#Q1 In an entrance examination Seema scored 56% marks, Nitya scored 92% marks and Meena

scored 634 marks. The maximum marks of the examination are 875. What are the average marks
scored by all the girls together?

#Q2 There were 5 sections in an exam. The average score of Prashant in first 3 sections was 76 and
the average of last three sections was 98. The average of all the sections was 89. So, his score in
the third section was:

#Q3 The average daily income of Asha, Lata and Diya's is Rs. 50. If Lata earns Rs. 30 more than
Diya and Asha earns double of what Diya earns, what is the daily income of Diya?

#Q4 The average marks in English subject of a class of 24 students is 56. If the marks of three
students were misread as 44, 45 and 61 against actual marks of 48, 59 and 67 respectively, then
what would be the correct average?

#Q5 A student took 4 papers in an examination, where the maximum marks were the same for each
paper. In all papers together, the candidate obtained 60% of the total marks. His marks in these
papers were in the ratio of 24:30:32:34. Then in how many of the papers he got more than 60%
marks?

#Q6 The average weight of A, B, C and D is 33kgs. C is 12kgs lighter than A while B is 6 kg heavier
than C. D’s weight is 10 kgs less than that of C. What is the average weight of A and D?
A 32 kg
B 33 kg
C 34 kg
D 35 kg
E None of these

#Q7 In an office of 40 people, the average salary of class-A, class-B and class-C officer is Rs600,
Rs750 and Rs. 1000 a day respectively and there ratio of strength is 5:4:1 respectively. Find the
monthly average salary of an officer (in Rs.)? Assume the number of days in a month to be 30.

#Q8 The average age of 29 students in a class is 26 years. If the age of teacher is also included the
average age of the class becomes 26.4 years. Find the age of the teacher.

#Q9 There are 45 students in a hostel. If the number of student increases by 5, the expenses of the
mess increases by Rs.30 per day while the average expenditure per head diminishes by Rs.2. Find
the original expenditure of the mess.

#Q10 A student studied four subjects in his bachelor’s degree. If the ratio of marks in subject A and
B is 1:2, in subject B and C is 2:5 and in subject A and D is 1:4. If she has scored an average of 84
marks in a subject. In how many subjects did she score equal to or greater than 60 marks?
#Q11 Average score of Rahul, Manish and Suresh is 63. Rahul's score is 15 less than Ajay and 10
more than Manish. If Ajay scored 30 marks more than the average score of Rahul, Manish and
Suresh, what is the sum of Manish's and Suresh's scores?

#Q12 12 years ago, there were 7 members in Arun’s family & then the average age of the family was
28 years. His father died three years ago from present & then the average age of the family was 26
years. Then his father died at the age of
A 88 years
B 93 years
C 103 years
D 106 years
E 97 years

#Q13 The average weight of three men A, B and C is 65 kg. Another man D joins the group and the
average now becomes 68 kg. If another man E whose weight is 4 kg less than that of D, replaces A
then the average weight of B, C, D and E becomes 67 kg. Find the weight of A?

#Q14 The average wages of four farmers in a field is Rs. 60. If the difference between the wages of
the farmer with the lowest wages and second lowest wages, difference between the wages of the
farmer with the second lowest and third lowest wages and so on is Rs. 20, then wage of a farmer
with least wage is –

#Q15 The average age of 40 teachers in a school in 2007 was 35 years. In 2009, 10 teachers retired
from the job, whose average age was 50 years. In 2012, 20 teachers joined the school, whose
average age was 30 years. What was the total age of all the teachers in 2015 assuming that no
teacher joined or left the school apart from the ones mentioned in the question?

#Q16 The average age of 100 bankers in PNB in 2002 was 50 years. In 2004, 20 bankers retired
from their posts, whose average age was 60 years. After a certain gap in 2007, 40 bankers joined
PNB whose average age was 38 years. The average age of all the bankers in 2010 was?
A 45 years
B.51 years
C 60 years
D 40 years
E 48 years

#Q17 In a college, 180 students took admission in Computer science department, of which 100 are
girls and rest are boys. The average marks of 80 boys and 100 girls was calculated as 124 and 92
respectively. However, it was later found that the marks of one of the girl were read as 122 while her
actual marks were 82. Similarly in the case of boys, the marks of one boy were read as 110 instead
of 130. What is the actual average marks of 180 students?

#Q18 Karan earns 2 times in February, July, August, and September than his average earning of Rs.
500 per month for the rest of the months. So his expenditure in the Feb, July, August, and
September goes to 4/3 times that of the rest months and the expenditure for rest of the months is
Rs.300 per month in the year. The average expenditure of per month is?

#Q19 A, B, C and D are four salesmen. In the first month they received a commission of Rs. 3200
from their company and divided it in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 4 : 7. In the second month the commission
doubled, the amount was divided in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 : 4. In the third month the commission tripled
when compared to the first month and they shared it in the ratio of 4 : 7 : 3 : 2 and in the fourth
month the commission became half of the previous month and they shared it in the ratio of 4 : 3 : 5 :
4. What was the average monthly earning of C over the period?

