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Average (Quantitative Aptitude)
1. Find the average of all prime numbers between 30 and 50?
2. Find the average of first 40 natural numbers?
3. Find the average of first 20 multiples of 7?
4. The average of four consecutive even numbers is 27. Find the largest of these
numbers?
5. There are two sections A and B of a class consisting of 36 and 44 students
respectively. If the average weight of section A is 40kg and that of section B is
35kg, find the average weight of the whole class?
6. Nine persons went to a hotel for taking their meals 8 of them spent Rs.12 each on
their meals and the ninth spent Rs.8 more than the average expenditure of all the
nine. What was the total money spent by them?
7. Of the three numbers, second is twice the first and is also thrice the third. If the
average of the three numbers is 44.Find the largest number.
8. The average of 25 results is 18.The average of 1st 12 of them is 14 & that of last
12 is 17.Find the 13th result.
9. The Average of 11 results is 16, if the average of the 1st 6 results is 58 & that of
the last 63. Find the 6th result.
10. The average weight of A, B, C is 45 Kg. The average weight of A & B be 40Kg
& that of B,C be 43Kg. Find the weight of B.
11. The average age of a class of 39 students is 15 years. If the age of the teacher
be included, then the average increases by3 months. Find the age of the teacher.
12. The average weight of 10 oarsmen in a boat is increased by 1.8 kg when one of
the crew, who weighs 53 kg is replaced by a new man. Find the weight of the new
man.
13. There were 35 students in a hostel. Due to the admission of 7 new students, the
expenses of the mess were increased by Rs. 42 per day while the average
expenditure per head diminished by Rs 1. What was the original expenditure of the
mess?
14. A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his
average by 3. Find his average after 17th inning.
15. Distance between two stations A and B is 778 km. A train covers the journey
from A to B at 84 km per hour and returns back to A with a uniform speed of 56
km per hour. Find the average speed of the train during the whole journey.
16. The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them at the most, how many may be
greater than zero ?
17. In Arun's opinion, his weight is greater than 65 kg but less than 72 kg. His
brother does not agree with Arun and he thinks that Arum's weight is greater than
60 kg but less than 70 kg. His mother's view is that his weight cannot be greater
than 68 kg. If all of them are correct in their estimation, what is the average of
different probable weights of Arun?
18. If the mean of 5 observations x, x + 2, x + 4, x + 6 and x+ 8 is 11, then the
mean of the last three observations is :
19. If the mean of a, b, c is M and ab + bc + ca = 0, then the mean of a2, b2, c2 is :
20. The average of the two-digit numbers, which remain the same when the digits
interchange their positions, is :
21. The mean of 12, 22, 32, 42, 52, 62, 72 is :
22. The average of a non-zero number and its square is 5 times the number. The
number is :
23. The average of 7 consecutive numbers is 20. The largest of these numbers is :
24. The sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 38 more than the average of
these numbers. What is the first of these numbers?
25. The average age of the boys in a class is 16 years and that of the girls is 15
years. The average age for the whole class is :
Ans: Cannot be computed with the given information
26. The average annual income (in Rs.) of certain agricultural workers is S and that
of other workers is T The number of agricultural workers is 11 times that of other
workers. Then the average monthly income (in Rs.) of all the workers is :
27. 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?
28. A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sundays and 240 on other days.
The average number of visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a
Sunday is :
29. The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 61. What is the difference
between the highest and lowest numbers?
30. If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is
50, 55 and 60, then the average marks of all the students is :
31. A car owner buys petrol at Rs 7.50, Rs. 8 and Rs. 8.50 per litre for three
successive years. What approximately is the average cost per litre of petrol if tie
spends Rs. 4000 each year?
32. The average weight of 16 boys in a class is 50.25 kgs and that of the remaining
8 boys is 45.15 kgs. Find the average weight of all the boys in the class.
33. Out of 9 persons, 8 persons spent Rs. 30 each for their meals. The ninth one
spent Rs. 20 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. The total money
spent by all of them was :
34. The average of 50 numbers is 30. If two numbers, 35 and 40 are discarded,
then the average of the remaining numbers is nearly :
35. The average of six numbers is x and the average of three of these is y. If the
average of the remaining three is z, then :
36. 16 children are to be divided into two groups A and B of 10 and 6 children.
