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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
A train 7
A train overtakes two persons. They are walking in the same direction as the train at the rate of 2 km/hr and 4 km/hr. The train passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds respectively. Find the length of the train.
A plane 3
A plane left 30 minutes later than the scheduled time and in order to reach the destination 1500 km away in time, it has to increase the speed by 250 km/hr from the usual speed. Find its usual speed.
A train 3
A train takes 3 hours to go from one station to another station. If its speed is decreased by 12 km/h then the journey time will increase by 45 min. What is the distance between the two stations?
Altering sign sequence
Find the nth term of the sequence -1/2, 1/4, - 1/6, 1/8, - 1/10, ....
A passenger
A passenger train, 150 m long, passes a railway platform, 200 m long, in 35 seconds. Find: 1) speed of the train in km/h 2) the time taken by the train to pass a man cycling in the direction of the train at the rate of 9 km/h.
Two persons
Two persons are walking beside a railway track at respective speeds of 2 and 4 km per hour in the same direction. A train came from behind them and crossed them in 90 and 100 seconds, respectively. Find the length of the train.
A boat 4
A boat travels 25 km upstream in 5 hours and 25 km downstream in 2.5 hours. If the boat increased its speed by 3 km/h, it would take 1 hour less to travel the downstream distance. Find the speed of the stream.
Walking speeding
Susan walks from her home to office at 16 km/h, she is late by 5 min. If she walks by 20 km/h, she reaches 10 min before the office time. Find the distance of her office from her house.
A tank 2
A tank can be filled by a pipe A in 3 hours and by pipe B in 5 hours. When the tank is full, it can be drained by pipe C in 4 hours. If the tank is initially empty and all three pipes are open, how many hours will it take to fill up the tank?
Two parts of a run
Adam can cover a certain distance in 1 hour 24 min by covering two-thirds at 4 km/hr and the rest at 5 km/hr. Find the total distance.
Two trains 10
Two trains of lengths 75 m and 95 m are moving in the same direction at 9 m/s and 8 m/s, respectively. Find the time taken by the faster train to cross the slower train.
Train same direction
Find the time taken by a train 170 m long, running at the speed of 83 km/h, to cross another train 180 m running at the speed of 65 km/h in the same direction.
Two trains 15
A train travelling 50 kmph leaves Delhi at 8 AM and another train travelling 70 kmph leaves Delhi at 11 AM in the same direction. How many km from Delhi will they be together?
Adam reaches
If Adam walks at 3 km/h, he will reach school 15 minutes late. If he walks at 4 km/h (kmph), he will reach school 15 minutes earlier than usual. What is the distance between school and house?
Two trains 9
A passenger train moving at a speed of 90 km/h leaves a station 6 hours after a goods (freight) train has left the station and overtakes it in 4 hours. What is the speed of the goods train?
The factory 3
The factory is 18 km away from the city. A cyclist leaves the factory for the city, and half an hour after him from the same place, a motorcyclist arrives 6 minutes before the cyclist in the city. Find the speed of each, knowing that the speed of the cycl
Long train
A 110 m long train crosses a tree in 3 s. How long will it take to cross a 165 m long platform and 135 m long bridge, If the platform and bridge are at a distance of 30 m?
The bowling
The bowling scores in the local bowling tournament are 175, 200, 150, and 165. If he intends to average 170 in the 5 game series, what must his score be on his last game?
Product - maximum
If x+y is 12 then what is the maximum value of x×y?

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