#Q20 The average age of all the team mates of a football team is 62.5. The average age of 4 team
mates among them are 60. The average age of the remaining team mates are 63. If the team is
divided into three categories namely A, B and C and the number of players in category C is 3/8 of
the total team mates, then what is the LCM of the number of players in category A and B, given that
number of players in A is twice the number of players in B?

#Q21 A group of 10 friends go on a trip and the average age of the group of friends is 25 years.
Some more friends join their group and the average age of the group decreases by 1. The sum of,
the number of new friends who joined the group later and their average age is 27. Find the total age
of the group of friends who joined the group later?

#Q22 The average number of goals scored per match by a football player in matches where he was
in the team of starting 11 is 1.5 and the average number of goals scored by the player in matches
where he came on as a substitute is 0.5. The player scored 390 goals more in matches where he
was in the team of starting 11 than in matches in which he came on as a substitute. If he played 388
matches in total, find the average number of goals scored by the player per match?
A 0.571
B 1.533
C 0.528
D 1.542
E None of these
#Q23 The average weight of P, Q, R and S is 40 kg. Two new people T and U, whose average
weight is 37.5 kg, are also included in the group. Again a new person V replaces P, and then the
new average of 6 persons becomes 43 kg. If weight of R is twice the weight of Q and weight of S is
half the weight of V then what is the average weight of Q and S?
A 42 kg
B 30.5 kg
C 36 kg
D 45.5 kg
E 26 kg

#Q24 The average age of 40 children and 5 teachers in a school is 12 years and 35 years,
respectively. Five children, out of 40, whose average age is 18 years and two teachers, out of 5,
whose average age is 43 years left the school and further 8 new children whose average age is
9.125 years joined the school. What is the present average age of the teachers and students present
in the school?

#Q25 The average number of students in each class of a school of classes up to 1 to 12 was 84, in
the previous year. In the present year, average number of new students who took admission up to
class 5 was 18 and average number of students who left school up to class 5 was also 18. If in this
year the average number of students who left the school from class 6 to class 12 was 12 and the
present total number of students in school is 1116 then, find the total number of new students who
took admission this year.

#Q26 The average number of cycles sold in a month by a shopkeeper from January to June was 96
and that from March to July was 102. The total number of cycles sold in July was 126. The number
cycles sold in February was thrice the number of cycles sold in January. What is the average
number of cycles sold in a month from February to July?
A 109
B 113
C 104
D 126
E 117

#Q27 There are two groups of persons, A and B, and each group has 5 persons. The average age of
persons of group A is 22 years while the average age of persons of group B is 19 years. A person
Mohan from group A joins group B and then average age of group A becomes 24 years. Then,
Rahim, a person from group A joins group B and the average age of group B becomes 20 years.
Now, a person Ram of group B joins group A and the average age of group A becomes 22 years
then find the ratio of age of Ram to the age of Mohan ?
A 23:14
B 16:7
C 14:23
D 7:16
E 27:13

#Q28 In an exam taken by 10 students the average marks out of 50 was 30. If the 5 toppers, who
scored distinct marks, are not included, the average decreases by 5. The passing score was 30 and
all the 5 toppers passed. What is the maximum possible score of the topper?
A 46
B 48
C 50
D None of these

#Q29 The average of n integers is 50 . When 76 is added to this set, the average of the numbers
increases by 2. Find the maximum value of any integer in this set, given that every integer in this set
is a positive integer.

#Q30 Khuranas are a family of five, comprising of Mr. Khurana, Mrs. Khurana, their two sons and a
daughter. The daughter is the youngest in the family, and the ages of the children form an A.P. with
a common difference of 2 years. Also, Mr. Khurana is six years older to Mrs. Khurana. The sum of
the ages of the female members of the family is 45 years, and that of the male members is 65. Find
the average of the ages of Mrs Khurana and her sons (in years).
A 18.33
B 19.67
C 20
D 21.67

#Q31 The average weight of a class of 40 students is 40 kg. After some students, whose average
weight is 47 kg, joined the average weight of the class increased by 5%. How many students joined
the class?

#Q32 The average height of the boys in a class is 180 cm, while the average height of the girls in the
class is 170 cm. Which of the following statements is always true?
A Average height is greater than 170 cm
B Median height will be less than 176 cm
C Median height will be greater than 176 cm
D Average height will be greater than median height
#Q33 The average scores of 8th class, 9th class and 10th class are 68, 75 and 80 respectively.
Average scores of all the students in class 8 and class 9 are 72 and average scores of all students in
class 9 and class 10 are 78. Find the average of all the students in classes 8, 9 and 10.
A 74.77
B 73.23
C 75.68
D 74.83

#Q34 The average of twenty distinct even natural numbers is 21. If 15 numbers are doubled and the
remaining 5 are tripled, the new average can be?
A 43
B 48
C 52
D 56

#Q35 A group of 10 students have an average weight of 55.The heaviest person in the group is
replaced by 2 other persons.As a result the average weight of the group decreases by 8.63636.What
can be the weight of the person who was removed if one of new person weighs 20 kg and the weight
of the other person is a multiple of 7?
A 75
B 74
C 72
D 68

#Q36 Ramesh wrote a list of consecutive odd numbers starting from 1 in his notebook. His twin
brother Suresh erased one number from the list and the sum of all the remaining numbers is 2394.
What is the average of all the numbers before Suresh erased the number?
A 47
B 48
C 49
D CBD

#Q37 In a class of 60 students the average weight of all the students is 68 kg. The ratio of men and
women in the class is 8:7 and the ratio of average weight of women and men is 4:5. What is the
average weight of all the men in the class (in kg)?

