loafeihong/math_mmlu_format huggingface dataset:
a vase has 2 dozens of assorted flowers of which 8 are daisies. what is the ratio of the daisies to the whole arrangement? Answer Choice: (A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/12 (D) 8/12 (E) 1/24
Answer: B
A can do a piece of work in 15 days. A does the work for 5 days only and leaves the job. B does the remaining work in 16 days.In how many days B alone can do the work? Answer Choice: (A) 5days (B) 7 days (C) 12 days (D) 24 days (E) 10 days
Answer: D
Which of the following CAN be the least common multiple of two positive integers 10 and 15? Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 30 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 50
Answer: B
What is the compound interest paid on a sum of Rs.6000 for the period of 2 years at 10% per annum. Answer Choice: (A) 1260 (B) 1320 (C) 1200 (D) 1250 (E) None of these
Answer: A
W is the set of the first n positive odd numbers, where n is a positive integer. Given that n > k, where k is also a positive integer, x is the maximum value of the sum of k distinct members of W, and y is the minimum value of the sum of k distinct members of W, what is x + y? Answer Choice: (A)  kn (B)  kn + k^2 (C)  kn + 2k^2 (D)  2kn – k^2 (E)  2kn
Answer: E
A train 250 m long is running at a speed of 45 km/hr. In what time will it pass a bridge 150 m long? Answer Choice: (A) 45 sec (B) 42 sec (C) 32sec (D) 48 sec (E) 25 sec
Answer: C
How many unique positive odd integers less than 100 are equal to the product of a positive multiple of 5 and an odd number? Answer Choice: (A) 4 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 15
Answer: B
In a mixed college 160 students are there in one class. Out of this 160 students 1/2 students are girls. How many boys are there ? Answer Choice: (A) A)40 (B) B)60 (C) C)80 (D) D)120 (E) E)140
Answer: C
A sum of Rs. 1700 has been divided among A, B and C such that A gets of what B gets and B gets of what C gets. B’s share is: Answer Choice: (A) Rs. 120 (B) Rs. 160 (C) Rs. 240 (D) Rs. 300 (E) None
Answer: D
How many 6 digit positive integers exist such that no two consecutive digits are the same? Answer Choice: (A) 10*9*8*7*6*5 (B) 9*8*7*6*5*4 (C) 9*9*8*7*6*5 (D) 9*9*8^4 (E) 9^6
Answer: E
Two cars were driven by W and B. They were 580 miles apart when they started driving towards each other.W's car had traveled at a speed of 20 miles per hour, 4 hours per day for 5 days when it had met B's car. If B had driven 3 hours per day for 5 days, what was B's speed in miles per hour? Answer Choice: (A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12
Answer: E
Two employees X and Y are paid a total of Rs. 550 per week by their employer. If X is paid 120 percent of the sum paid to Y, how much is Y paid per week? Answer Choice: (A) Rs.180 (B) Rs.200 (C) Rs.250 (D) Rs.280 (E) Rs.300
Answer: C
There are 9 players in a chess group, and each player plays each of the others once. Given that each game is played by two players, how many total games will be played? Answer Choice: (A) 10 (B) 30 (C) 36 (D) 60 (E) 90
Answer: C
By selling 150 apples, a fruit-seller gains the selling price of 30 apples. Find the gain percent? Answer Choice: (A) 30% (B) 58% (C) 25% (D) 60% (E) 12%
Answer: C
A 150 meter long train crosses a man standing on the platform in 3 sec. What is the speed of the train? Answer Choice: (A) 176 kmph (B) 108 kmph (C) 176 kmph (D) 134 kmph (E) 180 kmph
Answer: E
The radius of a wheel is 22.4 cm. What is the distance covered by the wheel in making 1500 resolutions? Answer Choice: (A) 2187 m (B) 2112 m (C) 2179 m (D) 2127 m (E) 2197 m
Answer: B
In an election between two candidates, the first candidate got 60% of the votes and the second candidate got 480 votes. What was the total number of votes? Answer Choice: (A) 900 (B) 1200 (C) 1500 (D) 1800 (E) 2100
Answer: B
