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(#M40165736) IBM QUESTION Keep an EYE

server A is online 24 hours a day 7 days a week except when it is taken offline for routine maintenance it support can take server A offline for a maximum of 2 hours each day and for maximum of 11 hours in any 7 day week at the end of the third day in the current week it has already taken the server offline for 5 hours for what proportion of the hours remaining in the week it is permitted to take the server offline
a)1/32 b)1/24 c)1/16 d)1/8 e)1/4

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(#M40165709) IBM QUESTION Keep an EYE

an employee has 3 hours remaining in her work shift during that time she must attend 30 minute meeting then review 2 reports that are each 17 pages long and one report that is 13 pages long at what rate must she review the reports to finish all of them by the end of her shift?

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(#M40165565) IBM QUESTION Keep an EYE

A new car is driven 878 miles in year 1. It is driven 1150 miles in year 2. In each of year 3, 4, and 5 the car is driven 4% more miles than in the previous year. How many total miles the car will be driven at end of year 5?

Asked In IBM Sayantani Roy (7 years ago)

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(#M40165421) IBM QUESTION Keep an EYE

A recruiter processed an average of 8 applicants per week for the first 34 weeks of this year. Last year this recruiter processed a total 524 applications. To equal last year’s performance, how many applicants per week must the recruiter process in the remain week of this year.
a) 8
b) 10
c) 12
d) 14
e) 16

Asked In IBM bharathsomalanka (7 years ago)

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(#M40165086) IBM QUESTION Keep an EYE

An envelope weighs 8.5 grams. If 800 of these envelopes are sent with an advertising mailing, how much total weight will they add to the mailing?

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(#M40164948) IBM QUESTION Keep an EYE

A project requires 40 hours from each of three employees to complete. Each employee is paid
$25 per hour. If the company hires a contractor for $ 10 per hour, and the four divide the total amount of work equally,
how much would is cost to complete the audit?

Asked In IBM NALADALA BHAKTHA VASTHAL (8 years ago)

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(#M40164927) IBM QUESTION digits Keep an EYE

if a computer takes one second to print one digit,then how much time does it takes to print ((10)^10)^10?

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(#M40158228) IBM QUESTION appti Keep an EYE

1.)In a normal 6-day work week, each of 12 employees produces 260 items per day. Last week, ¼ of the employees were
absent from work for 3/6 of the days in the week. How many total items were produced last week?

2.) A project requires 40 hours from each of three employees to complete. Each employee is paid
$25 per hour. If the company hires a contractor for $ 10 per hour, and the four divide the total amount of work equally,
how much would is cost to complete the audit?

3.) A sales person sold an average of 7 computers per week for the first 44 weeks of this year. Last year this salesperson sold a tota
of 24440 computers.To equal last year’s performance, how many computers must the salesperson sell per week in the remaining weeks of the year?

4.) A car departs at 9:10 am. It travels at 152 kilometers per hour until 5:40 pm, then increases its speed by 5% for the remaining
of the trip. It reaches its final destination at 9:10 pm. How many kilometers did the car travel?


5.)) In a 200 runner A can beat runner B by 3.5 meters. If they run a t the same pace in
2400 meters race, runner A will beat runner B by
meter race,



6.) A person is responsible for loading reviews of computer games and desktop computers onto a
website. It takes 120 minutes to load a half-page review. How long will it take to load half-page reviews
for each of 4 desktop computers, plus full-page reviews for each of 2 computer games?



7.)) A new car is driven 878 miles in year 1. It is driven 1150miles in year 2. In each of year3, 4, and 5 car is driven 4% more miles than in the
previous year. How many total miles has the car been driven at end of year 5?

8.) Company A hired a contract programmer at $25 per hour to complete 3 projects, each lasting
200 hrs. The programmer also incurred travel expenses averaging $22 per project. If the company b had
the same work done under a fixed price contract for $14175 that included all labor and travel expenses, which company would pay
how much more than the other?


9.) Server costs A 2/10 more than 6/10 the price of server B. if server A and B both cost $25000 together, what is price of server A?


10) A printer prints 85 pages per minute. If the printer printed for 4 hours, except for 12 minutes when
there was a paper jam, how many pages did it print?


11.) Two printers are printing pages. The first printer prints 21 pages per minute. The second printer prints 40 pages per minute.
If the second printer printed for 4 ½ hours, how many minutes would it take for the first printer to print the same number
of pages as the second printer?

