A lift has the capacity of 18 adults or 30 children. How many children can board the lift with 12 adults?
Maths PYQs from 2018
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What was the approximate ratio of sheet steel and scrap steel imports in the first three months of the year?
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Directions for the following 3 (three) items:
The following three items are based on the graph given below which shows imports of three different types of steel over a period of six months of a year. Study the graph and answer the three items that follow.
The figures in the brackets indicate the average cost per ton over six months period.
By how much (measured in thousands of tons) did the import of sheet steel exceed the import of coil steel in the first three months of the year?
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What was the approximate total value (in $) of sheet steel imported over the six months period?
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Consider the following sum: In the above sum, stands for
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For a sports meet, a winners' stand comprising three wooden blocks is in the following form :
There are six different colours available to choose from and each of the three wooden blocks is to be painted such that no two of them has the same colour. In how many different ways can the winners' stand be painted?
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Twelve equal squares are placed to fit in a rectangle of diagonal 5 cm. There are three rows containing four squares each. No gaps are left between adjacent squares. What is the area of each square?
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