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At a supermarket, John spent 1/2 of his money on fresh fruits and vegetables, 1/3 on meat products, and 1/10 on bakery products. If he spent the remaining $8 on candy, how much did John spend at the supermarket? Answer Choice: (A)  $60 (B)  $80 (C)  $90 (D)  $120 (E)  $180
Answer: D
The table below shows the enrollment in various classes at a certain college.
Class | Number of Students
Biology | 58
Physics | 35
Calculus | 40
Although no student is enrolled in all three classes, 15 are enrolled in both Biology and Physics, 10 are enrolled in both Biology and Calculus, and 12 are enrolled in both Physics and Calculus. How many different students are in the three classes? Answer Choice: (A) 51 (B) 88 (C) 90 (D) 96 (E) 162
Answer: D
How many words can be formed by using all the letters of the word “DAUGHTER” so that vowels always come together & vowels are never together? Answer Choice: (A) 2310 (B) 4510 (C) 5231 (D) 2351 (E) 4320
Answer: E
How many possible ways are there to select 3 stocks at random from 7 stocks? Answer Choice: (A) 26 (B) 29 (C) 32 (D) 35 (E) 38
Answer: D
If Raj walks at 12.5 km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he would have walked 6 km more. The actual distance traveled by him during this period is? Answer Choice: (A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 24
Answer: E
If the population of a certain country increases at the rate of one person every 30 seconds, by how many persons does the population increase in 10 minutes? Answer Choice: (A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 15 (D) 10 (E) 80
Answer: A
Length of a rectangular plot is 20 mtr more than its breadth. If the cost of fencin gthe plot at 26.50 per meter is Rs. 5300, what is the length of the plot in mtr? Answer Choice: (A) 45 m (B) 60 m (C) 57 m (D) 69 m (E) 78 m
Answer: B
The maximum number of students among them 1230 pens and 920 pencils can be distributed in such a way that each student gets the same number of pens and same number of pencils is: Answer Choice: (A) 91 (B) 10 (C) 1001 (D) 1911 (E) None of these
Answer: B
A train traveling at 100 kmph overtakes a motorbike traveling at 64 kmph in 85 seconds. What is the length of the train in meters? Answer Choice: (A) 400 meters (B) 1111 meters (C) 160 meters (D) 850 meters (E) None of these
Answer: D
The ratio of the incomes of Lakshmi and Latha is 5:4 and the ratio of their expenditure is 4:3. If at the end of the year, each saves $6000 then the income of Lakshmi is? Answer Choice: (A) $26000 (B) $20000 (C) $23000 (D) $25000 (E) $22000
Answer: D
If daily wages of a man is four times to that of a woman, how many men should work for 20 days to earn Rs.14400? Given that wages for 40 women for 30 days are Rs.21600. Answer Choice: (A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 20
Answer: A
One half of a two digit number exceeds its one third by 7. What is the sum of the digits of the number? Answer Choice: (A) A)3 (B) B)5 (C) C)7 (D) D)9 (E) E)10
Answer: E
Doug, who runs track for his high school,
was challenged to a race by his younger
brother, Matt. Matt started running first,
and Doug didn’t start running until Matt
had finished a quarter-mile lap on the
school track. Doug passed Matt as they
both finished their sixth lap. If both boys
ran at a constant speed, with Doug running
2 miles an hour faster than Matt, what was
Matt’s speed? Answer Choice: (A) 10.5 miles per hour (B) 10 miles per hour (C) 9 miles per hour (D) 8 miles per hour (E) 7.5 miles per hour
Answer: B
A person plans to start a business with x% of a list of 10,000 products in his inventory. Next year after a business loss, the person wants to reduce the list by (x − 4)%. In terms of x, how many products will be in the inventory? Answer Choice: (A) x*x – 4x (B) (x)(104 – x) (C) (100)(104 – x) (D) (100)(96 – x) (E) (x-4)/100
Answer: B
A grocer has 400 pounds of coffee in stock, 20 percent of which is decaffeinated. If the grocer buys another 100 pounds of coffee of which 60 percent is decaffeinated, what percent, by weight, of the grocer’s stock of coffee is decaffeinated? Answer Choice: (A) 28% (B) 30% (C) 32% (D) 34% (E) 40%
Answer: A
A father was as old as his son's present at the time of your birth. If the father's age is 38 years now, the son's age 5years back was? Answer Choice: (A) 10 years (B) 12 years (C) 14 years (D) 15 years (E) 16 years
Answer: C
If n is an integer and n^4 is divisible by 32, which of the following could be the remainder when n is divided by 32? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 10
Answer: B
The average monthly salary of 20 employees in an organisation is Rs. 1500. If the manager's salary is added, then the average salary increases by Rs. 100. What is the manager's monthly salary? Answer Choice: (A) 2000 (B) 3000 (C) 3600 (D) 4800 (E) 4000
Answer: C
n is a whole number which when divided by 4 gives 3 as remainder. What will be the remainder when 2n is divided by 4 ? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) 11
Answer: A
Find the value for m?
