loafeihong/math_mmlu_format huggingface dataset:
A restaurant meal cost $30.5 and there was no tax. If the tip was more than 20 percent but less than 30 percent of the cost of the meal, then the total amount paid must have been between Answer Choice: (A) $40 and $42 (B) $39 and $41 (C) $38 and $40 (D) $37 and $39 (E) $36 and $39
Answer: D
If the average of 9 consecutive number is T. How much will the average increase by if the next 3 consecutive numbers are also added? Answer Choice: (A) 3 (B) 1.5 (C) 2.5 (D) Can’t be determined (E) None of these
Answer: B
Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 40 and 120 minutes respectively. If both the pipes are used together, then how long will it take to fill the tank? Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 35 (C) 25 (D) 82 (E) 22
Answer: A
100 oranges were bought at the rate of Rs. 350 and sold at the rate of Rs. 48 per dozen. What is the percentage of profit or loss? Answer Choice: (A) 19 2/7% (B) 17 2/7% (C) 14 2/7% (D) 15 2/7% (E) 5 15/17%
Answer: C
Albert buys 4 horses and 9 cows for Rs. 13,400. If he sells the horses at 10% profit and the cows at 20% profit, then he earns a total profit of Rs. 1880. The cost of a horse is? Answer Choice: (A) 2987 (B) 2000 (C) 2789 (D) 7999 (E) 7389
Answer: B
The monthly salaries of six employees in a company are $1000, $2500, $3100, $3650, $1500, $2000. What is the mean of the salaries of 6 employees. Answer Choice: (A) $2291.7 (B) $1546.8 (C) $2546.5 (D) $1879.3 (E) $3125.3
Answer: A
If q and d are both integers, q>d, and -3q>19, then the largest value of d would be? Answer Choice: (A) -5 (B) -6 (C) -7 (D) -8 (E) -10
Answer: D
A waitress's income consists of her salary and tips.During one week ,her tips were 7/4 of her salary.What fraction of her income for the week came from tips? Answer Choice: (A) 1/9 (B) 1/6 (C) 2/3 (D) 4/9 (E) 7/11
Answer: E
The length of a room is 5.5 m and width is 3.75 m. Find the cost of paving the floor by slabs at the rate of Rs. 800 per sq. metre. Answer Choice: (A) Rs. 15000 (B) Rs. 15550 (C) Rs. 15600 (D) Rs. 16500 (E) None of these
Answer: D
How many 3-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of the word, 'LOGARIT', if repetition of letters is not allowed? Answer Choice: (A) 690 (B) 210 (C) 740 (D) 760 (E) 780
Answer: B
What is theleast number should be added to 1056, so the sum of the number is completely divisible by 23? Answer Choice: (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8
Answer: B
. 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) 33 (B) 27 (C) 10 (D) 8 (E) 82
Answer: C
Instead of multiplying a number by 7, the number is divided by 7. What is the percentage of error obtained ? Answer Choice: (A) 97.959% (B) 98.959% (C) 99.959% (D) 96.959% (E) 95.959%
Answer: A
A certain ski shop sells pairs of gloves in 9 different colors. If one pair of each color is dropped in a bag and a store clerk reaches in to draw two individual gloves simultaneously and at random, what is the probability that she draws two gloves of the same color? Answer Choice: (A) 1/144 (B) 1/143 (C) 1/24 (D) 1/23 (E) 1/17
Answer: E
If a man rows at the rate of 5 kmph in still water and his rate against the current is 3.5 kmph,then the man’s rate along the current is : Answer Choice: (A) 4.25 kmph (B) 6 kmph (C) 6.5 kmph (D) 8.5 kmph (E) None of these
Answer: C
If 85 percent of the test takers taking an old paper and pencil GMAT exam answered the first question on a given math section correctly, and 75 percent of the test takers answered the second question correctly, and 15 percent of the test takers answered neither question correctly, what percent answered both correctly? Answer Choice: (A) 60 % (B) 65 % (C) 70% (D) 75% (E) 80%
