Eight persons participated in a shooting competition. The top score in the competition is 85 points. Had the top score been 92 points instead of 85 points, the average score would have been 84. Find the number of points actually scored in the competition.

A scooty is sold by an automobile forRs. 19200 cash and for Rs. 4800 down payment together with 5 equal monthly instalments . If the rate of interest charged by the company is 12% per annum find each instalment.

Mr. Thomas invested an amount of RS. 13,900 divided in two different schemes A and B at the simple interest rate of 14% p.a and 11% p.a respectively. If the total amount of simple interest earned in 2 years be RS. 3508, what was the amount invested in scheme B ?

A shopkeeper has 100 kg of salt. He sells part of the total quantity A at 7% profit and the rest B at 17 % profit. If he gains 10 % profit on the whole quantity, then find how much is sold at 7 % profit?

The cost of Type 1 rice is Rs. 20 per kg and Type 2 rice is Rs. 30 per kg. If both Type 1 and Type 2 are mixed in the ratio of 2:3, then the price per kg of the mixed variety of rice is :

The sum of squares of three numbers is 138 and the sum of their products taken two at a time is 131. Find their sum.

If the speed of boat in still water is 10 km/hr & the speed of stream is 3 km/hr, the boat rows to a place which is 50 km far & returns through the same path. What would be the average speed of boat during the journey?

What will be the remainder when 19^100 is divided by 20? [SSC CGL (Main) 2012]

. In a garrison, there was food for 1000 soldiers for one month. After 10 days, 1000 more soldiers joined the garrison. How long would the soldiers be able to carry on with the remaining food?

When A alone does a piece of work, he takes 16 days more than the time taken by (A + B) to complete the work, while B alone takes 9 days more than the time taken by (A + B) to finish the work. What time, A and B together will take to finish this work?

A contract is to be completed in 92 days and 234 men were set to work, each working 16 h a day. After 66 days, 4/7 of the work is completed. How many additional men may be employed, so that the work may be completed in time, each man now working 18 h a day?

Suneeta borrowed certain sum from Reena for 2 yr at simple interest. Suneeta lent this sum to Venu at the same rate for 2 yr at compound interest. At the end of 2 yr, she received Rs.110 as compound interest but paid Rs. 100 as simple interest. Find the sum and the rate of interes

In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got was?

Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

(A) By exercise it doesn’t mean a simple and slow walk.

(B) You can go for running, do cycling, walking faster etc.

(C) Exercise plays a vital role in keeping your body healthy.

(D) It should be in such a way that your body should start sweating.

(E) Regular exercise will also keep your body in good health.

Rearrange the following sentences in to a paragraph.

A. The two neighbors never fought each other.

B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown. C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.

D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbor, an ally.

E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.

Rearrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph.

A. The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully the pedestrian crosses the street.

B. An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.

C. Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.

D. The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other, and each must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.

Rearrange the following sentences into a coherent paragraph.

A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint.

B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.

C. He acknowledges too—in fact he returns to the point often—that best translators of poetry always fail at some level.

D. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.

E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners.

Despite the unfavorable attention brought on by some critics, the press had ______ effect on the campaign overall.

I have always preferred ______ areas to ______ ones, because I really like the countryside.

. Eleanor is ______ peanuts: the smallest taste of peanut butter can stop her breathing and put her in the hospital.

Because of his inability to ______ other chimps, chimpanzee "E34" is no longer welcome in his tribe. He has been deemed ______.

In a row of children, Divya is 7th from the left and Vijay is 9th from the right. When they interchange their places among themselves, Divya becomes 18th From the left. Then what will be Vijay present position from the right ?

A family consists of five members: P, Q, R, S and T. T has two sons, an unmarried daughter and a daughter-in-law. P is the brother-in-law of above-mentioned daughter-in-law. Q’s sister is not happy with Q’s wife. But P and his father support Q’s wife S. Who is T's daughter?

P, Q,R,S and T are five friends.

Q is elder to T, but not as tall as R.

R is younger to P and is taller to S and T.

P is taller to S, but younger than T.

S is elder to P but is shortest in the group.

Who among the following is the eldest?

Which of the following pairs of students is elder to S?

The number 311311311311311311311 is

(51+52+53+………+100) is equal to

There are nine members in a family who belongs to three generations. P and R are siblings. R is the only daughter of V and she is married. Q is the grandson of S. V is the father-in-law of U, who is not a male. T is the son of O, who is the husband of S. T is the brother of U. W is the brother-in-law of P. How is U related to S?