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A man takes 5hr 45min in walking to certain place and riding back. He would have gained 2hrs by riding both ways. The time he would take to walk both ways is?

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A train M leaves City A at 5 am and reaches City B at 9am . Another train N leaves City B at 7am and reaches City A at 1030am. At what time do the 2 trains cross one another?

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The ratio between the speeds of the A& B is 2:3, and therefore A takes 10 min more than the time taken by B to reach the destination. If A had walked at double the speed, he would have covered the distance in

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A bullock cart has to cover a distance of 80km in 10hrs. If it covers half of the journey in 3/5th time. what should be its speed to cover the remaining distance in the time left.

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A car covers 4 successive 3km stretches at speed of 10kmph, 20kmph, 30kmph & 60kmph resp. Its average speed is

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A & B are two towns. A person covers the distance from A to B on cycle at 17kmph and returns to A by a boat running at a uniform speed of 8kmph. His average speed for the whole journey is

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A motorist covers a distance of 39km in 45min by moving at a speed of x kmph for the first 15min, then moving at double the speed for the next 20 min, and then again moving at his original speed for the rest of the journey. Find x.

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A man covers a distance on scooter. Had he moved 3kmph faster he would have taken 40 min less. If he had moved 2kmph slower, he would have taken 40min more. The distance is.

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A train covers a distance in 50 min, if it runs at a speed of 48kmph on an average. The speed at which the train must run to reduce the time of journey to 40min will be.

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Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?

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Two persons starting from the same place walk at a rate of 5kmph and 5.5kmph respectively. What time will they take to be 8.5km apart, if they walk in the same direction?

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A train covers a distance in 50 min, if it runs at a speed of 48kmph on an average. The speed at which the train must run to reduce the time of journey to 40min will be

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Walking at the rate of 4kmph a man cover certain distance in 2hr 45 min. Running at a speed of 16.5 kmph the man will cover the same distance in.

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In covering a distance of 30 km, A takes 2 hours more than B. If A doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less than B. A's speed is:

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A train 140m long is running at 60kmph. In how much time will it pass a platform 260m long?

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The ratio between the speeds of two trains is 7: 8. If the second train runs 440 kms in 4 hours, then the speed of the first train is:

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A man can cover a distance in 1hr 24min by covering 2/3 of the distance at 4 km/h and the rest at 5km/h. The total distance is

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A man walks at 5kmph for 6hr and at 4km/h for 12hr. His average speed is

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A can do 1/3 of the work in 5 days and B can do 2/5 of the work in 10 days. In how many days both A and B toether can do the work?

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A and B can together finish a work in 30 days. They workd on it for 20 days, and then B left. The remaining work was done by A alone in 20 more days A alone can finish the work in

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A does half as much work as B in three fourth of the time. If together they take 18 days to complete the work, how much time shall B take to do it ?

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A can do a certain work in 25 days which B alone can do in 20 days. A stared the work and was joined by B after 10 days. The work was completed in

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A is thrice as good a workman as B, and takes 10 days less to do a piece of work than B takes. B alone can do the whole work work in

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A, B and C can do a piece of work in 15 days, 10 days and 6 days respectively. How long will they take to do it, if all the three work together?

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A and B and C together can finish a piece of work in 4 days. A alone can do it in 12 days, and B in 18 days. Then, C alone can do it in

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A is twice as good workman as B, and together they complete a work in 15 days. In how many days can the work be complete by B alone?

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12 men can complete a work in 18 days. Six days after they started working, 4 more men joined them. How many days will all of them together complete the remaining work?

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A,B and C are employed to do apiece of work for Rs.529. A and C are supposed to finish 19/23 of the work together. How much shall be paid to B?

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A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do the same work in half the time taken by A. Then, working together, what part of the same work they can finish in a day?

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A and B are working on an assignment. A takes 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer, while B takes 5 hours to type 40 pages. How much time will they take, working together on two different computers to type an assignment of 110 pages?

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A can do a piece of work in 80 days. He works at it for 10 days & then B alone finishes the remaining work in 42 days. In how much time will A and B, working together, finish the work?

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A can do a piece of work n 7 days of 9 hours each and B alone can do it in 6 days of 7 hours each. How long will they take to do it working together 8 2/5 hours a day?

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X can do ¼ of a work in 10 days, Y can do 40% of work in 40 days and Z can do 1/3 of work in 13 days. Who will complete the work first?

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Worker A takes 8 hours to do a job. Worker B takes 10 hours to do the same job. How long it take both A & B, working together but independently, to do the same job?

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A is twice as good a workman as B and together they finish a piece of work in 18 days. In how many days will A alone finish the work?

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If 9 men working 6 hours a day can do a work in 88 days. Then 6 men working 8 hours a day can do it in how many days?

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If 34 men completed 2/5th of a work in 8 days working 9 hours a day. How many more man should be engaged to finish the rest of the work in 6 days working 9 hours a day?

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If 5 women or 8 girls can do a work in 84 days. In how many days can 10 women and 5 girls can do the same work?

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A man takes 6 km distance to go round a rectangular area. If the area of the rectangle is 2 km, find the difference between length and breadth

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A cube with all the sides painted was divided into small cubes of equal measurement. The side of a small cube is exactly one fourth as that of the big cube. Therefore, the number of small cubes with only one side painted is

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How many minimum number of colours will be required to paint all the sides of a cube without the adjacent sides having the same colours ?

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0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, ?

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240, ?, 120, 40, 10, 2

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A motorbike race was scheduled to start at 4.10pm; however, it started 10 minutes behind schedule. If the motorbike that came first finished one hour and fifteen minutes after the race began, and the motorbike that came in second place finished 15 minutes after this, at what time did the motorbike that came second cross the finish line?

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The Olympic record time for running the endurance event was 4 hours and 40 minutes. Rahul recently broke that record, running a time of 3 hours and 20 minutes. What fraction of the original record time was Rahul’s time?

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Grandma`s cookie mixture has eight parts flour and six parts sugar. If Grandma needs to make 28 kilograms of the cookie mixture for a party, how many kilograms of flour will she need?

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In an examination, a studnet was asked to find 3/14 of a certain number. By mistake, he found 3/4 of it. His answer was 150 more than the correct answer. Find the given number.

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In a jar of lollies there are 6 more orange lollies than green ones and there is only one red lolly. If there are 47 lollies in the jar, how many orange ones are there?

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How many gold coins are there in a jar of 88 coins, if there are 1/3 as many silver coins as gold coins?

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The sum of the present age of the father and his daughter is 42 years. 7 years later, the father will be 3 times old than the daughter. The present age of the father is

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