Two tains of equal lengths take 10 seconds and 15 seconds respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120 metres, in what time (in seconds) will they cross each other travelling in opposite direction? Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 18
Answer: A
A trader sells 85 meters of cloth for Rs. 8925 at the profit of Rs. 20 per metre of cloth. What is the cost price of one metre of cloth? Answer Choice: (A) 21 (B) 28 (C) 90 (D) 85 (E) 11
Answer: D
A can run a kilometer race in 4 1/2 min while B can run same race in 5 min. How many meters start can A give B in a kilometer race, so that the race mat end in a dead heat? Answer Choice: (A) 150 m (B) 125 m (C) 130 m (D) 100 m (E) 120 m
Answer: D
Janet invited her Boy and Girl friends to her party at the ratio of 3:7. If 30% of the Boys and 70% of the Girls will be coming for the party from Texas, How many Janet invited friends will be coming from Texas. Answer Choice: (A) 62% (B) 52% (C) 57% (D) 56% (E) 58%
Answer: E
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) 220
Answer: D
Liam is pulled over for speeding just as he is arriving at work.He explains to the police officer that he could not afford to be late today, and has arrived at work only four minutes before he is to start. The officer explains that if Liam had driven 5mph slower for his whole commute, he would have arrived at work exactly on time. If Liam's commute is 60 miles long,how fast was he actually driving?(Assume that Liam drove at a constant speed for the duration of his commute.) Answer Choice: (A) 50 mph (B) 45 mph (C) 48 mph (D) 52 mph (E) 70 mph
Answer: E
If a train, travelling at a speed of 90 kmph, crosses a pole in 5 sec, then the length of train is? Answer Choice: (A) 288 (B) 125 (C) 88 (D) 76 (E) 232
Answer: B
5, 7, 11, 18, 33, (...) Answer Choice: (A) 22 (B) 35 (C) 27 (D) 63 (E) 25
Answer: D
A and B can together finish a work 30 days. They worked together for 20 days and then B left. After another 20 days, A finished the remaining work. In how many days A alone can finish the work? Answer Choice: (A) 10 days. (B) 30 days. (C) 60 days. (D) 20 days. (E) 50 days.
Answer: C
The ratio 2:10 expressed as percent equals to Answer Choice: (A) 50 % (B) 30 % (C) 25 % (D) 20 % (E) 90%
Answer: D
An error 2% in excess is made while measuring the side of a square. The percentage of error in the calculated area of the square is Answer Choice: (A) 4.04% (B) 4.14% (C) 4.23% (D) 4.26% (E) 4.5%
Answer: A
If Dinesh is 1/3rd the age of his father Kiran now, and was 1/4th the age of his father 5 years ago, then how old will his father Kiran be 5 years from now? Answer Choice: (A) 20 years (B) 45 years (C) 40 years (D) 50 years (E) None of these
Answer: D
In the graduating class of a certain college, 48 percent of the students are male and 52 percent are female. In this class 40 percent of the male and 50 percent of the female students are 25 years old or older. If one student in the class is randomly selected, approximately what is the probability that he or she will be less than 25 years old? Answer Choice: (A) A)0.9 (B) B)0.5 (C) C)0.45 (D) D)0.3 (E) E)0.25
Answer: B
The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of first six is 10.5 and that of the last six is 11.4 the sixth number is? Answer Choice: (A) 11.9 (B) 14.2 (C) 11.9 (D) 11.5 (E) 11.2
Answer: D
In a contest, a bowl contains 8 keys, one of which will open a treasure chest and Seven of which will not. If a contestant selects the key that opens the treasure chest, she wins the contents of that chest. If Kiran is allowed to draw two keys, simultaneously and at random, from the bowl as the first contestant, what is the probability that he wins the prize? Answer Choice: (A) 1/4 (B) 1/2 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/5 (E) 1/6
Answer: A
Convert the 15/36 m/s into kilometers per hour? Answer Choice: (A) 3.5 kmph. (B) 2.5 kmph. (C) 1.2 kmph. (D) 1.5 kmph. (E) 1.9 kmph.