19(m + n) + 17 = 19(-m + n) - 59 Answer Choice: (A) 0 (B) -1 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) -2
Answer: E
In what time will a train 300 m long cross an electric pole, it its speed be 144 km/hr? Answer Choice: (A) 2.5 sec (B) 9.7 sec (C) 3.5 sec (D) 2.9 sec (E) 7.5 sec
Answer: E
24 = 3a + 5b
3 > |–a|
If ‘a’ and ‘b’ are both integers, then what is the highest possible values of ‘b’ that can be used to solve the above equation. Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
Answer: E
Two taps can separately fill a cistern 10 minutes and 15 minutes respectively and when the waste pipe is open, they can together fill it in 15 minutes. The waste pipe can empty the full cistern in? Answer Choice: (A) 10 min (B) 7 min (C) 5 min (D) 9 min (E) 4 min
Answer: A
A trader purchased two colour televisions for a total of Rs. 35000. He sold one colour television at 30% profit and the other 40% profit. Find the difference in the cost prices of the two televisions if he made an overall profit of 32%? Answer Choice: (A) Rs.21000 (B) Rs.21028 (C) Rs.21098 (D) Rs.21021 (E) Rs.21007
Answer: A
In August,a cricket team that played 120 matches won 28% of the games it played.After a continuous winning streak,this team raised its average to 52%.How many matches did the team win to attain this average? Answer Choice: (A) 40 (B) 52 (C) 60 (D) 80 (E) 98
Answer: C
If 13 lions can kill 13 deers in 13 minutes how long will it take 100 lions to kill 100 deers? Answer Choice: (A) 1 minutes (B) 13 minute (C) 100 minutes (D) 10000 minutes (E) 1000 minutes
Answer: B
In a class, the average age of 30 boys is 13 years and the average of 20 girls is 12 years. what is the average age of the whole class? Answer Choice: (A) 12 Years (B) 12.3 Years (C) 12.6 Years (D) 13 Years (E) 15 Years
Answer: C
How many positive three-digit integers are divisible by both 3 and 5? Answer Choice: (A) 50 (B) 60 (C) 65 (D) 70 (E) 80
Answer: B
Abel can complete a work in 10 days, Ben in 12 days and Carla in 15 days. All of them began the work together, but Abel had to leave after 3 days and Ben 4 days before the completion of the work. How long did the work last? Answer Choice: (A) 6 8/9 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
Answer: A
How many times are the hands of a clock at right angle in a day? Answer Choice: (A) 22 (B) 24 (C) 44 (D) 34 (E) 38
Answer: C
Townville has 100 residents, and 20 of them are females. If half of Townville’s male residents are smokers, and 1/2 of the female residents are smokers, which of the following represents the total number of Townville’s residents who are NOT smokers? Answer Choice: (A) 40 (B) 45 (C) 50 (D) 55 (E) 60
Answer: C
Two goods trains each 500 m long are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 45 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train to pass the driver of the faster one? Answer Choice: (A) 12 sec (B) 24 sec (C) 48 sec (D) 60 sec (E) 62 sec
Answer: C
A jeep takes 3 hours to cover a distance of 440 Km. how much should the speed in Kmph be maintained to cover the same direction in 1/2th of the previous time? Answer Choice: (A) 48 Kmph (B) 252 Kmph (C) 293 Kmph (D) 263 Kmph (E) 265 Kmph
Answer: C
There are 3 people A,B & C. Rs.700 is divided among A,B & C so that A receives 1/2 as much as B and B 1/2 as much as C. What is the C's share is? Answer Choice: (A) Rs.100 (B) Rs.200 (C) Rs.400 (D) Rs.500 (E) Rs.550
Answer: C
Foodmart customers regularly buy at least one of the following products: milk, chicken, or apples. 60% of shoppers buy milk, 50% buy chicken, and 35% buy apples. If 17% of the customers buy all 3 products, what percentage of Foodmart customers purchase exactly 2 of the products listed above? Answer Choice: (A) 5% (B) 13% (C) 21% (D) 11% (E) 30%
