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Two people are selected at random from a group, assuming that:Each day of the year is equally likely to be a birthday.There are 365 days in a year (ignoring leap years).B...
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A person employed a group of 20 men for a construction job. These 20 men working 8 hours a day can complete the job in 28 days. The work started on time but after 18 days...
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Consider a cylinder of height $h$ cms and radius $r=\frac{2}{\pi}$ cms as shown in the figure (not drawn to scale). A string of a certain length, when wound on its cylind...
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If $x$ is a positive real number such that $x^{8}+\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)^{8}=47$, then the value of $x^{9}+\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)^{9}$ is$34 \sqrt{5}$$40 \sqrt{5}$$36...
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Let $n$ and $m$ be two positive integers such that there are exactly $41$ integers greater than $8^{m}$ and less than $8^{n}$, which can be expressed as powers of $2$. Th...
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For some real numbers $a$ and $b$, the system of equations $x+y=4$ and $(a+5) x+\left(b^{2}-15\right) y=8 b$ has infinitely many solutions for $x$ and $y$. Then, the maxi...
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For a real number $x$, if $\frac{1}{2}, \frac{\log _{3}\left(2^{x}-9\right)}{\log _{3} 4}$, and $\frac{\log _{5}\left(2^{x}+\frac{17}{2}\right)}{\log _{5} 4}$ are in an a...
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A quadratic equation $x^{2}+b x+c=0$ has two real roots. If the difference between the reciprocals of the roots is $\frac{1}{3}$, and the sum of the reciprocals of the sq...
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The sum of the first two natural numbers, each having 15 factors (including 1 and the number itself), is
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Let $n$ be any natural number such that $5^{n-1}<3^{n+1}$. Then, the least integer value of $m$ that satisfies $3^{n+1}<2^{n+m}$ for each such $n$, is
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A boat takes $2$ hours to travel downstream a river from port $\text{A}$ to port $\text{B}$, and $3$ hours to return to port $\text{A}$. Another boat takes a total of $6$...
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Anil mixes cocoa with sugar in the ratio $3: 2$ to prepare mixture $A$, and coffee with sugar in the ratio $7: 3$ to prepare mixture $B$. He combines mixtures $A$ and $B$...
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Rahul, Rakshita and Gurmeet, working together, would have taken more than $7$ days to finish a job. On the other hand, Rahul and Gurmeet, working together would have take...
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The population of a town in $2020$ was $100000$. The population decreased by $y \%$ from the year $2020$ to $2021$, and increased by $x \%$ from the year $2021$ to $2022$...
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There are three persons $A, B$ and $C$ in a room. If a person $D$ joins the room, the average weight of the persons in the room reduces by $x \mathrm{~kg}$. Instead of $\...
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A merchant purchases a cloth at a rate of Rs. $100$ per meter and receives $5 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth free for every $100 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth purchased by...
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Gautam and Suhani, working together, can finish a job in $20$ days. If Gautam does only $60 \%$ of his usual work on a day, Suhani must do $150 \%$ of her usual work on t...
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The number of coins collected per week by two coin-collectors $A$ and $B$ are in the ratio $3: 4$. If the total number of coins collected by $A$ in $5$ weeks is a multipl...
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A fruit seller has a stock of mangoes, bananas and apples with at least one fruit of each type. At the beginning of a day, the number of mangoes make up $40 \%$ of his st...
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Let $\triangle A B C$ be an isosceles triangle such that $A B$ and $A C$ are of equal length. $A D$ is the altitude from $A$ on $B C$ and $B E$ is the altitude from $B$ o...
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A rectangle with the largest possible area is drawn inside a semicircle of radius $2 \mathrm{~cm}$. Then, the ratio of the lengths of the largest to the smallest side of ...
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In a regular polygon, any interior angle exceeds the exterior angle by 120 degrees. Then, the number of diagonals of this polygon is
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Let $a_{n}=46+8 n$ and $b_{n}=98+4 n$ be two sequences for natural numbers $n \leq 100$. Then, the sum of all terms common to both the sequences is$14900$$15000$$14798$$1...
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If $x$ is a positive real number such that $x^{8}+\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)^{8}=47$, then the value of $x^{9}+\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)^{9}$ is$34 \sqrt{5}$$40 \sqrt{5}$$36...
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Let $n$ and $m$ be two positive integers such that there are exactly $41$ integers greater than $8^{m}$ and less than $8^{n}$, which can be expressed as powers of $2$. Th...
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For some real numbers $a$ and $b$, the system of equations $x+y=4$ and $(a+5) x+\left(b^{2}-15\right) y=8 b$ has infinitely many solutions for $x$ and $y$. Then, the maxi...
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For a real number $x$, if $\frac{1}{2}, \frac{\log _{3}\left(2^{x}-9\right)}{\log _{3} 4}$, and $\frac{\log _{5}\left(2^{x}+\frac{17}{2}\right)}{\log _{5} 4}$ are in an a...
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A quadratic equation $x^{2}+b x+c=0$ has two real roots. If the difference between the reciprocals of the roots is $\frac{1}{3}$, and the sum of the reciprocals of the sq...
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The sum of the first two natural numbers, each having $15$ factors (including $1$ and the number itself), is
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Let $n$ be any natural number such that $5^{n-1}<3^{n+1}$. Then, the least integer value of $m$ that satisfies $3^{n+1}<2^{n+m}$ for each such $n$, is
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A boat takes $2$ hours to travel downstream a river from port $A$ to port $B$, and $3$ hours to return to port $A$. Another boat takes a total of $6$ hours to travel from...
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Anil mixes cocoa with sugar in the ratio $3: 2$ to prepare mixture $A$, and coffee with sugar in the ratio $7: 3$ to prepare mixture $B$. He combines mixtures $A$ and $B$...
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Rahul, Rakshita and Gurmeet, working together, would have taken more than $7$ days to finish a job. On the other hand, Rahul and Gurmeet, working together would have take...
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The population of a town in $2020$ was $100000$. The population decreased by $y \%$ from the year $2020$ to $2021$, and increased by $x \%$ from the year $2021$ to $2022$...
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There are three persons $A, B$ and $C$ in a room. If a person $D$ joins the room, the average weight of the persons in the room reduces by $x \mathrm{~kg}$. Instead of $\...
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A merchant purchases a cloth at a rate of Rs. $100$ per meter and receives $5 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth free for every $100 \mathrm{~cm}$ length of cloth purchased by...
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Gautam and Suhani, working together, can finish a job in $20$ days. If Gautam does only $60 \%$ of his usual work on a day, Suhani must do $150 \%$ of her usual work on t...
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The number of coins collected per week by two coin-collectors $A$ and $B$ are in the ratio $3: 4$. If the total number of coins collected by $A$ in $5$ weeks is a multipl...
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A fruit seller has a stock of mangoes, bananas and apples with at least one fruit of each type. At the beginning of a day, the number of mangoes make up $40 \%$ of his st...
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Let $\triangle A B C$ be an isosceles triangle such that $A B$ and $A C$ are of equal length. $A D$ is the altitude from $A$ on $B C$ and $B E$ is the altitude from $B$ o...