Exercise 1

The lowest temperature in the night in a city is one third more thanthe highest during the day. Sum of the lowest temperature and the highest temperature is 100 degrees. Then what is the lowest temperature?

In a class there are 18 boys who are over 160 cm tall. If these boys constitute three-fourths of the boys and the total number of boys is two-thirds of the number of students in the class, then what is the number of girls in the class?

Peter gave one-fourth of the amount he had to Michael. Michael in turn gave half of what he received from Peter to Sam. If the difference between the remaining amount with Peter and the amount received by Sam is 500, how much money did Michael receive from Peter?

Four children A, B, C and D divide a bag of swets, A takes of them, B th of the remainder and the rest is equally shared between C and D. What fraction of the sweets did C or D get?

Rita travelled 1200 km by air, which formed of her journey. One-third of the whole journey travelled by car and the remaining journey by train. Find the distance travelled by the train

A man spends one-quarter of his income on for one-fifth of it on rent and remaining, which is Rs.231. on other commodities. Find his total income

A boy readth of a book on one day and of the remainder on another day. If there were 30 pages unread, how many pages did the book contain?

An institute organised a fete andof the girls and of the boys participated in the same. What traction of the total number of students took part in the fete?

At an International Dinner,of the people attending were French men. If the number of French women at the dinner was greater than the number of French men, and there were no other French people at the dinner, then what fraction of the people at the dinner were not French?

In a class,of the students are girls and rest are boys. If of the girls and of the boys are absent, what part of the total number of students is present?