Answer: D
A cricket bat is sold for $900, making a profit of $225. The profit percentage would be Answer Choice: (A) 24% (B) 25.5% (C) 33.33% (D) 36.3% (E) 40%
Answer: C
BILAL spends 30% of his salary on house rent and 55% of the remaining money on food and clothes. He saves the remaining amount. If he saves ?59724 yearly, how much amount does he spend on food and clothes per month ? Answer Choice: (A) 5316 (B) 4792 (C) 5817 (D) 6080 (E) 6083
Answer: E
The angle of elevation of the sun, when the length of the shadow of a tree is √3 times the height of the tree is Answer Choice: (A) 30° (B) 45° (C) 60° (D) 90° (E) None
Answer: A
If the two-digit integers K and N are positive and have the same digits, but in reverse order, which of the following CANNOT be the sum of K and N? Answer Choice: (A) 181 (B) 165 (C) 121 (D) 99 (E) 44
Answer: A
For any real number x, the operatoris defined as:
(x) = x(3 − x)
If p + 1 =(p + 1), then p = Answer Choice: (A) −3 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 3
Answer: D
In how many different number of ways 5 boys and 2 girls can sit on a shopa which can accommodate persons? Answer Choice: (A) 180 (B) 190 (C) 200 (D) 210 (E) None
Answer: D
A train traveled the first d miles of its journey it an average speed of 60 miles per hour, the next d miles of its journey at an average speed of y miles per hour, and the final d miles of its journey at an average speed of 160 miles per hour. If the train’s average speed over the total distance was 98 miles per hour, what is the value of y? Answer Choice: (A)  68 (B)  84 (C)  90 (D)  120 (E)  125
Answer: E
The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular park is 3 : 2. If a man cycling along the boundary of the park at the speed of 12 km/hr completes one round in 9 minutes, then the area of the park (in sq. m) is: Answer Choice: (A) 153601 (B) 153600 (C) 153602 (D) 153603 (E) 194400
Answer: E
Of the 8 members of teacher in school, 5 can teach Physics, 7 can teach Math, and 4 can teach both subject. If one member is chosen at random, what is the probability that the member chosen will be someone who can not teach either subject? Answer Choice: (A) a) 5/18 (B) b) 7/18 (C) c) 1/2 (D) d) 0 (E) e) 13/18
Answer: D
In a certain Parallelogram the degree measure of one angle exceeds that of the other by 70 what is the degree measure of the smaller angle? Answer Choice: (A) 55 (B) 80 (C) 85 (D) 90 (E) 95
Answer: A
A man sells 45 lemons for Rs 40 and loses 20%. At how much price should he sell 24 lemons to the next customer to make a 20% profit? Answer Choice: (A) 37 (B) 299 (C) 72 (D) Rs 32 (E) 01
Answer: D
If M = 775 × 778 × 781, what is the remainder when M is divided by 14? Answer Choice: (A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
Answer: A
A tank is filled by three pipes with uniform flow. The first two pipes operating simultaneously fill the tank in the same time during which the tank is filled by the third pipe alone. The second pipe fills the tank 5 hours faster than the first pipe and 4 hours slower than the third pipe. The time required by the first pipe is: Answer Choice: (A) 15 hrs (B) 20 hrs (C) 25 hrs (D) 30 hrs (E) 10 hrs
Answer: A
6 women can do 75 units of work in 8 days by working 5hrs/day. In how many days can 4 women do 30 units of work by working 8hrs/day ? Answer Choice: (A) 3days (B) 4days (C) 5days (D) 6days (E) 7days
Answer: A
If a - b = 3 and a^2 + b^2 = 29, find the value of ab. Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 10 (D) 18 (E) 13
Answer: C
1,257
1,275
1,527
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+7,521
