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Detective glories tend to glorify crime. Murderers, gangsters and crooks all kinds are described as tough, cunning and courageous individuals who know how to take care of themselves and how to get what they want. In James McCains The Postman Always Rings twice, for instance the villain is much more a impressive character than his victim. He is casual brave smart and successful with women. It is true that he finally gets caught. But he is punished for a crime that he did not commit, so that his conviction is hardly a triumph of justice. Besides, looking back over the exciting life of the criminal, the reader might conclude that it was worth the risk.The passage mention James McCain

as an author of detective stories
as brave, smart, and successful with women
as tough cunning and courageous
as being more impressive than others
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Murderers, gangsters and crooks referred to in the passage given above

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According to this passage, a criminal in a detective story generally gets caught

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A boat can travel with a speed of 13 km/hr in still water. If the speed of the stream is 4 km/hr, find the time taken by the boat to go 68 km downstream.

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A motorboat, whose speed in 15 km/hr in still water goes 30 km downstream and comes back in a total of 4 hours 30 minutes. The speed of the stream (in km/hr) is:

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A is two years older than B who is twice as old as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C be 27, the how old is B?

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If one-third of one-fourth of a number is 15, then three-tenth of that number is:

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Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is 3 more than twice the third. The third integer is:

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The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the youngest child?

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A is two years older than B who is twice as old as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C be 27, the how old is B?

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Two trains, each 100 m long, moving in opposite directions, cross each other in 8 seconds. If one is moving twice as fast the other, then the speed of the faster train is:

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