4 Answers 15. 22. 29. 36. 43. 50. 57. 4@5@M 6 7 ® 20 10 £@ Be BO ae OD 1.@ BO WO 2@ 3G © - @ 25d 26.(6) 27.0) 28, (a) GB oo LO BO BO MO 36g : 38.@ 32.6) 0@ 40 aq oO LO BO 60) 7.0 BO a © 3©@ 5.@ 530) 4 OQ 55.@) 56a © 80 59%.) 60.4 AVERAGE Average: Average means a number which is between the largest and the smallest number. Average can be calculated only for similar quantities and not for dissimilar quantities Important Formulae: 1. ae as 3. Sum of all items Average = Number of items Sum of items = Average x Number of items Number of items = Total + Average. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS What is the average of the following set of numbers? 112, 101, 134, 115 and 128 (@) 116 (6) 17 (© us @ 19 : The average of six numbers is 25. If one number is removed, th — average becomes 20. What is the number removed? (@ 45 (6) 50 (©) 60 (d) 40 The average score of 5 batches of 20, 25, 30, 45 and 35 students respectively is 40, 35, 30, 40 and 35. Find the average score ofall the students put together: (@) 35.91 (8) 36.78 (©) 35.09 (a) 36.12 The mean of 14 observations is 7. One more observation is included and the new mean becomes 12. The 15th observation is: (a) 94 (6) 82 (c) 84 @ 910. 1. 13. 14. Elementary Mathematics 181 Find the average of ten consecutive multiples of 9, starting from the fifth multiple. (a) 85.50 (6) 87.34 (c) 84.97 (d) 86.78 What is the average of first 30 multiples of 127 (a) 185 (b) 186 (c) 187 (d) 188 ‘The average of four consecutive even numbers is 40. Find the largest of these numbers. (a) 37 (4) 40 (c) 34 @ 4 The mean of 10 observations is 19. One more observation is included and the new mean becomes 18. Then find the 11th observation? ? (a) 8 (6) 9 (©) 7 (@) 6 Average age of 36 students of a group is 15 years. When a teacher is included, the average increases by 3 year, what is the age of the teacher? (a) 90 (6) 87 (c) 89 (a) 88 The average of two numbers is 63.5. If 2 is added to the smaller number, then the ratio between smaller number to larger number becomes 1:2. What is the smaller number? (a) 44 (6) 43 ©) 42 @ 41 If the average of (p, q), (g, r) and (7, s) is 6, 1.5 and | respectively. Find the value of (p — 2r - 8). @5 (6) 7 © @9 The average age of 31 students in a class is 10 years. If the age of their teacher is 50 years, what is the average age of the students and teacher combined? (a) 11.25 () 11.75 (c) 10.50 (d) 10.95 The average of age of grandfather and grandmother is 75 years. If the age of granddaughter is included, the average of the three falls to 60. Find the age of granddaughter. (@) 20 (6) 25 (©) 30 (@) 35 David Warner's average increases by 3 on scoring 87 runs in his 17th innings. His new average is: (@) 36 (6) 42 (©) 39 @ 4 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 ané that of section B is 35kg, find the average weight ofthe whole i (@) 37.25 (6) 38.95 (©) 36.50 @ 39.16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. ‘2 i \d B is 778 km. A train eo) The distance between two stations A an vers the journey from A to B at 84 km per hour and returns beck iG a uniform speed of 56 km per hour. Find the average speed of train during the whole journey. (@) 65.20 —_(b) 68.30 (©) 69.50 (d) 67.20 The average of 50 numbers is 30. If two numbers, 35 and 40 are discarded, then the average of the remaining numbers is nearly: (a) 29.68 (6) 28.32 (c) 28.78 (@) 29.32 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. (a) 34.05 (b) 34.25 (c) 34.65 — (d) 34.75 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 Re 1. What was the original expenditure of the mess? (a) 450 (b) 490 (©) 420 (d) 400 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) 125 (6) 121 (c) 119 @ 117 David obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks (out of 100) in English, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. What are his average marks? (@ 75 (6) 65 (c) 85 @ 80 The average of runs of a cricket player of 10 innings was 32. How many runes must be made in his next innings so as to increase his average of runs by 4? (a) 76 (b) 82 (©) 86 @ 2 Average age of 5 children of the family is 11 years. Average age of their Parents and grandmother is 35 years. Find the average age of all the eight members of the family? @ 2 (2) 25 (©) 24 @ 20 The average weight of 48 students of a class is 36 kg. If the weights of teacher and principal is included. The average becomes 36.76 kg. Find the sum of the weights of teacher and principal? (@ 112 @) 118 (©) 110 @ 925. 