Answer: D
If xerox paper costs 5 cents a sheet and a buyer gets 10% discount on all xerox paper one buys after the first 2000 papers and 20% discount after first 10000 papers, how much will it cost to buy 35000 sheets of xerox paper? Answer Choice: (A) $1250 (B) $1060 (C) $1450 (D) $900 (E) $1000
Answer: C
The price of lunch for 13 people was $207 including a 15% gratuity for service. What was the average price per person, EXCLUDING the gratuity? Answer Choice: (A) 11.73 (B) 12 (C) 13.85 (D) 14 (E) 15.87
Answer: C
The daytime telephone rate between two cities is 50 cents for the first 3 minutes and c cents for each additional minute. The total charge is reduced 60 percent on calls made after 10:00 P.M. The cost, in dollars, of a 35-minute call made at 10:30 P.M. between these two cities is: Answer Choice: (A)  0.4(0.60) + 35c (B)  0.4(0.50 + 0.32c) (C)  0.4(0.60 + 9c) (D)  0.6(0.60 + 32c) (E)  0.6(0.60 + 0.35c)
Answer: B
In Kiran's opinion, his weight is greater than 65 kg but less than 72 kg. His brother does not agree with Kiran and he thinks that Kiran's weight is greater than 60 kg but less than 70 kg. His mother's view is that his weight cannot be greater than 68 kg. If all are them are correct in their estimation, what is the average of different probable weights of Kiran? Answer Choice: (A) 67 (B) 68 (C) 69 (D) 70 (E) 71
Answer: A
X and Y invest Rs.21000 and Rs.17500 respectively in a business. At the end of the year, they make a profit of Rs.26400. What is the share of X in the profit? Answer Choice: (A) 14400 (B) 26400 (C) 12000 (D) 12500 (E) 14500
Answer: A
Working together, printer A and printer B would finish the task in 24 minutes. Printer A alone would finish the task in 60 minutes. How many pages does the task contain if printer B prints 10 pages a minute more than printer A ? Answer Choice: (A) 600 (B) 800 (C) 1000 (D) 1200 (E) 1500
Answer: D
Find the roots of quadratic equation: 2x2 + 5x + 2 = 0? Answer Choice: (A) -2, -1/2 (B) 4, -1 (C) 4, 1 (D) -2, 5/2 (E) None of these
Answer: A
The difference between a positive proper fraction and its reciprocal is 9/20. The fraction is: Answer Choice: (A) 3/5 (B) 3/10 (C) 4/5 (D) 5/4 (E) 6/4
Answer: C
If the mean of a data set is 75 and the standard deviation is 10, what is the range of scores that fall within one standard deviation of the mean? Answer Choice: (A) 65, 80} (B) 65, 90} (C) 65, 70} (D) 65, 80} (E) 65, 85}
Answer: E
What percent of 60 is 80? Answer Choice: (A) 133 1⁄3 (B) 75 (C) 60 (D) 33 1⁄3 (E) 25
Answer: A
A can do a piece of work in 30 days. He works at it for 5 days and then B finishes it in 20 days. In what time can A and B together it? Answer Choice: (A) 13 1/8 days (B) 13 1/3 days (C) 83 1/3 days (D) 13 8/3 days (E) 19 1/3 days
Answer: B
Some man have some apples with him.He gave half of the apples and half an apple.This gets repeated for 4 time.After that he has no more apple with him.How many number of apples were there initially? Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 31 (C) 32 (D) 33 (E) 34
Answer: C
If the cost price of 50 articles is equal to the selling price of 30 articles, then the gain or loss percent is? Answer Choice: (A) 22 (B) 65 (C) 78 (D) 66.67 (E) 25
Answer: D
Pumps A, B, and C operate at their respective constant rates. Pumps A and B, operating simultaneously, can fill a certain tank in 1 hours; pumps A and C, operating simultaneously, can fill the tank in 1 hours; and pumps B and C, operating simultaneously, can fill the tank in 2 hours. How many hours does it take pumps A, B, and C, operating simultaneously, to fill the tank. Answer Choice: (A) 1/3 (B) 1/2 (C) 1/4 (D) 1 (E) 5/6
Answer: B
Kira's seafood restaurant gets a delivery of fresh seafood every day, 7 days per week, and her delivery company charges her dollars per delivery plus cents per item delivered. If lst week Sarah's seafood restaurant had an average of x items per day delivered, then which of the following is the total cost, in dollars, of last week's deliveries ? Answer Choice: (A) 7cdx/100 (B) d + 7cx/100 (C) 7d + xc/100 (D) 7d + 7xc/100 (E) 7cdx
