act-dog

508 questions match · aqua_rat

Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

3 men and 3 women need to be seated in 2 rows with 3 chairs in each row. All men have to be seated in the back row. How many ways can this be done?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

Winson runs from his home to his school at an average speed of 10 miles/hr, and then walks home along the same route at an average speed of 5 miles/hr. If the whole journey took one hour, how many miles is his home from his school?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A newspaper costs $4 on Sunday and $1 the rest of the days of the week. If a hotel orders twice as many papers on Sunday as it does the rest of the days of the week and pays $210 per week for newspapers, how many newspapers does it buy on Monday?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

50% of all high school students hate roller coasters; the rest love them. 20% of those students who love roller coasters own chinchillas. What percentage of students love roller coasters but do not own a chinchilla?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

Divide Rs.32000 in the ratio 3:5?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A canteen requires 62 kgs of wheat for 6 days. How many kgs of wheat will it require for 60 days?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

Silu and Meenu were walking on the road.

Silu said, "I weigh 51 Kgs. How much do you weigh?"

Meenu replied that she wouldn't reveal her weight directly as she is overweight.

But she said, "I weigh 29 Kgs plus half of my weight. "How much does Meenu weigh?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

Tanya's grandfather was 8 times older to her 16 years ago. He would be 3 times of her age 8 years from now. What was ratio of ages of Tanya and her grandfather 8 years ago.

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A merchant receives an invoice for a motor boat for $20 000 with terms 4/30, n/100. What is the highest simple interest rate at which he can afford to borrow money in order to take advantage of the discount?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

If the population of a city increases by 5 % annually, what will be the population of the city in 2 years time if its current population is 78000?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

If one third of 3/4 of a number is 21. Then, find the number?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

At a certain factory, 10 percent of the staplers produced on Monday were defective and 2 percent of the non-defective staplers were rejected by mistake. If 72 of the non-defective staplers were rejected, what was the number of staplers produced that day?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

The function P~ can be expressed as 2-P for all values of P. What is the value of (7~)~?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A man borrows Rs.360 If he pays it back in 12 monthly installments of Rs.31.50, what is his interest rate?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A travel company wants to charter a plane to the Bahamas. Chartering the plane costs $5,000. So far, 12 people have signed up for the trip. If the company charges $200 per ticket, how many more passengers must sign up for the trip before the company can make any profit on the charter?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

If 2s > 8 and 4t < 12, which of the following could be the value of s-t?

I. -1

II. 0

III. 1

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

At its maximum speed, a space shuttle can travel 700m high in 40 seconds. It will also take 5 seconds to pass a point. What then is the length of the space shuttle?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

Janice bikes at 10 miles per hour, while Jennie bikes at 20. How long until they have collectively biked 1 mile?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A man had 43 sheep. he wanted to divide them equally among his 6 children. How many sheep shall he keep to himself, so as to equally divide remaining sheep among his 6 children?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

If 300 billion French francs is equivalent to 50 billion United States dollars, which of the following expressions represents the number of United States dollars equivalent to f francs?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

The difference between the squares of two numbers is 256000 and the sum of the numbers is 1000. The numbers are

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A cycled from P to Q at 10 kmph and returned at the rate of 9 kmph. B cycled both ways at 12 kmph. In the whole journey B took 10 minutes less than A. Find the distance between P and Q.

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A password to a certain database consists of digits that cannot be repeated. If the password is known to consist of at least 8 digits and it takes 12 seconds to try one combination, what is the amount of time, in minutes, necessary to guarantee access to database?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

A train does a journey without stopping for 8 hours. If it had traveled 5 km an hour faster, it would have done the journey in 6 hours 40 min. What is its slower speed?

Open
Mathematics Preparing for Higher Math explained

Car ‘X’ covers a distance of 320 kms in 8 hours and car ‘Y’ covers a distance of 415 kms in 5 hrs. What is the difference in the speed of the two cars?

Open