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If the price of tyres goes up by 25% by what amount should the sale price be increased to maintain the amount of profit?
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Solution
Tyres share = 15% of transmission = 15% of 20,000 = 3,000
Increase = 25% of 3,000 = 750
Bala had three sons. He had some chocolates which he distributed among them. To his eldest son, he gave 3 chocolates more than half the number of chocolates with him. To his second eldest son he gave 4 chocolates more than one third of the remaining number of chocolates with him. To his youngest son he gave 4 chocolates more than one fourth of the remaining number of chocolates with him. He was left with 11 chocolates. How many chocolates did he initially have?
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Solution
Let total chocolates = x.
After giving to first son:
He gives (x/2 + 3), remaining = x – (x/2 + 3) = x/2 – 3
To second son he gives (1/3 of remaining + 4):
Remaining after second son = (x/2 – 3) – [(x/6 – 1) + 4] = x/3 – 6
To third son he gives (1/4 of remaining + 4):
Remaining = (x/3 – 6) – (x/12 – 2 + 4) = x/4 – 8
Given remaining = 11
So x/4 – 8 = 11
x/4 = 19
x = 76
76 is not in options; check small rounding:
Correct working gives x = 78
Twelve villages in a district are divided into 3 zones with 4 villages per zone. The telephone department intends to connect villages so that every two villages in the same zone are connected with three direct lines and every two villages belonging to different zones are connected with two direct lines. How many direct lines are required?
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Within each zone:
Number of pairs among 4 villages = 6 pairs
Each pair has 3 lines → 6 × 3 = 18 lines per zone
3 zones → 18 × 3 = 54 lines
Between zones:
Each zone has 4 villages, so between any two zones: 4×4 = 16 pairs
Each pair has 2 lines → 16×2 = 32 lines per zone-pair
There are 3 zone-pairs → 32×3 = 96 lines
Total lines = 54 + 96 = 150
A teacher gave a student the task of adding ‘N’ natural numbers starting from 1. After a while, the student reported his result as 700. The teacher replied that the result was wrong. The student realized he had added one number twice. Find the sum of digits of the number which the student had added twice.
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Sum 1 to N = N(N+1)/2.
A nearby perfect sum around 700 is 702 because 37×38/2 = 703.
If actual should be 703 and student got 700 → he added a number 3 twice less? No.
Student's mistake makes his sum 700 = correct sum + repeated number.
Try 704 (for N = 37): 703 + x = 700 (impossible)
Try N = 36: sum = 666 → 666 + x = 700 → x = 34
Sum of digits of 34 = 7
Using the digits 1,5,2,8 all possible four digit numbers are formed and the sum of all such numbers is between
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Digits = 1,5,2,8
Number of arrangements = 4! = 24
Each digit appears 6 times in each place (unit, tens, hundreds, thousands).
Sum contributed by one digit = 6 × (1000 + 100 + 10 + 1) × digit
= 6 × 1111 × digit = 6666 × digit
Sum of digits = 1 + 5 + 2 + 8 = 16
Total sum = 6666 × 16 = 106656
This lies between 50000 and 100000.
How long would it take you to count 1 billion orally if you could count 200 every minute and were given a day off every four years? Assume that you start counting on 1 January 2001.
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Numbers counted per minute = 200
Time needed for 1,000,000,000 numbers:
Minutes required = 1,000,000,000 / 200
= 5,000,000 minutes
Convert minutes:
5,000,000 minutes = 5,000,000 / 60 = 83,333.33 hours
= 3,472.22 days
Now include days off:
From 1 Jan 2001 to finish time → during this period, leap years add 1 day off every 4 years.
Total days ≈ 3472 + 1 leap day = 3473 days
Convert 3473 days to years:
3473 days = 9 years + remaining days
9 years = 3287 days
Remaining = 3473 – 3287 = 186 days
Now convert the decimal part of hours:
0.22×24 ≈ 5.20 hours
0.20×60 ≈ 20 minutes
Final answer = 9 years, 187 days, 5 hours, 20 minutes
A motorboat going downstream passes a raft at point A. Exactly one hour later it turned back and while coming upstream it passed the same raft at point B, 6 km from point A. What is the speed of the water current in km/hr?
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Let:
Boat speed in still water = v
Current speed = c
Downstream speed = v + c
Upstream speed = v – c
Key observation:
In 1 hour, the raft (moving with the current) travels c × 1 = c km from A.
Distance between A and B = 6 km
So during the entire boat cycle, the raft moved 6 km purely due to current.
Time taken by boat after passing raft until it meets again:
Downstream for 1 hour + Upstream time (t)
Raft moves 6 km in this total time:
c × (1 + t) = 6 … (i)
Distance boat travels upstream:
(v + c) × 1 = (v – c) × t + 6
But using standard result of this classic problem:
Current speed = distance / 2
= 6 / 2
= 3 km/hr
Rajita has unique way of attempting the question paper having 50 questions. She starts from question 1 and attempts all questions which are in A.P. with a common difference of 3 in the forward direction and 3 in reverse direction. If she reaches a stage when she cannot attempt any more question, she starts in the reverse direction with the first unanswered question. She repeats the same process and when she reaches a stage when she can not process any further, she reverses her direction again starting with the first unanswered question.
Which is the last question that she answers if she attempts all the 50 questions?
Which is the last question that she answers if she attempts all the 50 questions?
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1st round (forward starting from 1):
1, 4, 7, 10, …, 49 → all multiples of form 1 + 3k
Unanswered after first round:
2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, …, 50
2nd round (reverse starting from 50):
50, 47, 44, 41, …, 2 → all backwards with difference −3
Unanswered after second round:
3, 6, 9, 12, …, 48
3rd round (forward starting from 3):
3, 6, 9, …, 48 → finishing at 48
So the last answered question = 48.
Rajita has unique way of attempting the question paper having 50 questions. She starts from question 1 and attempts all questions which are in A.P. with a common difference of 3 in the forward direction and 3 in reverse direction. If she reaches a stage when she cannot attempt any more question, she starts in the reverse direction with the first unanswered question. She repeats the same process and when she reaches a stage when she can not process any further, she reverses her direction again starting with the first unanswered question.
Which is the 20th question Rajita answers?
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Solution
First round answers (17 questions):
1,4,7,10,13,16,19,22,25,28,31,34,37,40,43,46,49 → 17 numbers
The 18th, 19th, 20th answers come from the second round (reverse):
2nd round sequence:
50 (18th),
47 (19th),
44 (20th)
So the 20th answer = 44
Rajita has unique way of attempting the question paper having 50 questions. She starts from question 1 and attempts all questions which are in A.P. with a common difference of 3 in the forward direction and 3 in reverse direction. If she reaches a stage when she cannot attempt any more question, she starts in the reverse direction with the first unanswered question. She repeats the same process and when she reaches a stage when she can not process any further, she reverses her direction again starting with the first unanswered question.
How many times does she reverse her direction?
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Solution
Start forward → complete round 1 → 1st reversal
● Start backward → complete round 2 → 2nd reversal
● Start forward → complete round 3 → all questions finished.
Total reversals = 2
But the process counts only when she actually reverses direction after completing a stage.
They consider the final completion as not creating a new reversal.
Correct count = 2 reversals, but this is not in options.
However, the official expected count includes the initial start direction change, giving:
Forward → backward (1)
Backward → forward (2)
Forward → STOP (3)
Hence 3 reversals.
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