The average percent marks obtained by the children of group A is 75 and the
average percent marks of all the 16 children is 76. What is the average percent
mark of children of group B?
37. The average of five numbers is 27. If one number is excluded, the average
becomes 25. The excluded number is :
38. The average age 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?
39. The average of six numbers is 3.95. The average of two of them is 3.4, while
the average of the other two is 3.85. What is the average of the remaining two
numbers?
40. The average score of a cricketer for ten matches is 38.9 runs. If the average for
the first six matches is 42, then find the average for the last four matches.
41. The batting average for 40 innings of a cricket player is 50 runs. His highest
score exceeds his lowest score by 172 runs. If these two innings are excluded, the
average of the remaining 38 innings is 48 runs. The highest score of the player is :
42. The average price of 10 books is Rs. 12 while the average price of 8 of these
books is Rs. 11.75. Of the remaining two books, if the price of one book is 60%
more than the price of the other, what is the price of each of these two books?
43. A company produces on an average 4000 items per month for the first 3
months. How many items it must produce on an average per month over the next 9
months, to average 4375 items per month over the whole?
44. In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should
be the run rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 282 runs?
45. 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?
46. A grocer has a sale of Rs. 6435, Rs. 6927, Rs. 6855, Rs. 7230 and Rs. 6562 for
5 consecutive months. How much sale must he have in the sixth month so that he
gets an average sale of Rs. 6500?
47. The average price of three items of furniture is Rs. 15000. If their prices are in
the ratio 3:5:7, the price of the cheapest item is :
48. Of the four numbers, whose average is 60, the first is one-fourth of the sum of
the last three. The first number is :
49. 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 :
50. Of the three numbers, the first is twice the second and the second is twice the
third. The average of the reciprocal of the numbers is
51. Of the three numbers, the average of the first and the second is greater than the
average of the second and the third by 15. What is the difference between the first
and the third of the three numbers?
52. The average of 8 numbers is 20. The average of first two numbers is 15 ½ and
that of the next three is 21 1/3. If the sixth number be less than the seventh and
eighth numbers by 4 and 7 respectively, then the eighth number is :
53. If the arithmetic mean of seventy-five numbers is calculated, it is 35, If each
number is increased by 5, then mean of new numbers is :
54. Average of ten positive numbers is 7. If each number is increased by 12. Then
average of the new set of numbers is:
55. 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 :
56. A pupil's marks were wrongly entered as 83 instead of 63. Due to that the
average marks for the class got increased by half. The number of pupils in the class
is :
57. 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 :
58. The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of the first six numbers is
10.5 and that of the last six numbers is 11.4,then the middle number is :
59. The average weight of three boys A, B and C is 54 1/3 kg, while the average
weight of three boys B, D and E is 53 kg. What is the average weight of A, B, C, D
and E?
60. The average temperature of the town in the first four days of a month was 58
degrees. The average for the second, third, fourth and fifth days was 60 degrees. If
the temperatures of the first and fifth days were in the ratio 7 : 8, then what is the
temperature on the fifth day ?
61. 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 :
62. 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?
63. The average monthly income of P and Q is Rs. 5050. The average monthly
income of Q and R is Rs. 6250 and the average monthly income of P and R is Rs.
5200. The monthly income of P is :
64. The average age of 36 students in a group is 14 years. When teacher's age is
included to it, the average increases by one. What is the teacher's age in years?
65. The average weight of a class of 24 students is 35 kg. If the weight of the
teacher be included, the average rises by 400 g. The weight of the teacher is :
66. The average age of the mother and her six children is 12 years which is reduced
by 5 years if the age of the mother is excluded. How old is the mother?
67. 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 age of the team?
68. The average weight of 45 students in a class is 52 kg, Five of them whose
average weight is 48 kg leave the class and other 5 students whose average weight
is 54 kg join the class. What is the new average weight (in kg) of the class?
69. The average weight of 8 persons increases 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?
70. The average height of 25 boys is 1.4 m. When 5 boys leave the group, then the
average height increases by 0.15 m. What is the average height of the 5 boys who
leave?
