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Find the GM of :-
1) 4 and 9
2) 12, 9, 16
3) 1, 2, 4, 8
4) 16 and 25
5) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Find the median for 1) 31, 54, 11, 12, 89, 901, 100.
2) 12, 78, 54, 1, 3, 9.
LEVEL – 1
1) Find the average of the first 10 whole numbers.
2) The average of 12 numbers is 32. What will be the average if one more number whose
value is 32 is added to the group.
3) The average age of a group of 10 students is 11 and that of another group of 6 students is
19. Find the average of the combined group.
5) Find the AM, HM and GM of 1, 2 and 4 and arrange them in ascending order.
6) Two years ago, the average age of 5 brothers was 12. Find the present average.
7) The average of 4 numbers is 12 and that of the first three is 11. Find the fourth number.
8) The average of 4 numbers is 12 and that of the first two is 11. Find the fourth number.
10) The average of 10 numbers is 10. What will be the new average if each of the first five
numbers is increased by 4.
LEVEL – 2
11) The average weight of a class of 20 students is 49 kgs. If two students with weights 51
and 54 are replaced by two new students with weights 80 and 75 respectively, find the
new average of the class.
1. 47 2. 50 3. 51.5 4. Cannot be determined
12) The average age of a class of 20 students is 12. If the teacher joins the group the average
increases by 2. Find the age of the teacher.
1. 40 2. 54 3. 24 4. 44
13) While traveling from Bombay to Goa, the speed of a car is 80 kmph and while returning,
the speed is 120 kmph. Find the average speed of the car throughout the journey.
1. 100 kmph 2. 110 kmph 3. 90 kmph 4. 96 kmph
14) In what ratio should coffee at Rs.120 per kg be mixed with coffee at Rs.190 per kg to get
a mixture priced at Rs.145 per kg.
1. 7 : 4 2. 9 : 5 3. 5 : 9 4. Cannot be determined
15) The average salary of 15 officers is Rs.12000 and the average salary of non-officers is
Rs.4000. Find the total number of employees if the average salary of the firm is Rs.7000.
1. 40 2. 25 3. 30 4. 50
LEVEL – 3
21) Total expenses of a boarding house are partly fixed and partly varying linearly with tile
number of boarders. The average expense per boarder is Rs. 700 when there are 25 boarders and
Rs. 600 when there are 50 boarders. What is the average expense per boarder when there are 100
boarders?
1. 550 2. 560 3. 540 4. 560
22) A student took five papers in an examination, where the full marks were the same for each
paper. His marks in these papers were in the proportion of 6 : 7 : 8 : 9 : 10. In all papers together,
the candidate obtained 60% of the total marks. Then the number of papers in which he got more
than 50% marks is:
1. 2 2. 3 3. 4 4. 5
23) Anita had to do a multiplication. Instead of taking 35 as one of the multipliers, she took 53.
As a result, the product went up by 540. What is the new product?
1. 1050 2. 540 3. 1440 4. 1590
25) Amol was asked to calculate the arithmetic mean of ten positive integers each of which had
two digits. By mistake, he interchanged the two digits, say a and b, in one of these ten integers.
As a result, his answer for the arithmetic mean was 1.8 more than what it should have been. Then
b – a equals
1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. none of these
26) Ten years ago, the ages of the members of a joint family of eight people added up to 231
years. Three years later, one member died at the age of 60 years and a child was born during the
same year. After another three years, one more member died, again at 60, and a child was born
during the same year. The current average age of this eight-member joint family is nearest to
1. 23 2. 22 3. 21 4. 25 5. 24
27) An alloy of iron and nickel is taken in the ratio of 1:2 and another alloy of the same metals is
taken in the ratio of 2:3. How many parts of the two alloys must be taken to obtain a new alloy
consisting of iron and nickel in the ratio 3:5?
1. 3 and 5 2. 2 and 9 3. 2 and 5 4. 1 and 5 5. 3 and 5
28) If the ratio of harmonic means of two numbers to their geometric means is 12 : 13, find the
ratio of the numbers.
1. 4 :9 2. 8 : 9 3. 4: 5 4. 9:4 5. Options 1 or 4.
Directions for questions 29 and 30 - The batting average (BA) of a test batsman is computed from
runs
scored and innings played—completed innings and incomplete innings
(not out) in the following manner:
r1 = number of runs scored in completed innings
n1 = number of completed innings
r2 = number of runs scored in incomplete innings
n2 = number of incomplete innings.
BA = (r1 + r2)/n1
To better assess a batsman’s accomplishments, the ICC is considering
two other measures MBA1 and MBA2 defined as follows:
MBA1 = (r1/n1) + (n1/n2) + max[0, (r2/n2) – (r1/n1)]