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A man is 24 years older than his son. In two years, his age will be twice the age of his son. The present age of his son is:

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What is the smallest prime number?

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How many of the following numbers are divisible by 132 ? 264, 396, 462, 792, 968, 2178, 5184, 6336

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What is the largest 4 digit number exactly divisible by 88?

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Which of the following is a prime number ?

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A student has to obtain 33% of the total marks to pass. He got 125 marks and failed by 40 marks. The maximum marks are

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What percent of a day is 6 hours?

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What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 have 1 or 9 in the unit's digit?

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A fruit seller had some oranges. He sells 40% oranges and still has 420 oranges. How many oranges he had originally?

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Two numbers A and B are such that the sum of 5\% of A and 4\% of B is two-third of the sum of 6\% of A and 8\% of B. Find the ratio of A : B.

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If 20\% of a = b, then b\% of 20 is the same as:

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21 goats eat as much as 15 cows. How many goats each as much as 35 cows?

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36 men can complete a piece of work in 18 days. In how many days will 27 men complete the same work?

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If a quarter kg of potato costs 60 paise, how many paise does 200 gm cost?

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If 7 spiders make 7 webs in 7 days, then how many days are needed for 1 spider to make 1 web?

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If the cost of x metres of wire is d rupees, then what is the cost of y metres of wire at the same rate?

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The average of five numbers id 27. If one number is excluded, the average becomes 25. What is the excluded number?

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The average age of boys in a class is 16 years and that of the girls is 15 years. What is the average age for the whole class?

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A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his averages by 3. What is his average after 17th inning?

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The average weight of A, B and C is 45 kg. If the average weight of A and B be 40 kg and that of B and C be 43 kg, what is the weight of B?

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A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sundays and 240 on other days. What is the average number of visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday?

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The average weight of 16 boys in a class is 50.25 kg and that of the remaining 8 boys is 45.15 kg. Find the average weights of all the boys in the class.

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The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, How many of them may be greater than zero , at the most?

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In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the run rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 282 runs?

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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?

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A goods train runs at the speed of 72 kmph and crosses a 250 m long platform in 26 seconds. What is the length of the goods train?

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A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20 seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?

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The length of the bridge, which a train 130 metres long and travelling at 45 km/hr can cross in 30 seconds, is:

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David gets on the elevator at the 11th floor of a building and rides up at the rate of 57 floors per minute. At the same time, Albert gets on an elevator at the 51st floor of the same building and rides down at the rate of 63 floors per minute. If they continue travelling at these rates, then at which floor will their paths cross ?

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A man has some hens and cows. If the number of heads be 48 and the number of feet equals 140, then the number of hens will be:

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In a regular week, there are 5 working days and for each day, the working hours are 8. A man gets Rs. 2.40 per hour for regular work and Rs. 3.20 per hours for overtime. If he earns Rs. 432 in 4 weeks, then how many hours does he work for ?

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To fill a tank, 25 buckets of water is required. How many buckets of water will be required to fill the same tank if the capacity of the bucket is reduced to two-fifth of its present ?

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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 27 times, A has killed:

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One-third of Rahul's savings in National Savings Certificate is equal to one-half of his savings in Public Provident Fund. If he has Rs. 1,50,000 as total savings, how much has he saved in Public Provident Fund ?

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The price of 2 sarees and 4 shirts is Rs. 1600. With the same money one can buy 1 saree and 6 shirts. If one wants to buy 12 shirts, how much shall he have to pay ?

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There are two examinations rooms A and B. If 10 students are sent from A to B, then the number of students in each room is the same. If 20 candidates are sent from B to A, then the number of students in A is double the number of students in B. The number of students in room A is:

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Which of the following is not a leap year?

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If 6th March, 2005 is Monday, what was the day of the week on 6th March, 2004?

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It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?

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Which of the following numbers is divisible by each one of 3, 7, 9 and 11 ?

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When a number is divided by 13, the remainder is 11. When the same number is divided by 17, then remainder is 9. What is the number ?

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If the number 653 xy is divisible by 90, then (x + y) = ?

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A number was divided successively in order by 4, 5 and 6. The remainders were respectively 2, 3 and 4. The number is:

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If 60% of (3/5) of a number is 36, then the number is:?

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The sum of how many terms of the series 6 + 12 + 18 + 24 + ... is 1800 ?

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What smallest number should be added to 4456 so that the sum is completely divisible by 6 ?

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If n is a natural number, then (6n2 + 6n) is always divisible by:

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Which of the following is a prime number ?

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Which of the following fractions is greater than (3/4) and less than (5/6) ?

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The price of commodity X increases by 40 paise every year, while the price of commodityY increases by 15 paise every year. If in 2001, the price of commodity X was Rs. 4.20 and that of Y was Rs. 6.30, in which year commodity X will cost 40 paise more than the commodity Y ?

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