AVERAGE

Ahmad earned Rs. 45,696/-in a year. What is the average monthly income?

A. 3,508
B. 2,888
C. 3,656
D. 3,808

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Correct Answer: D. 3,808 

Rashid buys 3 books for Rs.16 each and four books for Rs. 23 each. What will be the average
price of the books?

A. 24
B. 18
C. 20
D. 22

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Correct Answer: C. 20

If 7 x =1/(3+4), then the value of X is:

A. -3
B. 3
C. 1/3
D. 1/7

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Correct Answer: A. -3 

A bookseller sold a book for Rs. 60/- to make a profit of 20%. In order to earn a profit of 10%,
he should have sold it for:

A. 55
B. 50
C. 65.5
D. 70

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Correct Answer: A. 55

Ahmad earned Rs. 45,696/-in a year. What is the average monthly income?

A. 3,508
B. 2,888
C. 3,656
D. 3,808

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Correct Answer: D. 3,808

A man spends Rs. 3,300/-. This was 75% of his monthly income. His monthly income is ____.

A. 4,000
B. 4,400
C. 4,500
D. 3,500

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Correct Answer: B. 4,400

25% of 30% of 45% is equal to _____.

A. 0.035
B. 0.0235
C. 0.0525
D. 0.03375

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Correct Answer: D. 0.03375 

What will be the cost of building a fence around a square plot with area equal to 289 sq ft, if
the price per foot of building the fence is Rs. 58?

A. Rs. 3154
B. Rs. 3748
C. Rs. 3847
D. Rs. 3944

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Correct Answer: D. Rs. 3944

The average monthly salary of 24 employees in an organisation is Rs. 1500. If the manager’s
salary is added, then the average salary increases by Rs. 400. What is the manager’s monthly
salary?

A. Rs. 8840
B. Rs. 9450
C. Rs. 11,500
D. Rs. 12,800

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Correct Answer: C. Rs. 11,500

The average weight of a group of boys is 30 kg. After a boy of weight 35 kg joins the group,
the average weight of the group goes up by 1 kg. Find the number of boys in the group
originally?

A. 4
B. 6
C. 7
D. 9

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Correct Answer: A. 4

The ratio of speeds of a car, a train and a bus is [Link]. The average speed of the car, the bus
and the train is 72 km/hr together. What is the average speed of the car and the train
together?

A. 60 km/hr
B. 72 km/hr
C. 84 km/hr
D. 96 km/hr

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Correct Answer: C. 84 km/hr

A cricketer has a certain average for 10 innings, In the eleventh inning, he scored 108 runs,
thereby increasing his average by 6 runs. His new average is:

A. 44 runs
B. 46 runs
C. 48 runs
D. 49 runs

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Correct Answer: C. 48 runs

Murtaza average expenditure for January to June is Rs. 4200 and he spends Rs.1200 in
January and Rs.1500 in July. The average expenditure for the months of February to July is:

A. Rs. 4060
B. Rs. 4250
C. Rs. 4520
D. Rs. 4870

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Correct Answer: B. Rs. 4250

In a men’s hostel, there were 95 students. To accommodate 30 more students the average is
decreased by rupees 5. But total expenditure increased by Rs.500. Find the total expenditure
of the hostel now?

A. Rs. 4420
B. Rs. 4680
C. Rs. 4960
D. Rs. 5480

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Correct Answer: B. Rs. 4680

The average age of 7 boys is increased by 1 year when one of them whose age is replaced by
a girl. What is the age of the girl?

A. 21 years
B. 27 years
C. 29 years
D. 33 years

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Correct Answer: C. 29 years

On a school’s Annual day sweets were to be equally distributed amongst 112 children. But on
that particular day, 32 children were absent. Thus the remaining children got 6 extra sweets.
How many sweets was each child originally supposed to get?

A. 12
B. 14
C. 15
D. 16

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Correct Answer: C. 15

The average of marks in 3 subjects is 224. The first subject marks are twice the second and
the second subject marks is twice the third. Find the second subject marks?

A. 96
B. 192
C. 384
D. 206

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Correct Answer: B. 192

Out of the five integral numbers C is the average of A and D. B is greater than C and less than
[Link] B is the average of A and E . The middle most number in the sequence?

