[Official] Quant Thread for 2015!

Total number of isosceles triangles (excluding equilateral triangles) with integer sides if length of no side exceeds 10 units is

a. 45

b. 90

c. 75

d. 65

Please explain..

When 20% of a solution of milk and water is removed and replaced with water, the ratio of milk and water in the resulting solution becomes 2:3 find the ratio of milk and water in the original solution.

in a class of 128 students 96 pass in physics , 99 in chemistry , 90 in  biology and 40 pass in all subject ,

1. minimum no of students pass in exactly 2 subjects

2. maximum no of students fail in all subjects?

Find the no. of ordered integer pairs (a,b) which satisfy the equation ab = 2(a+b)

a. 4   b. 5   c.  6    d. 7

in a class of 128 students 100 pass in maths,  96 pass in physics , 99 in chemistry , 90 in biology and 40 pass in all 4  subjects ,

1. minimum no of students pass in exactly 2 subjects 

2. maximum no of students fail in all subjects?

find the probability that an year chosen at random has 53 mondays. 

Ans 5/28

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Sarthak bought a total of 12 fruits (Apples and Carrots) from
the market. He found that he required two apples less to extract the same quantity of juice as extracted from carrots. If Sarthak has used the same number of carrots to make the blend, then which of the following correctly represents the percentage of carrot juice in the blend?

i did like this :----


suppose 6 apple hen 6 carrot hen 
ab 4 apple =6 carrot
2 apple=3 carrot
so 6 apple =9 carrot
now ratio 
apple:carrot::9:6
so ans =6/15*100=40

What is wrong in this method??? please, anyone!

10 children are standing in a line. Each child has some chocolates with him. if the first child attempted to double the number of chocolates with each of the others he would fall short by two chocolates.  If the second child took two chocolates from each of the remaining,he would have three chocolates less than what the first child initially had.Find the total number of chocolates with the third to the tenth child.

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Number of natural numbers less than 2.10^8 and are divisible by 3 which can be written by means of the digits 0,1 and 2?

A. 7272

B. 4373

C. 3437

D. None of the Above

The ratio of the area of triangle ABC to the area of the triangle whose sides are equal to the medians of triangle ABC is

Find the total number of ways of adding two 4 digit numbers such that the result is also a 4 digit number(in no place the addition is with a carry).

please tell the method

A family of lines is given by (1+2$)x +(1-$)y + $ =0, where$ being a parameter. the line belonging to this family at a maximum distance from a point (1,4) is ?

please explain the method.

Raghu had 3 sons. He had chocolates which he distributed among them. To his eldest son, he gave 3 chocolates more than half the number of chocolates with him. To his second eldest son he gives 4 chocolates more than one third of the remaining chocolates. To his youngest son he gave 4 chocolates more than one fourth of the remaining chocolates. He was left with 11 chocolates. How many chocolates did he initially have??



Four identical cylinders, each of height 2a units, are cut out from a metallic cube of side 2a units. What is the minimum volume of the metal that will be left out?

what is the equivalent discount of 50 successive discounts starting from 2%,4%,6%,8%.......?

What annual payment will discharge a debt of Rs. 580 in 5 years,the rate being 8%p.a.......(kindly make me understand the meaning of this question)


A can complete a piece of work in 12 days, B in 15 days and C in 20 days. All of them together started the work but C left when he realised that the remaining work will be completed without him in the next two days, and B left when he realised that the remaining work will be completed without him in the next one day. Find the total number of days taken to complete the work.

A shopkeeper received a pack of 15 pen out of which 4 were defective.the shopkeeper decided to examine every one one by one by selecting a pen at random .the pen examined are not put back.what is the probability that the ninth one examined is the last defective pen

options 11/195 b) 16/195 c)8/195 d)17/195

anyone has the last yaers AIMCATs with solutions?...it seems like they have been removed from the hoe page and i forgot to download them...someone please help

The sum of n term of two series in AP are in the ratio (7n-17):(4n+16) . Find the ratio of their 21st terms.

a)3:2 b)4:3 c)5:2 d)4:5

plzz post ur solution as well. Thanx in advance 😛