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51.	30 pens and 75 pencils altogether were purchased for 510. If the average price of a pencil was 2, what was the average price of a pen ?
A.	9
B.	10
C.	11
D.	12
Answer» E.

Discussion

52.	The average of eight numbers is 20. If the sum of first two numbers is 31, the average of the next three numbers
A.	20
B.	25
C.	21.6
D.	25.3
Answer» C. 21.6

Discussion

53.	The average expenditure of a man for the first five months of a year is 5,000 and for the next seven months it is 5,400. He saves 2,300 during the year. His average monthly income is :
A.	5,425
B.	5,500
C.	5,446
D.	5,600
Answer» B. 5,500

Discussion

54.	On 24th May, 2008 the maximum temperature of Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai were recorded as 35 C, 33 C and 34 C respectively. What was the maximum temperature of Chennai so that the average maximum temperature of those cities would be 35 ?
A.	34 C
B.	35 C
C.
D.	36 C
E.	38 C
Answer» E. 38 C

Discussion

55.	Last year, 5 companies had an average of 16 non working days each. This year, 3 companies had 10 more non working days each, and 2 companies had 5 fewer non working days each. What was the average number of non working days given by the same companies this year ?
A.	12 .
B.	18
C.	20
D.	22
Answer» D. 22

Discussion

56.	In a team of 10 persons, nine persons spent 40 each for their meal and the remaining one spent 9 more than the average expenditure of all the 10 persons. The total expenditure for their meal was
A.	510
B.	310
C.	410
D.	610
Answer» D. 610

Discussion

57.	A man purchased 7 bags of rice at the rate of 800 each, 8 bags of rice at 1000 each and 5 bags of rice at the rate of 1200 each. What is the average cost of one bag of rice ?
A.	1000
B.	980
C.	1120
D.	1050
Answer» C. 1120

Discussion

58.	Ram aims to score an average of 80 marks in quarterly and half yearly exams. But his average in quarterly is 3 marks less than his target and that in half yearly is 2 marks more than his aim. The difference between the total marks scored in both the exams is 25. Total marks aimed by Ram is :
A.	400
B.	410
C.	420
D.	380
Answer» B. 410

Discussion

59.	The average weight of a class of 15 boys and 10 girls is 38.4 kg. If the average weight of the boys is 40 kg, then what is the average weight of the girls ?
A.	36.5 kg
B.	35 kg
C.	36 kg
D.	35.6 kg
Answer» D. 35.6 kg

Discussion

60.	A fruit seller sold big, medium and small sized apples for 15, 10 and 5 respectively. The total number of apples sold were in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Find the average cost of an apple.
A.	8
B.	10
C.	9
D.	7
Answer» D. 7

Discussion

61.	The average of class in 35 yr. 6 new students with an average age of 33 yr. joined in that class, there by decreasing the average by half year. The original strength of the class was
A.	14
B.	18
C.	16
D.	20
Answer» C. 16

Discussion

62.	The average age of 5 member of a family is 25 yr. If the servant of the family is included the average age increased by 40% .What is the age of servant?
A.	85 yr
B.	90 yr
C.	73 yr
D.	55 yr
Answer» B. 90 yr

Discussion

63.	The average age of the 30 woman decreases by 3 month if a new person Priyanka is included in place of 25 yr old woman. Calculate the age of Priyanka.
A.	17.5 yr
B.	20 yr
C.	30 yr
D.	22 yr
E.	None of the above
Answer» B. 20 yr

Discussion

64.	a, b, c, d and e are five consecutive odd numbers. What is their average?
A.	a + 2
B.	a + 4
C.	a + 3
D.	a + 1
Answer» C. a + 3

Discussion

65.	The average of five results is 46 and that of first four is 45. Find the value of the fifth result
A.	50
B.	60
C.	45
D.	40
Answer» B. 60

Discussion

66.	The average age of three boys is 15 years. If their ages are in the ratio 3 : 5 : 7, what is the age of the youngest boy?
A.	9 years
B.	8 years
C.	8 years 3 months
D.	None of these
Answer» B. 8 years

