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Ruben
Ruben owns a restaurant. He likes to keep track of everything customers are buying. His top 3 sellers are sandwiches, salads, and pizza. He knows that 1/3 of his customers buy a sandwich, 1/2 buy a salad, and 1/4 buy a pizza. What fraction of customers bu
The ratio 22
The ratio of two numbers is 5:4 and their LCM is 800. Find the sum of the two numbers.
Peter 16
Peter travels to his uncle's home, 30 km away from his place. He cycles for 2/3 of the journey before the cycle develops a mechanical problem, and he has to push it for the rest of the journey. If he is cycling 10 km per hour faster than his walking speed
Series - double GP
In the following series, which number will replace the question mark? 4, 32, 16, 128, 64,?
The proportion
The proportion's first, second, and third terms are 4, 20, and 13. Find the fourth term.
Arithmetic progressions.
Find the sum of all the numbers between 9 and 204, which is exactly divisible by 3.
Three 241
Three-fifths of the t-shirts in a t-shirt shop are blue. Five-eights of those T-shirts are on sale. One-third of the blue of the blue shirts that are on sale are size medium. What fraction of the shop's blue T-shirts are on sale and size medium?
In 1970
In 1970 the population was 24,000. In 1980 the population was 28,800. By what percent did the population increase?
Three in a ratio
If A is 40% more than B, and B is 20% less than C, find the ratio A:C.
Domino
Domino and Winnie share some biscuits. The ratio of biscuits between them was 4:3. Domino gave Winnie 5 biscuits, and the ratio changed to 1:2. How many biscuits are in total?
Parallel tracks
Two trains cross each other in 14 seconds when running in opposite directions along parallel tracks. The faster train is 160 m long and crosses a lamp post in 12 seconds. If the speed of the other train is 6 km/hr less than the faster one, its length, in
Bad weather
An aircraft was slowed down during a 600 km flight due to bad weather. Its average speed was reduced by 200 km/hr from its usual speed, and the flight time increased by 30 minutes. Find the scheduled duration of the flight.
Altering sign sequence
Find the nth term of the sequence -1/2, 1/4, - 1/6, 1/8, - 1/10, ....
Peter 13
Peter and Paul finished the first round of orders in 3 hours and 15 minutes. Peter, however, works a lot faster than Paul does; Peter is 2 and a half times as fast as Paul. For the second day of shipping orders, peter is unavailable; paul will have to do
Richard
Richard is conducting an experiment. Every time he flips a fair two-sided coin, he also rolls a six-sided die. What is the probability that the coin will land on tails and the die will land on an even number?
Train station
A man walks from his house to the station. If he walks at 5 km/h, he misses a train by 7 minutes. However, if he walks at 6 km/h, he reaches the station 5 minutes before the train departs. Find the distance from his house to the station.
Hoverboard
Adam lives in Podhradí, and his friend Marcel lives in Lhota. Lhota is 6 km from Podhradí. Adam travels the same distance on a hoverboard in 20 minutes as Marcel does in 25 minutes. They leave home simultaneously, drive towards each other, and meet in pre
The rice 2
60 kg of a certain variety of rice at Rs 32 per kg is mixed with 48 kg of another variety of rice, and the mixture is sold at the average price of Rs 28 per kg. If there is no profit or loss due to the new sale price, then find the price of the second var
Three sets
Of 240 students, 173 are on the honor roll, 48 are members of the varsity team, and 36 are on the honor roll and are also members of the varsity team. What is the probability that a randomly selected student is on the honor roll or is a member of the vars
A thief
A thief is spotted by a policeman from a distance of 100 metres. When the policeman starts the chase, the thief also starts running. If the speed of the thief be 8 km/hr and that of the policeman 10 km/hr . How far the thief will have run before he is ove

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