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1. The average salary of the entire staff in a office is Rs.200 (a) 436 (b) 426 (c) 416 (d) 446
per month. The average salary of officers is Rs.318 and 13. The average of cubes of natural numbers from 1 to 8 is
that of non-officers is Rs.183. If the number of officers is :
34, then find the number of non-officers in the office.
(a) 162 (b) 172 (c) 153 (d) 163
(a) 118 (b) 240 (c) 246 (d) 236
14. The average of first 52 consecutive even number is :
2. The average salary of the entire staff in a office is Rs.150
(a) 52 (b) 53 (c) 51 (d) 50
per month. The average salary of officers is Rs.540 and
that of non-officers is Rs.80. If the number of officers is 15. The average of first 17 consecutive odd numbers is :
14, then find the number of non-officers in the office (a) 16 (b) 17 (c) 18 (d) 15
(a) 65 (b) 55 (c) 60 (d) 78 16. The average of squares of first 11 consecutive even
3. A man covers first 20% of the distance at 10 km/hr, next numbers is :
50% at 5 km/hr and the remaining distance at 15 km/hr. (a) 184 (b) 148 (c) 186 (d) 174
Find his average speed. 17. The average of squares of consecutive even numbers
(a) 7 km/hr (b) 7.14 km/hr from 1 to 11 is :
(c) 7.24 km/hr (d) 4.17 km/hr (a) 65 (b) 52 (c) 44 (d) 51
4. A train covers 5% of the journey at 30 km/hr, 25% of the 18. The average of squares of consecutive odd number from
journey at 25 km/hr and the remaining at 20 km/hr. Find 1 to 13 is :
the average speed of the train during the whole journey. (a) 70 (b) 65 (c) 75 (d) 66
25 5 19. The average weight of 15 students was calculated to be
(a) 25 km / hr (b) 25 km / hr 52 kg and it was later discovered that one weight was
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misred as 21 kg instead of the correct one of 12 kg. The
23 correct one of 12 kg. The correct average weight is :
(c) 25 km / hr (d) None of these (a) 51.4 kg (b) 50.6 kg (c) 52.4 kg (d) 51.6 kg
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5. A person divides his total route of journey into three equal 20. The average marks scored by Ganesh in English,
parts and decides to travel the three with speeds of 20,25 Science, Mathematics and History is less than 15 from
and 40 km/hr respectively. Find his average speed during that scored by him in English, History, Geography and
the whole journey. Mathematics. What is the difference of marks in Science
and Geography scored by him ?
2 1 (a) 40 (b) 50
(a) 26 km / hr (b) 26 km / hr
23 23 (c) 60 (d) data inadequate
2 1 21. Out of three numbers, the first is twice the second and is
(c) 25 km / hr (d) 25 km / hr half of the third. If the average of the three numbers is
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56, the three numbers in order are :
6. A cricketer has completed 20 innings and his average is (a) 48, 96, 24 (b) 48, 24, 96
44.5 runs. How many runs must he make in his next
(c) 96, 24, 48 (d) 96, 48, 24
innings so as to raise his average to 45 ?
(a) 45 (b) 60 (c) 40 (d) 55 22. The average age of a husband and wife was 23 when
they were married 5 years ago. The average age of the
7. A cricketer has completed 14 innings and his average is husband, the wife and a child who was born during the
30 runs. How many runs must be make in his next innings interval, is 20 years now. How old is the child now ?
so as to raise his average to 32 ?
(a) 9 months (b) 1 year
(a) 60 (b) 55 (c) 65 (d) 50
(c) 3 years (d) 4 years
8. A batsman in his 20th innings makes a score of 110 and
23. 5 year ago, the average of Ram and Shyam’s ages was
thereby increases his average by 4. What is the average
20 years. Now the average age of Ram, Shyam and
after 20 innings ?
Mohan is 30 years. What will be Mohan’s age 10 years
(a) 34 (b) 43 (c) 36 (d) 30 hence ?