26. 27. 28. 2 31. 32. 33, Flementary Mathematics 183 narks obtained by 40 students is 56, If of & students who failed in the examination a girl po average marks of students who passed the examinagor (a) 64.5 (b) 67.5 (c) 75.4 (d) 76.2 Ifa hostel's mess owner expends Rs. 6000 on vegetables, Rs. 4000 on spices and Rs. $500 on gas services per month for $0 cradon, hostel's mess. (a) 310 (6) 300 (c) 280 (d) 290 The average salary of Sanjay from January to June is Rs. 15000 and from July to September is Rs. 18000 and for last 3 months the average salary is Rs. 1500 more than July to September. Find the average annual salary of Sanjay, (a) 12875 (b) 16875 (c) 15875 (d) 18875 The average expenditure of Mahesh for the January to June is Rs. 10400 and he spends Rs. 5400 in January and Rs. 2000 in July. The average expenditure for the months of February to July is: {a) 8500 () 9000 (c) 9500 (@ 10000 A truck owner buys petrol at Rs. 6.50, Rs. 7 and Rs. 7.50 per litre for three successive years. What approximately will be the average cost per litre of petrol if he spends Rs. 9100 each year? (a) 7.02 (6) 6.45 © 697 - (d) 6.89 The perimeter of a square is 60 cm; find its area in sq. cm? (a) 100 () 196 (c) 225 (d) 256 The average weight of 40 girls is 50kg, another 40 girls is 60kg and another 20 girls is 40 kg. Find the average weight of all the girls. (a) S2kg (b) 56kg (©) 60kg (@) S0kg The average age of a 15-member cricket squad is 20 years. If the coach's age is included, the average increase to 24 years. What is the coach's age? (a) 81 yrs (b) 84 yrs (c) 89 yrs» (d) 85 yrs ; A tabulator whii culating the average marks of 100 students o: an exominaton ty piaLaInS Whey URGE ml as 68, instead of 96 and obtained the average as 60; the actual average is (a) 56.12 (b) 54.16 () 58.18 >i 60.28 ge The average of a certain set of x numbers is y average: certain set of y numbers is x. The average of all the numbers taken is (a) 1 : (6) Cannot be determined 2xy : sae © Gy O &+yH36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 55 boys was 67. But it marks secured by 3 : vm See cet an item 85 was misread as 30. What is the Corres f marks? Sie marks’ aaa (c) 69.20 (d) 68.5 e of a family is 24 years which is Consisting 5 a AE which the Saat being 6 years old. What woulg be the average age of the family just before his birth? (a) 18.5 (b) 19.5 (c) 21.5 @ 22.5 In a cricket team of 11 players, one player weighing 42kg is injured and his place is taken by a new player due to which the average weight of team is reduced by 100 grams. Find weight of new player approximately. @ 42 @) 41 © 43 @ 44 The average height in a group of 200 persons is 170 cm. After one year, the height of some of them increased by | cm, and that of remaining increased by 3 cm. The average height now became 171.4 cm. Of how many persons the height has increased by 3 cm? (@ 40 (b) 41 (c) 42 @ 2B The average monthly expenditure of Ram was Rs. 1000 during the first 3 months, Rs. 2400 during the next 4 months and Rs. 4320 during the subsequent five months of the year. If the total saving during the year was Rs, 2200, find Ram's average monthly income. (@) 3104.33 (4) 3100.33 (c) 3033.33 (d@) 3023.33 What will be the value of P?- Q2? (a) 24 (6) 25 (c) 26 (@) Cannot be Determined, The marks obtained by Nandan in Mathematics, Hindi and C are sporty 90 out of 100, 100 out of 150 and 165 out of 200 respectively. What are the average percentage scores obtained by him in all the three subjects? (a) 78.54 (4) 78.32 (c) 78.89 (d@) 78.91 Ina survey, the average weight of a group of 45 kids was calculated as 33 kgs. It was later discovered that the weight of one of the kids was read as 38 kgs, whereas her actual weight was 27 kgs. What is the actual average weight of the group of 45 kids? (Rounded off to two-digits after decimal) (a) 32.76 (5) 32.68 (c) 32.96 (d) 32.5444, 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. Y Mathematics 185 Gunjan and Abhinav begin