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In a class of 50 students, 23 speak English, 15 speak Hindi and 18 speak Punjabi. 3 speak only English and Hindi, 6 speak only Hindi and Punjabi and 6 speak only English and Punjabi. If 9 speak only English, then how many speak all the three?
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In a hospital, there were 200 Diabetes, 150 Hyperglycaemia and 150 Gastro-enteritis patients. Of these, 80 patients were treated for both Diabetes and Hyperglycaemia. Sixty patients were treated for Gastro-enteritis and Hyperglycaemia, while 70 were treated for Diabetes and Gastro-enteritis. Some of these patients have all the three diseases. Doctor Dennis treats patients with only Diabetes. Doctor Hormis treats patients with only Hyperglycaemia and Doctor Gerard treats patients with only Gastro-enteritis. Doctor Paul is a Generalist. Therefore, he can treat patients with multiple diseases. Patients always prefer a specialist for their disease. If Dr. Dennis had 80 patients, then the other three doctors can be arranged in terms of the number of patients treated as
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Directions: Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions: The teachers' colony has 2800 members, out of which 650 members read only English newspaper. 550 members read only Hindi newspaper and 450 members read only Marathi newspaper. The number of members reading all the 3 newspapers is 100. Members reading Hindi as well as English newspaper are 200. 400 members read Hindi as well as Marathi newspaper and 300 members read English as well as Marathi newspaper. How many members read only one newspaper?
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Directions: Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions: The teachers' colony has 2800 members, out of which 650 members read only English newspaper. 550 members read only Hindi newspaper and 450 members read only Marathi newspaper. The number of members reading all the 3 newspapers is 100. Members reading Hindi as well as English newspaper are 200. 400 members read Hindi as well as Marathi newspaper and 300 members read English as well as Marathi newspaper. Find the number of members reading no newspaper.
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Directions: Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions: The teachers' colony has 2800 members, out of which 650 members read only English newspaper. 550 members read only Hindi newspaper and 450 members read only Marathi newspaper. The number of members reading all the 3 newspapers is 100. Members reading Hindi as well as English newspaper are 200. 400 members read Hindi as well as Marathi newspaper and 300 members read English as well as Marathi newspaper. How many members read at least two newspapers?
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A buyer purchased few books of equal value for a total cost of ₹ 720. If the value of each were ₹ 2 less than the price at which the buyer originally bought, she could have purchased 4 more books than what she had bought. How many books did she originally purchase?
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One bottle is half-full of milk and another bottle with twice the capacity is one-quarter full of milk. If water is added so that both the bottles are full and the contents of both are then poured into a third bottle that is empty and large enough to hold the contents of both, what fraction of the contents in the third bottle is milk?
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Robin says, "If Jai gives me ₹ 40, he will have half as much as Atul, but if Atul gives me ₹ 40, then the three of us will have the same amount." What is the total amount of money that Robin, Jai and Atul have between them?
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$A$ gives $B$ as many rupees as $B$ has and $C$ as many rupees as $C$ has. Similarly, $B$ then gives $A$ and $C$ as many rupees as each then has. $C$, similarly, then gives $A$ and $B$ as many rupees as each then has. If each finally has ₹ 16, with how many rupees does $A$ start?
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While out on picnic, a group of boys came upon an apple tree. One of the boys climbed the tree and picked enough apples for each boy to have three, with none left over. Then along came three boys, making it impossible to divide the picked apples evenly. However, after picking one more apple and adding it to the total, every boy had two apples, with none left over. How many apples were finally divided?
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A teacher bought a certain number of friendship bands for the students in the classroom for Friendship Day celebrations. Each student gives a friendship band to every other student. However, on the Friendship Day, 2 students were absent as a result of which 122 friendship bands were not utilized. But one out of the two absent students came late. Find the number of friendship bands which finally remained unutilized.
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10 cows can graze in a field for 15 days and 20 cows can graze in the same field for 10 days. For how many days can 30 cows graze in the field?
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Directions: These questions are based on the following information: In a holy city, there are ten shrines and a certain number of holy lakes. A group of pilgrims stayed in the city for a few days and visited the shrines and lakes during their stay. At the end of the stay it turned out that in all each shrine was visited exactly by $4$ pilgrims and each lake was visited exactly by $6$ pilgrims. Each pilgrim visited exactly $5$ shrines and $3$ lakes. The number of pilgrims in the group is
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Rohan went to the post-office to buy five-rupee, two-rupee and one-rupee stamps. He paid the clerk ₹ $20$, and since he had no change, he gave Rohan three more one-rupee stamps. If the number of stamps of each type that he had ordered initially was more than one, what was the total number of stamps that he bought?
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Aditya went to a stationery shop to buy some Parker pens. Gel pens cost ₹ 300 each while fountain pens cost ₹ 400 each. Aditya spent a total of ₹ 3600 on pens. If he had bought as many fountain pens as the number of gel pens he actually bought and vice versa, he would have saved an amount equal to half the cost of one pen of one of the two types. Find the total number of pens he bought.
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Study the following information carefully to answer these questions: A young girl Roopa leaves home with $x$ flowers and goes to the bank of a nearby river. On the bank of the river, there are four places of worship, standing in a row. She dips all the $x$ flowers into the river, the number of flowers doubles. Then, she enters the first place of worship and offers $y$ flowers to the deity. She dips the remaining flowers into the river, and again the number of flowers doubles. She goes to the second place of worship and offers $y$ flowers to the deity. She dips the remaining flowers into the river and again the number of flowers doubles. She goes to the third place of worship and offers $y$ flowers to the deity. She dips the remaining flowers into the river and again the number of flowers doubles. She goes to the fourth place of worship and offers $y$ flowers to the deity. Now she is left with no flowers in hand. If Roopa leaves home with 30 flowers, the number of flowers she offers to each deity is
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Balls are arranged in rows to form an equilateral triangle. The first row consists of one ball, the second row consists of two balls and so on. If 669 more balls are added, then all the balls can be arranged in the shape of a square and each of the sides then contains 8 balls less than each side of the triangle had. The initial number of balls is
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$24.96^2 \div (34.11 \div 20.05) + 67.96 - 89.11 = x$
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$200 \div 25 \times 4 + 12 - 3 = x$
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Evaluate: $(923 - 347) / x = 32$
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