Answer: D
Torry has submitted 2/5 of his homework assignments, and he received an average grade of 75 for those assignments. If he wishes to receive an average grade of 120 for all his homework assignments, the average grade for Torry's remaining homework assignments must be what percent greater than the average grade for the assignments he has already submitted? Answer Choice: (A) 100% (B) 20% (C) 25% (D) 33 1/3% (E) 40%
Answer: A
The average of 15 result is 60. Average of the first 10 of them is 10 and that of the last 10 is 80. Find the 8th result? Answer Choice: (A) 35 (B) 200 (C) 150 (D) 250 (E) 300
Answer: B
Lilly has 10 fish and Rosy has 11 fish. In total, how many fish do they have in all? Answer Choice: (A) 19 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 22 (E) 23
Answer: C
Ten years ago, P was half of Q's age. If the ratio of their present ages is
3:4, what will be the total of their present ages? Answer Choice: (A) 45 (B) 40 (C) 35 (D) 30 (E) 38
Answer: C
The effective annual rate of interest corresponding to a nominal rate of 12% per annum payable half-yearly is? Answer Choice: (A) 16.06% (B) 16.07% (C) 12.36% (D) 6.09% (E) 6.19%
Answer: C
The average age of husband, wife and their child 3 years ago was 26 years and that of wife and the child 5 years ago was 20 years. The present age of the husband is Answer Choice: (A) 22 (B) 40 (C) 38 (D) 21 (E) 37
Answer: E
The percentage increase in the area of a rectangle, if each of its sides is increased by 20% is Answer Choice: (A) 38% (B) 40% (C) 44% (D) 48% (E) 50%
Answer: C
The average (arithmetic mean) of the even integers from 0 to 40 inclusive is how much greater than the average (arithmetic mean) of the even integers from 0 to 20 inclusive? Answer Choice: (A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 5 (D) 30 (E) 15
Answer: A
A can do a piece of work in 4 hours; B and C together can do it in 3 hours, which A and C together can do it in 2 hours. How long will B alone take to do it? Answer Choice: (A) 15 hours (B) 14 hours (C) 12 hours (D) 74 hours (E) 79 hours
Answer: C
A tyre has two punctures. The first puncture alone would have made the tyre flat in 9 minutes and the second alone would have done it in 4 minutes. If air leaks out at a constant rate, how long does it take both the punctures together to make it flat ? Answer Choice: (A) 3 1/5min (B) 2 10/13min (C) 3 3/5min (D) 3 4/5min (E) 3 min
Answer: B
A man can swim in still water at 9 km/h, but takes twice as long to swim upstream than downstream. The speed of the stream is? Answer Choice: (A) 1.7 (B) 1.4 (C) 3 (D) 1.5 (E) 1.9
Answer: C
If 5x^2 has two different prime factors, at most how many different prime factors does x have? Answer Choice: (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
Answer: B
How many different ways can you select a pilot and a co pilot if you have 30 people to choose from? Answer Choice: (A)  199 (B)  200 (C)  398 (D)  4950 (E)  870
Answer: E
A big container is 30% full with water. If 27 liters of water is added, the container becomes 3/4 full. What is the capacity of the big container? Answer Choice: (A) 36 liters (B) 40 liters (C) 45 liters (D) 54 liters (E) 60 liters
Answer: E
A person bought a certain quantity of rice at the rate of Rs. 150/quintal. 10% of the rice was spoiled. At what rate(per quintal) should he sell the remaining rice to earn 20% profit. Answer Choice: (A) Rs. 180 (B) Rs. 200 (C) Rs. 210 (D) Rs. 220 (E) NONE
Answer: B
By selling an article at Rs.800, a shopkeeper makes a profit of 25%. At what price should he sell the article so as to make a loss of 30%? Answer Choice: (A) 448 (B) 480 (C) 267 (D) 288 (E) 276
Answer: A
If 7log(4*5^2) = x, find x Answer Choice: (A) 12 (B) 11 (C) 10 (D) 14 (E) 13
Answer: D
There is 2/5 chance it will rain today.
There is a probability of 1/2 I will find the love of my life today.
