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Ramaswami was studying for his examinations and the light went off. It was around 1:00 a.m. He lighted two uniform candles of equal length but one thicker than the other. The thick candle is supposed to last six hours and the thin one two hours less. When he finally went to sleep, the thick candle was twice as long as the thin one. For how long did Ramaswami study in candle light?
Select as option the word closest in meaning to the given word: Veracious
The Price Darjeeling Tea (in rupees Kilogram) is 100 + 0.1 n, on the nth day of a non-leap year (n=1, 2, 3…,100) and then remains constant. On the other hand thr price of Ooty tea (in rupees per kilogram) is 85+0.1n, on the nth day (n=1, 2, …, 365). On which date of that year will the prices of these teo varieties of the be equal?
Which one of the following is not a member of the organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)?
Insulation was fitted to ______ further heat loss from the building.
Who is sitting in the middle of the bench?
A ______ rate of inflation makes exports difficult.
If 'water' is called 'food', 'food' is called 'tree', 'tree' is called 'sky', 'sky' is called 'wall, on which of the following does a 'fruit' grow?
Fill in the blank with the correct simile. As fresh as
Cars are safer than planes. Fifty percent of plane accidents result in death, while only one percent of car accidents result in death. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument above?
If two different prime numbers X and Y are greater than 2, then which of the following must be true?
Which government is behind the 'The Nalanda Proposal', proposing Nalanda as an ideal site for establishing 1 21st century learning institution.
Choose the kangaroo word that carries a smaller version of the word with a very similar meaning :
Who is the current dean of Harvard Business School?
It's known to be used in Egypt in 3000 BC, but its name had been derived from old French expression. It is made from the fermentation of ethanol in a pricess that yields its key ingredient, ethanoic acid. What is it?
Four children A, B, C & D are having some chocolates each. A gives B as many as he already has, he gives C ywicw of what C already has and he gives D thrice of what D already has. Now, D gives 1/8th of his own chocolates to B. Then A gives 10% chocolates he now owns to C and 20% to B. Finally, all them have 35 chocolates each. What is the original number of chocolates each had in the beginning?
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Five year plans in India are finally approved by the:
He hardly cares, ______ ?
Choose the sentence where the underlined word is used appropriately.
If a certain code, BEAUTIFUL is coded as 573041208, BUTTER as 504479, how is FUTURE coded in that code?
Which of the following milestones was achieved by New Zealand Cricket Team Captain Daniel Vettori recently?
This, distingguished Indian was born on 28th December 1937 in Surat. He has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, USA. He turned down a job offer from IBM to join his family business and todat he is one of the top business leaders of India. Name the tycoon.
Sonali invests 15% of her monthly salary in insurance policies. She spends 55% of her monthly salary in shopping and on household expenses. She saves the remaining amount of Rs. 12,750. What is Sonali,s monthly income?
What is Red Herring in an IPO?
What is the number that is one half of one quarter o one tenth of 400?
If the length, breath and height of the room are in ratio 3:2:1. the breath and height of the room are halved and length of the room is doubled. Then area of the four walls of the room will,
When it comes to stying ______, a mind-lift beats a ______ any day.
Which country was world's largest exporter with merchandise export worth $1.47 trillion in 2008, according to the World Trade Organisation?
I racked my brains to solve this difficult problem.
A swimming pool can be filled by pipe A in 3 hours and by pipe B in 6 hours, each pump working on its own. At 9 am pump A is started, At what time will the swimming pool be filled if pump B is started at 10 am?
The Unique identification (UID) Project, headed by Nandan Nilekani has been renamed as
I did not see you ______ the office party.
In 1965 Gordon Moore, Co-founder of intel, made a prediction about the future of computer processing. What does his prediction, known as Moore's Law say?
Where in India, recently has the Clinton Foundation, founded by former Us President Bill Clinton, firmed up its plans to set up world's largest solar park (3,000 to 5,000 MW capacity)?