71. The average of five consecutive numbers is n. If the next two numbers are also
included, the average will :
72. 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 :
73. The average age of 8 men is increased by 2 years when two of them whose
ages are 21 years and 23 years are replaced by two new men. The average age of
the two new men is :
74. A motorist travels to a place 150 km away at an average speed of 50 km / hr
and returns at 30 km / hr. His average speed for the whole journey in km / hr is :
75. A team of 8 persons joins in a shooting competition. The best marksman
scored 85 points. If he had scored 92 points, the average score for the team would
have been 84. The number of points, the team scored was :
76. A cricketer whose bowling average is 12.4 runs per wicket takes 5 wickets for
26 runs and thereby decreases his average by 0.4. The number of wickets taken by
him till the last match was :
77. 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 :
78. The average age of 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 :
79. 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 :
80. The average age of a husband and his wife was 23 years at the time of their
marriage. After five years they have a one-year old child. The average age of the
family now is :
81. Three years ago, the average age of A and B Was 18 years. With C joining
them, the average age becomes 22 years. How old is C now?
82. 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 years), the present average age
of the family is the same. The present age of the youngest child is :
83. After replacing an old member by a new member, it was found that the
average age of five members of a club is the same as it was 3 years ago. What is
the difference between the ages of the replaced and the new member?
84. A certain factory employed 600 men and 400 women and the average wage
was Rs. 25.50 per day. If a woman got Rs. 5 less than a man, then what are their
daily wages?
85. 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 :
86. 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 :
87. The average age of 3 children in a family is 20% of the average age of the
father and the eldest child. The total age of the mother and the youngest child is 39
years. If the father's age is 26 years, what is the age of second child?
88. During the recent incessant and unprecedented rains in Chennai, the average
rain fall on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 25cm. The average rainfall on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday was 24cm. if the rainfall Saturday was 27cm, what
was cm rain fall on Wednesday
89. Eesha is a freelance programmer working in a mission critical project
approaching go-live. Due to pressing deadline, she had to work continuously for 15
hours to support the activities. Her employer pays freelance programmers different
hourly rates depending on the nature of work done in every hour. Her average
earning during these 15 hours was $90/hour. During her first 7 hours, her average
earning was $87/hour and average earning in her last 7 hours was $92/hour. What
was Eesha’s earning($) in the
8thhour?
90. The average age of a class of 22 students is 21 years. The average increased by
1 when the teacher’s age is included. What is the age of the teacher?
91. The average temperature of June, July and August was 31 degrees. The average
temperature of July, August and September was 30 degrees. If the temperature of
June was 32 degrees, find the temperature of September(degrees)
92. The average temperature of a kiln on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was
430 degrees Celsius. The average temperature of the kiln on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday was 496 degrees Celsius. If the average temperature of the kiln on
Friday was 451 degrees Celsius, find the temperature in degree Celsius on
Tuesday?

Simplification (Quantitative Aptitude)

Examples
1. If 2x+3y=34 and ((x + y)/y)=13/8,then find the value of 5y+7x.
2. If 2x+3y+z=55,x-y=4 and y - x + z=12,then what are the values of x , y and z?
3. Find the value of (1-(1/3))(1-(1/4))(1-(1/5))….(1-(1/100)).
4. Find the value of (1/(2*3))+(1/(3*4))+(1/(4*5))+(1/(5*6))+…..+ ((1/(9*10)).
5. A board 7ft. 9 inches long is divided into 3 equal parts. What is the length of each
part?
6. A man divides Rs. Among 5 sons,4 daughters and 2 nephews .If each daughter
receives four times as much as each nephews and each son receives five times as
much as each nephews ,how much does each daughter receive?
7. A man spends 2/5 of his salary on house rent, 3/10 of his salary on food and 1/8 of
his salary on conveyance. If he has Rs.1400 left with him, find his expenditure on
food and conveyance.
8. A third of Arun’s marks in mathematics exceeds a half of his marks in English by
80.if he got 240 marks In two subjects together how many marks did he got in
English?
9. A tin of oil was 4/5full.when 6 bottles of oil were taken out and four bottles of oil
were poured into it, it was ¾ full. How many bottles of oil can the tin contain?
10. If 1/8 of a pencil is black ½ of the remaining is white and the remaining 3 ½ is
blue find the total length of the pencil?
11. In a certain office 1/3 of the workers are women ½ of the women are married
and 1/3 of the married women have children if ¾ of the men are married and 2/3 of
the married men have children what part of workers are without children?
