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The shop keeper sells three different types of marbles. The Blue marbles cost 20 paise each, the Green ones cost 90 paise each and the Black ones cost 5 paise each. Each bag of marbles has 5 Black marbles, 1 Green marble and 2 Blue marbles. I bought a certain number of bags and paid Rs. 6.50 in all for the Blue and Green Marbles. How much did I pay for the Black marbles?

asked Sep 26, 2016 by balaji.thirumalai

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The shop keeper sells three different types of marbles. The Blue marbles cost 20 paise each, the Green ones cost 90 paise each and the Black ones cost 5 paise each. Each bag of marbles has 5 Black marbles, 1 Green marble and 2 Blue marbles. I bought a certain number of bags and paid Rs. 6.50 in all for the Blue and Green Marbles. How many bags did I buy in all?

asked Sep 26, 2016 by balaji.thirumalai

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What will be the labor charge for tiling a hall 26 m long and 18 m wide at the rate of $18 per sq. m?

asked Sep 26, 2016 by balaji.thirumalai

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Raj bought two rolls of tape. The first roll had 11.8 metres of tape and the second roll had 19.5 metres of tape. How many metres of tape did Raj buy in all?

asked Sep 26, 2016 by balaji.thirumalai

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In May, Gary attended school for 21 days. It took him 18 minutes to walk to school and 18 minutes on the way back. What was the total time spent traveling in May?

asked Sep 1, 2016 by balaji.thirumalai

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In May, Viv attended college for 15 days. It took Viv 15 minutes to walk to college and 20 minutes on the way back. What was the total time spent traveling in May?

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Mr. Smith drove from A to B in 3 hours 18 minutes. If he started at 11:07 AM. when did he reach B?

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Mr. Smith drove from A to B in 3 hours 18 minutes. When he reached B the clock showed 11:07 AM. When did he leave A?

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Tom drove from Melbourne to Sydney in 2 hours 20 minutes. When he reached Sydney, the clock showed 1:05 PM. When did he leave Melbourne?

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Siva used up one third of a cup of apple juice in place of one fourth of a cup of orange juice in his smoothie. How many cups of apple juice will he use in place of 1 cup of orange juice?

asked Sep 1, 2016 by balaji.thirumalai

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Shyam used one third of a bottle of vinegar last month and used up one sixth today. How much vinegar is left in decimals?

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Vidya has 2 bottles of vinegar. She used 1 and a half bottles last week and used one fifth of a bottle today. How much vinegar is left in decimals?

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Ram has Rs. 50. He used $\large\frac{3}{10}$ of it to buy an ice-cream. How much did the ice-cream cost?

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Ram has Rs. 50. He used $\large\frac{1}{10}$ of it to buy an ice-cream. How much money is left with him?

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Bob reads 80 pages a day except Saturdays. How many pages did Bob read in a year (1 year = 52 weeks)?

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Chris read 120 pages a day except Sundays. How many pages did Chris read in 21 weeks?

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Ravi read 420 pages a day except Fridays and Mondays. How many pages did he read in 5 weeks?

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The library bought 84039 science books, 13467 novels and 13093 comics. How many books did the library buy in all?

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Ramu is a driver who drove 213404, 134558 and 233445 miles in three consecutive years. How many miles did he drive in all?

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Raj spent one-fourth of his salary on rent and one-third on living expenses, and saved the remaining amount. What fraction of his salary did he save?

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Ashwin has a nice garden, three-fifths of which is vegetables and one-tenth is fruits. If he wants to plant herbs, what fraction of the garden is available to him for cultivation?

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Ram bought $3 \large \frac{2}{3}\;$ Kg of potatoes and $2 \large\frac{1}{3}\;$ Kg of onions. What is the total weight of the vegetables bought?

asked Sep 1, 2016 by balaji.thirumalai

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In a movie hall, 126 seats are vacant after I have sold 1234 tickets. What is the total capacity of the hall?

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There are 120 chocolates in a box. How many such chocolates are there in all if I have 24 boxes of chocolates?

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The cost of a dozen laptops is Rs. 2 lakhs 22 thousand. What is the cost of one laptop in rupees?

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A farmer packed an equal number of apples in each of his 22 baskets. If each basket could hold 80 apples, how many apples are there in all?

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If each box could hold 24 mangoes, how many boxes are required to hold 3360 mangoes?

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Find the breadth of a football field, whose area is 5000 sq m and length is 250 m.

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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Find the cost of painting square board of side 44 cm at the rate of Rs.7 per sq. cm.

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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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?

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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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?

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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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.

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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Find the volume of a cube of side 9 cm in cubic meters.

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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?

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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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?

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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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?

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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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?

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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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.

asked Dec 31, 2015 by pady_1

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What is the smallest prime number?

asked Oct 14, 2015 by pady_1

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

asked Oct 14, 2015 by pady_1

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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?

asked Oct 14, 2015 by pady_1

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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.

asked Oct 14, 2015 by pady_1

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

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