loafeihong/math_mmlu_format huggingface dataset:
A and B are partners in a business. A contributes 1/4 of the capital for 15 months and B received 2/3 of the profit. For how long B’s money was used? Answer Choice: (A) 4 months (B) 6 months (C) 8 months (D) 10 months (E) None
Answer: D
A searchlight on top of the watchtower makes 2 revolutions per minute. What is the probability that a man appearing near the tower will stay in the dark for at least 6 seconds? Answer Choice: (A) 5/6 (B) 4/5 (C) 3/4 (D) 2/3 (E) 1/2
Answer: B
Mr. Jones sold two pipes at $1.20 each. Based on the cost, his profit one was 20% and his loss on the other was 20%. On the sale of the pipes, he: Answer Choice: (A) lost 4 cents (B) broke even (C) gained 4 cents (D) lost 10 cents (E) gained 10 cents
Answer: B
what is the probability of always having x+y>0 ,where y<0 Answer Choice: (A) 1/2 (B) 1/8 (C) 3/4 (D) 1/4 (E) none
Answer: D
According to the 2001 census,the population growth rate of Lucknow is going to be an increasing AP with first year's rate as 5% and common difference as 5% but simultaneously the migration,rate is an increasing GP with first term as 1% and common ratio of 2.If the population on 31 december 2000 is 1 million,thn find in which year will Lucknow witness its first fall in population? Answer Choice: (A) 2006 (B) 2007 (C) 2005 (D) 2008 (E) 2009
Answer: A
In a game of billiards, A can give B 20 points in 60 and he can give C 30 points in 60. How many points can B give C in a game of 100? Answer Choice: (A) 43 (B) 54 (C) 25 (D) 86 (E) 23
Answer: C
For any two numbers X and Y , define X#Y=X+Y -XY . If X,Y>0.5, then X#X < Y#Y if
i. 1>X>Y
ii. 1>Y>X
iii. Y>X>1 Answer Choice: (A) i only (B) option ii only (C) i and ii only (D) ii and iii only (E) i and ii only
Answer: B
Car Z travels 50 miles per gallon of gasoline when driven at a constant rate of 45 miles per hour, but travels 20 percent fewer miles per gallon of gasoline when driven at a constant rate of 60 miles per hour. How many miles does car Z travel on 10 gallons of gasoline when driven at a constant rate of 60 miles per hour? Answer Choice: (A) 320 (B) 375.2 (C) 400 (D) 408.3 (E) 440
Answer: C
How many positive integers will divide evenly into 310? Answer Choice: (A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16
Answer: C
3,7,12,..............4th terms Answer Choice: (A) 43 (B) 53 (C) 18 (D) 65 (E) 78
Answer: C
Divide Rs. 1700 among A, B and C so that A receives 1/3 as much as B and C together and B receives 2/3 as A and C together. A's share is? Answer Choice: (A) 346 (B) 425 (C) 375 (D) 337 (E) 639
Answer: B
A person traveled from his house to office at 30 kmph; then he was late to his office by 5 minutes. If he increases his speed by 10 kmph he would be early by 15 minutes to his office. What should be his speed so that he reaches his office on time ? Answer Choice: (A) 36 kmph (B) 32 kmph (C) 34 kmph (D) 35 kmph (E) 37 kmph
Answer: B
Which of the options below is the lowest interger divisible by all the numbers below: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Answer Choice: (A) 234 (B) 1222 (C) 2520 (D) 2894 (E) 1430
Answer: C
If two numbers, a and b, are to be chosen from a set of 4 consecutive integers starting with 1 and a set of three consecutive even integers starting with 12, respectively, what is the probability that b/a will not be an integer? Answer Choice: (A) 2/12 (B) 3/12 (C) 4/12 (D) 1/2 (E) 2/3
Answer: B
If def < 0 and ef > 0, which of the following must be positive? Answer Choice: (A)  xy (B)  xz (C)  (d^2)ef (D)  d(e^2)f (E)  xy(z^2)
Answer: C
Jim bought edging to go around a circular garden with a radius of 10 feet. Later he decided to
double the diameter of the garden. How many more feet of edging must he buy? Answer Choice: (A) 28.84' additional edging (B) 48.84' additional edging (C) 38.84' additional edging (D) 62.80' additional edging (E) 58.84' additional edging
Answer: D
The sum of the present ages of two persons A and B is 90. If the age of A is twice that of B, find the sum of their ages 5 years hence? Answer Choice: (A) 50 (B) 60 (C) 70 (D) 80 (E) 100
Answer: E
