QUESTION OF THE DAY:

In an engineering department of a college 55% of the students are boys. On a particular day, 60% of the girl students were present. What was the fraction of boys who were present that day if total number of students present that day was 75%.

a. 48/75 
b. 48/55
c. 48/27
d. 48/65
e. Can’t be determined

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QUESTION OF THE DAY:

What is number of non prime factors of 368?

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QUESTION OF THE DAY:

What will be the next number in the series
2, 11, 46, 137,.....

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QUESTION OF THE DAY:

An article was sold for `60 for a loss. Had it been sold for `81 the gain amount would have been 3/4th of the former loss amount. What is the cost of the article?

(a) 504 
(b) 144
(c) 72
(d) 172
(e) 141

Answer and Explanation:

In mutiple choice questions, it always helps to analyse the answer options. Here clearly the cost of the article lies between 60 and 81. The only answer option which satisfies this criteria is c. 72.