The addition problem above shows four of the 24 different integers that can be formed by using each of the digits 1,2,5 and 7 exactly once in each integer. What is the sum W of the 24 integers ? Answer Choice: (A)  26,996 (B)  44,406 (C)  60,444 (D)  66,660 (E)  99,990
Answer: E
In an exam, C scored 35 percent, D scored 65 percent and E 50 percent. The maximum score awarded in the exam is 2000. Find the average mark scored by all the three candidates? Answer Choice: (A) 100 (B) 500 (C) 1000 (D) 1500 (E) 2000
Answer: C
On multiplying a number by 7, the product is a number each of whose digits is 3. The smallest such number is: Answer Choice: (A) 47619 (B) 49619 (C) 47719 (D) 57619 (E) 47611
Answer: A
What is the sum of the odd integers from 55 to 65, inclusive? Answer Choice: (A) 495 (B) 360 (C) 555 (D) 600 (E) 605
Answer: B
If x = -5 and y = 8, what is the value of 2(x-y)^2 - xy ? Answer Choice: (A) 358 (B) 348 (C) 368 (D) 388 (E) 378
Answer: E
A cistern can be filled by a tap in 4 hours while it can be emptied by another tap in 11 hours. If both the taps are opened simultaneously, then after how much time will the cistern get filled? Answer Choice: (A) 6.24 (B) 7.4 (C) 7.92 (D) 6.28 (E) 7.24
Answer: D
If Mason is now twice as old as Gunther was 10 years ago, and G is Gunther's current age in years, which of the following represents the sum of Mason and Gunther's ages 10 years from now? Answer Choice: (A) 4G-8 (B) 3G (C) 2G-8 (D) AG-8 (E) 5F-2
Answer: B
A room is 6 meters 24 centimeters in length and 4 meters 32 centimeters in width. Find the least number of square tiles of equal size required to cover the entire floor of the room? Answer Choice: (A) 110 (B) 124 (C) 96 (D) 117 (E) 127
Answer: D
If the cp of 12 rubbers is equal to the sp of 8 rubbers, the gain %is ? Answer Choice: (A) 25% (B) 30% (C) 50% (D) 70% (E) 80%
Answer: C
If a: b :: 3 : 7, then what is (5a+6b): (a-3b)? Answer Choice: (A) -57:2 (B) -57:11 (C) 11 : 10 (D) -11 : 10 (E) -1 : 10
Answer: A
The speed of a train is 90 kmph. What is the distance covered by it in 10 minutes? Answer Choice: (A) 15 kmph (B) 8 kmph (C) 9 kmph (D) 1 kmph (E) 2 kmph
Answer: A
There are 690 male and female participants in a meeting. Half the female participants and one-quarter of the male participants are Democrats. One-third of all the participants are Democrats. How many of the Democrats are female? Answer Choice: (A) 75 (B) 100 (C) 115 (D) 175 (E) 225
Answer: C
If the price of a computer were reduced by 11 percent, which of the following could not be the final price of the computer? (Assume initial price to be integer in cents) Answer Choice: (A) $844.10 (B) $895.20 (C) $1,055.20 (D) $1,135.20 (E) $1,262.40
Answer: A
The ratio of the present ages of P and Q is 3:4. 5 years ago, the ratio of their ages was 5:7. Find the their present ages? Answer Choice: (A) 30, 40 (B) 30, 46 (C) 30, 49 (D) 30, 43 (E) 30, 43
Answer: A
Two cars cover the same distance at the speed of 62 and 64 kmps respectively. Find the distance traveled by them if the slower car takes 1 hour more than the faster car. Answer Choice: (A) 1873 (B) 1848 (C) 1984 (D) 1838 (E) 1939
Answer: C
In a 100 m race, A can beat B by 25 m and B can beat C by 4 m. In the same race, A can beat C by: Answer Choice: (A) 21 (B) 22 (C) 28 (D) 25 (E) 30
Answer: C
Tom found a box of 220 baseball cards. Being a thoughtful older brother, he wanted to save at least 50 percent of the cards for himself and split the remaining cards evenly among his 6 younger brothers. What is the lowest possible number of cards that Tom can save for himself that will also allow each of his 6 younger brothers to get an equal number of cards? Answer Choice: (A) 110 (B) 112 (C) 116 (D) 118 (E) 120
Answer: E
One half of a two digit number exceeds its one third by 6. What is the sum of the digits of the number? Answer Choice: (A) 9 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 5