The area of circle O is added to its diameter. If the circumference of circle O is then subtracted from this total, the result is 10. What is the radius of circle O? Answer Choice: (A) –2/pi (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
Answer: E
On a certain road 10% of the motorists exceed the posted speed limit and receive speeding tickets, but 24% of the motorists who exceed the posted speed limit do not receive speeding tickets. What percent of the motorists on the road exceed the posted speed limit? Answer Choice: (A) 10.5% (B) 13.2% (C) 15% (D) 22% (E) 30%
Answer: B
The average age of students in section A of 124 students is 22 years and the average age of students in section B of 145 students is 32 years. Find the average age of students in both sections taken together? Answer Choice: (A) 27 years (B) 30years (C) 15years (D) 25years (E) 20years
Answer: A
How many pieces of 85 cm length can be cut from a rod of 29.75 meters long? Answer Choice: (A) 55 (B) 45 (C) 35 (D) 25 (E) 15
Answer: C
26 An uneducated retailar marks all its goods at 50% above the cost price and thinking that he will still make 25% profit,offers a discount of 25% on the marked price.what is the actual profit on the sales? Answer Choice: (A) 5% (B) 10.50% (C) 9.50% (D) 12.50% (E) 10%
Answer: D
The length of a room is 5.5 m and width is 3.75 m. What is the cost of paying the floor by slabs at the rate of Rs. 800 per sq. meter. Answer Choice: (A) Rs.12000 (B) Rs.19500 (C) Rs.18000 (D) Rs.16500 (E) Rs.17500
Answer: D
In six successive games, a baseball team scored 1 runs once, 4 runs twice, and 5 runs three times.
What was the average (arithmetic mean) number of runs the team scored per game over the six-game period? Answer Choice: (A) 8 (B) 7 (C) 6 (D) 5 (E) 4
Answer: E
Your town has a population of 1260. Every three people have a car. How many cars are in your town? Answer Choice: (A) 400 (B) 410 (C) 420 (D) 430 (E) 450
Answer: C
Tough and Tricky questions: Work/Rate Problems.
A group of 4 junior lawyers require 7 hours to complete a legal research assignment. How many hours would it take a group of three legal assistants to complete the same research assignment assuming that a legal assistant works at two-thirds the rate of a junior lawyer?
Source: Chili Hot GMAT Answer Choice: (A) 14 (B) 10 (C) 9 (D) 6 (E) 5
Answer: A
The mass of 1 cubic meter of a substance is 500 kg under certain conditions. What is the volume in cubic centimeters of 1 gram of this substance under these conditions? (1 kg =1,000 grams and 1 cubic meter = 1,000,000 cubic centimeters) Answer Choice: (A) 0.1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 3
Answer: D
For a road work, a contractor was given a deadline to complete the work in 25 days. Hence, he employed a certain number of workers to accomplish the job. But from the very first day 9 workers were absent and the remaining workers could finish the work in 40 days. What number of workers did the contractor hired in the beginning? Answer Choice: (A) 24 (B) 37 (C) 26 (D) 19 (E) 17
Answer: A
The sale price sarees listed for Rs.400 after successive discount is 10% and 5% is? Answer Choice: (A) 337 (B) 267 (C) 342 (D) 287 (E) 261
Answer: C
Two taps can separately fill a cistern 20 minutes and 20 minutes respectively and when the waste pipe is open, they can together fill it in 18 minutes. The waste pipe can empty the full cistern in? Answer Choice: (A) 22.8 (B) 22.7 (C) 22.6 (D) 22.9 (E) 22.5
Answer: E
Anna and Carol buy CDs and tapes at a music store that sells each of its CDs for a certain price and each of its tapes for a certain price. Anna spends twice as much as Carol spends, buying three times as many CDs and the same number of tapes. If Carol spends $50.00 on four CDs and five tapes, how much does one tape cost? Answer Choice: (A) $5.00 (B) $6.25 (C) $12.00 (D) $25.00 (E) $100.00
Answer: A
If a/x = 1/3 and a/y =1/ 6, then (x + y) = Answer Choice: (A) A)2a (B) B)a/2 (C) C)6a (D) D)7a (E) E)9a
Answer: E
Jack has two dice, one has six equally probable sides, labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and the other has seven equally probable sides, labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. If Jack rolls both dice what is the probability that both of the numbers will be 7? Answer Choice: (A) 3/14 (B) 1/7 (C) 0 (D) 1/2 (E) 12/21
