BASIC ARITHMETIC NOTES

1. Masood purchased a plot for Rs. 8,000. He sells the plot to Aftab at a profit of 20%. Aftab in turn
sells that plot to Zahid at a loss of 20%. The plot costs Zahid?
A. Rs. 12,000 C. Rs. 8670
B. Rs. 10,000 D. Rs. 7680
2. If a car is sold for Rs..50000 the profit is 17 percent, what would be profit percentage if sold for Rs.
47000?
A. 14.85% C. 16.20%
B. 9.98% D. 14.50%
3. If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 50, 55, 60, then the
average marks of all the students is:
A. 53.33 C. 55
B. 54.68 D. None of these
4. Two automobiles are 150 kilometers apart and traveling toward each other. One automobile is
moving at 60km/h and the other is moving at 40km/h mph. In how many hours will they meet?
A. 2.5 C. 1.75
B. 2.0 D. 1.5
5. The average of first 10 even numbers is___________?
A. 18 C. 9
B. 22 D. 11
6. The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of first six is 10.5 and that of the last six is 11.4 the
sixth number is_____________?
A. 11.0 C. 11.4
B. 11.3 D. 11.5
7. The average of first ten prime numbers which are odd is____________?
A. 12.9 C. 15.8
B. 13.8 D. 17
8. The average of first 10 natural numbers is____________?
A. 5 C. 6.5
B. 5.5 D. 6
9. The average of first 10 odd numbers is_____________?
A. 11 C. 12
B. 10 D. 17
10. The average age of three boys is 15 years and their ages are in proportion 3:5:7. What is the age in
years of the youngest boy?
A. 15 C. 18
B. 9 D. 21
11. The average of 1st 3 of 4 numbers is 16 and of the last 3 are 15. If the sum of the first and the last
number is 13. What is the last numbers?
A. 8 C. 5
B. 6 D. 2
12. The average of 9 observations was 9, that of the 1st of 5 being 10 and that of the last 5 being 8. What
was the 5th observation?
A. 9 C. 7
B. 8 D. 6
13. The average of first five prime numbers greater than 20 is____________?
A. 31.00 C. 32.00
B. 31.01 D. 32.2
14. The average age of 8 men increases by 2 years when two women are included in place of two men of
ages 20 and 24 years. Find the average age of the women?
A. 36 years C. 30 years
B. 24 years D. 18 years
15. The average salary of workers in an industry is Rs.200 the average salary of technicians being
Rs.400 and that of non-technicians being Rs.125. What is the total number of workers?
A. 250 C. 550
B. 275 D. 400
16. A team of eight entered for a shooting competition. The best marks man scored 85 points. If he had
scored 92 points, the average scores for. The team would have been 84. How many points altogether
did the team score?
A. 625 C. 632
B. 665 D. 656
17. The average age of M boys is ‘b’ years and of ‘n’ girls ‘c’ years. The average age of all together
is_________?
A. (mb – nc)/ (m + n) years C. (mb + nc)/ (m + n) years
B. (mb + nc)/ (m – n) years D. (mb – nc)/ (m – n) years
18. The average age of a husband and a wife is 23 years when they were married five years ago but now
the average age of the husband, wife and child is 20 years(the child was born during the interval).
What is the present age of the child?
A. 1 year C. 3 years
B. 2 years D. 4 years
19. A batsman in his 17th innings makes a score of 85 and their by increasing his average by 3. What is
his average after the 17th innings?
A. 34 C. 36
B. 35 D. 37
20. In a hostel there were 100 students. To accommodate 20 more students the average is decreased by
rupees 5. But total expenditure increased by Rs.400. Find the total expenditure of the hostel now?
A. Rs.5000 C. Rs.5400
B. Rs.4600 D. Rs.2300
21. Visitors to show were charged Rs.15 each on the first day. Rs.7.50 on the second day, Rs.2.50 on the
third day and total attendance on the three days were in ratio 2:5:13 respectively. The average charge
per person for the whole show is___________?