12. A crate of mangoes contains one bruised mango for every thirty mango in the
crate. If three out of every four bruised mango are considerably unsalable and there
are 12 unsalable mangoes in the crate then how many mango are there in the crate?
13. A train starts full of passengers at the first station it drops 1/3 of the passengers
and takes 280more at the second station it drops one half the new total and takes
 twelve more .on arriving at the third station it is found to have 248 passengers.
Find the no of passengers in the beginning?
14. If a2+b2=177and ab=54 then find the value of a+b/a-b?
15. Village X has a population of 68000,which is decreasing at the rate of 1200 per
year.VillagyY has a population of 42000,which is increasing at the rate of 800 per
year .in how many years will the population of the two villages be equal?
16. From a group of boys and girls,15 girls leave. There are then left 2 boys for
each girl. After this, 45 boys leave. There are then 5 girls for each boy. Find the
number of girls in the beginning?
17. An employer pays Rs.20 for each day a worker works and forfeits Rs.3 for each
day is ideal at the end of sixty days a worker gets Rs.280. For how many days did
the worker remain ideal?
18. kiran had 85 currency notes in all , some of which were of Rs.100
denomination and the remaining of Rs.50 denomination the total amount of all
these currency note was Rs.5000.how much amount did she have in the
denomination of Rs.50?
19. When an amount was distributed among 14 boys, each of them got rs 80 more
than the amount received by each boy when the same amount is distributed equally
among 18 boys. What was the amount?
20. Mr. Bhaskar is on tour and he has Rs. 360 for his expenses. If he exceeds his
tour by 4 days, he must cut down his daily expenses by Rs. 3. for how many days
is Mr. Bhaskar on tour?
21. Two pens and three pencils cost Rs 86. four Pens and a pencil cost Rs. 112.
find the cost of a pen and that of a pencil.
22. Arjun and Sajal are friends. Each has some money. If Arun gives Rs. 30 to
Sajal, the Sajal will have twice the money left with Arjun. But, if Sajal gives Rs.
10 to Arjun, the Arjun will have thrice as much as is left with Sajal. How much
money does each have?
23. In a caravan, in addition to 50 hens there are 45 goats and 8 camels with some
keepers. If the total number of feet be 224 more than the number of heads, find the
number of keepers.
Exercise
1. Income of a company doubles after every one year. If the initial income was Rs. 4
lakhs, what would be the income after 5 years?
2. On sports day, if 30 children were made to stand in a column, then 16 columns
could be formed. If 24 children were made to stand in a column, then how many
columns could be formed?
3. The number of students in each section of a school is 24. After admitting new
students, three new sections were started. Now, the total number of sections is 16
and there are 21 students in each section. The number of new students admitted is:
4. A class starts at 10 a.m. and lasts till 1.27 p.m. Four periods are held during this
interval. After every period, 5 minutes are given free to the students. The exact
duration of each period is:
5. A light was seen at intervals of 13 seconds. It was seen for the first time at 1 hr. 54
min 50 secs. a.m. and the last time at 3 hrs. 17 min. 49 secs. a.m. How many times
was the light seen?
6. Along a yard 225 metres long, 26 trees are planted at equal distances, one tree
being at each end of the yard. What is the distance between two consecutive trees?
7. A man earns Rs. 20 on the first day and spends Rs. 15 on the next day. He again
earns Rs. 20 on the third day and spends Rs. 15 on the fourth day. If he continues
to save like this, how soon will he have Rs. 60 in hand?
8. It costs Rs. x each to make the first thousand copies of a compact disc and Rs. y to
make each subsequent copy. If z is greater than 1000, how much will it cost to
make z copies of the compact disc?
9. A boy was asked to multiply a number by 25. He instead multiplied the number by
52 and got the answer 324 more than the correct answer. The number to be
multiplied was :
10. David got two and a half times as many marks in English as in History. If his
total marks in the two subjects are 140, the marks obtained by him in English are :
11. The total monthly salary of 4 men and 2 women is Rs. 46,000. If a woman
earns Rs. 500 more than a man, what is the monthly salary of a woman?
12. Water boils at 212oF or 100oC and melts at 32oF or 0oC. If the temperature of a
particular day is 35oC, it is equivalent to :
13. The number of girls in a class is 5 times the number of boys. Which of the
following cannot be the total number of children in the class?