Answer: C
Calculate the average of all the numbers between 18 and 57 which are divisible by 7. Answer Choice: (A) 36.9 (B) 38.5 (C) 18.5 (D) 32.5 (E) 28.5
Answer: B
Rajan travelled for 12 hours. He covered the first half of the distance at 60 kmph and remaining half of the distance at 40 kmph. Find the distance travelled by Rajan? Answer Choice: (A) 376 (B) 576 (C) 476 (D) 566 (E) 676
Answer: B
2500 - (1002 / 20.04) = ? Answer Choice: (A) 2984 (B) 2983 (C) 2982 (D) 2450 (E) None of these
Answer: D
A 270 metres long train running at the speed of 120 kmph crosses another train running in opposite direction at the speed of 80 kmph in 9 seconds. What is the length of the other train? Answer Choice: (A) 230 m (B) 240 m (C) 260 m (D) 320 m (E) None of these
Answer: A
Zachary is helping his younger brother, Sterling, learn his multiplication tables. For every question that Sterling answers correctly, Zachary gives him 3 pieces of candy. For every question that Sterling answers incorrectly, Zachary takes away two pieces of candy. After 7 questions, if Sterling had answered 2 more questions correctly, he would have earned 31 pieces of candy. How many of the 7 questions did Zachary answer correctly? Answer Choice: (A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
Answer: B
It is known that no more than 50 guests will be attending a party. What is the smallest number of sweets that must be brought to the party so that each guest receives the same number of sweets? Answer Choice: (A) 115 (B) 100 (C) 56 (D) 87 (E) 15
Answer: B
For each color copy, Print Shop X charges $1.20 and Print Shop Y charges $1.70. How much greater is the charge for 70 color copies at Print Shop Y than at Print Shop X? Answer Choice: (A) $27 (B) $29 (C) $31 (D) $33 (E) $35
Answer: E
If Rs. 10 be allowed as true discount on bill of Rs. 110 due at the end of a certain time, then the discount allowedon the same sum due at the end of double the time is: Answer Choice: (A) 16 (B) 18.33 (C) 20.21 (D) 26 (E) None
Answer: B
During the last four years, a large truck company purchased diesel at rates of $1.2, $1.4, $1.5 and $2.1 per gallon. What was the mean cost of diesel over the four-year period if the company spends the same amount of dollars on diesel each year? Answer Choice: (A) $2.5 (B) $2.55 (C) $1.49 (D) $3.25 (E) $3.0
Answer: C
Find the least number when successively divided by 2, 3 and 7 leaves remainders 1, 2 and 3 respectively? Answer Choice: (A) 22 (B) 65 (C) 28 (D) 27 (E) 19
Answer: B
1. Internet: $80, with no sales tax, plus $10 shipping fee
2. Store X: $90, a 10% discount, plus 10% tax on discounted price
3. Store Y: $90, no tax
4. Store Z: $80, a 20% sales tax, and $10 rebate after tax
Isaac can purchase a certain item in four different ways, as shown in the table. What is the lowest price for which he can purchase this item? Answer Choice: (A) 88.1 (B) 86.0 (C) 89.1 (D) 89.5 (E) 90.0
Answer: B
Carl can wash all the windows of his house in 8 hours. His wife Maggie can wash all the windows in 4 hours. How many hours will it take for both of them working together to wash all the windows? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 2 1/4 (C) 3 2/2 (D) 4 1/2 (E) 5
Answer: C
A train 110 metres long is running with a speed of 60 kmph. In what time will it pass a man who is running at 6 kmph in the direction opposite to that in which the train is going ? Answer Choice: (A) 5 sec (B) 6 sec (C) 7 sec (D) 10 sec (E) None
Answer: B
Jeevan bought an article with 30 per cent discount on the labelled price. He sold the article with 12 per cent profit on the labelled price. What was his per cent profit on the price he bought? Answer Choice: (A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 60 (D) Data inadequate (E) None of these
Answer: C
Which of the following fractions is greater than 3/4 and less than 5/6? Answer Choice: (A) 4/5 (B) 2/5 (C) 1/5 (D) 3/5 (E) None of them
Answer: A
Find the area of trapezium whose parallel sides are 20 cm and 18 cm long, and the distance between them is 15 cm Answer Choice: (A) 178 cm2 (B) 179 cm2 (C) 285 cm2 (D) 167 cm2 (E) 197 cm2