Answer: D
The unit digit in the product (635 * 767 * 984 * 489) is: Answer Choice: (A) 0 (B) 8 (C) 3 (D) 2 (E) 1
Answer: A
If b does not equal zero, and ab = b/8, what is the value of a? Answer Choice: (A) A)1/8 (B) B)1/4 (C) C)1/3 (D) D)1/2 (E) of the above
Answer: A
A tradesman by means of his false balance defrauds to the extent of 20%? in buying goods as well as by selling the goods. What percent does he gain on his outlay? Answer Choice: (A) 11 (B) 22 (C) 44 (D) 55 (E) 79
Answer: C
The average weight of 8 person's increases by 3.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing 65 kg. What might be the weight of the new person? Answer Choice: (A) kg (B) 70 kg (C) 80 kg (D) 90 kg (E) 93 kg
Answer: E
Tom found a box of 220 baseball cards. Being a thoughtful older brother, he wanted to save at least 80 percent of the cards for himself and split the remaining cards evenly among his 4 younger brothers. What is the lowest possible number of cards that Tom can save for himself that will also allow each of his 4 younger brothers to get an equal number of cards? Answer Choice: (A) 110 (B) 112 (C) 116 (D) 118 (E) 122
Answer: A
Mary’s annual income is $15,000 and John’s annual income is $18,000. By how much must Mary’s annual income increase so that it constitutes 70% of Mary and John’s combined income? Answer Choice: (A)  $3,000 (B)  $4,000 (C)  $7,000 (D)  $11,000 (E)  $27,000
Answer: E
In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'OPTICAL' be arranged so that the vowels always come together? Answer Choice: (A) 610 (B) 720 (C) 825 (D) 920 (E) None of these
Answer: B
A rectangular plot measuring 15 meters by 50 meters is to be enclosed by wire fencing. If the poles of the fence are kept 5 meters apart. How many poles will be needed? Answer Choice: (A) 46m (B) 26m (C) 26m (D) 56m (E) 25m
Answer: B
How much time will a train of length 200 m moving at a speed of 72 kmph take to cross another train of length 300 m, moving at 36 kmph in the same direction? Answer Choice: (A) 50 (B) 99 (C) 88 (D) 77 (E) 51
Answer: A
In the manufacture of a certain product, 9 percent of the units produced are defective and 4 percent of the defective units are shipped for sale. What percent of the units produced are defective units that are shipped for sale? Answer Choice: (A) 0.125% (B) 0.36% (C) 0.8% (D) 1.25% (E) 2.0%
Answer: B
If Janice was 21 years old z years ago and Lisa will be 19 years old in p years, what was the average (arithmetic mean) of their ages 8 years ago? Answer Choice: (A) (z + p)/2 (B) (z - p + 24)/4 (C) (z - p + 14)/4 (D) (z + p + 34)/2 (E) (z - p + 24)/2
Answer: E
Find all positive integers n such that n^2
+ 1 is divisible by n+ 1. Answer Choice: (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
Answer: A
5 men are equal to as many women as are equal to 7 boys. All of them earn Rs.90 only. Men’s wages are? Answer Choice: (A) 8Rs. (B) 7Rs. (C) 6Rs. (D) 4Rs. (E) 5Rs.
Answer: C
The height of the wall is 6 times its width and length of the wall is 7 times its height .if the volume of the wall be 6804 cu.m.its width is Answer Choice: (A) 3m (B) 5m (C) 6m (D) 7m (E) 8m
Answer: A
In a village, there are four tribes located at different distances from each other. Tribe R is 60 miles away from Tribe P; Tribe S 40 miles away from Tribe B and Tribe R is 10 miles nearer to the Tribe S than it is to Tribe Q.