A. Rs.3 C. Rs.5.00
B. Rs.4.50 D. Rs.7.50
22. A building contractor employs 20 male, 15 female and 5 child workers. To a male worker he pays
Rs.25 per day, to a female worker Rs.20 per day and a child worker Rs.8 per day. The average wage
per day paid by the contractor is__________?
A. Rs.20 C. Rs.22
B. Rs.21 D. Rs.23
23. A man purchased 3 blankets @ Rs.100 each, 5 blankets @ Rs.150 each and two blankets at a certain
rate which is now slipped off from his memory. But he remembers that the average price of the
blankets was Rs.150. Find the unknown rate of two blankets?
A. Rs.150 C. Rs.250
B. Rs.225 D. None
24. The average temperature for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 48 degrees and for
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 46 degrees. If the temperature on Monday was 42
degrees. Find the temperature on Friday?
A. 40 degrees C. 36 degrees
B. 38 degrees D. 34 degrees
25. The average age 9 members of a committee are the same as it was 2 years ago, because an old
number has been replaced by a younger number. Find how much younger is the new member than
the old number?
A. 7 years C. 18 years
B. 11 years D. 27 years
26. Nine men went to a hotel. Eight of them spent Rs.3 each over their meals and the ninth spent Rs.2
more than the average expenditure of all the nine. Determine the total money spent by them?
A. Rs.29.25 C. Rs.32
B. Rs.30.25 D. Rs.35
27. The average marks in mathematics scored by the students of a school at the public examination were
39. If four of these students who actually scored 5, 12, 15 and 19 marks at the examination had not
been sent up, the average marks for the school would have been 44. Find the number of students sent
up for examination from the school?
A. 20 C. 30
B. 25 D. 32
28. The average weight of 25 persons sitting in a boat had some value. A new person added to them
whose weight was 46 kg only. Due to his arrival, the average weight of all the persons decreased by
5 kg. Find the average weight of first 25 persons?
A. 55 kg C. 56 kg
B. 62 kg D. None
29. The average salary per head of the entire staff of an office including the officers and clerks is Rs.90.
The average salary of officers is Rs.600 and that of the clerks is Rs.84. If the number of officers is 2,
find the number of officers in the office?
A. 1540 C. 840
B. 960 D. 1020
30. Three years ago the average age of a family of six members was 19 years. A boy have been born, the
average age of the family is the same today. What is the age of the boy?
A. 1 year C. 2 years
B. 1.5 years D. 2.5 years
31. The average of five results is 46 and that of the first four is 45. The fifth result is__________?
A. 1 C. 12.5
B. 10 D. 50
32. The average of 11 results is 50, if the average of first six results is 49 and that of the last six is 52.
Find the sixth result?
A. 46 C. 34
B. 56 D. 57
33. Find the average of the first 20 natural numbers?
A. 10 C. 12
B. 11.5 D. 10.5
34. The average of 13 numbers is 60. Average of the first 7 of them is 57 and that of the last 7 is 61. Find
the 8th number?
A. 46 C. 68
B. 32 D. 51
35. A batsman makes a score of 64 runs in the 16th innings and thus increased his average by 3. Find his
average after the 16th inning?
A. 17 C. 18
B. 29 D. 19
36. The average marks of a class of 30 students is 40 and that of another class of 50 students is 60. Find
the average marks of all the students?
A. 50 C. 59
B. 47.5 D. 52.5
37. The average salary of a person for the months of January, February, March and April is Rs.8000 and
that for the months February, March, April and May is Rs.8500. If his salary for the month of May is
Rs.6500, find his salary for the month of January?
A. 3000 C. 4500
B. 2500 D. 5000
38. The average of 35 numbers is 25. If each number is multiplied by 5, find the new average?
A. 125 C. 170
B. 134 D. 98
39. The average of 10 numbers is 23. If each number is increased by 4, what will the new average?
A. 22 C. 25
B. 27 D. 29
40. The average of the marks of 12 students in a class is 36. If the marks of each student are doubled,
find the new average?
