , so that a passenger can travel from one station to any other station ?
1physics
tickets numbered 1 to 30 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random . what is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5 ?
0general
a 160 meter long train crosses a man standing on the platform in 6 sec . what is the speed of the train ?
1physics
an alloy of copper and zinc contains copper and zinc in the ratio 6 : 4 . another alloy of copper and zinc contains copper and zinc in the ratio 3 : 7 . in what ratio should the two alloys be mixed so that the resultant alloy contains equal proportions of copper and zinc ?
0general
a tank contains 7,500 gallons of a solution that is 6 percent sodium chloride by volume . if 2,000 gallons of water evaporate from the tank , the remaining solution will be approximately what percent sodium chloride ?
2gain