Answer: C
What least number must be added to 1056, so that the sum is completely divisible by 23 ? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
Answer: A
Each week a restaurant serving Mexican food uses the same volume of chili paste, which comes in either 25-ounce cans or 15-ounce cans of chili paste. If the restaurant must order 40 more of the smaller cans than the larger cans to fulfill its weekly needs, then how many larger cans are required to fulfill its weekly needs? Answer Choice: (A) 40 (B) 30 (C) 60 (D) 45 (E) 55
Answer: C
Pascal has 96 miles remaining to complete his cycling trip. If he reduced his current speed by 4 miles per hour, the remainder of the trip would take him 16 hours longer than it would if he increased his speed by 50%. What is his current speed X? Answer Choice: (A)  6 (B)  8 (C)  10 (D)  12 (E)  16
Answer: B
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. Answer Choice: (A) 1/187 (B) 1/127 (C) 1/178 (D) 1/129 (E) 1/126
Answer: E
A committee that includes 6 members is about to be divided into 2 subcommittees with 3 members each. On what percent of the possible subcommittees that Michael is a member of is David also a member? Answer Choice: (A) 10% (B) .20% (C) 25% (D) 40% (E) 50%
Answer: E
A and B enter into partnership with capital as 7:9. At the end of 8 months, A withdraws. If they receive the profits in the ratio of 8:9 find how long B's capital was used? Answer Choice: (A) months (B) months (C) months (D) months (E) months
Answer: D
An amount of money lent against simple interest at 4 1/2 % per annum amounts to Rs.381 after 6 years. Find the sum. Answer Choice: (A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 300 (D) 400 (E) 500
Answer: C
The perimeter of a square is equal to the perimeter of a rectangle of length 19 cm and breadth 14 cm. Find the circumference of a semicircle whose diameter is equal to the side of the square. (Round off your answer to two decimal places) Answer Choice: (A) 22.78 (B) 23.54 (C) 23.5 (D) 24.55 (E) 25.93
Answer: E
Amar takes as much time in running 24 meters as a car takes in covering 60 meters. What will be the distance covered by Amar during the time the car covers 2.2 km? Answer Choice: (A) 700 m (B) 500 m (C) 870 m (D) 880 m (E) 840 m
Answer: D
A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in the ratio 7:5. When 9 litres of mixture are drawn off and the can is filled with B, the ratio of A and B becomes 7:9. How many litres of liquid A was contained by the can initially? Answer Choice: (A) 25 (B) 21 (C) 20 (D) 10 (E) 15
Answer: B
A sum of Rs.4800 is invested at a compound interest for three years, the rate of interest being 10% p.a., 20% p.a. and 25% p.a. for the 1st, 2nd and the 3rd years respectively. Find the interest received at the end of the three years. Answer Choice: (A) 2987 (B) 3120 (C) 2798 (D) 2689 (E) 2761
Answer: B
In a bag, there are 2400 ball, and their colors are red, green blue.. The ratio of the balls are 15:13:17.Then how many red color balls are available in the bag? Answer Choice: (A) 900 (B) 1600 (C) 750 (D) 890 (E) 1010
Answer: A
By mixing two brands of coffee and selling the mixture at the rate of Rs. 177 per kg. a shopkeeper makes a profit of 18%. If to every 2 kg of one brand costing Rs. 200 per kg, 3 kg of the other brand is added, then how much per kg does the other brand cost? Answer Choice: (A) 12.66 (B) 23 (C) 116.66 (D) 10.66 (E) 43.2
Answer: C
In how many ways can a committee consisting of 4 men and 5 women be formed from a group of 8 men and 9 women? Answer Choice: (A) 8C4 9C5 (B) 4C8 5C9 (C) 7C5 9C4 (D) 9C4 7C5 (E) NONE
Answer: A
If x < y < 0, which of the following must be true? Answer Choice: (A) x+y is a positive integer (B) x+y is a negative integer (C) xy is a negative integer (D) x/y is a negative integer (E) 2x/y is a negative integer
Answer: B
There is a total of 120 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 1/3. What is the probability that the marble will be either red or blue ? Answer Choice: (A) 1/6 (B) 1/4 (C) 2/7 (D) 1/3 (E) 5/12
Answer: E