What is the probability I will find the love of my life in the rain today? Answer Choice: (A) 2/5 (B) 3/5 (C) 3/10 (D) 1/5 (E) 7/10
Answer: D
The speed of a boat in still water is 20 km/hr and the rate of current is 5 km/hr. The distance travelled downstream in 27 minutes is: Answer Choice: (A) 9.25 (B) 5.25 (C) 7.25 (D) 6.25 (E) 11.25
Answer: E
A particular library has 75 books in a special collection, all of which were in the library at the beginning of the month. These book are occasionally loaned out through an inter-library program. If, by the end of the month, 65 percent of books that were loaned out are returned and there are 61 books in the special collection at that time, how many books of the special collection were loaned out during that month? Answer Choice: (A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 35 (D) 40 (E) 55
Answer: D
Which of the following CANNOT be weighed using a balance scale and these unit weights: 1, 4, 7, and 10 Answer Choice: (A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 17 (D) 21 (E) 20
Answer: E
The distance from City A to City B is 180 miles. While driving from City A to City B, Cara drives at a constant speed of 30 miles per hour. Dan leaves City A 60 minutes after Cara. What is the minimum constant speed in miles per hour that Dan must exceed in order to arrive in City B before Cara? Answer Choice: (A) 42 (B) 44 (C) 46 (D) 36 (E) 50
Answer: D
At a school dance, 40% of the students had a date, 70% of the remaining students arrived at the dance with a group. What percentage of the students arrived alone? Answer Choice: (A) 40% of the students arrived alone. (B) 10% of the students arrived alone. (C) 42% of the students arrived alone. (D) 18% of the students arrived alone. (E) None of these.
Answer: D
With both inlets open, a water tank will be filled with water in 24 minutes. The first inlet alone would fill the tank in 2 hours. If in every minutes the second inlet admits 50 cubic meters of water than the first, what is the capacity of the tank ? Answer Choice: (A) 2,000 (B) 10,500 (C) 11,750 (D) 12,000 (E) 13,000
Answer: A
By selling 8 pencils for a rupee a man loses 10%. How many for a rupee should he sell in order to gain 10%? Answer Choice: (A) 6.54 (B) 9.45 (C) 7.34 (D) 6.67 (E) 5.09
Answer: A
The credit card and a global payment processing companies have been suffering losses for some time now. A well known company recently announced its quarterly results. According to the results, the revenue fell to $48.0 billion from $69.0 billion, a year ago. By what percent did the revenue fall? Answer Choice: (A) 20.8 (B) 30.4 (C) 31.8 (D) 32.5 (E) 33.8
Answer: B
If x+1/x=5 then find out the value of x^5+1/x^5=? Answer Choice: (A) 2515 (B) 2525 (C) 2535 (D) 2545 (E) 2555
Answer: B
A basketball team scored x points per game in its first n games of the season, and in all the following games it scored an average (arithmetic mean) of y points per game. What was the average number of points per game in its first n + 4 games? Answer Choice: (A) x + 3y/(n + 3) (B) x + y/(n + 3) (C) (x + 3y)/(n + 3) (D) (nx + 3y)/(n + 4) (E) (3x + ny)/(n + 3)
Answer: D
Carol and Jordan draw rectangles of equal area. If Carol's rectangle measures 15 inches by 24 inches and Jordan's rectangle is 8 inches long, how wide is Jordan's rectangle, in inches? Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 35 (C) 40 (D) 45 (E) 50
Answer: D
What is the unit digit in 14^100? Answer Choice: (A) 0 (B) 5 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 6
Answer: E
Sandy invested a certain sum of money at 12% p.a. simple interest for 'n' years. At the end of 'n' years, Sandy got back 7 times the original investment. What is the value of n? Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 35 (C) 40 (D) 45 (E) 50
Answer: E
Prabhu purchased 30 kg of rice at the rate of 17.50 per kg and another 30 kg rice at a certain rate. He mixed the two and sold the entire quantity at the rate of 18.60 per kg and made 20 per cent overall profit. At what price per kg did he purchase the lot of another 30 kg rice? Answer Choice: (A) 14.5 (B) 12.5 (C) 15.5 (D) 13.5 (E) None of these
Answer: D
A BOWLER CAN TAKE MAX. 3WICKETS IN A OVER.IF HE BOWLS 6OVERS IN AN INNINGS, HOW MANY MAXIMUM WICKETS CAN HE TAKE? Answer Choice: (A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 7 (E) 10
Answer: E