Discussion

67.	Out of three numbers, the first is twice of the second and is half of the third. If the average of three numbers is 56, find the largest number.
A.	50
B.	48
C.	96
D.	75
Answer» D. 75

Discussion

68.	The difference between the ages of two sisters is half the difference between the ages of their parents. The elder sister is 18 years of age. Their father s age was 32 years when the younger sister was born who is now 15 years old. What is their mother s age?
A.	40
B.	41
C.	42
D.	43
Answer» C. 42

Discussion

69.	The average of 25 results is 18; that of first twelve is 14 and of last twelve is 17. Find the thirteenth result.
A.	68
B.	78
C.	79
D.	87
Answer» C. 79

Discussion

70.	The average height of 30 girls out of a class of 40 is 160 cms and that of the remaining girls is 156 cms. What is the average height of the whole class?
A.	155 cm
B.	157 cm
C.	159 cm
D.	None of these
Answer» D. None of these

Discussion

71.	The average age of 54 girls in a class was calculated as 14 yr. It was later relized that the actual age of one of the girls in the class was 10.5 yr but it was calculated as 13 yr. What is the actual averge age (round off) of the the girls in the class ?
A.	10.50 yr.
B.	12.50 yr
C.	12 yr
D.	14 yr
E.	None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above

Discussion

72.	The average age of a man and his two twin sons born on the same day is 30 yr. The ratio of the ages of father and one son is 5 : 2, What is the father's age ?
A.	50 yr
B.	30 yr
C.	45 yr
D.	20 yr
E.	None of the above
Answer» B. 30 yr

Discussion

73.	The ratio of pens and pencil in a stationary shop is 3 : 2, respectively, The average number of pens and pencils is 180. What is the 30% of number of pencils in the shop ?
A.	150
B.	144
C.	245
D.	115
E.	None of the above
Answer» F.

Discussion

74.	If the average of the ages of Rakesh and Mohan is 15, average of the ages of Mohan and Ramesh is 12 and the average of the ages of Rakesh and Rameh is 13, then the age of Mohan, is ?
A.	16
B.	13
C.	14
D.	12
E.	None of the above
Answer» D. 12

Discussion

75.	The average age of 5 sisters is 20 yr. If the age of the youngest sister be 4yr. What was the average age of the group of sister at the birth of the yongest sisiter ?
A.	25 yr
B.	15 yr
C.	18 yr
D.	20 yr
E.	None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above

Discussion

76.	A class is divided into two sections A and B. Passing average of 20 students of section A is 80% and passing average of 30 students of sections B is 70%. What is the passing average of both the sections ?
A.	72%
B.	74%
C.	75%
D.	77%
Answer» C. 75%

Discussion

77.	The average age of three boys is 15 yr. If the ratio of their ages is 3 : 5 : 7, What is the age of the oldest boy ?
A.	7 yr
B.	14 yr
C.	20 yr
D.	21 yr
E.	None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above

Discussion

78.	Nine friends have dinner in a hostel. Eight of them spent 12 each on their meals and the ninth spent 16 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. Find out the total money spent by them ?
A.	126
B.	135
C.	111
D.	141
E.	None of the above
Answer» B. 135

Discussion

79.	Three year ago, the average age of a family of five members was 27 yr. The present average age is also 27 yr after the inclusion of a child into the family. Find the age of the child.
A.	16 yr
B.	12 yr
C.	24 yr
D.	20 yr.
Answer» C. 24 yr

Discussion

80.	In a certain examination, the average marks of an examinee is 64 per paper. if he had obtained 18 more marks for his Mathematics paper and 4 more marks for his English paper, his average per paper would have been 66. How many papers were there in the examination ?
A.	11
B.	13
C.	9
D.	15
E.	None of the above
Answer» B. 13

Discussion

81.	The average markes obtained by 120 students in an examination is 30. if the aveage marks of passed students is 40 and that of the failed students is 10. what is the 25% of the number of students who passed the examination ?
A.	30
B.	20
C.	40
D.	15
Answer» C. 40

