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What will be the labor charge for tiling a hall 52 m long and 18 m wide at the rate of $8 per sq. m?

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Each bag of bananas weighs 3 kgs 130 grams. If the total weight of a sack containing bananas bags is 97.03 kgs, then how many bags are in the sack?

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Find the number of bricks to be laid in a square path of side 25 cm, if the side of each brick is 5 cm.

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Warren bought two rolls of tape. The first roll had 7.2 metres of tape and the second roll had 7.45 metres of tape. How many metres of tape did Warren buy in all?

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On a school trip, a class travels 2.1 kilometres by train and 1.8 kilometres by bus. How far did the class travel?

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Edwin had 7.8 grams of pepper. Then he used 4.3 grams of the pepper to make some scrambled eggs. How much pepper does Edwin have left?

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A carpenter bought a piece of wood that was 4.8 centimetres long. Then he sawed 3.72 centimetres off the end. How long is the piece of wood now?

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Brian mixed 2.06 grams of salt into a pot of soup he was cooking. Before he served the soup, Brian added 5.07 grams of salt. How much salt did Brian put into the soup in all?

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Ramakrishnan is reading a novel and this book has 250 pages. Ramakrishnan manages to read $\large\frac{1}{25}$ of the book every day. After 4 days, how many pages does he have left to read?

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On Friday night, John ate half a pizza for dinner and had the remaining half pizza left over. On Saturday, he ate one-third of what was left and ate the rest on Sunday. How much pizza did John eat on Sunday? Simplify your answer as a proper fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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The length of the ribbon was originally 55cm. It was reduced in the ratio 11 : 7. What is its length now?

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The first, second and third terms of the proportion are 56, 16, 49. Find the fourth term.

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What is the ratio of the multiples of 5 to the total number of natural numbers?

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What is the ratio of the number of primes in the set of natural numbers?

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What must be added to each term of the ratio 2 : 3, so that it may become equal to 4 : 5?

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Floor of a room measures 4.5 metres × 3 metres. Find the minimum number of complete square marble slabs of equal size required to cover the entire floor.

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The maximum capacity of an elevator is 840kg. If the average weight of a person is 70kg, how many people can be accommodated in the elevator?

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A bag of cement weighs 25kg. A contingent contains 50 such bags. What is the weight of the contingent?

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The face value of 0 in the smallest 5 digit number is

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The largest 4 digit number with different digits

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The smallest number divisible by the sum of first 10 whole numbers

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The smallest number divisible by the first 10 natural numbers

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The smallest number divisible by the sum of first 10 natural numbers

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The sum of two composite numbers

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The sum of a prime and a composite number

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The place value of 8 in the number obtained by reversing the digits of 9378

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Subtract 134864 from the number obtained by reversing the digits of the number

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Commutation and association laws are

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The number with which 54 is added so that the sum does not change

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The number with which 36 is multiplied so that the product remains the same

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The hypotenuse of an isoscles right angled triangle is 6. What is the other side?

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Where a triangle’s three angle bisectors intersect is called

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Consider a circle inscribed in a square as above. What is the difference of the area between the square and circle if the perimeter of the square is 56?

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What is the area of a square of perimeter 40?

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What is the radius of the circle inscribed inside a square such that it touches the square at four points, if the side is 10?

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The difference between two numbers is 2.3. Their product is 5.6. What is the difference betwee their cubes?

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The sum of two numbers is 13.1. Their difference is 5.1. Find the two numbers?

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The sum of two numbers is 7.5. Their difference is 5.6. What is the product of the numbers?

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The largest possible decimal fraction upto 3 decimal places divisible by 7?

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The sum of the smallest possible decimal fraction upto 3 decimal places and the largest possible upto 4 decimal places is

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A tank is 1/3 filled with water. It is poured into another tank which can hold 5 times the amount of the first tank. How much is it filled?

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The minute hand of a clock sweeps 1 minute. What fraction of the total does it correspond to?

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Solve for x: 1/2 + x/3 = 1/5

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Simplify: 4/5+5/7-2/3-1/4

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Simplify: $\large\frac{7}{5}-\large\frac{2}{3}+\large\frac{1}{2}-\large\frac{5}{2}$

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One angle of a traingle is 30. The other two angles satisfy the condition that one of the angles is twice the other angle. What are the angles?

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In a traingle, twice the sum of two angles is the third angle. Also, the difference of the first two angles is half the sum of the two angles. What are the three angles of the traingle?

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If two of the angles of a triangle is 60 and 110, what is the third angle?

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A boy cycles 10 km to the North of his home, then 5 km to the East and again 2 km to the North. How far is he from home?

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A grasshopper jumps 1 metre in the first jump, 0.5 meter in the second jump, 0.25 metre in the third jump . Find the distance jumped by the grasshopper in the fourth jump if it covers a total distance of 3.5 meters ?

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