Ramu bought an old car for Rs. 42000. He spent Rs. 15000 on repairs and sold it for Rs. 64900. What is his profit percent? Answer Choice: (A) 12% (B) 13.85% (C) 18% (D) 82% (E) 23%
Answer: B
Seven cards numbered from 1 to 7 are placed in an empty bowl. First one card is drawn and then put back into the bowl, and then a second card is drawn. If the cards are drawn at random and if the sum of the numbers on the cards is 10, what is the probability that one of the two cards drawn is numbered 4? Answer Choice: (A) 2/7 (B) 1/10 (C) 1/7 (D) 1/5 (E) 2/5
Answer: E
How many litres of pure acid are there in 10 litres of a 25% solution Answer Choice: (A) 1.5 (B) 1.6 (C) 2.5 (D) 1.8 (E) 1.9
Answer: C
Last year, Bill's farm produced 768,000 oranges. If Bill distributed his apples evenly across 9 different retail shops, how many apples remained with him. Answer Choice: (A) 1 orange (B) 2 oranges (C) 3 oranges (D) 4 oranges (E) 5 oranges
Answer: C
Sara's mother is 6 times older than Sara. Next year, however, she will be only 5 times older than her daughter. How old is Sara's mother. Answer Choice: (A) 24 years (B) 25 years (C) 26 years (D) 27 years (E) 28 years
Answer: A
48 persons can repair a road in 12 days, working 5 hours a day. In how many days will 30 persons, working 6 hours a day, complete the work? Answer Choice: (A) 10 (B) 16 (C) 13 (D) 18 (E) 19
Answer: B
5,7,11,19,35, (...) Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 67 (C) 5 (D) 64 (E) 32
Answer: B
If 6^q is a factor of (10!)^2, What is the greatest possible value of q ? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
Answer: D
Find the area of the quadrilateral of one of its diagonals is 20 cm and its off sets 9 cm and 6 cm? Answer Choice: (A) 328 (B) 150 (C) 279 (D) 277 (E) 267
Answer: B
How many 3-digit even numbers are possible such that if one of the digits is 5, the next/succeeding digit to it should be 6 Answer Choice: (A) 5 (B) 305 (C) 365 (D) 405 (E) 495
Answer: A
A certain musical scale has has 13 notes, each having a different frequency, measured in cycles per second. In the scale, the notes are ordered by increasing frequency, and the highest frequency is twice the lowest. For each of the 12 lower frequencies, the ratio of a frequency to the next higher frequency is a fixed constant. If the lowest frequency is 330 cycles per second, then the frequency of the 7th note in the scale is how many cycles per second? Answer Choice: (A) 330 * sqrt 2 (B) 330 * sqrt (2^7) (C) 330 * sqrt (2^12) (D) 330 * the twelfth root of (2^7) (E) 330 * the seventh root of (2^12)
Answer: A
A sells a bicycle to B at a profit of 20%. B sells it to C at a profit of 25%. If C pays Rs. 225 for it, the cost price of the bicycle for A is? Answer Choice: (A) 277 (B) 268 (C) 270 (D) 150 (E) 282
Answer: D
Find the average of first 50 natural numbers. Answer Choice: (A) A)25.5 (B) B)20.5 (C) C)24.5 (D) D)19.9 (E) E)25
Answer: A
If x dollars is invested at 9 percent for one year and y dollars is invested at 8 percent for one year, the annual income from the 9 percent investment will exceed the annual income from the 8 percent investment by $48. If $2,000 is the total amount invested, how much is invested at 9 percent? Answer Choice: (A) 300 (B) 250 (C) 1223.53 (D) 1133.24 (E) 776.47
Answer: C
The parameter of a square is double the perimeter of a rectangle. The area of the rectangle is 480 sq cm. Find the area of the square? Answer Choice: (A) 288 (B) 270 (C) 289 (D) 480 (E) 211
Answer: D
An urn contains 5 red, 6 blue and 8 green balls. 3 balls are randomly selected from the urn, find the probability that the drawn ball are blue? Answer Choice: (A) 20/969 (B) 20/875 (C) 21/876 (D) 3/512 (E) 2/9
Answer: A
A dishonest shopkeeper professes to sell pulses at the cost price, but he uses a false weight of 970gm. for a kg.His gain is …%. Answer Choice: (A) 3.09% (B) 5.36% (C) 4.26% (D) 6.26% (E) 7.26%
Answer: A
Arun and Tarun can do a work in 10 days.After 4 days tarun went to his village.How many days are required to complete the remaining work by Arun alone.Arun can do the work alone in 30 days. Answer Choice: (A) 16 days. (B) 17 days. (C) 18 days. (D) 19 days. (E) 20 days.