Answer: A
In what ratio must rice at $9.30/kg be mixed with rice at $10.80/kg so that the mixture is worth $10/kg? Answer Choice: (A) 1:3 (B) 9:4 (C) 8:7 (D) 11:9 (E) 11:7
Answer: C
What is the difference between local value & face value of 9 in the numeral 65693? Answer Choice: (A) 84 (B) 89 (C) 81 (D) 90 (E) 10000
Answer: C
Anand finishes a work in 7 days, Bittu finishes the same job in 8 days and Chandu in 6 days. They take turns to finish the work. Anand on the first day, Bittu on the second and Chandu on the third day and then Anand again and so on. On which day will the work get over? Answer Choice: (A) 3rd (B) 6th (C) 9th (D) 7th (E) 8th
Answer: D
What is the sum of all the multiples of 12 between 30 and 200? Answer Choice: (A) 1648 (B) 1632 (C) 1626 (D) 1612 (E) 1800
Answer: B
How many paying stones, each measuring 2 1/2 m * 2 m are required to pave a rectangular court yard 50 m long and 16 1/2 m board? Answer Choice: (A) 99 (B) 18 (C) 165 (D) 10 (E) 15
Answer: C
4 buses runs between Chennai and Mysore. If a man goes from Chennai to Mysore by a bus and comes back to Mysore by another bus, then the total possible ways are Answer Choice: (A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) None of these
Answer: C
If 3x - y = 6 and x+2y = 8, then what is the value of 4x + y? Answer Choice: (A) 1/7 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 52/7 (E) 60/7
Answer: B
A group of 55 adults and 70 children go for trekking. If there is meal for either 70 adults or 90 children and if 21 adults have their meal, find the total number of children that can be catered with the remaining food. Answer Choice: (A) 33 (B) 54 (C) 63 (D) 17 (E) 01
Answer: C
If the number of 37,29n, where n represents the ones digit, is a multiple of 3, then the value of n could be which of the following? Answer Choice: (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
Answer: C
What will the ratio of simple interest earned by certain amount at the same rate of interest for 6 years and that for 9 years. Answer Choice: (A) 1:2 (B) 2:1 (C) 2:2 (D) 2:3 (E) None of these
Answer: D
Each book on a certain shelf is labeled by a single category. For every 2 history books, there are 7 fantasy books and for every 3 fantasy books, there are 8 reference books. If the proportion of history to reference books is doubled, while the proportion of fantasy to reference books is maintained, which of the following could be the number of history books if there are fewer than 60 fantasy books on the shelf after the changes? Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 21 (C) 27 (D) 35 (E) 36
Answer: A
I bought two books; for Rs.480. I sold one at a loss of 15% and other at a gain of 19% and then I found each book was sold at the same price. Find the cost of the book sold at a loss? Answer Choice: (A) 267 (B) 280 (C) 279 (D) 177 (E) 288
Answer: B
A wheel has a diameter of x inches and a second wheel has a diameter of y inches. The first wheel covers a distance of d feet in 300 revolutions. How many revolutions does the second wheel make in covering d feet? Answer Choice: (A) 300xy (B) 300x/y (C) 300x - y (D) 200y/x (E) 600x/y
Answer: B
Find the average of all prime numbers between 10 and 40 Answer Choice: (A) 15.6 (B) 22.5 (C) 18.6 (D) 32.2 (E) 26.9
Answer: B
If Log2 x - 5 Log x + 6 = 0, then what would the value / values of x be? Answer Choice: (A) 5.3296 (B) 6.3296 (C) 7.3296 (D) 8.3296 (E) 9.3296
Answer: A
How many positive integers less than 10,000 are such that the product of their digits is 30? Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 36 (D) 38 (E) 50
Answer: E
Dawson has to secure 30% marks to clear his exam of class 8th.
He got 30 marks and failed by 36 marks.