How far is the Tribe S located from the tribe P ? Answer Choice: (A) 23 km (B) 24 km (C) 25 km (D) 26 km (E) 27
Answer: C
A boat can travel with a speed of 16 km/hr in still water. If the rate of stream is 5 km/hr, then find the time taken by the boat to cover distance of 168 km downstream. Answer Choice: (A) 4 hours (B) 5 hours (C) 6 hours (D) 7 hours (E) 8 hours
Answer: E
In 1991, there are 28 days in February and there are 365 days in the year. In 1992, there are 29 days in February and there are 366 days in the year. If the date March 15, 1995 is a Tuesday, then which one of the following would the date March 15, 1996 be? Answer Choice: (A) Thursday (B) Friday (C) Saturday (D) Sunday (E) Monday
Answer: A
IF
20= W
21= W
22= W
23= W
24= W
THEN 25=? Answer Choice: (A) I (B) J (C) W (D) L (E) M
Answer: C
Look at this series: U32, V29, __, X23, Y20, ... What number should fill the blank? Answer Choice: (A) M43 (B) D14 (C) W26 (D) F24 (E) K81
Answer: C
If the length of the longest chord of a certain circle is 22, what is the radius of that certain circle? Answer Choice: (A) 11 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 15 (E) 20
Answer: A
What is the smallest number Y which when increased by 5 is completely divisible by 8, 11 and 24? Answer Choice: (A) 264 (B) 259 (C) 269 (D) 270 (E) 282
Answer: B
The average monthly salary of 25 employees in an organisation is Rs. 2500. If the manager's salary is added, then the average salary increases by Rs. 200. What is the manager's monthly salary? Answer Choice: (A) Rs.7700 (B) Rs.3618 (C) Rs.3600 (D) Rs.3619 (E) Rs.3610
Answer: A
Mary, Peter, and Lucy were picking chestnuts. Mary picked three times as much as much chestnuts than Peter. Lucy picked 4 kg more than Peter. Together the three of them picked 29 kg of chestnuts. How many kilograms of chestnuts did Mary, Peter, and Lucy pick respectively? Answer Choice: (A) 9, 5 and 15 (B) 5, 15 and 9 (C) 15, 5 and 9 (D) 9, 15 and 5 (E) 5, 9 and 15
Answer: C
Each shelf of a bookcase contained 11 books. If the librarian took out 18 books and rearranged the remaining books so that all shelves but the last one contained 7 books and that last shelf contained 17 books, how many shelves does the bookcase have? Answer Choice: (A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9
Answer: C
A company seeks to hire a sales manager, a shipping clerk, and a receptionist. The company has narrowed its candidate search and plans to interview all remaining candidates including 7 persons for the position of sales manager, 5 persons for the position of shipping clerk, and 10 persons for the position of receptionist. How many different hirings of these three people are possible? Answer Choice: (A) 7 + 5 + 10 (B) 7 × 5 × 10 (C) 21 × 20 × 19 (D) 7! + 5! + 10! (E) 7! × 5! × 10!
Answer: B
Eight animals of a circus has to be placed inside in eight cages one in each cage. If 4 of the cage are too small for 6 of the animal then find the number of ways of caging the animal. Answer Choice: (A) A.604 (B) B.2880 (C) C.502450 (D) D.784200 (E) E.302400
Answer: B
Sum of the squares of three numbers is 414 and the sum of their products taken two at a time is 131. Find the sum? Answer Choice: (A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 29
Answer: D
A certain animal shelter has 26 horses and 36 cows. How many horses must be taken away from the animal shelter so that 75 percent of the animals in the shelter will be cows? Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16
Answer: C
Walking 7/6 of his usual rate, a boy reaches his school 2 min early. Find his usual time to reach the school? Answer Choice: (A) 14 (B) 28 (C) 99 (D) 77 (E) 66
Answer: A
Company Z has 61 employees. If the number of employees having birthdays on Wednesday is more than the number of employees having birthdays on any other day of the week, each of which have same number of birth-days, what is the minimum number of employees having birthdays on Wednesday. Answer Choice: (A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 13 (D) 9 (E) 12
Answer: C
John is three times as old as Sam. If John will be twice as old as Sam in six years, how old was Sam four years ago? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 16
Answer: A