A. 72 C. 37
B. 45 D. 79
41. The average age of a group of 10 persons was decreased by 3 years when one person, whose age was
42 years, was replaced by a new person. Find the age of the new person?
A. 22 C. 12
B. 24 D. 8
42. Find the average of the series : 312, 162, 132, 142 and 122?
A. 194 C. 162
B. 174 D. 186
43. The sum of five numbers is 655. The average of the first two numbers is 85 and the third number is
125. Find the average of the two numbers?
A. 180 C. 190
B. 170 D. 175
44. The average amount with a group of seven numbers is Rs. 20. If the newly joined member has Rs. 50
with him, what was the average amount with the group before his joining the group?
A. Rs. 25 C. Rs. 15
B. Rs. 18 D. Rs. 22
45. A salt manufacturing company produced a total of 5000 tonnes of salt in January of a particular year.
Starting from February its production increased by 100 tonnes every month over the previous months
until the end of the year. Find its average monthly production for that year?
A. 6060 C. 5550
B. 7070 D. 4440
46. The average weight of a group of boys is 30 kg. After a boy of weight 35 kg joins the group, the
average weight of the group goes up by 1 kg. Find the number of boys in the group originally?
A. 4 C. 6
B. 5 D. 7
47. The average runs scored by a batsman in 20 matches is 40. In the next 10 matches the batsman
scored an average of 13 runs. Find his average in all the 30 matches?
A. 31 C. 28
B. 29 D. 30
48. The average age of seven persons sitting in a row facing east is 28 years. If the average age of the
first three persons is 21 years and the average age of the last three persons is 34 years, then find the
age of the person sitting in the middle of the row?
A. 30 Years C. 26 years
B. 31 years D. 33 years
49. The average height of 35 boys in a class was calculated as 180cm. It has later found that the height of
one of the boys in the class was wrongly written as 166 cm whereas his actual height was 106 cm.
Find the actual average height of the boys in the class (Round off your answer to two decimal
places)?
A. 179.29 cm C. 179.38 cm
B. 178.29 cm D. 178.39 cm
50. The total marks obtained by a student in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics is 150 more than the
marks obtained by him in Physics. What is the average mark obtained by him in Chemistry and
Mathematics?
A. 75 C. 50
B. 150 D. None of these
51. The present average age of a family of five members is 26 years. If the present age of the youngest
member in the family is ten years, then what was the average age of the family at the time of the
birth of the youngest member ? (Assume no death occurred in the family since the birth of the
youngest).
A. 18 years C. 20 years
B. 14 years D. 16 years
52. The average of four positive integers is 69. The highest integer is 93 and the least integer is 39. The
difference between the remaining two integers is 28. Which of the following integers is the higher of
the remaining two integers?
A. 58 C. 49
B. 86 D. None of these
53. A student scored an average of 80 marks in 3 subjects: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. If the
average marks in Physics and Mathematics is 90 and that in Physics and Chemistry is 70, what are
the marks in Physics?
A. 60 C. 72
B. 64 D. 80
54. The average mark of the students of a class in a particular exam is 80. If 5 students whose average
mark in that exam is 40 are excluded, the average mark of the remaining will be 90. Find the number
of students who wrote the exam.
A. 20 C. 25
B. 15 D. 35
55. In an exam, Amir scored 64 percent, Masood scored 36 percent and asif 44 percent. The maximum
score awarded in the exam is 800. Find the average mark scored by all the three boys?
A. 384 C. 324
B. 364 D. 404
56. The average height of 50 pupils in a class is 150 cm. Five of them whose height is 146 cm, leave the
class and five others whose average height is 156 cm, join. The new average height of the pupils of
the class (in cm) is __________ .
A. 149 C. 152
B. 151 D. 153
57. Aftab bought 65 books for Rs.1150 from one shop and 50 books for Rs.920 from another. What is
the average price he paid per book ?
A. Rs.20 C. Rs.22
B. Rs.18 D. Rs.16
58. Five years ago the average of the ages of A and B was 40 years and now the average of the ages of B
and C is 48 years. What will be the age of the B ten years hence?
