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A right triangle with hypotenuse 10 inches and other two sides of variable length is rotated about its longest side thus giving rise to a solid. Find the max possible area of such a solid?
1st solved example in Arun Sharma - Block IV but cant get the solution completely.

If one explaining book approach, kindly request to answer foll 2 ques :
1. why to take isocelese triangle to maximize the area. Is it a general rule?
2. area of cone taken = pi/3*r^2*h which is but the volume of cone.So how is it the total area?
Trying to figure this out since long...Any other approach/solution much appreciated! 🍻

Let N be the smallest positive number such that N3 ends in 888. Find the sum of digits of N.

OPTIONS 1)12

2)17

3)8

4)19

5)None of these


plz help me out wd this one !!

@harlalka2610 Ye ques bhi acha h bhai..

How many subsets A of {1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10} have the property that no two elements of A sum to 11?



Can anyone please provide me good material of functions(concepts n practice questions )

plz help me...


Can anyone please provide me good material of functions(concepts n practice questions )

plz help me...

If the HCF of a,b and c is x, is the hcf of a-c, b-c , a-c also x? If not always , under what condition will it be equal to x??

  • Plz answer
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What is the smallest number which when divided by 7,8,9 leaves the remainder of 2,4,6 respectively..

plz answer

  • explain with approach
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The 38th term and the 88th term of an arithmetic progression are 301/25 & 903/25 respectively. If the total number of terms in the progression is 175, what is the ratio of the sum of the first 75 terms to the sum of the last 100 terms of the progression?

How many sets of two numbers will have the LCM as (p1^a) * (p2^b) where p1 and p2 are prime numbers and a and b are natural numbers

Plz explain with an example

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find a if a and b are integers such that x^2 -x -1 is a factor of ax^17 +bx^16 +1 .

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the goemetric mean of the sequence 1 9 81......3^2x is?

a professor conducts an examination in which there are 50 questions, a correct question carries +1 mark , a wrong question gives a penalty of 1/3 whereas a question left gives +1/6 , marks. two persons abhishek and arushi attempts the paper such that all the questions abhishek attempts are correct , while aarushi attempts atleast 1 wrong question.

.1)what is the maximum common score these two can get?43.33 45 49.33 44.33

2) when aarushi and abhishek got maximum common score , how many question did aarushi do wrong?3 4 5 7

Given below are the fraction of a sequence . Find the 200th term of the sequence

1/5,3/3,5/1,1/7,3/5,5/3,1/9,3/7,5/5,7/3,9/1

1- 29/11
2 - 23/17
3 - 25/15
4 - 27/13

solve


ek ques h...

A dishonest dealer claims to sell a product at its cost price. He uses a counterfeit weight which is 20% less than the real weight. Further greed overtook him and he added 20% impurities to the product. Find the net profit percentage of the dealer?


Ise maine aise solve kiya tha..

let 100 units product be dere costing rs 100
Wen he uses counterfeit wt. he sells only 80 kg in name of 100 kg.
Further He adds 20% impurity so the Final quantity wil be 80*4/5=64
Cost of this 64 kg wil be rs 64
So his profit=100-64/64*100=56.25

But the answer is 50%.

Somebody else did it this way:

Let say the dealer sells 1 kg of the product and cost of the product=100

Now, as per the faulty weight, it would weigh 1/.8=1.25 kg

Furthermore, 20 kg impurities are also added, => total weight=1.25*1.2=1.5 kg

Now, dealer will sell that 1.5 kg of product at 150 bucks as 1 kg of it costs 100 bucks.

=> he makes a total of (150-100)/100=50% of profit.

Where im getin wrong in aproach?

there are six boxes A, B, C, D, E, F..each having a certain number of marbles where A

expression 333^555 and 555^333 is divisible by-

1) 2

2) 3

3) 37

4) 222

4) All of the above

sum of last three digits S=871*873*875*878*881*883

approach please


if (a^2)(b^3)c=256/27, then find the minimum value of (a+b+c) where a,b,c are positive real numbers