Q1:
Algebra
Inequalities
Hard
Any non-zero real numbers such that and , Will satisfy the condition.
Algebra
Inequalities
Hard
Any non-zero real numbers such that and , Will satisfy the condition.
Number System
HCF/LCM
Medium
For any natural numbers , and , such that divides both and must be a common divisor of
Algebra
Indices
Hard
The sum of all possible values of satisfying the equations , is
Algebra
Indices
Medium
Let , , and be natural numbers such that and . If , then the largest possible value of is
Algebra
Minima & Maxima
Medium
Let k be the largest integer such that the equation has no real roots. If y is a positive real number, then the least possible value of is
Number System
Factorisation
Medium
The number of positive integers less than , having exactly two distinct factors other than and itself, is
Modern Math
Logarithms
Medium
For some positive real number , if , then the value of is
Arithmetic
Time & Work
Hard
Pipes and are fill pipes while Pipe is a drain pipe of a tank. Pipe empties the full tank in one hour less than the time taken by Pipe to fill the empty tank. When pipes , and are turned on together, the empty tank is filled in two hours. If pipes and are turned on together when the tank is empty and Pipe is turned off after one hour, then Pipe takes another one hour and minutes to fill the remaining tank. If Pipe can fill the empty tank in less than five hours, then the time taken, in minutes, by Pipe to fill the empty tank is
Arithmetic
Profit & Loss
Medium
Minu purchases a pair of sunglasses at Rs. and sells to Kanu at profit. Then, Kanu sells it back to Minu at loss. Finally, Minu sells the same pair of sunglasses to Tanu. If the total profit made by Minu from all her transactions is Rs. , then the percentage of profit made by Minu when she sold the pair of sunglasses to Tanu is
Arithmetic
Ratio, Proportion & Variation
Easy
In a company, of the employees work in the manufacturing department. If the total salary obtained by all the manufacturing employees is one-sixth of the total salary obtained by all the employees in the company, then the ratio of the average salary obtained by the manufacturing employees to the average salary obtained by the non-manufacturing employees is
Arithmetic
Time, Speed & Distance
Medium
Ravi is driving at a speed of km/h on a road. Vijay is meters behind Ravi and driving in the same direction as Ravi. Ashok is driving along the same road from the opposite direction at a speed of km/h and is meters away from Ravi. The speed, in km/h, at which Vijay should drive so that all the three cross each other at the same time, is
Arithmetic
Ratio, Proportion & Variation
Hard
The price of a precious stone is directly proportional to the square of its weight. Sita has a precious stone weighing units. If she breaks it into four pieces with each piece having distinct integer weight, then the difference between the highest and lowest possible values of the total price of the four pieces will be . Then, the price of the original precious stone is
Arithmetic
Simple & Compound Interest
Anil borrows Rs 2 lakhs at an interest rate of 8% per annum, compounded half-yearly. He repays Rs 10320 at the end of the first year and closes the loan by paying the outstanding amount at the end of the third year. Then, the total interest, in rupees, paid over the three years is nearest to
Arithmetic
Profit & Loss
Hard
Jayant bought a certain number of white shirts at the rate of Rs per piece and a certain number of blue shirts at the rate of Rs per piece. For each shirt, he then set a fixed market price which was higher than the average cost of all the shirts. He sold all the shirts at a discount of and made a total profit of Rs . If he bought both colors of shirts, then the maximum possible total number of shirts that he could have bought is
Algebra
Linear Equation
Medium
If certain amount of money is divided equally among n person, each one receives Rs . However, if two persons receive Rs each and the remaining amount is divided equally among the other persons, each of them received less than or equal to Rs . Then, the maximum possible value of is
Arithmetic
Mixture & Alligation
Easy
A container has liters of milk. Then, liters are removed from the container and replaced with liters of water. This process of replacing liters of the liquid in the container with an equal volume of water is continued repeatedly. The smallest number of times of doing this process, after which the volume of milk in the container becomes less than that of water, is
Geometry
Triangles
Medium
A triangle is drawn with its vertices on the circle C such that one of its sides is a diameter of C and the other two sides have their lengths in the ratio . If the radius of the circle is , then the area of the triangle is
Geometry
Quadrilaterals
Hard
In a rectangle ABCD, AB = 9 cm and BC = 6 cm. P and Q are two points on BC such that the areas of the figures ABP, APQ, and AQCD are in geometric progression. If the area of the figure AQCD is four times the area of triangle ABP, then BP : PQ : QC is
Algebra
Modulus
Hard
The area of the quadrilateral bounded by the -axis, the line , and the lines , is
Algebra
Progression & Series
Medium
Let both the series and be in arithmetic progression such that the common differences of both the series are prime numbers. If , and , then equals
Algebra
Identities
Medium
If , then the difference between the maximum and minimum possible value of is
Algebra
Progression & Series
Medium
Let and be two sequences such that and for all natural numbers . Then, the largest three digit integer that is common to both these sequences, is
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