A. 55 years C. 58 years
B. 56 years D. Data inadequate
59. The total marks obtained by a student in Mathematics and Physics is 60 and his score in Chemistry is
20 marks more than that in Physics. Find the average marks scored in Mathematics and Chemistry
together.
A. 40 C. 25
B. 30 D. Data inadequate
60. The average weight of a group of persons increased from 48 kg to 51 kg, when two persons weighing
78 kg and 93 kg join the group. Find the initial number of members in the group?
A. 21 C. 23
B. 22 D. 24
61. A trader purchased two colour televisions for a total of Rs. 35000. He sold one colour television at
30% profit and the other 40% profit. Find the difference in the cost prices of the two televisions if he
made an overall profit of 32%?
A. Rs. 21000 C. Rs. 19000
B. Rs. 17500 D. Rs. 24500
62. Rs. 6000 is lent out in two parts. One part is lent at 7% p.a simple interest and the other is lent at
10% p.a simple interest. The total interest at the end of one year was Rs. 450. Find the ratio of the
amounts lent at the lower rate and higher rate of interest?
A. 5 : 1 C. 3 : 2
B. 4 : 1 D. 2 : 1
63. A total of 3000 chocolates were distributed among 120 boys and girls such that each boy received 2
chocolates and each girl received 3 chocolates. Find the respective number of boys and girls?
A. 70, 50 C. 50, 70
B. 60, 60 D. 40, 80
64. Sarfaraz obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks (out of 100) in English, Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry and Biology. What are his average marks?
A. 65 C. 72
B. 69 D. None of these
65. The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, at the most, how many may be greater than zero?
A. 0 C. 10
B. 1 D. 19
66. Find the average of all the numbers between 6 and 34 which are divisible by 5.
A. 18 C. 24
B. 20 D. 30
67. The average of first five multiples of 3 is____________?
A. 3 C. 12
B. 9 D. 15
68. The average of the two-digit numbers, which remain the same when the digits interchange their
positions, is__________?
A. 33 C. 55
B. 44 D. 66
69. The average of non-zero number and its square is 5 times the number. The number is__________?
A. 9 C. 29
B. 17 D. 295
70. The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 61. What is the difference between the highest and
lowest numbers?
A. 2 C. 8
B. 5 D. Cannot be determined
71. A family consists of grandparents, parents and three grandchildren. The average age of the
grandparents is 67 years, that of the parents is 35 years and that of the grandchildren is 6 years. What
is the average age of the family?
A. 28 4/7 years C. 32 1/7 years
B. 31 5/7 years D. None of these
72. A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sunday and 240 on other days. The average number of
visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday is___________?
A. 250 C. 280
B. 276 D. 285
73. The average of five numbers is 27. If one number is excluded, the average becomes 25. The excluded
number is__________?
A. 25 C. 30
B. 27 D. 35
74. The average of 35 students in a class is 16 years. The average age of 21 students is 14. What is the
average age of remaining 14 students?
A. 15 years C. 18 years
B. 17 years D. 19 years
75. The average of runs of a cricket player of 10 innings was 32. How many runs must he make in his
next innings so as to increase his average of runs by 4?
A. 2 C. 70
B. 4 D. 76
76. In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the rate in the
remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 282 runs?
A. 6.25 C. 6.75
B. 6.5 D. 7
77. If the arithmetic mean of seventy five numbers is calculated, it is 35. If each number is increased by
5, then mean of new number is___________?
A. 30 C. 70
B. 40 D. 90
78. The mean of 50 observations was 36. It was found later that an observation 48 was wrongly taken as
23. The corrected new mean is___________?
A. 35.2 C. 36.5
B. 36.1 D. 39.1
79. A pupil’s marks were wrongly entered as 83 instead of 63. Due to the average marks for the class got
increased by half. The number of pupils in the class is___________?
A. 10 C. 40
B. 20 D. 73
80. The average age of 15 students of a class is 15 years. Out of these, the average age of 5 students is 14
years and that of the other 9 students is 16 years. The age of the 15th student is____________?
