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In an election with only two contesting candidates, 15% of the voters did not turn up to vote, and 50 voters cast invalid votes. It is known that 44% of all the voters in the voting list voted for the winner. lf the winner got 200 votes mote than the other candidate, then the number of voters in the voting list is
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ReportA goldsmith bought a large solid golden hall at INR 1 000000 and melted it to make a certain number of solid spherical beads such that the radius of each bead was one-filth of the radius of the original hall Assume that the cost of making golden beads is negligible. If the goldsmith sold all the heads at 20% discount on the listed price and made a total profit of 20% then the listed price of each golden bead. in INR, was
- (a)
12000
- (b)
48000
- (c)
9600
- (d)
24000
Aruna purchases a certain number of apples for INR 20 each and a certain number of mangoes for INR 25 each. If she sells all the apples at 10% profit and all the mangoes at 20% loss, overall she makes neither profit nor loss. Instead, if she sells all the apples at 20% loss and all the mangoes at 10% profit, overall she makes a loss of INR 150 . Then the number of apples purchased by Aruna is _________.
The cost of a piece of jewellery is proportional to the square of its weight. A piece of jewellery weighing 10 grams is INR 3600. The cost of a piece of jewellery of the same kind weighing 4 grams is
- (a)
INR 1220
- (b)
INR 600
- (c)
INR 576
- (d)
INR 1440
In a city, 50% of the population can speak in exactly one language among Hindi, English and Tamil, while 40% of the population can speak in at least two of these three languages. Moreover, the number of people who cannot speak in any of these three languages is twice the number of people who can speak in all these three languages. If 52% of the population can speak in Hindi and 25% of the population can speak exactly in one language among English and Tamil, then the percentage of the population who can speak in Hindi and in exactly one more language among English and Tamil is
- (a)
22%
- (b)
25%
- (c)
30%
- (d)
38%
A shopkeeper reduces the price of a pen by 25% as a result of which the sales quantity increased by 20%. If the revenue made by the shopkeeper decreases by x% then x is