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Company A pays 5.5% on shares of Rs.100, and another pays at the rate of 3.5%  On shares of Rs.10 each. If the price of the former be Rs.150.00 and of the later Rs.15.00, compare the rates of interest which the shares return to a purchaser.

If 20% of a = b, then b% of 20 is the same as:

The number which exceeds 16 % of by 42 is:

If the interest on Rs. 800 exceeds that on Rs. 600 by Rs. 15.50 in 6 months, find the rate percent p.a.

Mr. Thomas invested an amount of Rs. 13,900 devided in two different schemes A and B at the simple interest rate of 14% p.a. and 11% p.a. respectively. If the total amount of simple interest earned in 2 years be Rs. 3508. What was the amount invested in Scheme B?

40% of 5/6 is

A person takes a loan of Rs. 200 at 5% simple interest. He returns Rs. 100 at the end of 1 year. In order to clear his dues at the end of 2 years, he would pay:

What percent of 7.2 kg is 18 gms ?

The banker’s discount of a certain sum of money is Rs. 72 and the true discount on the same sum for the same time is Rs. 60. The sum due is

A man invested 1/3 of his capital at 7%, ¼ at 8% and the remainder at 10%. If his annual income is Rs. 561, the capital is:

At what rate percent per annum will the simple interest on a sum money be 2/5 of the amount in 10 years?

If a material is sold for Rs.34.80, there is a loss of 25%. Find out the cost price of the material?

A student took five papers in an examination, where the full marks were the same for each paper. His marks in these papers were in the proportion of 6 : 7 : 8 : 9 : 10. In all papers together, the candidate obtained 60% of the total marks. Then the number of papers in which he got more than 50% marks is:

IN how many years, Rs. 150 will produce the same interest @ 8% as Rs. 800 produce in 3 years@ 4(1/2)%?

The simple interest on a sum of money will be Rs. 600 after 10 years. If the principal is trebled after 5 years, what will be the total interest at the end of the tenth year?

Seats for Mathematics, Physics and Biology in a school are in the ratio 5:7:8. There is a proposal to increase these seats by 40%, 50% and 75% respectively. What will be the ratio of increased seats?

A 6% stock yields 8%.The market value of the stock is

When an item is sold for Rs. 18,700, the owner loses 15%. At what price should that plot be sold to get a gain of 15%?

3 litre of water is added to 11 litre of a solution containing 42% of alcohol in the water. The percentage of alcohol in the new mixture is

If A=x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the following is true?

A sum of Rs. 2600 is lent out I two parts in such a way that the interest on one part at 10% for 5 years is equal to that on another at 9% for 6 years. The sum lent out at 10% is

At what rate of compound interest per annum will a sum of Rs. 1200 become Rs. 1348.32 in 2 years?

How much time will it take for an amount of Rs. 450 to yield Rs. 81 as intrest at 4.5%per annum of simple interest?

I buy a 20% stock of face value 50/- at 45/- and sell it at 55/-. A year later, what is my yield

5% of (25% of Rs. 1600) is

What percentage of numbers from 1 to 70 has 1 or 9 in the unit's digit?

Albert invested an amount of Rs. 8000 in a fixed deposit scheme for 2 years at, compound interest rate 5 p.c.p.a. How much amount will Albert get on maturity of the fixed deposit?

The population of a town was 1,60,000 three years ago. If it increased by 3%, 2.5% and 5% respectively in the last three years, then the present population is:

An amount of Rs. 1,00,000 is invested in two types of shares. The first yields an interest of 9% p.a. and the second, 11% p.a. If the total interest at the end of one year is 9(3/4)%, then the amount invested in each share was

Two students appeared at an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more than the other and his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. What are the marks obtained by them?