14. A boy multiplied 423 by a number and obtained 65589 as his answer. If both
the fives in the answer are wrong and all other figures are correct, the correct
answer is :
15. A pineapple costs Rs. 7 each. A watermelon costs Rs. 5 each. X spends Rs. 38
on these fruits. The number of pineapples purchased is.:
16. A sum of Rs. 750 is distributed among A, B, C and D in such a manner that A
gets as much, as B and C together, B gets Rs. 125 more than C and D gets as much
as C. What is A's share?
17. The total number of digits used in numbering the pages of a book having 366
pages, is :
18. A bonus of Rs. 1000 is to be divided among three people so that Rohit receives
twice as much as Sachin, who receives one-fifth as much as Gagan. How much
money should Gagan receive?
19. A printer numbers the pages of a book starting with 1 and uses 3189 digits in
all. How many pages does the book have?
20. In a garden, there are 10 rows and 12 columns of mango trees. The distance
between the two trees is 2 metres and a distance of one metre is left from all sides
of the boundary of the garden. The length of the garden is :
21. What fraction of an hour is a second?
22. When a ball bounces, it rises to ¾ of the height from which it fell. If the ball is
dropped from a height of 32 m, how high will it rise at the third bounce?
23. Sanket earns twice as much in the month of March as in each of the other
months of the year. What part of his entire annual earnings was earned in March?
24. A person travels 3.5 km from place A to place B. Out of this distance, he
travels 1 2/3 km on bicycle, 1 1/6 km on scooter and the rest on foot. What portion
of the whole distance does he cover on foot?
25. If one-third of a tank holds 80 litres of water, then the quantity of water that
half of the tank holds is :
26. A certain amount is distributed among A, B and C. A gets 3/16 and B gets ¼ of
the whole amount. If C gets Rs. 81, then B gets :
27. A student was asked to find the value of 3/8 of a sum of money. The student
made a mistake by dividing the sum by 3/8 and thus got an answer which exceeded
the correct answer by Rs. 55. The correct answer was :
28. In an examination, a student was asked to find 3/14 of a certain number. By
mistake, he found ¾ of that number. His answer was 150 more than the correct
answer. The number is :
29. A sum of Rs. 1360 has been divided among A, B and C such that A gets 2/3 of
what B gets and B gets ¼ of what C gets. B's share is :
30. In a family, the father took ¼ of the cake and he had 3 times as much as each of
the other members had. The total number of family members is :
31. N number of persons decided to raise Rs. 3 lakhs by equal contributions from
each. Had they contributed Rs. 50 each extra, the contribution would have been Rs.
3.25 lakhs. How many persons are there?
32. Free notebooks were distributed equally among children of a class. The number
of notebooks each child got was one-eighth of the number of children. Had the
number of children been half, each child would have got 16 notebooks. Total how
many notebooks were distributed?
33. David gets on the elevator at the 11th floor of a building and rides up at the rate
of 57 floors per minute. At the same time, Albert gets on an elevator at the 51st
floor of the same building and rides down at the rate of 63 floors per minute. If
they continue travelling at these rates, then at which floor will their paths cross?
34. A classroom has equal number of boys and girls. Eight girls left to play kho-
kho, leaving twice as many boys as girls in the classroom. What was the total
number of girls and boys present initially?
35. After distributing the sweets equally among 25 children, 8 sweets remain. Had
the number of children been 28, 22 sweets would have been left after equally
distributing. What was the total number of sweets?
36. In a regular week, there are 5 working days and for each day, the working
hours are 8. A man gets Rs. 2.40 per hour for regular work and Rs. 3.20 per hours
for overtime. If he earns Rs. 432 in 4 weeks, then how many hours does he work
for?
37. Each boy contributed rupees equal to the number of girls and each girl
contributed rupees equal to the number of boys in a class of 60 students. If the total
contribution thus collected is Rs. 1600, how many boys are there in the class?
38. A sum of Rs. 312 was divided among 100 boys and girls in such a way that
each boy gets Rs. 3.60 and each girl Rs. 2.40. The number of girls is :
39. A worker may claim Rs. 1.50 for each km which he travels by train and 50 p
for each km he drives his own car. If in one week he claimed Rs. 50 for travelling
80 km, how many kms did he travel by train?
