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Out of 20 consecutive positive integers, two are chosen at random. The probability that their sum is odd is
In a defective 6 faced die with numbers 1 to 6 inscribed,probability of odd is 2 times that of even. What is the probability to gt number 5 in single throw?
A fair coin is tossed repeatedly. If head appears on the first four tosses, then the probability of appearance of tail on the fifth toss is
At a point on level ground, the angle of elevation of a vertical tower is found to be such that its tangent is \(\frac{5}{12}\)On walking 192 m towards the tower, the tangent of the angle of elevation is \(\frac{3}{4}\) .The height of the tower is
A student purchased a computer system and a colour printer. If he sold the computer system at 10% loss and the colour printer at 20% gain, ho would not lose anything. But if he sells the computer system at 5% gain and the colour printer at 15% loss, he would lose 2800 in the bargain. How much did he pay for the colour printer?
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A manufacturer of a certain item can sell all he can produce at the selling price of ₹ 60 each. It cost him ₹ 40 in materials and labour to produce each item and he has overhead expenses of ₹ 3000 per week in order to operate that plant. The number of units he should produce and sell in order to make a profit of at least ₹ 1000 per week is
Out of the total production of iron from hematite, an ore of iron, 20% of the ore gets wasted. Out of the remaining iron, only 25% is pure iron. If the pure iron obtained in a year from a mine of hematite was 80000 kg, then the quantity of hematite mined in the year is
Two trains, 330 and 110 m long, are going in the same direction. The faster train takes one minute to pass the other completely. If they are moving in opposite directions, they pass each other completely in 3 s. What is the speed of the faster train?
Two coal loading machines, each working 12 h per day for 8 days, handle 9000 tonne of coal with an 1 efficiency of 90%, while 3 other coal loading machines at an efficiency of 80% are set to handle 12000 tonne of coal in 6 days. How many hours per day should each machine work?
Six pipes are fitted to a water tank. Some of these are inlet pipes and the others outlet pipes. Each inlet pipe can fill the tank in 9 h and each outlet pipe can empty the tank in 6 h. On opening all the pipes, an empty tank is filled in 9 h. The number of inlet pipes is
Suppose that a maximum of 25 g of salt dissolves in 100 g of water. Any more salt, if added, remains undissolved and a sediment falls at the bottom. Now, water is evaporated from 1 kg of a 4% solution at the rate of 28 g per hour. After how long will it start sedimenting, approximately?
A, B and C working together completed a job in 10 days. However, C only worked for the first three days when 37/100 of the job was done. Also, the work done by A in 5 days is equal to the work done by B in 4 days. How many days would be required by the fastest worker to comlete the entire work?
The average age of all the students of a class is 18 yr. The average age of boys of the class is 20 yr and that of the girls is 15 yr. If the number of girls in the class is 20, then what is the number of boys in the class?
The fuel indicator in a car shows \(\frac{1}{5}\)th of the fuel tank as full. When 22 more litres of fuel are poured into the tank, the indicator rests at three-fourth of the full mark. What is the capacity of the fuel tank?
The total tractor population in a State is 294000, out of which 150000 are made by Mahindra & Mahindra. Out of every 1000 Mahindra tractors, 98 are red in colour. But only 5.3% of the total tractor population is red. Find the percentage of non-Mahindra tractors that are red.
A car driver, driving in a fog, passes a pedestrian who was walking at the rate of 2 km/h in the same direction. The pedestrian could see the car for 6 min and it was visible to him up to a distance of 0.6 km. What was the speed of the car?
A man reaches his office 10 minutes late if he drives his car at 40 kmph, and 5 minutes early if he drives his car at 50 kmph from his home. How should I calculate the distance of his office from his home?
Three different containers contain differeose nt quantities of a mixture of milk and water, wh measurements are 403 kg, 434 kg and 465 kg. What biggest measure must be there to measure all the different quantities exactly?
A common tangent to the conics $x^{2}=6y$ and $2x^{2}-4y^{2}=9$ is:
If $ X+Y=\left[ \begin{matrix} 7 & 0 \\ 2 & 5 \\ \end{matrix} \right] $ and $ X-Y=\left[ \begin{matrix} 3 & 0 \\ 0 & 3 \\ \end{matrix} \right] $ , then X is equal to
If the extremities of the base of an isosceles triangle are the points $(2a, 0)$ and $(0, a)$ and the equation of one of the sides is $x = 2a$, then the area of the triangle, in square units, is :
If the image of point $P(2, 3)$ in a line $L$ is $Q(4,5)$, then the image of point $R(0,0)$ in the same line is:
$ABCD$ is a trapezium such that $AB$ and $CD$ are parallel and $BC$ $\perp$ $CD$, if $\angle $ $ADB = \theta, BC = p$ and $CD = q$, then $AB$ is equal to
If the equations $x^2+2x+3=0$ and $ax^2+bx+c=0, a, b, c \in R$ have a common root, then $a : b : c$ is
If $z$ is a complex number of unit modulus and argument $\theta ,$ then $ \, arg \left(\frac{1 + z}{1 + \bar{z}}\right)$ is equal to