Average – Set 5

1) The average age of the boys in a class is 16 years and that of the girls is 15 years. The average age for the whole class is-?

2) The average weight of 3 men A, B, and C is 84 kg. Another man D joins the group and the average now becomes 80 kg. If another man E, whose weight is 3 kg more than that of D, replaces A, then the average weight of B, C, D and E becomes 79 kg. The weight if A is-?

4) The average of five numbers is 306.4. The average of the first two numbers is 431 and the average of the last two numbers is 214.5. What is the third number?

5) A cricketer whose bowling average is 12.4 runs per wicket takes 5 wickets for 26 runs and thereby decreased his average by 0.4. The number of wickets taken by him the last match was-?

6) The average temperature for the first four days of a week is 40.2° C and that of the last four days is 41.3° C. If the average temperature for the whole 40.6°C, then the temperature on the fourth day is-?

8) The average sale of car dealership was 15 cars per week. After a promotional scheme the average sale increased to 21 cars per week. The percentage increased in the sale of cars was-?

9) The average of two numbers is XY. If one number is X, the other is-?

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12) A team of 8 persons joins in a shooting competition. The best marksman scored 85 points. If had scored 92 points, the average score for the team would have been 84. The number of points, the team scored was-?

13) Four years ago, the average age of A and B was 18 years. At present the average age of A, B, and C is 24 years. What would be the age of C after 8 years?

14) Find the average of all the numbers between 6 and 34 which are divisible by 5 -?

17) Find the average of 205, 302, 108, 403, and 202-?

18) The mean of 25 observations was found to be 78.4. But later on it was found that 96 were misread as 69. The correct means is-?

19) 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-?

20) The average of six numbers is x and the average of three of these is y. If the average of the remaining three is z, then-?

21) The average of the first five multiples of 3 is-?

22) The average weight of a class of 24 students is 35 kg. If the weight of the teacher be included, the average rises by 400 g. The weight of the teacher is -?

23) The average age of an adult class is 40 years. 12 new students with an average age of 32 years join the class, thereby decreasing the average by 4 years. The original strength of the class was-?

24) Five years ago the average age of A, B, C, D was 45 years. By including X the present average of all the five is 49 years. Them the present age of X is-?

25) The average of X₁, X₂ and X₃ is 14. Twice the sum of X₂ and X₃ is 30. What is the value of X₁?

26) The average age of students of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of boys in the class is 16.4 years and that of the girls is 15.4 years. The ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in the class is-?

27) The average of 11 results is 60. If the average of first six results is 58 and that of last six is 63, find the 6^th result-?

28) The average weight of 21 boys was recorded as 64 kg. If the weight of the teacher was added, the average increased by 1 kg. What was the teacher’s weight?

29) The average expenditure of a man for the first five months is Rs. 1200 and for the next seven months is Rs. 1300. If he saves Rs. 2900 in that year, his monthly average income is-?

30) A batsman makes a score of 84 runs in the 21^st inning and thus increases his average by 2 runs. His average after 21^st inning is-?

31) 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 of this eight-member joint family is nearest to-?

32) The average weight of 8 men is increased by 1.5 kg when one of the men, who weight 65 kg is replaced by a new man. The weight of the new man is-?

33) The average of the ages of Sumit, Krishna and Rishabh is 43 and the average of the ages of Sumit, Rishabh and Rohit is 49. If Rohit is 54 years old, what is Krishna’s age?

34) The average monthly income of P and Q is Rs. 5050. The average monthly income of Q and R is Rs. 6250 and the average monthly income of P and R is Rs. 5200. The monthly income of P is-?

35) The average age of the mother and her six children is 12 years which is reduced by 5 years if the age of the mother is excluded. How old is the mother ?

36) In a school with 600 students, the average age of the boys is 12 years and that of the girls is 11 years. If the average of the school is 11 years 9 months, then the average the number of girls in the school is 😕

37) When the average age of a couple and their son was 42 years, the son married and got a child after one year. When the child was 5 years old, the average age of the family became 36 years. What was the age of daughter-in- law at the time of their marriage ?

38) The arithmetic mean of the scores of a group of students in a test was 52. The brightest 20% of them secured a mean score of 80 and the dullest 25% a mean score of 31. The mean score of remaining 55% is-?

39) The average age of 3 children in a family is 20% of the average age of the father and the eldest child. The total age of the mother and the youngest child is 39 years. If the father’s age is 26 years, what is the age of the second child ?

40) The average of 11 players of a cricket team is decreased by 2 months when two of them aged 17 years and 20 years are replaced by two new players. The average age of the new players is-?

42) If 25a + 25b = 115, what is the average of a and b?

43) The mean high temperature of the first four days of a week is 25°C whereas the mean of the last four days is 25.5°C. If the mean of the whole week is 25.2°C, then the temperature of the 4th day is-?

44) The average of 6 numbers is 7. The average of three numbers of them is 5. What will be the average of remaining numbers?

45) Amount five people with monthly income (in Rs.) 15000, 26000, 16000, 19000, 50000, how many will have income less than the mean income of five people?

46) If the arithmetic mean of 0, 5, 4, 3 is a, that of -1, 0, 1, 5, 4, 3 is b and that of 5, 4, 3 is c, then the relation between a, b, and c is?

47) The average of the first 100 positive integers is-?

48) A shop of electronic goods is closed on Monday. The average daily sales for remaining six days of a week is Rs. 15,640 and the average sale of Tuesday to Saturday is Rs. 14,124. The sales on Sunday is -?