9. The average of first 62 natural numbers is : (a) 45 years (b) 50 years
(a) 31 (b) 31.5 (c) 31.2 (d) 32 (c) 49 years (d) 60 years
10. The average of odd numbers from 1 to 39 is : 24. The average age of A and b is 20 years. If C were to
(a) 20 (b) 19 (c) 18 (d) 21 replace A, the average would be 19 and if C were to
11. The average of even numbers from 1 to 30 is : replace B, the average would be 21. What are the ages
(a) 16 (b) 15 (c) 18 (d) 17 of A, B and C ?
(a) 22, 18, 20 (b) 18, 22, 20
12. The average of square of natural numbers from 1 to 35
is : (c) 22, 20, 18 (d) 18, 20, 22

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25. The average age of A, B, C, D 5 years ago was 45 years.
By including X, the present average of all the five is 49 34. Of the three numbers, second is twice the first and is
years. The present age of X is : also thrice the third. If the average of the three numbers
is 44. Find the largest number.
(a) 64 years (b) 48 years
(c) 45 years (d) 40 years (a) 70 (b) 72 (c) 74 (d) 76
35. There were 35 students in a hostel. Due to the admission
26. A car runs for t 1 hours at v 1 km/hr,, t 2 hours at v 2 km/hr.. of 7 new students, the expenses of the mess were
What is the average speed of the car for the entire journey increased by Rs. 42 per day while the average
? expenditure per head diminished by Re 1. What was
the original expenditure of the mess ?
t1  t 2 v1 t 1  v 2 t 2
(a) v t  v t km / hr (b) t1  t 2
km / hr (a) 320 (b) 400 (c) 300 (d) 420
1 1 2 2
36. David obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks (out of 100)
v1 t 2  v 2 t 1 v1  v 2 in English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and
(c) km / hr (d) v t  v t km / hr Biology. What are his average marks ?
v1  v 2 1 1 2 2
(a) 65 (b) 69 (c) 72 (d) None
27. The average income of a person for the first 6 days is 37. The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, at the
Rs. 29, for the next 6 days it is Rs.24, for the next 10 most, how many may be greater than zero ?
days it is Rs.32 and for the remaining days of the month
it is Rs.30. Find the average income per day. (a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 10 (d) 19
(a) Rs.31.64 (b) Rs.30.64 38. The average of first five multiples of 3 is :
(c) Rs.29.26 (d) Cannot be determined (a) 3 (b) 9 (c) 12 (d) 15
28. The average weight of 47 balls is 4 g. If the weight of the 39. A student was asked to find the arithmetic mean of the
bag (in which the balls are kept) be included, the numbers 3, 11, 7, 9, 15, 13, 8, 19, 17, 21, 14 and x. He
calculated average weight per ball increase by 0.3 g. found the mean to be 12. What should be the number in
What is the weight of the bag ? place of x ?
(a) 14.8 g (b) 15 g (a) 3 (b) 7 (c) 17 (d) 31
(c) 18.6 g (d) None of these
40. The average of 2, 7, 6 and x is 5 and the average of 18,
29. The average age of a group of persons going for a picnic 1, 6, x and y is 10. What is the value of y ?
is 16.75 years. 20 new persons with an average age of
(a) 5 (b) 10 (c) 20 (d) 30
13.25 years join the group on the spot due to which the
average of the group becomes 15 years. Find the number
of persons initially going for the picnic.
(a) 24 (b) 20
(c) 15 (d) 18
30. A school has only four classes that contain 10, 20, 30
and 40 students respectively. The pass percentage of
these classes are 20%, 30%, 60% and 100%
respectively. Find the pass % of the entire school.
(a) 56% (b) 76%
(c) 34% (d) 66%
31. Find the average of all prime numbers between 30 and
50.
(a) 35.7 (b) 39.8 (c) 30.8 (d) 39.0
32. The average of four consecutive even numbers is 27.
Find the largest of these numbers.
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 30 (d) 40
33. Nine persons went to a hotel for taking their meals.
Eight 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 ?
(a) 112 (b) 115 (c) 120 (d) 117

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