Discussion

82.	The average marks of 120 students are 35. if the average of passed stuydents was 39. and failed students was 15 then find the number of students who have passed
A.	80
B.	100
C.	120
D.	140
Answer» C. 120

Discussion

83.	A car travels a certain distance from town A to town B at the speed of 42 km/h and from town B to town A at a speed of 48 km/h. What is the average speed of the car ?
A.	45 km/h
B.	46 km/h
C.	44 km/h
D.	Cannot be determind
E.	None of the above
Answer» F.

Discussion

84.	The average of four positive integers is 73.5. The highest integer is 108 and the lowest integer is 29, the difference between the remaining two integers is 15. Which of the following is the smaller of the remaining two integers ?
A.	80
B.	86
C.	73
D.	Cannot be determind
E.	None of the above
Answer» F.

Discussion

85.	A cricketer scored some runs in his continuous 9 innings. He scored 100 runs in his 10th innings and increase his average by 8 runs. What was the average of his runs at the end of 10 th innings ?
A.	20
B.	24
C.	28
D.	32
E.	None of the above
Answer» D. 32

Discussion

86.	The average of 11 numbers is 36. Out of these 11 numbers, the average of 9 numbers is 34. If the ratio of remaining two numbers is 2 : 3, find out the smaller number.
A.	18
B.	36
C.	54
D.	48
E.	None of the above
Answer» C. 54

Discussion

87.	The mean temperature of Monday to Wednesday was 37 C and of Tuesday to Thursday was 34 C. If the temperature on Thursday was 4/5 that of Monday, the temperature of Thursday was
A.	35.5 C
B.	34 C
C.	36.5 C
D.	36 C
Answer» E.

Discussion

88.	The average of 5 consedutive old posstive integers is 9. The least one amonge them
A.	5
B.	3
C.	1
D.	7
Answer» B. 3

Discussion

89.	Roshan bought 5 pants at 25 each, 10 shirts at 50 each and 15 ties at 35 each. Find the average price of all the articles.
A.	38.33
B.	45
C.	60
D.	45.33
E.	None of the above
Answer» B. 45

Discussion

90.	The average of the test scores of a class of 'm' students is 70 and that of 'n' students is 91. When the scores of both the classes are combinde, the average is 80. What is n/m ?
A.	11/10
B.	13/10
C.	10/13
D.	10/11
Answer» E.

Discussion

91.	If 47a + 47b = 5452, what is the average of a and b ?
A.	116
B.	23.5
C.	96
D.	58
E.	None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above

Discussion

92.	The average salary per head of all workers of an institution is 60. The average salary per head of 12 officers is 400. The average salary per head of the rest is 56. Then, the total number of workers in the institutions ?
A.	1030
B.	1032
C.	1062
D.	1060
Answer» C. 1062

Discussion

93.	Average weight of 19 men is 74 kg and the average weight of 38 women is 63 kg. What is the average weight(rounded off to the nearest integer) of all the men and the women together.
A.	59 kg
B.	65 kg
C.	69 kg
D.	67 kg
Answer» E.

Discussion

94.	The average of 8 numbers is 14. The average of 6 of these numbers is 16. What is the average of the remaining two numbers?
A.	12
B.	6
C.	8
D.	10
Answer» D. 10

Discussion

95.	Calculate the average of the cubes of first five natural numbers.
A.	55
B.	65
C.	45
D.	35
E.	None of the above
Answer» D. 35

Discussion

96.	A cricketer had a mean score of 60 runs in 10 innings. Find out how many runs are to be score in the eleventh innings to raise the mean score to 62 ?
A.	80
B.	81
C.	83
D.	82
Answer» E.