A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 15 sec. What is the length of the train? Answer Choice: (A) 120 m (B) 190 m (C) 115 m (D) 110 m (E) 250 m
Answer: E
In 2008, the profits of Company M were 5 percent of revenues. In 2009, the revenues of Company N fell by 20 percent, but profits were 15 percent of revenues. The profits in 2009 were what percent of the profits in 2008? Answer Choice: (A) 80% (B) 105% (C) 124% (D) 240% (E) 138%
Answer: D
The speed of a car is 85 km in the first hour and 45 km in the second hour. What is the average speed of the car? Answer Choice: (A) 72 kmph (B) 65 kmph (C) 30 kmph (D) 80 kmph (E) 82 kmph
Answer: B
A bowl of nuts is prepared for a party. Brand P mixed nuts are 20% almonds and Brand Q's Deluxe nuts are 25% almonds. If a bowl contains a total of 64 ounces of nuts, representing a mixture of both brands, and 14 ounces of the mixture are almonds, how many ounces of Brand Q's Deluxe mixed nuts are used? Answer Choice: (A)  14 (B)  20 (C)  32 (D)  44 (E)  48
Answer: A
If x is a prime number, and x-1 is the median of the set {x-1, 3x+3, 2x-4}, then what is the average (arithmetic mean) of the set? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 5/3 (C) 3 (D) 10/3 (E) 14/3
Answer: D
The H.C.F. of two numbers is 12 and their L.C.M. is 600. If one of the number is 60, find the other? Answer Choice: (A) 100 (B) 240 (C) 120 (D) 200 (E) 150
Answer: C
A car salesman earns a base salary of $1,000 per month plus a commission of $200 for each car he sells. If the car salesman earned $2000 in March, how many cars does he need to sell in April in order to double his March earnings? Answer Choice: (A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 18
Answer: B
The average weight of a group of boys is 30 kg. After a boy of weight 37 kg joins the group, the average weight of the group goes up by 1 kg. Find the number of boys in the group originally ? Answer Choice: (A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 5 (D) 2 (E) 6
Answer: E
Manoj borrowed Rs.3900 from Anwar at 6% p.a. simple interest for three years. He then added some more money to the borrowed sum and lent it to Ramu for the same time at 9% p.a. simple interest. If Manoj gains Rs.824.85 by way of interest on the borrowed sum as well as his own amount from the whole transaction, then what is the sum lent by him to Ramu? Answer Choice: (A) 22877 (B) 5655 (C) 2778 (D) 6787 (E) 1771
Answer: B
Buses A and B start from a common bus stop X. Bus A begins to travel in a straight line away from bus B at a constant rate of 60 miles per hour. One hour later, bus B begins to travel in a straight line in the exact opposite direction at a constant rate of 80 miles per hour. If both buses travel indefinitely, what is the positive difference, in minutes, between the amount of time it takes bus B to cover the exact distance that bus A has covered and the amount of time it takes bus B to cover twice the distance that bus A has covered? Answer Choice: (A) 36 (B) 72 (C) 132 (D) 144 (E) 180
Answer: E
The sum of two numbers is 40 and their product is 350. What will be the sum of their reciprocals? Answer Choice: (A) 4/35 (B) 8/75 (C) 75/4 (D) 75/8 (E) 75/6
Answer: A
A person purchases 90 clocks and sells 40 clocks at a gain of 10% and 50 clocks at a gain of 20%. If he sold all of them at a uniform profit of 15%, then he would have got Rs. 40 less. The cost price of each clock is: Answer Choice: (A) Rs.50 (B) Rs.60 (C) Rs.80 (D) Rs.90 (E) Rs.100
Answer: C
If p/q = 3/5 , then 2p+q= ? Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 16
Answer: B
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) 299 (B) 277 (C) 266 (D) 992 (E) 188
Answer: D
The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 12. The difference of the digits is 6. Find the number? Answer Choice: (A) 93 (B) 39 (C) 75 (D) 48 (E) Either (a) or (b)
Answer: E
X men can do a work in 120 days. If there were 20 men less, the work would have taken 60 days more. What is the value of X? Answer Choice: (A) 60 (B) 77 (C) 26 (D) 66 (E) 281
Answer: A
What number has a 5:1 ratio to the number 10? Answer Choice: (A) 36 (B) 50 (C) 76 (D) 56 (E) 62
Answer: B
How many seconds will a 500 m long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr? Answer Choice: (A) 11 (B) 30 (C) 99 (D) 88 (E) 61
Answer: B
How many of the following numbers are divisible by 132 ?