#Q38 A class consists of 20 boys and 30 girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average score
of the girls was 5 higher than that of the boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the
girls dropped by 3 while the average score of the entire class increased by 2. The increase in the
average score of the boys is
A 9.5
B 10
C 4.5
D6

#Q39 The average ages of 3 groups of boys A, B and C are 13 years, 15 years and 19 years
respectively. The average age of A and B is 14 years, the average of B and C is 16 years. Find the
average age of all the boys together.
A 14.69 years
B 13.23 years
C 14.71 years
D Data Insufficient

#Q40 A series of 7 experiments is being conducted to measure the density of a liquid. The density of
the liquid is the average of the values obtained in the 7 experiments. This value is obtained as
131.5/7. The average obtained in the first three experiments is 18.5. The value obtained in the 4th
experiment is 1 greater than that obtained in the 5th. The average of the 6th and 7th experiments is
2.5 more than the average of the first three. What is the density of the liquid obtained in the 4th
experiment?
A 18.5
B 19.6
C 20.4
D 17.5

#Q41 At the beginning of the year Sandhya took few tests on different courses and the results of
these tests are being declared periodically one after the other. After every result, Sandhya calculates
the cumulative average of her scores. 69 marks in digital marketing course increased her average by
1 mark. 91 marks in financial management followed which increased her average by a further 2
marks. If she scores 58 marks in the next subject, what would be her average?
A 53
B 53.24
C 54
D 55.63

#Q42 Prof. Suman takes a number of quizzes for a course. All the quizzes are out of 100. A student
can get an A grade in the course if the average of her scores is more than or equal to 90.Grade B is
awarded to a student if the average of her scores is between 87 and 89 (both included). If the
average is below 87, the student gets a C grade. Ramesh is preparing for the last quiz and he
realizes that he will score a minimum of 97 to get an A grade. After the quiz, he realizes that he will
score 70, and he will just manage a B. How many quizzes did Prof. Suman take?
A6
B7
C8
D9

#Q43 The average weight of the class increases by 2 kg when a student of weight 50kg joins the
class. However, if a student of weight 40 kg leaves the class, the average weight of the class goes
down by 1 kg. What is the current average weight of the class?
A 28
B 34
C 17
D Cannot be determined

#Q44 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?

#Q45 Ramesh wrote 25 consecutive natural numbers on a piece of papers. He then erased one of
the numbers and realized that the new average of the numbers on the paper is 43.5 . What is the
difference between the original average and the new average?

#Q46 M/s. Devi Radiograms, a shop which sells electronic gadgets, marks its merchandise 35%
above the purchase price. Until four months ago, purchase price of one Philips DVD player was Rs.
3,000. During the last four months M/s. Devi Radiograms has received four monthly consignments of
Philips DVD player at the purchase price of Rs. 2,750, Rs. 2,500, Rs. 2,400, and Rs. 2250. The
average rate of decrease in the purchase price of DVD player during these four months is:
A 7.5%
B 8.20%
C 6.9%
D 7%
#Q47 The Average temperature of Delhi of Monday ... till Thursday was 58°C. The average
temperature of Tuesday ... Till Friday was 60°C. If the temperature of Monday and Friday were in the
ratio of 7:8, then what was temperature of Friday

#Q48 The average age of students of class A is 20 years and class B is 26 years. A student who is
‘n’ years old is transferred from A to B, the average age of only one class did not increase. Which of
the following is the range of ‘n’ (in years)?
A n < 26
B n≤20
C n≤20 or n≥26
DNone of these

#Q49 The average age of a particular class in a B-school is 25 years. There are 50 students in the
class. If another student Amit joins this class, the average age of the class increases by .5 years. If
instead of Amit, Rahul joins the class then the average age will decrease by .1 years. If both Amit
and Rahul join the class and Shivam leaves the class, then the average age of the class increases
by .2 years. If Shivam’s age is S, then which of the following best describes the value of ‘S’?
A 35 < S < 36
B 33 < S < 35
C 31 < S < 33
D 37 < S < 38

#Q50 The ratio of ages of Aman and Balu 8 years ago was 3 : 4. The ratio of ages of Balu and Ram
8 years from now will be 3 : 4. The average age of Aman and Ram is 44. The ratio of ages of Aman
and Ram, was/ will be 2 : 3
A 8 years ago
B 16 years ago
C 16 years from now
D 8 years from now