Exams

If by selling an article for Rs. 390 a shopkeeper gains 20% , then the cost is

When a number is increased by 21, it becomes 114% of itself. What is the number?

Who is the author of "Swami and Friends"?

If 170% of a number added to 66, then the result becomes equal to twice of the number. What is the number?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

The action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

I (am always wondered) what it would be like to be inside a chocolate factory.

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman brain is required. A few simple rules will keep you free, not from all errors, but from silly errors. If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. Thinking that you know when in fact you do not is a bad mistake, to which we are all prone. I believe myself that hedgehogs eat black beetles, because I have been told that they do; but if I were writing a book on the habits of hedgehogs, I should not commit myself until I had seen one enjoying this diet. Aristotle, however, was less cautious. Ancient and medieval writers knew all about unicorns and salamanders; not one of them thought it necessary to avoid dogmatic statements about them because he had never seen one of them.

According to the author, unicorns and salamanders

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

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