What is the maximum marks ? Answer Choice: (A) 180 (B) 190 (C) 200 (D) 210 (E) 220
Answer: E
Rs.800 amounts to Rs.920 in 3 years at simple interest. If the interest is increased by 3%, it would amount to how much? Answer Choice: (A) 226 (B) 992 rs (C) 665 (D) 771 (E) 211
Answer: B
A person travels equal distances with speeds of 3 km/hr, 4 km/hr and 5 km/hr and takes a total time of 50 minutes. The total distance is? Answer Choice: (A) 1 km (B) 2 km (C) 3.19 km (D) 4 km (E) 5 km
Answer: C
Working alone at its constant rate, machine A produces x boxes in 10 minutes and working alone at its constant rate, machine B produces 2x boxes in 5 minutes. How many minutes does it take machines A and B, working simultaneously at their respective constant rates, to produce 7x boxes? Answer Choice: (A) 3 minutes (B) 4 minutes (C) 5 minutes (D) 14 minutes (E) 12 minutes
Answer: D
A sales staff is composed of a sales manager and two sales people, all of whom earn commission as a percentage of sales. Each sales person earns 5% commission on sales. In a given week, the sales staff earned a total of $2,750 in commissions on $5,000 worth of sales. What commission rate did the sales manager earn during that week? Answer Choice: (A) 25% (B) 30% (C) 35% (D) 40% (E) 45%
Answer: E
If you write down all the numbers from 1 to 100, then how many times do you write 3 ? Answer Choice: (A) 33 (B) 38 (C) 20 (D) 88 (E) 28
Answer: C
R is a set containing 8 different numbers. S is a set containing 7 different numbers, all of which are members of R. Which of the following statements CANNOT be true? Answer Choice: (A)  The range of R is less than the range of S. (B)  The mean of R is greater than the mean of S. (C)  The range of R is equal to the range of S. (D)  The mean of R is less than the mean of S. (E)  The mean of R is equal to the mean of S.
Answer: A
A certain list has an average of 6 and a standard deviation of B (B is positive). Which of the following pairs of data when added to the list, must result in a list of 102 data with standard deviation less than B? Answer Choice: (A) (-6;0) (B) (0;0) (C) (0;6) (D) (0;12) (E) (6;6)
Answer: E
In a jar there are 20 white balls, 25 green balls and 32 blue balls. How many balls must be taken out in order to make sure we have 22 balls of the same color? Answer Choice: (A) a)	23 (B) b)	46 (C) c)	57 (D) d)	63 (E) e)	67
Answer: D
If the sides of a square are doubled in length, the area of the original square is now how many times as large as the area of the resultant square? Answer Choice: (A) 25% (B) 50% (C) 100% (D) 200% (E) 400%
Answer: A
The price of cooking oil has increased by 25% . The percentage of reduction that a family should effect in the use of cooking oil so as not to increase the expenditure on this account is : Answer Choice: (A) 15% (B) 20% (C) 25% (D) 30% (E) None
Answer: B
A man cheats while buying as well as while selling. While buying he takes 10% more than what he pays for and while selling he gives 20% less than what he claims to. Find the profit percent, if he sells at 11% below the cost price of the claimed weight. Answer Choice: (A) 19.81% (B) 22.38% (C) 37.5% (D) 25% (E) 37.5%
Answer: B
The perimeter of a semi circle is 144 cm then the radius is? Answer Choice: (A) 29 (B) 28 (C) 277 (D) 24 (E) 21
Answer: B
Tough and Tricky questions: Mixture Problems.
A drink holding 6 ounces of an alcoholic drink that is 1 part rum to 2 parts coke is added to a jug holding 35 ounces of an alcoholic drink that is 1 part rum to 3 parts coke. What is the ratio of rum to coke in the resulting mixture? Answer Choice: (A) 2:5 (B) 5:15 (C) 3:5 (D) 4:7 (E) 14:5
Answer: B
How many pages the book have, if total 306 digits are used to form the page numbers? Answer Choice: (A) 135 pages (B) 136 pages (C) 137 pages (D) 138 pages (E) 139 pages
Answer: D
Sound is said to travel in air at about 1100 feet per second. A man hears the axe striking the tree, 11/5 seconds after he sees it strike the tree. How far is the man from the wood chopper? Answer Choice: (A) 2197 feet (B) 2420 ft (C) 2500 feet (D) 2629 feet (E) None of these
Answer: B
A fires 5 shots to B's 3 but A kills only once in 3 shots while B kills once in 2 shots. When B has missed 36 times, A has killed: Answer Choice: (A) 60 birds (B) 72 birds (C) 30 birds (D) 80 birds (E) 40 birds
Answer: E
A train 125 m long passes a man, running at 5 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going, in 15 seconds. The speed of the train is? Answer Choice: (A) 35 (B) 50 (C) 88 (D) 66 (E) 22
Answer: A