Discussion

97.	The mean weight of 34 students of a school is 42 kg. If the weight of the teacher be included the mean rises by 400g. Find the weight of the teacher?
A.	66
B.	56
C.	55
D.	57
Answer» C. 55

Discussion

98.	The average weight of 21 boys was recorded as 64kg. If the weight of the teacher was added, the average increased by one kg. What was the teacher's weight?
A.	86kg
B.	64kg
C.	72 kg
D.	98 kg
E.	None of the above
Answer» B. 64kg

Discussion

99.	The average age of 14 girls and their teacher's age is 15 yr. If teacher's age is excluded then the average reduced by 1. What is the teacher's age?
A.	29 yr
B.	35 yr
C.	32 yr
D.	30 yr
Answer» B. 35 yr

Discussion

100.	A man whose bowling average is 12.4 takes 5 wicket for 26 runs and thereby decreases his average by 0.4. The number of wickets taken by him, before his last match is ?
A.	85
B.	78
C.	72
D.	64
Answer» B. 78

Discussion

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30 pens and 75 pencils altogether were purchased for 510. If the average price of a pencil was 2, what was the average price of a pen ?

The average of eight numbers is 20. If the sum of first two numbers is 31, the average of the next three numbers

The average expenditure of a man for the first five months of a year is 5,000 and for the next seven months it is 5,400. He saves 2,300 during the year. His average monthly income is :

On 24th May, 2008 the maximum temperature of Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai were recorded as 35 C, 33 C and 34 C respectively. What was the maximum temperature of Chennai so that the average maximum temperature of those cities would be 35 ?

Last year, 5 companies had an average of 16 non working days each. This year, 3 companies had 10 more non working days each, and 2 companies had 5 fewer non working days each. What was the average number of non working days given by the same companies this year ?

In a team of 10 persons, nine persons spent 40 each for their meal and the remaining one spent 9 more than the average expenditure of all the 10 persons. The total expenditure for their meal was

A man purchased 7 bags of rice at the rate of 800 each, 8 bags of rice at 1000 each and 5 bags of rice at the rate of 1200 each. What is the average cost of one bag of rice ?

Ram aims to score an average of 80 marks in quarterly and half yearly exams. But his average in quarterly is 3 marks less than his target and that in half yearly is 2 marks more than his aim. The difference between the total marks scored in both the exams is 25. Total marks aimed by Ram is :

The average weight of a class of 15 boys and 10 girls is 38.4 kg. If the average weight of the boys is 40 kg, then what is the average weight of the girls ?

A fruit seller sold big, medium and small sized apples for 15, 10 and 5 respectively. The total number of apples sold were in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Find the average cost of an apple.

The average of class in 35 yr. 6 new students with an average age of 33 yr. joined in that class, there by decreasing the average by half year. The original strength of the class was

The average age of 5 member of a family is 25 yr. If the servant of the family is included the average age increased by 40% .What is the age of servant?

The average age of the 30 woman decreases by 3 month if a new person Priyanka is included in place of 25 yr old woman. Calculate the age of Priyanka.

a, b, c, d and e are five consecutive odd numbers. What is their average?

The average of five results is 46 and that of first four is 45. Find the value of the fifth result

The average age of three boys is 15 years. If their ages are in the ratio 3 : 5 : 7, what is the age of the youngest boy?

Out of three numbers, the first is twice of the second and is half of the third. If the average of three numbers is 56, find the largest number.

The difference between the ages of two sisters is half the difference between the ages of their parents. The elder sister is 18 years of age. Their father s age was 32 years when the younger sister was born who is now 15 years old. What is their mother s age?

The average of 25 results is 18; that of first twelve is 14 and of last twelve is 17. Find the thirteenth result.

The average height of 30 girls out of a class of 40 is 160 cms and that of the remaining girls is 156 cms. What is the average height of the whole class?

The average age of 54 girls in a class was calculated as 14 yr. It was later relized that the actual age of one of the girls in the class was 10.5 yr but it was calculated as 13 yr. What is the actual averge age (round off) of the the girls in the class ?

The average age of a man and his two twin sons born on the same day is 30 yr. The ratio of the ages of father and one son is 5 : 2, What is the father's age ?