264, 396, 462, 792, 968, 2178, 5184, 6336 Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
Answer: B
If the wheel is 14 cm then the number of revolutions to cover a distance of 1056 cm is? Answer Choice: (A) 15 (B) 10 (C) 14 (D) 12 (E) 11
Answer: D
From a total of 4 boys and 4 girls, how many 4-person committees can be selected if the committee must have exactly 2 boys and 2 girls? Answer Choice: (A) 16 (B) 36 (C) 60 (D) 120 (E) 240
Answer: B
A train 650 m long is running at a speed of 81 km/hr. In what time will it pass a bridge 340 m long? Answer Choice: (A) 42 (B) 43 (C) 44 (D) 45 (E) 46
Answer: C
A shipment of 1500 heads of cabbage, each of which was approximately the same size was purchased for $600.The day the shipment arrived 2/3 of the heads were sold, each at 25% above the cost per head.The following day the rest were sold at a price per head equal to 20% less than the price each head sold for the day before.what was the gross profit on this shipment? Answer Choice: (A) $100 (B) $115 (C) $125 (D) $130 (E) $135
Answer: A
A man started a business investing Rs.70,000. Rakhi joined him after six months with an amount of Rs.1,05,000 and Sagar joined them with Rs.1.4 lakhs after another six months. The amount of profit earned should be distributed in what ratio among Aman, Rakhi and Sagar respectively, 3 years after Aman started the business? Answer Choice: (A) 7 : 6 : 10 (B) 12 : 15 : 16 (C) 42 : 45 : 56 (D) cannot be determined (E) None
Answer: B
The probability of pulling a black ball out of a glass jar is 1/X. The probability of pulling a black ball out of a glass jar and breaking the jar is 1/Y. What is the probability of breaking the jar? Answer Choice: (A) 1/(XY). (B) X/Y. (C) Y/X. (D) 1/(X+Y). (E) 1/(X-Y).
Answer: B
In how many different number of ways 8 boys and 3 girls can sit on a shopa which can accommodate 4 persons? Answer Choice: (A) 7900 (B) 7800 (C) 5200 (D) 6400 (E) None
Answer: E
Marts income is 30 percent more than Tims income and Tims income is 40 percent less than Juans income. What percentage of Juans income is Marts income Answer Choice: (A) 124% (B) b) 120 % (C) c) 78 % (D) d) 80 % (E) e) 64 %
Answer: C
On a map, 1 inch represents 28 miles. How many X XXinches would be necessary to represent a distance of 383.6 miles? Answer Choice: (A) 5.2 (B) 7.4 (C) 13.7 (D) 21.2 (E) 28.7
Answer: C
There are 6 people and 6 chairs. In how many different ways people can occupy the chairs? Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 720 (D) 36 (E) 120
Answer: C
When two coins are tossed, Find the probability of getting all t ails? Answer Choice: (A) 1/3 (B) 3/4 (C) 1/8 (D) 3/8 (E) P(E) =1/4
Answer: E
A, B and C start swimming in a pool simultaneously from the same end. To complete 12 laps, A takes 10 minutes, B takes 8 minutes and C takes 6 minutes. What is the ratio of speeds A:B:C? Answer Choice: (A) 3:4:5 (B) 10:15:20 (C) 5:4:3 (D) 4:6:5 (E) 12:15:25
Answer: B
A woman complete a journey in 15 hours. She travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km. Answer Choice: (A) 336 km. (B) 216 km. (C) 314 km. (D) 224 km. (E) 544 km.
Answer: A
P can do a work in the same time in which Q and R together can do it. If P and Q work together, the work can be completed in 10 days. R alone needs 50 days to complete the same work. then Q alone can do it in Answer Choice: (A) 30 days (B) 25 days (C) 20 days (D) 15 days (E) 10days
Answer: B
How many three digit numbers V greater than 330 can be formed from the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, if each digit can only be used once? Answer Choice: (A) 72 (B) 48 (C) 120 (D) 96 (E) 76
Answer: A
Raju age after 55 years will be 5 times his age 5 years back, What is the present age of Raju Answer Choice: (A) 28 (B) 17 (C) 10 (D) 77 (E) 20
Answer: E
Two trains, each 100 m long, moving in opposite directions, cross other in 20 sec. If one is moving twice as fast the other, then the speed of the faster train is? Answer Choice: (A) 22 (B) 98 (C) 60 (D) 88 (E) 24
Answer: E
The length of the room is 5.5m and width is 3.75m. Find the cost of paving the floor by slabs at the rate of Rs.800 per sq meter? Answer Choice: (A) 16500 (B) 16299 (C) 22898 (D) 12929 (E) 12091
Answer: A
What is the average of 120, 130, 140, 510, 520, 530, 1115, 1120, and 1125? Answer Choice: (A)  419 (B)  551 (C)  601 (D) 590 (E)  721
