Averages

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 Question 1

You along with 5 of your friends go for an outing. You have Rs.
31,348, Rs. 26,348, Rs.23,348, Rs. 27,348, Rs. 32,348 and Rs.
35,348 with you. You plan to divide that amount equally among
yourselves before starting for this trip. All six of you agree to donate
the unspent money to an orphanage. What is the amount with each
person at the start of the journey?
 Question 2
You along with 5 of your friends go for an outing. You have Rs.
31,348, Rs. 26,348, Rs.23,348, Rs. 27,348, Rs. 32,348 and Rs. 35,348
with you. You plan to divide that amount equally among yourselves
before starting for this trip. All six of you agree to donate the unspent
money to an orphanage.
If the last person lost his money when he was about to reach the starting
point and you still agree to share the money equally, what will be the amount
with each of you when you are starting?
 Question 3
A pupil's mark was wrongly entered as 83 instead of 63. Due to
that, the average mark of the class increased by half a mark. The
number of pupils in the class is:

A) 40
B) 20
C) 10
D) 73
 Question 4
In the first 5 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was 4.6. What
should be the run rate in the remaining 15 overs to reach the
target of 183 run in 20 overs match?

A) 6.25
B) 10.5
C) 10.67
D) 10.75
 Question 5
When a student weighing 45 kgs left the class, the weight of the
remaining 59 students increased by 200g. What is the average
weight of the remaining 59 students?

A) 57
B) 69
C) 54
D) None of these
 Question 6
Four friends have an average weight of 68. If John is also included
in the group, the average weight becomes 72. What is John’s
weight?

A) 88
B) 94
C) 67
D) None of these
 Question 7
Average height of class A is 160 cm and that of class B is 170 cm.
Find the average height of students of both the classes put
together?

A) 84
B) 116
C) 136
D) Cannot be determined
 Question 8
The average score of 70 students is 35. The average score of first
28 students is 53. Find the average of the remaining students.

A) 42
B) 23
C) 53
D) 67
 Question 9
The average weight of 32 students in class A is 78 kg and the
average weight of 96 students in class B is 38 kg. Find the combined
average of both the classes.

A) 42

B) 58
C) 48

D) 59
 Question 10
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?

A) 23

B) 22

C) 21
D) 20
 Question 11
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?

A) 25
B) 22.5
C) 24
D) 21.5
 Question 12
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?

A) 40
B) 15
C) 20
D) 30
 Question 13
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:

A) 13
B) 12
C) 3
D) 11
 Question 14
A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sundays and 240 on
other days. What is the average number of visitors per day in a
month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday?

A) 290
B) 300
C) 285
D) 230
 Question 15
The average height of 30 boys out of a class of 50 boys is 160 cm.
If the average height of the remaining boys is 165 cm, the average
height of the entire class (in cm) is:

A) 161
B) 162
C) 163
D) 164
 Question 16
9 men visited a hotel. 8 of them spent Rs.4 each for their meal and
the 9th man spent Rs. 2 more than the average of all the nine. The
total money spent by them for the meal is

A) 38.25
B) 40
C) 42.25
D) 50
 Question 17
5 Scores in a classroom are broken into 5 different ranges, 51-60, 61-70,
71-80, 81-90 and 91-100. The number of students who have scored in each
range is given below.51 to 60 - 3 students, 61 to 70 - 8 students, 71 to 80 -
7 students, 81 to 90 - 4 students, 91 to 100 - 3 students. Furthermore, we
know that the number of students who scored 76 or more is at least one
more than those who scored below 75. What is the minimum possible
average overall of this class?

A) 71.2

B) 70.6

C) 69.2

D) 72
 Question 18

In a sequence of 25 terms, can 20 terms be below the average? Can 20

terms be between median and average?
 Question 19
Consider a class of 40 students whose average weight is 40 kgs. m new
students join this class whose average weight is n kgs. If it is known that m
+ n = 50, what is the maximum possible average weight of the class now?

A) 40.18 kg

B) 40.56 kg

C) 40.67 kg

D) 40.49 kg
 Question 20
The average score in an examination of 10 students of a class is 60. If the
scores of the top five students are not considered, the average score of the
remaining students falls by 5. The pass mark was 40 and the maximum
mark was 100. It is also known that none of the students failed. If each of
the top five scorers had distinct integral scores, the maximum possible
score of the topper is......

A) 100

B) 87

C) 95

D) 99
 Question 21

From 10 numbers, a, b, c,...j, all sets of 4 numbers are chosen and their
averages computed. Will the average of these averages be equal to the
average of the 10 numbers?
 Question 22
Arun has 13 boxes of chocolates with him, with an average of 17
chocolates per box. If each box has at least 11 chocolates and no two
boxes have equal number of chocolates, then what can be the maximum
possible number of chocolates in any box?

A) 23

B) 25

C) 29

D) Cannot be determined
 Question 23
At a certain upscale restaurant, there just two kinds of food items: entrees
and appetizers. Each entrée item costs $30, and each appetizer item costs
$12. Last year, it had a total of 15 food items on the menu, and the
average price of a food item on its menu was $18. This year, it added
more appetizer items, and the average price of a food item on its menu
dropped to $15. How many appetizer items did it add this year?

A) 3

B) 6

C) 9

D) 15
 Question 24
In a certain apartment building, there are one-bedroom and two-bedroom
apartments. The rental prices of the apartment depend on a number of
factors, but on average, two-bedroom apartments have higher rental prices
than do one-bedroom apartments. Let R be the average rental price for all
apartments in the building. If R is $5,600 higher than the average rental
price for all one-bedroom apartments, and if the average rental price for all
two-bedroom apartments is $10,400 higher that R, then what percentage of
apartments in the building are two-bedroom apartments?
A) 26%

B) 35%

C) 39%

D) 42%
 Question 25
Ramesh analysed the monthly salary figures of five vice presidents of his
company. All the salary figures are in integer lakhs. The mean and the
median salary figures are Rs. 5 lakhs, and the only mode is Rs. 8 lakhs.
Which of the options below is the sum (in Rs. lakhs) of the highest and the
lowest salaries?

A) 9

B) 10

C) 11

D) 12
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