[Official] Quant Thread for 2015!

In how many ways can the letters of the word 'arrange' be arranged if the two r's and the two a's do not occour together?

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In how many ways can you place 8 rooks on a chessboard such that they are not in attacking positions?

Find number of intersecting points of 2 circles whose equations are

x^2+y^2=16 and x^2+y^2+2x+2y+1=0

Raghu wants to construct a circular swimming pool in his plot which is in the shape of a trapezium.The length of the oblique sides of the plot are 26m and 30 m.If the radius of the biggest circle that can be marked for the pool is 12m,what must be the minimum area(in sq.m) of the plot?

Hey I'm planning to give cat and I have average quant skills, any tips as to how I should approach the preparation ? I am working at Infosys so don't get more than 3 hours a day. Also should I join any weekend coaching classes?

If the perimeter of a square and rectangle are same, then the area A and B enclosed by them would satisfy the condition:

a) AB d) A>=B

A man closes his account in a bank by withdrawing rs1,10,000. One yr earlier, he had withdrawn rs65000. Two yrs earlier he had withdrawn rs125000. How much money had he deposited at the time of opening the account 3 yrs ago if the annual rate of interest is 10% compounded annually?

Mr A bought 749 pens. He sold 700 of them for the price he paid for 749 pens. He sold the remaining pens at the same price per head as the other 700. The gain percent on the entire transaction is: a)6 b) 6.5 c)7 d)7.5

Two candles have different lengths and thicknesses. The shorter one would last 11 hrs and the longer one would last 7 hrs. Both of them are lit at the same time and burn evenly. After 3 hrs both have the same length remaining. The ratio of their original lengths is : a) 5:8 b)7:11 c)10:13 d)11:14

Statements: (A)Some trains are cars. (B) All cars are rivers. (C) Some roads are rivers.

Conclusions: 1. Some rivers are trains. 2. Some roads are trains. 3. Some roads are cars. 4. Some rivers are roads.

a)4 follows.

b)only 1 and 2 follows.

c)Only either 1 or 3 follows.

d)Only either 2 or 3 follows.

e)Only either 1 or 4 follows.

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A shopkeeper placed on display some dresses each with a marked price. She then posted a sign "1/4 off on these dresses". The cost of these dresses was 2/3  of the price at which she actually sold them. Then the ratio of the cost to the marked price was: a)1:2 b)2:3 c)4:9 d)3:5

A circle is inscribed in an equilateral triangle and a square is inscribed in the circle. The ratio of the area of the triangle to the area of the square is: a) root3:1 b)rt3:rt2 c) 3rt3:2 d)3:rt2

Suppose the seed of any positive integer n is defined as follows: seed (n) = n if n is less than 10; otherwise s(n) indicates the sum of the digits of n. For example, seed (7) = 7; seed (248)= seed (2+4+8)= seed (14) =seed (1+4) = seed (5) = 5 etc. How many positive integers n such that n is less than 500 will have seed (n) = 9?

P Is a natural no >=3.how many different remainders would be obtained when p^p^p^p-p^p^p is divided by 1989?

Suppose you break a stick of a unit length at a point chosen uniformly at random. Then the expected length of shorter stick is?

a.0.24 to 0.27 b. 0.15 to 0.30 c. 0.20 to 0.30 d. 0.10 to 0.15

4,5,6,7 and 8 points are marked respectively on 5 lines which are parallel to each other. There are 4 lines which are perpendicular to these terms lines and are parallel to each other, on which 9.10,11,12 points are marked respectively. How many straight lines can be formed with these points including these 9 lines..??

zoe removes low denomination coins from her purse every evening and puts them in a row of piggy banks.She acquired the piggy banks while on holiday and each of them contains coins of different denomination.Last night Zoe counted the money in them.here is what she found:

(1)There was just more than 1.40 rs in the plastic piggy bank which contained coins of a higher denomination than the ones Zoe keeps in the piggy bank she bought from bournemouth,which is not where she got the bank that holds her 2p pieces.

(2)The 5p pieces are not kept in the Terracotta piggy bank which contained less than 1.75rs.

(3)The conis in the bank made of tin were of the denomination of an even number of p and this bank contained coins of a lower denomination than the ones in the piggy bank from southwald

(4)one of the piggy banks yielded 1.50rs but not the one purchased in weston-super-mare.The piggy bank used to store 20p pieces contained a greater sum of money than the one containing 5p pieces.

(5)The china bank,which is used to store coins of one of the lowest three denominations,contained 20p more than was in the piggy bank from margate

(6)The bank she bought in torquay may or may not have been the one made of wood.Given that zoe found totals of rs1.40 rs 1.50 rs 1.60 rs 1.70 and rs1.75,and the coins she kept were in denominations 1p 2p 5p 10p 20 p (100p=1rs)

Q1. which of the following statements is/are not true regarding the piggy bank made of Terracotta?

1.It was bought from southwald

2.It consists of only coins of 20p denomination

3.It consists of 1.60rs as a total amount

Q2.Which of the following statements is/are definitely true regarding the piggy bank made of tin?

1.It consist of coins of 10p denomination

2.It consist of 1.40rs as a total amount.

3.It was brought from torquay.

Q3.which of the following statements is/are dfinitely false regarding the piggy bank made of plastic?

1.It was brought from Bournemouth

2.It consist of 1.75rs as a total amount

3.It consist of coins of 1p denomination

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