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Two towns A and B are 60 km apart. A school is to be built to serve 150 students in town A and 50 students in town B. If the total distance to be travelled by all 200 students is to be as small as possible, then the school should be built at :

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A and B start from the same point and in the same direction at 7 am to walk around a rectangular field 400 m×300 m. A and B walk at the rate of 3 km/h and 2.5 km/h, respectively. How many times shall they cross each other, if they continue to walk till 12:30 pm?
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Left pan of a faulty balance weighs 100 g more than its right pan. A shopkeeper keeps the weight measure in the left pan while buying goods but keeps it in the right pan while selling his goods. He uses only 1 kg weight measure. If he sells his goods at cost price, what is his gain percentage?
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Four different candles, which can last for 5 hours, 4 hours, 3 hours, 2 hours of burning, respectively, are lit in a room at the same instant and allowed to burn till such time that the three candles in the room get extinguished. The cost of burning each one of these candles is 75 paise per hour. The cost involved is :

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Two ladies simultaneously leave Cities A and B connected by a straight road and travel towards each other. The first lady travels 2 km/h faster than the second lady and reaches B, 1 h before the second lady reaches A. The two Cities A and B are 24 km. apart. What is the difference in their speeds/h?
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In a company, 605 of the employees are men. Of these 40% are drawing more than  50,000 per year. If 36% of the total employees of the company draw more than  50,000 per year, what is the percentage of women who are drawing less than  50,000 per year?
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The following table shows the percentage change in the consumption of electricity by five towns P, Q, R, S, and T from 1986 to 1988:

Percentage change
Town Form 1986 to 1987 Form 1987 to 1988
P +8 -18
Q -15 +11
R +6 +9
S -7 -5
T +13 -6

In town T, where 50,000 units were consumed in 1986, how much did it consume in 1988?

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Water is filled in a container in such a manner that its volume doubles every 5 minutes. If it takes 30 minutes for the container to be full, in how much time will it be one-fourth full ?
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Amar, Akbar, and Anthony are friends, being looked after by a matron Farah, Amar weighs 50% more than Akbar and Anthony weighs 25% less than Amar. Farah weighs a third of the combined weight of the three boys. All four together weigh 232 kg. What is the correct sequence of the persons in the ascending order of their weights?