AVERAGE

1. Find the average of scores of the tests taken by Ram, given his scores were 92, 94, 88, 90, 90, 86, 90?
(a) 90 (b) 80 (c) 85 (d) 89

2. The monthly incomes of Ravi, his wife & their son are Rs.4000, Rs.2000 and Rs.3000 respectively.
What is the average income of the family?
(a) Rs 3505 (b) Rs 3100 (c) Rs 3200 (d) 3000

3. In a cricket tournament, Kapil played 7 games. His scores in the games were 71, 49, 52, 46, 48, 52, 53.
Find the average score?
(a) 54 (b) 53 (c) 51 (d) 50

4. Jeevan purchased three dozen mangoes at Rs 7 per dozen two dozen at Rs 8.50 & one dozen at Rs 10.
What is the average cost per dozen of the mangoes purchased by Jeevan?

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 (a) Rs 7 (b) Rs 8 (c) Rs 9 (d) Rs 7.5

5. The average age of 5 boys is 19 years. A new boy joins them & their average age increases to 20
years. What is the age of new boy?
(a) 25 years (b) 24 years (c) 26 Years (d) 23 years

6. 7 kg of wheat having a rate of Rs 14 per kg is mixed with 4 kg of wheat having a rate of Rs 8.50. What
is the average rate per kg of the mixture?
(a) Rs 11 (b) 12 (c) Rs 13 (d) Rs 14

7. A batsman scored an average of 55 runs in the: first 6 tests. If the first is not counted and the seventh
is counted then is average score goes up to 57. If the score in first test was 50 runs, find his score in
the seventh test?
(a) 62 (b) 65 (c) 63 (d) 71

8. The average marks of three sections in tenth class were 76, 79 & 80 respectively If the number of
students in these three sections were 70, 60, 55 respectively Find the average marks of the tenth
class?
(a) 75.16 (b) 75 (c) 78.16 (d) 76

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9. The sales recorded by a salesman in 6 days of a week were as follows: Rs 20,000 per day of the first 3
days. Rs 16000 on Thursday, Rs 24000 on Friday and on Saturday it was Rs 30,000. Find the average
sales per day?
(a) Rs.21667 (b) Rs.21000 (c) Rs.22220 (d) Rs.21100

10. 10 years ago, the average age of a family of 4 members was 24 years. Two children having been born
(with age difference of 2 yrs, the present average age of the family is the same. The present age of
the youngest child is:
(a) 1 year (b) 11/2 year (c) 2 year (d) 3 years

11. The average age of a group of friends is 34 years. If five new friends with an average age of 30 years
join the group, the average age of the entire group becomes 32 years. How many people were there
in the group initially?
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 7

12. If 20 kg of wheat costing Rs 16 a kg is mixed with Rs, 16 kg of a second variety of wheat costing Rs 25
a kg, then what is the average cost of the resulting mixture?
(a) Rs 25 (b) Rs 24 (c) Rs 22 (d) Rs 20

13. If two kinds of grapes costing Rs 16 a kg and Rs 21 a kg are mixed in the ratio of 2 : 3 then find the
cost of mixture per kg?
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 (a) Rs.17 (b) Rs.20 (c) Rs.18 (d) Rs.19

14. If 15 litres of 20% alcohol is mixed with 2 litres of 24% alcohol, then find the concentration of the
resulting solution?
(a) 588/97 (b) 588/27 (c) 588/57 (d) 338/87

15. The average age of a husband and his wife was 23 years at the time of their marriage. After five years
they have one-year old child. The average age of the family now is:
(a) 19 years (b) 73 years (c) 28.5 years (d) 29.3 years

16. 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 (b) 21 (c) 22 (d) 23

17. 3 years ago, the average age of a family of 5 members was 17 years. A baby having been born, the
average age of the family is the same today. The present age of the baby is
(a) 1 year (b) 11/2 years (c) 2 years (d) 3 years

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18. 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 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 11
19. 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 ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in the class
is:
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 3 (c) 3 : 4 (d) 3 : 5

20. The average weight of 3 men A, B and C is 84 kg. Another man D joins the group and the average now
becomes 80 kg. If another man E, whose weight is 3 kg more than that of D, replaces A, then the
average weight of B, C, D and E becomes 79 kg. The weight of A is
(a) 70 kg (b) 72 kg (c) 75 kg (d) 80 kg

21. A cricketer has a certain average for 10 innings. In the eleventh inning, he scored 108 runs, thereby
increasing his average by 6 runs. His new average is:
(a) 48 runs (b) 52 runs (c) 55 runs (d) 60 runs

22. The average weight of 8 persons increase by 2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them
weighing 65 kg. What might be the weight of the new person?
(a) 76 kg (b) 76.5 kg (c) 85 kg (d) None of these
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23. Of the four numbers, the first is twice the second, the second is one-third of the third and the third is
5 times the fourth. The average of the numbers is 24.75. The largest of these numbers is:
(a) 9 (b) 25 (c) 30 (d) None of these

24. If the arithmetic mean of seventy we numbers is calculated, it is 35. If each number is increased by 5,
then mean of new numbers is:
(a) 30 (b) 40 (c) 70 (d) 90

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