Akash replaced some cooking oil containing 76% fat with cooking oil containing 60% fat. Cooking oil now has 64% fat. What fraction of the oil is the oil with lower fat content???
@jashholmes said:Akash replaced some cooking oil containing 76% fat with cooking oil containing 60% fat. Cooking oil now has 64% fat. What fraction of the oil is the oil with lower fat content???
4/5 ..???
@Miss.Me said:@jashholmes wud alligation work here..???
yes it shud work...
@jashholmes said:All consequtive natural numbers starting from 1 are written side by side till we write 100 digits. What is the remainder when this number is divided by 8???
last three digit will be 545 so remainder will be rem(545/8)= 1
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@chandrakant.k @chandrakant.k Thank you for your wonderful explanation....Kindly see this forum whenevr u hv tm...thre r gonna b lots n lots of questions whch r gonna b posted!!!
I hv jst started with number and i hv this many questions........i still hv to complete whole quants!!!
I hv jst started with number and i hv this many questions........i still hv to complete whole quants!!!
@jashholmes said:@hedonistajay Hw did u gt last 3 digits as 456...did u literally write???
no but it required it is required to be counted like
1-9 --- 9 digits
10-19 --- 20 digits
20-29 ---- 20 digits
30-39 ---- 20 digits
40-49 ---- 20 digits
this makes 89 digits
now 50-53 - 8 dgits makes it 97
last three digit becomes 545
1-9 --- 9 digits
10-19 --- 20 digits
20-29 ---- 20 digits
30-39 ---- 20 digits
40-49 ---- 20 digits
this makes 89 digits
now 50-53 - 8 dgits makes it 97
last three digit becomes 545
@jashholmes said:@chandrakant.k@chandrakant.k Thank you for your wonderful explanation....Kindly see this forum whenevr u hv tm...thre r gonna b lots n lots of questions whch r gonna b posted!!!I hv jst started with number and i hv this many questions........i still hv to complete whole quants!!!
sure boss 😃 😃
you can post here too http://www.pagalguy.com/forums/quantitative-ability-and-di/official-quant-thread-c-t-88456/p-3611604/r-4653712
you have many more people to solve the question. Needless to say, i will keep checking this 😃
@jashholmes said:@hedonistajay Yes!!!4/5 is the answer but hw???
using allegation
76------- 60
-----64 ----
4 ---------16
so ratio become 1:4
so ans is 4/5
-----64 ----
4 ---------16
so ratio become 1:4
so ans is 4/5
In what ratio should a shopkeeper mix almonds costing Rs 58 per kg with almonds costing Rs 66 per kg, such that by selling them at 75 per kg, the shopkeeper makes a profit of 10%???
@jashholmes said:@hedonistajay The answer 4/5 is wrong!!!The correct answer is 3/4!!!
again calculation error 
76------- 60
-----64 ----
4 ---------16 12
so ratio become 1:3
so ans is 3/4
76------- 60
-----64 ----
4 ---------
so ratio become 1:3
so ans is 3/4
The avarage age of group decreased by 3 years when a person 56 years old was replaced by another 20 years old . How would the average age have changed, if he were replaced by 2 persons of 32 years each instead???
@chandrakant.k You're right, there are more persons to answer then to ask questions in the above thread!!!
@jashholmes said:@chandrakant.k You're right, there are more persons to answer then to ask questions in the above thread!!!
Since you are writing CAT, let me take your permission to crrect you.
There are more people(not persons) to answer.....
confusing? look here!
Any discussion lets ping as this is quant thread 😛 😛