Answer: C
During a sale of 20% on everything in a store, a kid is successful in convincing the store manager to give him 20 candies for the discounted price of 14 candies. The store still makes a profit of 10% on this sale. What is the mark up percentage on each candy? Answer Choice: (A)  100% (B)  80% (C)  75% (D)  66+2/3% (E)  55%
Answer: C
Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 and 15 minutes respectively. Both are opened together, but at the end of 4 minutes the first is turned off. How many more minutes will it take for the cistern to fill after the first pipe is turned off? Answer Choice: (A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
Answer: A
Gaurav spends 30% of his monthly income on food articles, 40% of the remaining on conveyance and clothes and saves 50% of the remaining. If his monthly salary is Rs. 18,400, how much money does he save every month ? Answer Choice: (A) 3864 (B) 2338 (C) 3799 (D) 1267 (E) 2991
Answer: A
4 men and 6 women finish a job in 8 days, while 3 men and 7 women finish it in 10 days. In how
many days will 10 women working together finish it ? Answer Choice: (A) 30 days (B) 40 days (C) 50 days (D) 60 days (E) None of these
Answer: B
In a company of 15 employees, 6 employees earn $37,000, 5 employees earn $42,000, and the 4 highest-paid employees earn the same amount. If the average annual salary for the 15 employees is $45,000, what is the annual salary for each of the highest-paid employees? Answer Choice: (A) $56,250 (B) $57,750 (C) $59,250 (D) $60,750 (E) $62,250
Answer: D
$500 is divided amongst A,B and C so that A may get 2/3 as much as B and C together, B may get 6/9 as much as A and C together, then the share of A is Answer Choice: (A) $100 (B) $150 (C) $125 (D) $200 (E) $250
Answer: D
Eight years ago, P was half of Q in age. If the ratio of their present ages is 3:4, what will be the total of their present ages Answer Choice: (A) A)35 (B) B)28 (C) C)45 (D) D)25 (E) E)26
Answer: B
28 is divided into two parts in such a way that seventh part of first and ninth part of second are equal. Find the smallest part? Answer Choice: (A) 13.25 (B) 38.25 (C) 33.25 (D) 12.25 (E) 31.25
Answer: D
If the number is divided by 3, it reduced by 24. The number is Answer Choice: (A) A)51 (B) B)50 (C) C)45 (D) D)40 (E) E)36
Answer: E
A grocer has a sale of Rs. 3435, Rs. 3927, Rs. 3855, Rs. 4230 and Rs. 3562 for 5 consecutive months. How much sale must he have in the sixth month so that he gets an average sale of Rs. 3500? Answer Choice: (A) s. 1991 (B) s. 2991 (C) s. 3991 (D) s. 4991 (E) s. 5991
Answer: A
A man buys an article and sells it at a profit of 20%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold it for Rs.74 less, he could have gained 25%. What is the cost price? Answer Choice: (A) s.370 (B) s.375 (C) s.375 (D) s.350 (E) s.300
Answer: A
Ian is paid an hourly wage, totaling $400 for h hours of work in a week, where h >0. If Ian's hourly wage increases by 25% and Ian decides to work 25% fewer hours each week, how much will Ian be paid in a week? Answer Choice: (A) $200 (B) $375 (C) $400 (D) $425 (E) $600
Answer: B
A and B go around a circular track of length 400 m on a cycle at speeds of 36 kmph and 36 kmph. After how much time will they meet for the first time at the starting point? Answer Choice: (A) 40 sec (B) 198 sec (C) 178 sec (D) 665 sec (E) 276 sec
Answer: A
If 821562 is to be divisible by 5, what is the least whole number that should be added to it? Answer Choice: (A) 6 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 2 (E) 3
Answer: A
If a:b=2:3 and b:c=2:4 find a:b:c? Answer Choice: (A) 6:2:3 (B) 2:6:3 (C) 2:3:6 (D) 3:2:6 (E) 6:3:2
Answer: C
If x = -2 and y = -4, what is the value of 5(x-y)^2 - xy ? Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 22
Answer: A