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(#M40158209) IBM QUESTION ibm - ase placement paper Keep an EYE

1. A person types at the rate of 80 words per minute. how many sentences can this person type in 64 minutes, if the sentences include 11 words on average? (round answer to the nearest whole number)

2. of $41.68 in the supply budget, amount of $3.55, $4.57 , $2.50 , $2.77 , $3.30 and $0.90 were paid out. how much was left?

3. a return envelope weighs 5.7 grams. if 500 of these envelopes are sent with an advertising mailing . how much total weight will they add to the mailing ?

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(#M40158148) IBM QUESTION quant Keep an EYE

21) If 19 and 1140 are the respective HCF and LCM of two numbers, which are greater than 19
then what will be the possible number of such pair?


22)IN a lawn,grass grows equally thick and uniform rate every day.It takes 24days for 70 cows
to graze and 60 days for 30 cows.How many cows are required to graze lawn in 96 days.
ANS:
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23)FOR A POETRY CONCERT OF 30 MINS A POET TAKES 1 HOUR FOR WRITING THE
POEM AND 6 HOURS TO REHEARSAL.HOW MUCH TIME WILL TAKE THE POET FOR
90 HOUR CONCERT?


24)company A rented a truck $1000 per month. company B purchased the same type of truck for
$35000.in addition company B paid $120 monthly maintenance charges.what is relative cost to
the competing company for this type of truck after 6 years of operation

26)in a library there are 5 computer cluster open for public use.each computer cluster consist 33
laptop.in first week 75 laptop are used.in second week 155 laptop used ,in third week 30 laptop
and in fourth week 160 laptop used.what fraction of library computer are in used in month?
a)3/5
b)2/7
c)2/3
d)1/14
e)1/4
ANS:
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27)a container of production line solvent is mixed at 22% strength and another is mixed at 53%
strength.to obtain 12 liter of a mixture that is 25% strength,how many liter should be used from
the container that is mixed at 53% strength?
a)4 liters
b)1 5/31liters
c)2 16/25 liters
d)5 35/53 liters
e)4/59


28)a company decided to install a fountain within it main entrance lobby.if fountain is to be 148
cm wide 297 long and 91 cm deep,how much water would be required to feel the fountain to a
depth of 69cm?(1liter=1000 cubic centimeters)
a)4000
b)5140
c)967
d)5360
e)3033


29) In a certain company 20% of the men and 40% of the women
attended the annual company picnic.If 35% of all the employees
are men .What % of all the employee went to the picnic?


30) A company instaled 36 punching machines at the begining of
the year.In the spring they instaled 9 additional m/c's
and th
(Ans is 9)check


31) company has offices in 2 buildings.53% of the copying machines in the 1st building and 48%
of the copying machines in the 2nd building received preventive maintanance last month. if 42%
of the company copying machines are in the 1st building then what % of all the copying
machines received preventive maintanance last month?


32)Two solutions of 90% and 97% purity are mixed resulting in 21 litres of mixture of 94%
purity. How much is the quantity of the first solution in the resulting mixture?


33)8 chairs are numbered from 1 to 8. Two women first choose two chairs from those marked 1
to 4 and 3 men selects 3 chairs from the remaining. Find the number of possible arrangements


34)A thermal chimney of circular cross section has outer and inner radii of 3m and 2m
respectively. Find the cost of cement finishing for the inner and outer surface at Rs20 per
sq.meter, if the height of the chimney is 56m.


35)A set of 7 pens, 9 erasers and 11 sharpeners costs Rs 79 and 2 pens, 5 erasers and 8
sharpeners cost Rs 42. Find the total cost of one sharpeners, one eraser and one pen.


36)A father of 6 children takes 2 of his children at a time to a circus as often as he can, without
taking the same pair of children together more than once. How many times does the father go to
the circus?


37)A person can buy 50 cds with $135 and 15 dvds with $100 nikitha has a budjet of $1680 for
cds & budget of $150 for dvds
How many cds & dvds in total can she buy?


38)A women uses 150 clips to pin 20 pages. How many clips will be required to pin 230 pages??


39)A jar contains 2 red, 3 blue, and 4 green marbles. Niki draws one marble from the jar, and
then Tom draws a marble. What is the probability that Niki will draw a green marble and Tom
will draw a blue marble?


40)There are 9 popsicles: 3 orange, 3 cherry, 3 grape. There are 4 children. What is the
probability that all 4 children will get the flavor of their choice?


41)Three people each toss a penny at the same time. What is the probability that two people get
the same side of the penny and the other person gets the opposite side?

Asked In IBM VARUN SINGH (8 years ago)

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