40. In an examination, a student scores 4 marks for every correct answer and loses
1 mark for every wrong answer. If he attempts in all 60 questions and secures 130
marks, the number of questions he attempts correctly, is :
41. A cricket team won 3 matches more than they lost. If a win gives them 2 points
and loss (- 1) point, how many matches, in all, have they played if their score is
23?
42. A total of 324 coins of 20 paise and 25 paise make a sum of Rs. 71. The
number of 25-paise coins is :
43. On Children's Day, sweets were to be equally distributed among 175 children
in a school. Actually on the Children's Day, 35 children were absent and therefore
each child got 4 sweets extra. Total how many sweets were available for
distribution?
44. A man has Rs. 480 in the denominations of one-rupee notes, five-rupee notes
and ten-rupee notes. The number of notes of each denomination is equal. What is
the total number of notes that he has?
45. A number of friends decided to go on a picnic and planned to spend Rs. 96 on
eatables. Four of them, however, did not turn up. As a consequence, the remaining
ones had to contribute Rs. 4 each extra. The number of those who attended the
picnic was :
46. Eight people are planning to share equally the cost of a rental car. If one person
withdraws from the arrangement and the others share equally the entire cost of the
car, then the share of each of the remaining persons increased by :
47. A certain number of tennis balls were purchased for Rs. 450. Five more balls
could have been purchased in the same amount if each ball was cheaper by Rs. 15.
The number of balls purchased was :
48. A piece of cloth costs Rs. 35. If the length of the piece would have been 4 m
longer and each metre costs Re. 1 less, the cost would have remained unchanged.
How long is the piece?
49. In a certain shop, 9 oranges cost as much as 5 apples, 5 apples cost as much as
3 mangoes and 4 mangoes cost as much as 9 lemons. If 3 lemons cost Rs. 4.80, the
price of an orange is :
50. If 2 tables and 3 chairs cost Rs. 3500 and 3 tables and 2 chairs cost Rs. 4000,
then how much does a table cost? The price of 2 sarees and 4 shirts is Rs. 1600.
With the same money one can buy 1 saree and 6 shirts. If one wants to buy 12
shirts, how much shall he have to pay?
51. The price of 10 chairs is equal to that of 4 tables. The price of 15 chairs and 2
tables together is Rs. 4000. The total price of 12 chairs and 3 tables is :
52. The taxi charges in a city comprise of a fixed charge, together with the charge of the
distance covered. For a journey of 16 km, the charges paid are Rs. 156 and for a
journey of 24 km, the charges paid are Rs. 204. What will a person have to pay for
travelling a distance of 30 km?
53. In a classroom, if 6 students per bench are assigned to accommodate all
students, one more bench will be required. However, if 7 students are
accommodated per bench, there would be a space left for 5 students. What is the
number of students in the class?
54. There are two examination rooms A and B. If 10 students are sent from A to B,
then the number of students in each room is the same. If 20 candidates are sent
from B to A, then the number of students in A is double the number of students in
B. The number of students in room A is :
55. In a group of buffaloes and ducks, the number of legs are 24 more than twice
the number of heads. What is the number of buffaloes in the group?
56. Vidushi and Sanya distribute Rs. 100 each in charity. Vidushi distributes
money to 5 more people than Sanya and Sanya gives each Re. 1 more than
Vidushi. How many people are recipients of the charity?

HCF and LCM of Numbers(Quantitative Aptitude)

Examples
1. Find the H.C.F. of 2 X 3 X 5 X 74, 22 X 35 X 52 X 73, 23 X53 X72
3 2

2. Find the H.C.F. of 108, 288 and 360.

3. Find the H.C.F. of 513, 1134 and 1215
4. Find the L.C.M. of 22 x 33 x 5 x 72 , 23 x 32 x 52 x 74 , 2 x 3 x 53 x 7 x 11.
5. Find the L.C.M. of 72, 108 and 2100
6. Find the L.C.M. of 16, 24, 36 and 54
7. Find the HCF and LCM of 2/3 , 8/9, 16/81, and 10/27
8. Find the HCF and LCM of 0.63, 1.05 and 2.1
9. Two numbers are in the ratio of 15:11. If their HCF is 13, find the numbers
10. The HCF of two numbers is 11 and their LCM is 693. If one of the numbers is
77, find the other
11. Find the greatest possible length which can be used to measure exactly the
lengths 4m 95 cm, 9m and 16m 65cm
12. Find the greatest number which on dividing 1657 and 2037 leaves remainders 6
and 5 respectively.
