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Remainder one
Find the least number when divided by 2,3,4,5,6, and 7, leaving the remainder as 1 in each case.
Salaries - ratio3
The salaries of A, B, and C are in the ratio 2:3:5. If their salaries are increased by 15%, 10%, and 20% respectively, what will be the new ratio of their salaries?
The balance 2
If your balance at the end of 4 years is 50000, at a 5% interest rate, What was your original investment?
Sum of squares
If the first number is 80% of the second number and 4 times the sum of their squares is 656, find the numbers.
Orange juice
Water and orange juice are mixed in a ratio of 7:4. An amount of 36 cm³ of orange juice is used. What volume of water is used?
Division with a remainder
Find the smallest number which, when divided by 8, 12, and 20, leaves a remainder of 5 in each case.
Shares
$1,300 are divided among A, B, C, and D such that A/B = B/C = C/D = 2/3.
Selling the article
If an article is sold at a gain of 6% instead of at a loss of 6%, then the seller gets 6 euros more. Find the cost price of the article.
Money sharing
A sum of money is to be distributed among A, B, C, and D in the proportion of 5: 2: 4 : 3. If C gets 1000 USD more than D, what is B's share?
HCF of polynoms
Find the HCF of the given expression: 2a²b²c⁴, 2a⁴b³c³ and 4a²b³
By selling 2
By selling 100 pens, a shopkeeper gains the selling price of 20 pens. Find his gain percentage.
Two men
Two men earn in the ratio 5 : 3 and expend in the ratio 9: 5. If each saves 30000 USD every year, find their income.
Same expenses
If the price of tea increases by 20%, what percent must the consumption be reduced to keep the expense the same?
Working group
20 men complete one third of a piece of work in 20 days. How many additional men should be employed to finish the rest of the work in 25 more days?
Testing students
Giving a test to a group of students, the grades and gender are summarized below. Grades and Gender ; A; B ; C ; Total Male; 20; 6; 19 ; 45 Female ; 17; 18; 13; 48 Total; 37; 24; 32; 93 If one student is chosen at random, a) Find the probability that the
Gift baskets
Alessia and Alexia made some gift baskets to sell. 2/5 of them were Yu-Gi-oh themed, and the rest were Barbie-themed. They sold 3/4 of the yu-gi-oh-themed baskets and 7/12 of the Barbie-themed baskets. They remained with 56 gift baskets. How many gift bas
Geometric series
How many terms of the geometric series 8+4+2+1+0.5+... must be taken for the sum to get within 10 to the power minus 4 of its sum to infinity?
Interest over time
If certain sum at compound interest becomes double in 5 years, then, in how many years, it will be 16 times at the same rate of interest?
4th digit
Write a digit in place of X so that 85X634 is divisible by 11.
The sum 31
The sum of two fractions is 13 3/4. Their difference is 8 1/5. What are fractions?

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