APTITUDE MASTERY SERIES

MODULE 3 – AVERAGE

1. The average of 7 consecutive odd numbers if the 7. In a particular week the average number of people
smallest of those numbers is denoted by k is: who visited Golkonda is 40. If we exclude the
(a) k + 4 (b) k + 7 (c) k + 6 (d) 7k holidays, then the average increases by 16. If we
also exclude the day on which maximum number
2. The average income of A, B and C is Rs.12000 per of people - 112 visited Golkonda, then the average
month and the average income of B, C and D is becomes 42. The number of holidays in the week
Rs.15000 per month. If the average salary of D be is:
twice that of A, then the average salary of B and C (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
is (in Rs.):
(a) 8000 (b) 13500 (c) 18000 (d) 9000 8. The average age of a group of persons going for a
movie is 20 years. 10 new persons with an average
3. The average weight of a class of 20 students is 45 age of 10 years join the group on the spot due to
kgs. When a new student whose weight is 40 kgs which the average of the group becomes 18 years.
replaces an old student, the average weight of the Find the number of persons initially going for the
whole class decreases by 1 kg. The weight of the movie?
replaced student is: (a) 40 (b) 20 (c) 50 (d) 30
(a) 55 kgs (b) 50 kgs (c) 60 kgs (d) 62 kgs
9. The average age of 10 men increases by 3 years
4. There were five sections in the MAT paper. The when one of them, whose age is 54 years is
average score of Pooja in the first 3 sections was replaced by a woman. What is the age of the
83 and the average in the last 3 sections was 97. If woman?
her average for the entire paper was 92, then her (a) 68 years (b) 82 years
score in the third section was: (c) 72 years (d) 84 years
(a) 85 (b) 92 (c) 88 (d) 80
10. Satyajit earns 3/2 times in January, April, July and
5. There are twice the number of two wheelers as October than his average earning of Rs.600 per
there are three wheelers and the number of four month in the rest of the months. As a result, his
wheelers are equal to the number of two wheelers. savings in January, April, July and October goes to
The average number of wheels per vehicle is: 5/4 times of Rs. 400, which is his savings per
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5 month in the rest of the months. What is his average
expenditure per month?
6. Once Ajay went to the office of ROCKLINE (a) Rs.266.66 (b) Rs.250
COURIER with 4 different envelopes. The clerk (c) Rs.233.33 (d) Rs.433.33
in the office measured the weights in all possible
pairs. The weights obtained are 59gm, 61gm, 11. A man had ten children. When their average age
62gm, 63gm, 64gm and 66gm. The weight of the was 15 years, a child aged 6 years died. The
heaviest envelope is: average age of the remaining 9 children is:
(a) 35gm (b) 36gm (a) 16 years (b) 13 years
(c) 34gm (d) can’t be determined (c) 17 years (d) 15 years

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12. The average temperature on Monday, Tuesday and 17. The average age of 60 students of IIM Bangalore
Wednesday is 38˚ C. The average temperature on of the 2005 batch is 23 years. What will be the new
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday is 43˚ C. If the average if we include the 40 faculty members
whose average age is 35 years?
average temperature on Monday and Thursday is
(a) 27 years (b) 26.5 years
18.5˚ C. The average temperature on Monday is:
(c) 27.8 years (d) 28 years
(a) 11˚C (b) 21˚C (c) 35˚C (d) 27˚C
18. The average weight of 3 boys A, B and C is 74 kg.
13. The average weight of all the 11 players of Indian Another boy D joins the group and the average
Cricket Team is 50 kg. If the average of first six now becomes 70 kg. If another boy E, whose
lightest players is 49 kg and that of the six heaviest weight is 3 kg more than that of D, replaces A then
players is 52 kg, then the average weight of the the average weight of B, C, D and E becomes 75
player who lies in the sixth position when all the kg. The weight of A is:
11 players are arranged in the order of increasing (a) 40 kg (b) 42 kg
or decreasing weights is: (c) 49 kg (d) 41 kg
(a) 51 kg (b) 52 kg
(c) 56 kg (d) none of these 19. The average presence of students in a class on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is 30 and on
14. A number is such that when it is multiplied by 8, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday is 28.
it gives another number which is as much more Find the number of students who attended the class
than 270 as the original number itself is less than on Wednesday if the average number of students
270. The average of the original number and the on all the six days is 27.
resultant number is: (a) 24 (b) 25 (c) 20 (d) 40
(a) 33.75 (b) 190
(c) Can’t be determined (d) 270 20. The average salary of employees in BPL is
Rs.20000, the average salary of managers being
15. A travel agency has three types of vehicles viz. 4 Rs.40000 and the management trainees being
seater autorickshaw, 10 seater maxi cab and 20 Rs.5000. The total number of workers could be:
seater minibus. The rate for each passenger (a) 350 (b) 300
(irrespective of his age or weight or seniority) for (c) 100 (d) 500
the autorickshaw is Rs. 12, for the maxicab is
Rs.15 and for the minibus is Rs.8 for one round.
The average occupancy of the seats is 100%, 80%
and 75% respectively. If the travel agency has only
one vehicle of each kind, then the average earning
for one round is:
(a) Rs.96 (b) Rs.90 (c) Rs.86 (d) Rs.70

HOME WORK

16. There are 6 consecutive odd numbers in increasing

order. The difference between the average of the
squares of the first 4 numbers and the last four
numbers is 64. If the sum of the squares of the first
and the last element (i.e., odd numbers) is 178,
then the average of all the six numbers is:
(a) 7 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) 10