A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third of the passengers and takes `280` more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes `12` more.On arriving at the third station, it is found to have `248` passengers. Find the number of passengers in the beginning

A train starts will full number of passengers. At the first station, the train drops one-third of the passengers and takes in 96 more. At the next station, one half of the passengers on board get down while 12 new passengers get on board. If the passengers on board now are 240, the number of passengers in the beginning was:

A train started from a station with a certain number of passengers. At the first halt, half of the passengers got down and 125 passengers got in. At the second halt, half of the passengers left and 100 entered. Then the train left for its destination with 250 passengers. The number of passengers in the train at the start was (a) 250 (b) 350 (c) 450 (d) 550

A bus starts with some passengers . At the first stop, one -fifth of the passengers gets down and 40 passengers get in . At the second stop, half of the passengers gets down and 30 get in . The number of passengers now is 70 . The number of passengers with which the bus started was

A train starts form station A with some passengers. At station B 10% of the passengers get down and 100 passengers get in.At station C 50% get down and 25 get in. At station D 50% get down and 50 get in making the total number of passengers 200. The number of passengers who boarded the train at station A was. a.400 b. 500 c. 600 d. 700

When a bus started from the first stop, the number of male passengers to the number of female passengers was 3 : 1. At the stop 16 passengers get down and 6 more female passengers get into. Now the ratio of the male to female passengers becomes 2 : 1. What was the total number of passengers in the bus when it started from the first stop?

A train started with 540 passengers.At the first stop (1)/(9) of them got down and 24 got up. On its second stop (1)/(8) of the passengers then existing got down and 9 got up.With how many passengers did it reach the third stop? (a) 450 (b) 500 (c) 540 (d) 550

Solve the following problems: A passenger train takes 2 hours more than an express train to travel a distance of 240 km . The speed of the express train is more than that of passenger train by 20 km/h. Find the speed of both the trains.