A and C can finish 100,000 piece of work in 15 days each. B can do 30% faster than A and B.Approximately how many days would it take to finish million piece of work with all three working simultaneously? Answer Choice: (A) 40 (B) 46 (C) 51 (D) 42 (E) 54
Answer: B
Find the missing in the series: 60, 54, 45, 41,___ Answer Choice: (A) 22 (B) 287 (C) 267 (D) 2767 (E) 2771
Answer: C
A bag contains 6 red, 5 blue and 2 green balls. If 2 ballsare picked at random, what is the probability that both are red? Answer Choice: (A) 1/13 (B) 2/23 (C) 5/26 (D) 4/27 (E) 3/23
Answer: C
What is the total number of positive integers that are less than 500 and that have no positive factor in common with 500 other than 1? Answer Choice: (A) 50 (B) 100 (C) 200 (D) 300 (E) 400
Answer: C
Two women started running simultaneously around a circular track of length 1800 m from the same point at speeds of 10 km/hr and 20 km/hr. When will they meet for the first time any where on the track if they are moving in opposite directions? Answer Choice: (A) 72 (B) 74 (C) 76 (D) 78 (E) 80
Answer: A
Three people have $28, $72, and $98, respectively. If they pool their money then redistribute it among them, what is the maximum value for the median amount of money? Answer Choice: (A) $72 (B) $85 (C) $99 (D) $101 (E) $202
Answer: C
Find the length of the altitude of an equilateral triangle of side 3√3 cm. Answer Choice: (A) 4.5cm (B) 7.2cm (C) 4.3cm (D) 5.6cm (E) 5.7cm
Answer: A
A single discount equivalent to the discount series of 20%, 15% and 10% is? Answer Choice: (A) 31.8 (B) 31.1 (C) 38.8 (D) 31.2 (E) 31.9
Answer: C
The ratio 15:25 expressed as percent equals to Answer Choice: (A) 70 % (B) 60 % (C) 30 % (D) 75 % (E) None of above
Answer: B
A store owner wants to mix cashews and almonds. Cashews cost 2 dollars per pound and almonds cost 5 dollars per pound. He plans to sell 150 pounds of a mixture. How many pounds of each type of nuts should be mixed if the mixture will cost 3 dollars? Answer Choice: (A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 50 (D) 60 (E) 70
Answer: C
How much is 80% of 60 is greater than 4/5 of 25? Answer Choice: (A) 15 (B) 28 (C) 16 (D) 12 (E) 73
Answer: B
If x⁄2 + 3⁄4 = 9⁄4, what is the value of x? Answer Choice: (A) –2 (B) –1 (C) 1 (D) 3 (E) 5
Answer: D
The MegaTek Corporation is displaying its distribution of employees by department in a circle graph. The size of each sector of the graph representing a department is proportional to the percentage of total employees in that department. If the section of the circle graph representing the manufacturing department takes up 180° of the circle, what percentage of MegaTek employees are in manufacturing? Answer Choice: (A) 20% (B) 25% (C) 30% (D) 35% (E) 50%
Answer: E
if integer N has p factors ; how many factors will 6N have ? Answer Choice: (A) p (B) 2p (C) P+1 (D) 2p+1 (E) Cannot be determined
Answer: E
Look at this series: 36, 34, 30, 28, 24, ... What number should come next? Answer Choice: (A) 2 (B) 22 (C) 23 (D) 26 (E) 30
Answer: B
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 42 minutes. The waste pipe can empty the full cistern in? Answer Choice: (A) A)7 (B) B)6 (C) C)8 (D) D)9 (E) E)5
Answer: A
A person saved $10 in buying an item on sale. If he spent $400 for the item, approximately how much percent he saved in the transaction? Answer Choice: (A) 8% (B) 10% (C) 2% (D) 2.4% (E) 6%
Answer: D
A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first contains 25% water and the rest milk. The second contains 50% water. How much milk should he mix from each of the containers so as to get 12 litres of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3 : 5? Answer Choice: (A) 5litres, 7 litres (B) 7litres, 4 litres (C) 6litres, 6 litres (D) 4litres, 8 litres (E) 8litres, 10 litres
Answer: C
Vijay bought 160 shirts at the rate of Rs. 220 per shirt. The transport expenditure was Rs. 1400. He paid an octroi at the rate of Rs. 1.75 per shirt and labour charges were Rs. 320. What should be the selling price of one shirt, if he wants a profit of 20%? Answer Choice: (A) s.225 (B) s.288 (C) s.485 (D) s.279 (E) s.282
Answer: D
The average age of seven persons sitting in a row facing east is 28 years. If the average age of the first three persons is 25 years and the average age of the last three persons is 35 years, then find the age of the person sitting in the middle of the row? Answer Choice: (A) 9 years (B) 29 years (C) 18 years (D) 19 years (E) 16 years
Answer: E