SBI PO 2015 Preparation & Discussion

The owner of an art shop conducts his business in the following manner. Every once in a while he raises his prices fo x%, then a while later he reduces all the new prices by x%. After one such up-down cycle the price of a painting decreased by $ 441. After a second up-down cycle the painting was sold for $ 1944.81. What was the original price of the painting in $?



A) 2756.25


B) 2256.25


C) 2500


D) 2000


E) 5000



answer is (a)



@DarkAlex you posted a question stating something like "70% of students and 50% of students passed in 2 individual subjects..", didn't you? i can't locate it! please tag me there

what could be the cutoff for prelims

  • 60-70
  • 80-90
  • 70-80
  • 50-60
  • 40-50

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some A3B5 are A2B4

some A1B3 are not A2B4

all A1B3 are A3B1

conclusions:1)some A2B4 are not A3B1  2) some A3B1 are not A1B3

have a doubt in above case whats your pick?



  • only 2 follows
  • neiher 1 nor 2
  • either 1 or 2
  • none
  • only 1 follows

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by average, i can able to score 40-45 in olive board speed test. is it enough to qualify for main exam or i should improve ....???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

anyne giving tests on ibps.how?

harish buys 40 pens at the marked price of 36 pens from a wholesaler. If he sells these pens giving a discount of 1%, what is the profit percent?

 A flat and shop were sold for Rs. 1 lakh each. In this transaction the flat sell resulted into 20% loss whereas the shop sell resulted into 20% of profit. The entire transaction resulted in:
A. no loss no gain
B. loss of Rs 1/12 lakh
C. loss of Rs 4lakh
D. gain of Rs 6lakh

No of employees reduced in the ratio 3:2 and the salary increased in the 4:5 ratio. by doing so company saves 12000. what is the total initial amount company pay???

mahadev sold 10 sarees for a total profit of Rs. 460 and 12 sarees for a total profit of Rs. 144. At what profit per saree should he sell the remaining 20 sarees so that he gets an average profit of Rs. 18 per sarees?
A. Rs 7.10
B. Rs 7.60
C. Rs 7.99
D. Rs 8

There is 60 liter alcohol in a pot. 10 liter alcohol taken out from the pot and the same quantity of water was mixed. After this 15 liter allegation was taken out and the same quantity of water was mixed. After this 12 liter ailegation was taken out and the same quantity of water was mixed. Find how many liter alchohal will be in the pot at the end?

(1) 38.5

(2) 32.3
(3)41.4
(4)23
(5)None

123 typists typed 984 papers in 1/15  hour. The number of papers typed per minute by an average typist is ?

 Statements:     

No abc is pqr.

All abc are fours.

All xyz are pqr.

Conclusions:   

1) Some xyz are not fours.

2) Some fours are xyz.

3) No six is a four.                                                                       

4) More than one of the given conclusions.

5) None of these.

Statements:     

Some Alu is not the bhujia.

All Bhujia is a sweet.

All Sweet is not the sugar.

Conclusions:   

1) Some alu is not sugar.

2) Some sugar are not sweet.

3) No sweet is Alu.                                                                      

4) More than one of the given conclusions.

5) None of these.

A man sells an article at a gain of 20%. If he had bought it at 20% less and sold it for Rs.264 less, he would have still gained 20%. The cost price of the article is:

soln please

i did 2-3 tests of testbook and on average i m scoring around 45... how much more practice do i need to clear the prelims?

IBPS Exam guru model papers online... how good are those for practice ?

15, 42, 167, 512, 1239, 2570, 4767 find the wrong one in series

guys as we know dere is hardly 15 days left for the exam....So what could be the best strategy for these 15 days so that we can come in cut off list

guys if "some A are B" is conclusion can "some A are not B can be a possibility"also valid?