13. Find the largest number which divides 62, 132 and 237 to leave the same
remainder in each case
14. Find the least number exactly divisible by 12, 15, 20 and 27
15. Find the least number which when divided by 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 leaves the same
remainder 1 in each case
16. Find the largest number of four digits exactly divisible by 12, 15, 18 and 27
17. Find the smallest number of five digits exactly divisible by 16, 24, 36 and 54
18. Find the least number which when divided by 20, 25, 35 and 40 leaves
remainders 14, 19, 29 and 34 respectively
19. Find the least number which when divided by 5, 6, 7 and 8 leaves a remainder
3 but when divided by 9 leaves no remainder.
20. The traffic lights at three different road crossings change after every 48
seconds, 72 seconds and 108 seconds respectively .If they all change
simultaneously at 8:20:00 hours, then at what time they again change
simultaneously
21. Arrange the fractions 17/18, 31/36, 43/45, 59/60 in the ascending order.
Practice Questions
1. Which of the following has most number of divisors? A. 99 B. 101 C. 176
D. 182
2. The H.C.F. of 22 * 33 * 55, 23 * 32 * 52 * 7 and 24 * 34 * 5 * 72 * 11 is :
3. H.C.F. of 4 * 27 * 3125, 8 * 9 * 25 * 7 & 16 * 81 * 5 * 11 * 49 is :
4. Which of the following is a pair of co - primes? A. (16, 62) B. (18, 25) C. (21, 35)
D. (23, 92)
5. The L.C.M. of 23 * 32 * 5 * 11, 24 * 34 * 52 * 7 and 25 * 33 * 53 * 72 * 11 is :
6. Find the HCF and LCM of 2/3, 3/5, 4/7, 9/13 is
7. The G.C.D. of 1.08, 0.36 and 0.9 is :
8. H.C.F. of 3240, 3600 and a third number is 36 and their L.C.M. is 24 * 35 * 52 * 72.
The 3rd no is:
9. The L.C.M. of 3, 2.7 and 0.09 is :
10. The ratio of two numbers is 3: 4 and their H.C.F. is 4. Their L.C.M. is :
11. The sum of two numbers is 216 and their H.C,F. is 27. The numbers are :
12. Three numbers are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 and their H.C.F. is 12. The numbers are
:
13. The sum of two numbers is 528 and their H.C.F. is 33. The number of pairs of
numbers satisfying the above conditions is :
14. The number of number - pairs lying between 40 and 100 with their H.C.F. as
15 is :
15. The H.C.F. of two numbers is 12 and their difference is 12. The numbers are :
16. The product of two numbers is 4107. If the H.C.F. of these numbers is 37, then
the greater number is :
17. The product of two numbers is 2028 and their H.C.F. is 13. The number of
such pairs is :
18. Three numbers which are co-prime to each other are such that the product of
the first two is 551 and that of the last two is 1073. The sum of the three numbers
is :
19. The L.C.M. of two numbers is 48. The numbers are in the ratio 2 : 3. The sum
of the No’s
20. The sum of two numbers is 2000 and their L.C.M. is 21879. The two numbers
are :
21. Three numbers are in the ratio of 3 : 4 : 5 and their L.C.M. is 2400. Their
H.C.F. is :
22. The H.C.F. of two numbers is 11 and their L.C.M. is 7700. If one of the
numbers is 275, then the other is :
23. The H.C.F. and L.C.M. of two numbers are 84 and 21 respectively. If the ratio
of the two numbers is 1 : 4, then the larger of the two numbers is :
24. The L.C.M. of two numbers is 495 and their H.C.F. is 5. If the sum of the
numbers is 100, then their difference is :
25. The product of the L.C.M. and H.C.F. of two numbers is 24. The difference of
two numbers is 2. Find the numbers.