together writing out a booklet containing 8190 line. Gunjan starts with the first line, writing at the speed of 200 lines an hour; and Abhinav starts with the last line, and then writes 8189th line and so on, Proceeding backward at the speed of 150 line an hour. How many lines will be written by Gunjan in the booklet? (a) 4850 (5) 4680 (c) 4960 (d) 4780 The average score of 5 batches of 20, 25, 30, 50 and 40 students respectively is 40, 50, 30, 40 and 20. Find the average score of all the students put together. (@) 34.84 (6) 34.56 (©) 34.68 — (d) 34.62 The average of four consecutive even numbers is 39. Find the largest of these numbers. (a) 36 (6) 38 (c) 40 (d) 42 The average of daily wages of Abhinav, Bhargav and Tony is Rs 440. If Bhargav earns 2 times as much as Abhinav earns and Tony earns 3 times as much as Abhinav earns. What are the daily wages of Tony? (a) 680 (b) 600 (c) 640 (@) 660 The average age of a man and his son is 18 years. The ratio of their ages is 5:1 respectively. What will be the ratio of their ages after 6 years? (a) 4:1 (8) 3:1 (c) 76 @ 103 Given below are two quantities named A and B. Based on the given information, you have to determine the relation between the two quantities. You should use the given data and your knowledge of Mathematics to choose between the possible answers. Quantity A: The average marks secured by 70 boys were 84. But it was discovered that an item 99 was misread as 66. What is the correct mean of marks? Quantity B: A student scored 77, 56, 85, 100, 99, 72 and 89 respectively in all the subjects. What is the average score obtained by him? (@) A=B (6) AB (@) Cannot be determined. The average annual income (in Rs.) of certain agricultural workers is P and that of other workers is Q. The number of agricultural workers is 9 times that of other workers. Then the average monthly income (in Rs.) of all the workers is: : @ Sara wo eee (©) both (a) and (5) (d) None of these.50. = 57. 58. ‘i ‘The average wages of a worker during a ion 5 consecutive working days was Rs.90 per day. 8 the firey days, his average wages was Rs.87/day and the average hee the last 7 days was Rs.92 /day. What was his wage op the th day? a (0) 93 5 es The average temperature on Wednesday, Thursday and Fi Tiday was 25 Celsius. The average temperature on Thursday, Friday ang Saturday was 24 Celsius. If the temperature on Saturday was 27 Celsius, what was the temperature on Wednesday? (a) 27 (6) 30 (©) 25 @ 2 When a student weighing 45 kgs left a class, the average weight of the remaining 59 students increased by 200 g. What is the average weight of the remaining 59 students? (@ 54 (6) 55 (c) 56 (@ 57 The difference between two angles of a triangle is 24 degrees. The average of the same two angles is 54 degrees . Which one of the following is the value of the greatest angle of the triangle? (@ 76 (6) 60 () 72 (@ 90 The average age of a family of 5 members is 20 years. If the age of the youngest member be 10 years then what was the average age of the family at the time of the birth of the youngest member? (@ 125 (6) 13.5 (©) 10.5 @ 15.5 _ Which one of the following numbers can be removed from the set S = {0, 2, 4, 5, 9} without changing the average of set S? (a) 2 (6) 3 © 4 @ 5 Average cost of 5 apples and 4 mangoes is Rs. 36. The average cost of 7 apples and 8 mangoes is Rs. 48. Find the total cost of 24 apples and 24 mangoes. as (a) 1642 (6) 2088 (c) 1728 @ 2m, Average of ten positive numbers is x. If ‘each number is increased by 10%, then x: : (a) remains same (8) increases (c) decreases (d) nothing can be said 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) 23 (b) 22 () 21 (@) 20Elementary Mathematics 187 (a) 528 (6) 536 (c) 542 60. The average monthly expenditure months is Rs. 2500, for the next three months Rs. 2400 and for the last five months Rs. 3000. If the family saves Rs. 6000 during the whole year, the average monthly income of the family during the ear is @) 3184.72 (b) 3183.68 —(c)_ 3184.58 (a) 3183.34 (d) 514 of a family for the first four v Answers LO 2#O 3@ 46 5 @ 6062@ £@ % © 01@ 1 2@ 3.0 146 15.(@) 16. (@) 17. (@)_— 18.) 19.) -20.)_21.() 22. (a) 23.4) 24. (©) 25. (6) 26. 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