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Sixteen patients in a hospital must undergo a blood test for a disease. It is known that exactly one of them has the disease. The hospital has only eight testing kits and...
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Sixteen patients in a hospital must undergo a blood test for a disease. It is known that exactly one of them has the disease. The hospital has only eight testing kits and...
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Sixteen patients in a hospital must undergo a blood test for a disease. It is known that exactly one of them has the disease. The hospital has only eight testing kits and...
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$\text{XYZ}$ organization got into the business of delivering groceries to home at the beginning of the last month. They have a two-day delivery promise. However, their d...
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A farmer had a rectangular land containing $205$ trees. He distributed that land among his four daughters – Abha, Bina, Chitra and Dipti by dividing the land into t...
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A farmer had a rectangular land containing $205$ trees. He distributed that land among his four daughters – Abha, Bina, Chitra and Dipti by dividing the land into twelve ...
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A farmer had a rectangular land containing $205$ trees. He distributed that land among his four daughters – Abha, Bina, Chitra and Dipti by dividing the land into twelve ...
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A farmer had a rectangular land containing $205$ trees. He distributed that land among his four daughters – Abha, Bina, Chitra and Dipti by dividing the land into twelve ...
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A farmer had a rectangular land containing $205$ trees. He distributed that land among his four daughters – Abha, Bina, Chitra and Dipti by dividing the land into twelve ...
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A farmer had a rectangular land containing $205$ trees. He distributed that land among his four daughters – Abha, Bina, Chitra and Dipti by dividing the land into twelve ...
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If $\log_{a} 30 = \text{A}, \log_{a} (5/3) = – \text{B} $ and $\log_{2} a = 1/3,$ then $\log_{3}a $ equals$ \dfrac{2}{\text{A + B}} \;– 3 $ $ \dfrac{\text{A + B} - 3}{2} ...
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Dick is thrice as old as Tom and Harry is twice as old as Dick. If Dick’s age is $1$ year less than the average age of all three, then Harry’s age, in years, is
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$\text{A}$ and $\text{B}$ are two railway stations $90 \; \text{km}$ apart. A train leaves $\text{A}$ at $9:00 \; \text{am},$ heading towards $\text{B}$ at a speed of $40...
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Let $k$ be a constant. The equations $kx + y= 3$ and $4x + ky= 4$ have a unique solution if and only if $|k| \neq 2$$|k| = 2$$k \neq 2$$k= 2$
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If $x_{1} = \;– 1$ and $x_{m} = x_{m+1} + (m + 1)$ for every positive integer $m, $ then $x_{100}$ equals $ – 5151 $$ – 5150 $$ – 5051 $$ – 5050 $
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Vimla starts for office every day at $9 \; \text{am}$ and reaches exactly on time if she drives at her usual speed of $40 \; \text{km/hr}.$ She is late by $6 \; \text{min...
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A man buys $35 \; \text{kg}$ of sugar and sets a marked price in order to make a $20\%$ profit. He sells $5 \; \text{kg}$ at this price, and $15 \; \text{kg}$ at a $10\%$...
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If $ f(x+y) = f(x) f(y) $ and $ f(5) = 4,$ then $ f(10) – f(-10) $ is equal to $0$$15.9375$$3$$14.0625$
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If $\text{a,b,c}$ are non-zero and $14^{a} = 36^{b} = 84^{c},$ then $6b \left( \frac{1}{c} \;– \frac{1}{a} \right)$ is equal to
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A contractor agreed to construct a $6 \; \text{km}$ road in $200 \; \text{days}.$ He employed $140$ persons for the work. After $60 \; \text{days},$ he realized that only...
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Let $\text{m}$ and $\text{n}$ be positive integers, If $x^{2} + mx + 2n = 0$ and $x^{2} + 2nx + m = 0$ have real roots, then the smallest possible value of $m + n$ is $7$...
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A person invested a certain amount of money at $10\%$ annual interest, compounded half-yearly. After one and a half years, the interest and principal together became $\te...
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Anil, Sunil, and Ravi run along a circular path of length $3 \; \text{km},$ starting from the same point at the same time, and going in the clockwise direction. If they r...
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The area, in $\text{sq. units},$ enclosed by the lines $x = 2, y = |x – 2| + 4,$ the X-axis and the Y-axis is equal to $8$$12$$10$$6$
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The vertices of a triangle are $(0,0), (4,0)$ and $(3,9).$ The area of the circle passing through these three points is $\frac{14 \pi}{3}$$\frac{12 \pi}{5}$$\frac{123 \pi...
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How many integers in the set $\{ 100, 101, 102, \dots, 999\}$ have at least one digit repeated $?$
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Let $\text{N}, x$ and $y$ be positive integers such that $N = x + y, 2 < x < 10$ and $14 < y < 23.$ If $\text{N} 25,$ then how many distinct values are possible for $\...
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The points $(2,1)$ and $( – 3, – 4)$ are opposite vertices of a parallelogram. If the other two vertices lie on the line $x + 9y + c = 0,$ then $\text{c}$ is $12$$14$$13$...
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How many pairs $(a,b)$ of positive integers are there such that $a \leq b$ and $ab = 4^{2017} \; ?$$2017$$2019$$2020$$2018$
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In a trapezium $\text{ABCD},\; \text{AB}$ is parallel to $\text{DC}, \; \text{BC}$ is perpendicular to $\text{DC}$ and $\angle \text{BAD} = 45^{\circ}.$ If $\text{DC} = 5...
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How many of the integers $1,2, \dots, 120,$ are divisible by none of $2,5$ and $7 ?$$40$$42$$43$$41$
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Two alcohol solutions, $\text{A}$ and $\text{B},$ are mixed in the proportion $1:3$ by volume. The volume of the mixture is then doubled by adding solution $\text{A}$ suc...
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$\dfrac{2 \times 4 \times 8 \times 16} {(\log_{2} 4)^{2} (\log_{4} 8)^{3} (\log_{8} 16)^{4}}$ equals
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A batsman played $n + 2$ innings and got out on all occasions. His average score in these $n + 2$ innings was $29$ runs and he scored $38$ and $15$ runs in the last two i...
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In the final examination, Bishnu scored $52\%$ and Asha scored $64\%.$ The marks obtained by Bishnu is $23$ less, and that by Asha is $34$ more than the marks obtained by...
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Let $\text{m}$ and $\text{n}$ be natural numbers such that $\text{n}$ is even and $0.2 < \frac{m}{20}, \frac{n}{m}, \frac{n}{11} < 0 \cdot 5.$ Then $m – 2n$ equals $3$$4$...