Answer: D
The Sum of first N consecutive odd integers is N^2. What is the sum of all odd integers between 9 and 39 inclusive. Answer Choice: (A) 351 (B) 384 (C) 410 (D) 424 (E) 450
Answer: B
SAKSHI CAN DO A PIECE OF WORK IN 20 DAYS. TANYA IS 25% MORE EFFICIENT THAN SAKSHI. THE NUMBER OF DAYS TAKEN BY TANYA TO DO THE SAME PIECE OF WORK IS: Answer Choice: (A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 25 (E) NONE OF THESE
Answer: B
A man can row a boat at 20 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 5 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 60 km downstream? Answer Choice: (A) 30/18 hours (B) 37/13 hours (C) 80/13 hours (D) 12/5 hours (E) 30/43 hours
Answer: D
A tin of oil was 4/5full.when 6 bottles of oil were taken out and four bottles of oil were poured into it, it was ¾ full. how many bottles of oil can the tin contain? Answer Choice: (A) 20 (B) 40 (C) 60 (D) 80 (E) 90
Answer: B
A can complete the job in 2 hours and B can complete the same job in 4 hours. A works for 1 hour and then B joins and both complete the job. What fraction of the job did B complete Answer Choice: (A) 1/6 (B) 3/10 (C) 1/2 (D) 5/6 (E) 8/9
Answer: A
At the end of a business conference the 20 people present all shake hands with each other once. How many handshakes will there be altogether ? Answer Choice: (A) 20 (B) 45 (C) 55 (D) 190 (E) 95
Answer: D
3 pumps, working 8 hours a day, can empty a tank in 2 days. How many hours a day must 6 pumps work to empty the tank in 1 day? Answer Choice: (A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13
Answer: A
The H.C.F. of two numbers is 23 and the other two factors of their L.C.M. are 13 and 15. The larger of the two numbers is: Answer Choice: (A) 276 (B) 299 (C) 322 (D) 345 (E) 395
Answer: D
If x*y = xy – 2(x + y) for all integers x and y, then 4* (–3) = Answer Choice: (A) –14 (B) –11 (C) –4 (D) 4 (E) 16
Answer: A
one-fourth of the workers in Palabras bookstore have read the latest book by J. Saramago, and 5/8 of the workers have read the latest book by H. Kureishi. The number of workers that have read neither book is one less than the number of the workers that have read the latest Saramago book and have not read the latest Kureishi book. If there are 72 workers in the Palabras bookstore, how many of them have read both books? Answer Choice: (A) 13 (B) 12 (C) 9 (D) 8 (E) 4
Answer: E
The amount of an investment will double in approximately 70/ p years, where p is the percent interest, compounded annually. If Thelma invests $ 40,000 in a long-term CD that pays 5 percent interest, compounded annually, what will be the approximate total value of the investment when Thelma is ready to retire 42 years later? Answer Choice: (A) $ 280,000 (B) $ 320,000 (C) $ 360,000 (D) $ 450,000 (E) $ 540,000
Answer: B
The ratio of number of students studying Arts, Commerce and Science in a College is 3 : 4 :8. What is the new ratio of the number of students studying Arts, Commerce and Science respectively if there is an increase of 20%, 40% and 25% in the number of students studying Arts, Commerce and Science? Answer Choice: (A) 18 : 35 : 50 (B) 3 : 10 : 10 (C) 9 : 14 : 25 (D) 32 : 35 : 25 (E) None of these
Answer: C
A car finishes a journey in ten hours at the speed of 80 km/hr. If the same distance is to be covered in eight hours how much more speed does the car have to gain? Answer Choice: (A) 8 km/hr (B) 10 km/hr (C) 12 km/hr (D) 16 km/hr (E) None of these
Answer: E
If Q is the least common multiple of 90,196, and 300, which of the following is NOT a factor of Q? Answer Choice: (A) 600 (B) 700 (C) 900 (D) 2,100 (E) 4,900
Answer: A
Rectangular Floors X and Y have equal area. If Floor X is 10 feet by 18 feet and Floor Y is 9 feet wide, what is the length of Floor Y, in feet? Answer Choice: (A)  13 1/2 (B)  20 (C)  18 3/4 (D)  21 (E)  24
Answer: B
The figure above shows the dimensions of a semicircular cross section of a one-way tunnel. The single traffic lane is 12 feet wide and is equidistant from the sides of the tunnel. If vehicles must clear the top of the tunnel by at least ½ foot when they are inside the traffic lane, what should be the limit L on the height of vehicles that are allowed to use the tunnel? Answer Choice: (A) 5½ ft (B) 7½ ft (C) 8 ½ ft (D) 9½ ft (E) 10 ft
Answer: B