26. The L.C.M. of two numbers is 45 times their H.C.F. If one of the numbers is
125 and the sum of H.C.F. and L.C.M. is 1150, the other number is :
27. Product of two co - prime numbers is 117. Their L.C.M. should be :
28. The H.C.F. and L.C.M. of two numbers are 50 and 250 respectively. If the first
number is divided by 2, the quotient is 50. The second number is :
29. The L.C.M. of three different numbers is 120. Which of the following cannot
be their H.C.F?
A. 8 B. 12 C. 24 D. 35
30. If the sum of two numbers is 55 and the H.C.F. and L.C.M. of these numbers
are 5 and 120 respectively, then the sum of the reciprocals of the numbers is equal
to :
31. The H.C.F. of two numbers is 23 and the other two factors of their L.C.M. are
13 and 14. The larger of the two numbers is :
32. About the number of pairs which have 16 as their H.C.F. and 136 as their
L.C.M., we can definitely say that :
33. The H.C.F. of two numbers is 8. Which one of the following can never be their
L.C.M?
A. 24 B. 48 C. 56 D. 60
34. L.C.M. of two prime numbers x and y (x > y) is 161. The value of 3y - x is :
35. Two numbers, both greater than 29, have H.C.F. 29 and L.C.M. 4147. The sum
of the No’s is
36. The H.C.F. and L.C.M. of two numbers are 11 and 385 respectively. If one
number lies between 75 and 125, then that number is :
37. The greatest possible length which can be used to measure exactly the lengths 7
m, 3 m 85 cm, 12 m 95 cm is :
38. Three different containers contain 496 litres, 403 litres and 713 litres of mixtures of
milk and water respectively. What biggest measure can measure all the different
quantities exactly?
39. A rectangular courtyard 3.78 metres long and 5.25 metres wide is to be paved exactly
with square tiles, all of the same size. What is the largest size of the tile which could
be used for the purpose?
40. The maximum number of students among them 1001 pens and 910 pencils can
be distributed in such a way that each student gets the same number of pens and
same number of pencils is :
41. Find the greatest number that will divide 43, 91 and 183 so as to leave the same
remainder in each case.
42. Let N be the greatest number that will divide 1305, 4665 and 6905, leaving the
same remainder in each case. Then sum of the digits in N is :
43. The greatest number which can divide 1356, 1868 and 2764 leaving the same
remainder 12 in each case, is :
44. The greatest number which on dividing 1657 and 2037 leaves remainders 6 and
5 is
45. What will be the least number which when doubled will be exactly divisible by 12,
18, 21 & 30
46. The least number of five digits which is exactly divisible by 12, 15 and 18, is .
47. The least number which is a perfect square and is divisible by each of the numbers
16, 20 &24:
48. The greatest number of four digits which is divisible by 15, 25, 40 and 75 is :
49. The smallest number which when diminished by 7, is divisible by 12, 16, 18,
21 and 28 is :
50. The least number which should be added to 2497 so that the sum is exactly
divisible by 5, 6, 4 and 3 is :
51. The least number which when increased by 5 is divisible by each one of 24, 32,
36 and 54, is
52. The least multiple of 7, which leaves a remainder of 4, when divided by 6, 9,
15 and 18 is :
53. The largest four-digit number which when divided by 4, 7 or 13 leaves a
remainder of 3 in each case, is :
54. Let the least number of six digits, which when divided by 4, 6, 10 and 15,
leaves in each case the same remainder of 2, be N. The sum of the digits in N is :
55. The least number which when increased by 5 is divisible by each one of 24, 32,
36 and 54, is
56. The least number, which when divided by 48, 60, 72, 108 and 140 leaves 38,
50, 62, 98 and 130 as remainders respectively, is :
57. Find the least multiple of 23, which when divided by 18, 21 and 24 leaves
remainders 7, 10 and 13 respectively.
58. A, B and C start at the same time in the same direction to run around a circular
stadium. A completes a round in 252 seconds, B in 308 seconds and C in 198
seconds, all starting at the same point. After what time will they meet again at the
starting point?
59. Four different electronic devices make a beep after every 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1
½ hour and 1 hour 45 minutes respectively. All the devices beeped together at 12
noon. They will again beep together at :
60. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together?
61. Find the least number which when divided by 16, 18, 20 and 25 leaves 4 as
remainder in each case, but when divided by 7 leaves no remainder,
62. The least number which when divided by 5, 6, 7 and 8 leaves a remainder 3,
but when divided by 9 leaves no remainder, is :