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D

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Correct Answer: B. B

It costs Rs. p each to send the first thousand messages and Rs. q to send each subsequent
one . If r is greater than 1,000, how many Rupees will it cost to send r messages?

A. 1000 (r – p) + pq
B. 1000 p + qr
C. 1000 (r – q) + pr
D. 1000(p – q) + qr

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Correct Answer: D. 1000(p – q) + qr

20 men went to a restaurant. Nineteen of them paid Rs.70 each and the twentieth man paid
Rs.90.25 more than the average of all the 20 men. What is the total bill?

A. Rs. 548
B. Rs. 850
C. Rs. 1495
D. Rs. 1750

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Correct Answer: C. Rs. 1495

Asif has scored average of 65 marks in three objects. In no subjects has he secured less than
58 marks. He has secured more marks in Maths than other two subjects. What could be his
maximum score in Maths?

A. 73
B. 76
C. 77
D. 79

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Correct Answer: D. 79

Asif was conducting an experiment in which the average of 11 observations came to be 92,
while the average of first five observations was 89, and that of the last five was 86. What was
the measure of the 6th observation?

A. 134
B. 137
C. 139
D. 141

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Correct Answer: B. 137

If the average height of boys in a hall is 180 cm and that of girls is 150 cm. If the average
height of the gathering is 165 cm, then find the number of girls present in the hall if the
number of boys present in the hall are 78?

A. 56
B. 64
C. 78
D. 87

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Correct Answer: C. 78

A batsman scores 26 runs and increases his average from 14 to 15. Find the runs to be made
if he wants top increasing the average to 19 in the same match?

A. 60
B. 72
C. 74
D. 79

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Correct Answer: C. 74

The average age of the district level hockey team of eleven is 22 years. The average age gets
increased by 1 year when the coach age is also [Link] is the age of the coach ?

A. 33 yrs
B. 34 yrs
C. 35 yrs
D. 36 yrs

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Correct Answer: B. 34 yrs

When all the students in a school are made to stand in rows of 54, 30 such rows are formed.
If the students are made to stand in rows of 45, how many such rows will be formed?

A. 22
B. 26
C. 32
D. 36

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Correct Answer: D. 36

The average marks of a student in 7 subjects is 85. His average marks in 6 subjects except
English is 83. What is his marks in English?

A. 92
B. 93
C. 97
D. 98

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Correct Answer: C. 97

Aslam has thrice the money Rizwan has and Rizwan has 25% more money than Babar. If the
average money of the three is Rs. 350, What is the amount that Aslam has?

A. Rs. 175
B. Rs. 220.75
C. Rs. 218.55
D. Rs. 656.25

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Correct Answer: D. Rs. 656.25

The mean of 100 observations is 40. It is found that an observation 84 was misread as 48.
Then the correct mean is:

A. 40.36
B. 41.24
C. 41.92
D. 42.05

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Correct Answer: A. 40.36

The average age of a class is 19 years. While the average age of girls is 18 and that of boys is
21. If the number of girls in the class is 16, Find the number of Boys in the class?

A. 6
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12

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Correct Answer: B. 8

19 friends went to a restaurant for a combined weekend dinner party. 13 of them spent Rs. 79
each on their dinner and the rest spent Rs. 4 more than the average expenditure of all the 19.
What was the total money spent by them?

A. Rs. 1398.96
B. Rs. 1457.09
C. Rs. 1662.35
D. Rs. 1536.07

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Correct Answer: D. Rs. 1536.07

P, Q, R, S, T and U are six consecutive odd numbers and their average is 52. What is the
product of P and U?

A. 2212
B. 2154
C. 2349
D. 2679

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Correct Answer: D. 2679

12 boys decided to contribute Rs. 750 each to an Orphanage. Suddenly few of them boys
dropped out and consequently the rest had to pay Rs. 150 more. Then the number of boys
who dropped out?

A. 2
B. 4
C. 7
D. 9

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Correct Answer: A. 2

The average of 10 numbers is 23. If each number is increased by 4, what will the new average
be?

A. 22
B. 27
C. 25
D. 29

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Correct Answer: B. 27