A. 11 years B.
B. 14 years D. 15 2/7 years
C. 15 years
81. The average weight of A, B and C is 45 kg. If the average weight of A and B be 40 kg and that of B
and C be 43 kg, then the weight of B is___________?
A. 17 kg C. 26 kg
B. 20 kg D. 31 kg
82. The average monthly income of P and Q is Rs. 5050. The average monthly income of Q and R is
6250 and the average monthly income of P and R is Rs. 5200. The monthly income of P
is____________?
A. Rs. 3500 C. Rs. 4050
B. Rs. 4000 D. Rs. 5000
83. The average monthly salary of 20 employees in an organisation is Rs. 1500. If the manager’s salary
is added, then the average salary increases by Rs. 100. What is the manager’s monthly salary?
A. Rs. 2000 C. Rs. 3600
B. Rs. 2400 D. Rs. 4800
84. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If
the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the
average age of the whole team. What is the average of the team?
A. 23 years C. 25 years
B. 24 years D. None of these
85.
A cricketer has a certain average for 10 innings. In the eleventh inning, he scored 108 runs, there by
increasing his average by 6 runs. His new average is_____________?
A. 48 runs C. 55 runs
B. 52 runs D. 60 runs
86. The average age of a husband, wife and their child 3 years ago was 27 years and that of wife and the
child 5 years ago was 20 years. The present age of the husband is___________?
A. 19 years C. 28.5 years
B. 23 years D. 29.3 years
87. The arithmetic mean of the scores of a group of students in a test was 52. The brightest 20% of them
secured a mean score of 80 and the dullest 25% a mean score of 31. The mean score of remaining
55% is___________?
A. 45 C. 51.4 approx.
B. 50 D. 54.6 approx.
88. The average salary of all the workers in a workshop is Rs. 8000. The average salary of 7 technicians
is Rs. 12000 and the average salary of the rest is Rs. 6000. The total number of workers in the
workshop is__________________?
A. 20 C. 22
B. 21 D. 23
89. In an examination a pupil’s average marks were 63 per paper. If he had obtained 20 more marks for
his Geography paper and 2 more marks for his History paper, his average per paper would have been
65. How many papers were there in the examination?
A. 8 C. 10
B. 9 D. 11
90. The average age of students of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of boys in the class is 16.4
years and that of the girls is 15.4 years. The ration of the number of boys to the number of girls in the
class is___________?
A. 1:2 C. 3:4
B. 2:3 D. 3:5
91. The average of women and child workers in a factory was 15%yr. The average age of all the 16
children was 8yr and average age of women workers was 22 yrs if ten women workers were married
then the number of unmarried women workers were________?
A. 16 C. 8
B. 12 D. 6
92. The mean marks of 30 students in a class is 58.5. Later on it was found that 75 was wrongly recorded
as 57. Find the correct them.
A. 57.4 C. 58.9
B. 57.5 D. 59.1
93. A person travels from x to y at a speed of 40Km/h and returns by increasing his speed 50%. What is
his average speed for both the trips?
A. 36km/h C. 48km/h
B. 45km/h D. 50km/h
94. The average of 18 observations was calculated and it was 124. Later on it was discovered that two
observations 46 and 82 were incorrect. The correct values are 64 and 28. The correct average of 18
observations is___________?
A. 123 C. 121
B. 137 D. 122
95. The average weight of A, B and C is 45 kg. If the average weight of A and B be 40 kg and that of B
and C be 43 kg, then the weight of B is___________?
A. 17 kg C. 26 kg
B. 20 kg D. 31 kg
96. The average weight of 16 boys in a class is 50.25 kg and that of the remaining 8 boys is 45.15 kg.
Find the average weights of all the boys in the class.
A. 47.55 kg C. 48.55 kg
B. 48 kg D. 49.25 kg
97. If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 50, 55, 60, then the
average marks of all the students is__________?
A. 53.33 C. 55
B. 54.68 D. 49.25