Can you help find the missing number?

6, 20, 36, 48, 50, ?, 0

The answer apparently is 36 (NTSE 2013, First Level MAT), but I’m not sure how it was derived.

How do you find the Maclaurin series for tanx?

Why is Axiom 5, in the list of Euclid’s axioms, considered a ‘universal truth’? (Note that the equation is not about the fifth postulate.)

The smallest composite number is ______.

(a) 2

(b) 4

(c) 1

(d) None of these

Find the arithmetic mean of the first ten odd natural numbers.

A boat goes 24 km upstream and 28 km downstream in 6 hours. It goes 30 km upstream and 21 km downstream in 6 hours and 30 minutes. The speed of the boat in still water is

A. 10 km/hr

B. 4 km/hr

C. 14 km/hr

D. 6 km/hr