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Let $D$ and $E$ be points on sides $A B$ and $A C$, respectively, of a triangle $A B C$, such that $A D: B D=2: 1$ and $A E: C E=2: 3$. If the area of the triangle $A D E$ is $8 \mathrm{sq} \mathrm{cm}$, then the area of the triangle $ABC$ , in sq cm , is

Two trains $A$ and $B$ were moving in opposite directions, their speeds being in the ratio $5: 3$. The front end of $A$ crossed the rear end of $B$ $46$ seconds after the front ends of the trains had crossed each other. It took another $69$ seconds for the rear ends of the trains to cross each other. The ratio of length of train $A$ to that of train $B$ is

Anil, Bobby and Chintu jointly invest in a business and agree to share the overall profit in proportion to their investments. Anil's share of investment is $70\%$. His share of profit decreases by Rs. $420$ if the overall profit goes down from $18\%$ to $15\%$. Chintu's share of profit increases by Rs. $80$ if the overall profit goes up from $15\%$ to $17\%$. The amount, in INR, invested by Bobby is

The sides $A B$ and $C D$ of a trapezium $A B C D$ are parallel, with $A B$ being the smaller side. $P$ is the midpoint of $CD$ and $ABPD$ is a parallelogram. If the difference between the areas of the parallelogram $ABPD$ and the triangle $BPC$ is $10$ sq cm, then the area, in sq cm, of the trapezium $A B C D$ is

A person buys tea of three different qualities at Rs. $800$, Rs. $500$, and Rs. $300$ per kg, respectively, and the amounts bought are in the proportion $2: 3: 5$. She mixes all the tea and sells one-sixth of the mixture at Rs. $700$ per kg. The price, in INR per kg, at which she should sell the remaining tea, to make an overall profit of $50\%$, is

If a rhombus has area $12 \mathrm{sq} \mathrm{cm}$ and side length $5 \mathrm{~cm}$, then the length, in cm, of its longer diagonal is

Three positive integers $x, y$ and $z$ are in arithmetic progression. If $y − x > 2$ and $xyz = 5(x + y + z)$, then $z − x$ equals

For a $4$-digit number, the sum of its digits in the thousands, hundreds and tens places is $14$, the sum of its digits in the hundreds, tens and units places is $15$, and the tens place digit is $4$ more than the units place digit. Then the highest possible $4$-digit number satisfying the above conditions is

The number of ways of distributing $15$ identical balloons, $6$ identical pencils and $3$ identical erasers among $3$ children, such that each child gets at least four balloons and one pencil, is

For all possible integers $n$ satisfying $2.25 \leq 2+2^{n+2} \leq 202$, the number of integer values of $3+3^{n+1}$ is

Raj invested Rs. $10000$ in a fund. At the end of first year, he incurred a loss but his balance was more than Rs. $5000$. This balance, when invested for another year, grew and the percentage of growth in the second year was five times the percentage of loss in the first year. If the gain of Raj from the initial investment over the two year period is $35 \%$, then the percentage of loss in the first year is

Two pipes $A$ and $B$ are attached to an empty water tank. Pipe $A$ fills the tank while pipe $B$ drains it. If pipe $A$ is opened at $2$ pm and pipe $B$ is opened at $3$ pm , then the tank becomes full at $10 \mathrm{pm}$. Instead, if pipe $A$ is opened at $2 \mathrm{pm}$ and pipe $B$ is opened at $4 \mathrm{pm}$, then the tank becomes full at $6 \mathrm{pm}$. If pipe $B$ is not opened at all, then the time, in minutes, taken to fill the tank is

A box has $450$ balls, each either white or black, there being as many metallic white balls as metallic black balls. If $40 \%$ of the white balls and $50 \%$ of the black balls are metallic, then the number of non-metallic balls in the box is

For all real values of x, the range of the function f(x) = $\frac{x^2+2x+4}{2x^2+4x+9}$ is

If $\log_2 [3 + \log_3 \{4 + \log_4 (x - 1)\}] - 2 = 0$, then $4x$ equals

Consider the pair of equations: $x^{2}-x y-x=22$ and $y^{2}-x y+y=34$. If $x>y$, then $x-y$ equals

For a sequence of real numbers $x_1, x_2, ...... x_n$, if $x_1 - x_2 + x_3 - .... + (-1)^{n + 1} x_n = n^2 + 2n$ for all natural numbers n, then the sum $x_{49} + x_{50}$ equals

From a container filled with milk, $9$ litres of milk are drawn and replaced with water. Next, from the same container, $9$ litres are drawn and again replaced with water. If the volumes of milk and water in the container are now in the ratio of $16: 9$, then the capacity of the container, in litres, is

For a real number x the condition $|3x - 20| + |3x - 40| = 20$ necessarily holds if

In a football tournament, a player has played a certain number of matches and $10$ more matches are to be played. If he scores a total of one goal over the next $10$ matches, his overall average will be $0.15$ goals per match. On the other hand, if he scores a total of two goals over the next $10$ matches, his overall average will be $0.2$ goals per match. The number of matches he has played is

Suppose one of the roots of the equation $ax^2 - bx + c = 0$ is $2+\sqrt{3}$ where a, b and c are rational numbers and $a \neq 0$. If $b = c^3$ then $|a|$ equals

Anil can paint a house in $60$ days while Bimal can paint it in $84$ days. Anil starts painting and after $10$ days, Bimal and Charu join him. Together, they complete the painting in $14$ more days. If they are paid a total of Rs. $21000$ for the job, then the share of Charu, in INR, proportionate to the work done by him, is