The ratio of pens and pencil in a stationary shop is 3 : 2, respectively, The average number of pens and pencils is 180. What is the 30% of number of pencils in the shop ?

If the average of the ages of Rakesh and Mohan is 15, average of the ages of Mohan and Ramesh is 12 and the average of the ages of Rakesh and Rameh is 13, then the age of Mohan, is ?

The average age of 5 sisters is 20 yr. If the age of the youngest sister be 4yr. What was the average age of the group of sister at the birth of the yongest sisiter ?

A class is divided into two sections A and B. Passing average of 20 students of section A is 80% and passing average of 30 students of sections B is 70%. What is the passing average of both the sections ?

The average age of three boys is 15 yr. If the ratio of their ages is 3 : 5 : 7, What is the age of the oldest boy ?

Nine friends have dinner in a hostel. Eight of them spent 12 each on their meals and the ninth spent 16 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. Find out the total money spent by them ?

Three year ago, the average age of a family of five members was 27 yr. The present average age is also 27 yr after the inclusion of a child into the family. Find the age of the child.

In a certain examination, the average marks of an examinee is 64 per paper. if he had obtained 18 more marks for his Mathematics paper and 4 more marks for his English paper, his average per paper would have been 66. How many papers were there in the examination ?

The average markes obtained by 120 students in an examination is 30. if the aveage marks of passed students is 40 and that of the failed students is 10. what is the 25% of the number of students who passed the examination ?

The average marks of 120 students are 35. if the average of passed stuydents was 39. and failed students was 15 then find the number of students who have passed

A car travels a certain distance from town A to town B at the speed of 42 km/h and from town B to town A at a speed of 48 km/h. What is the average speed of the car ?

The average of four positive integers is 73.5. The highest integer is 108 and the lowest integer is 29, the difference between the remaining two integers is 15. Which of the following is the smaller of the remaining two integers ?

A cricketer scored some runs in his continuous 9 innings. He scored 100 runs in his 10th innings and increase his average by 8 runs. What was the average of his runs at the end of 10 th innings ?

The average of 11 numbers is 36. Out of these 11 numbers, the average of 9 numbers is 34. If the ratio of remaining two numbers is 2 : 3, find out the smaller number.

The mean temperature of Monday to Wednesday was 37 C and of Tuesday to Thursday was 34 C. If the temperature on Thursday was 4/5 that of Monday, the temperature of Thursday was

The average of 5 consedutive old posstive integers is 9. The least one amonge them

Roshan bought 5 pants at 25 each, 10 shirts at 50 each and 15 ties at 35 each. Find the average price of all the articles.

The average of the test scores of a class of 'm' students is 70 and that of 'n' students is 91. When the scores of both the classes are combinde, the average is 80. What is n/m ?

If 47a + 47b = 5452, what is the average of a and b ?

The average salary per head of all workers of an institution is 60. The average salary per head of 12 officers is 400. The average salary per head of the rest is 56. Then, the total number of workers in the institutions ?

Average weight of 19 men is 74 kg and the average weight of 38 women is 63 kg. What is the average weight(rounded off to the nearest integer) of all the men and the women together.

The average of 8 numbers is 14. The average of 6 of these numbers is 16. What is the average of the remaining two numbers?

Calculate the average of the cubes of first five natural numbers.

A cricketer had a mean score of 60 runs in 10 innings. Find out how many runs are to be score in the eleventh innings to raise the mean score to 62 ?

The mean weight of 34 students of a school is 42 kg. If the weight of the teacher be included the mean rises by 400g. Find the weight of the teacher?

The average weight of 21 boys was recorded as 64kg. If the weight of the teacher was added, the average increased by one kg. What was the teacher's weight?

The average age of 14 girls and their teacher's age is 15 yr. If teacher's age is excluded then the average reduced by 1. What is the teacher's age?

A man whose bowling average is 12.4 takes 5 wicket for 26 runs and thereby decreases his average by 0.4. The number of wickets taken by him, before his last match is ?