
A bag contains white and black balls and a man draws balls at random. The odds against these being all black is :


Important Questions on Practice Set 4
A trader marked a watch above the cost price and then gave a discount of . He made a net profit of after paying a tax of on the gross profit. What is the cost price of the watch?

men take days to dig a pond. If the pond would have to be dug in days, then what is the number of men to be employed?

If the diameter of a wire is decreased by , by how much percent (approximately) will the length be increased to keep the volume constant?

From a series of observations, an observation with value is dropped but the mean remains the same. What was the mean of observations?

Mr. Duggal invested with rate of interest . The interest was compounded half-yearly for the first one year and in the next year it was compounded yearly. What will be the total interest earned at the end of two years?



