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RAVI KUMAR
Arithmetic
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Q.1) If average of 23, 15, 19, x, 12, 7 is 16 while average of 37, 28, 53, y, 42 is 41 then find x + y
a) 23
b) 39
c) 26
d) 65
Q2) The average of the first 100 positive integers :
50.5

Q3) The arithmetic mean of the following numbers 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 and 7, 7, 7, 7, 7,

Q4) The average of 5 consecutive odd numbers is 75. By adding which number, will the average become 76? 81

Q5) The average of four consecutive odd natural numbers is eight less than the average of three consecutive
even natural numbers. If the sum of these three even numbers is equal to the sum of above four odd numbers,
then the average of four original odd numbers
24
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Q6) The average of 35 consecutive natural numbers is N. Dropping the first 10 numbers and including
the next 10 numbers, the average is changed to M. If the value of M2 - N2 = 600, then the average of
3 M and 5 N is:
115
Q7) The sum of 17 consecutive numbers is 289. The sum of another 10 consecutive numbers, whose first term is 5
more than the average of the first set of consecutive numbers, is:
265
Q8) Average of n numbers is a. The first number is increased by 2, second one is increased by 4, the third one is
increased by 8 and so on. The average of the new numbers is

Q9) A student finds the average of ten 2-digit numbers. While copying numbers, by mistake, he writes one number with
its digits interchanged. As a result, his answer is 6.3 less than the correct answer.
The difference of the digits of the number, in which he made mistake, is
7
Q10) In a class of 180 students, 45% are girls and the remaining are boys. If the average of the girls' marks is 54 and
that of the boys is 46, what is the average of the whole class?
49.6

Q11) The average of five positive numbers is 56. If the first number is three-fourth of the sum of the last four numbers,
then the average of the last four numbers is:
40
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Q12) When 2 is subtracted from each of the given n numbers, then the sum of the numbers so obtained is
102. When 5 is subtracted from each of them, then the sum of the numbers so obtained is 12. What is the average of
the given n numbers?

Q13) Of the three numbers, the average of the first and the second is greater than the average of the second and the
third by 15. What is the difference between the first and the third of the three numbers?

Q14) In a class of 60 students, 40% are girls. The average weight of the whole class is 59.2kg and the average weight
of the girls is 55kg. What is the average weight of the boys?

Q15) The average height of 5 boys is 175 cm. A sixth boy joined the group and the average height of all the oys in the
group now increased by one centimetre. The height of the sixth boy is:

Q16) The weight of 9 members out of 22 are measured consecutively and their average weight is calculated after each
member is weighted. if the average weight increases by 1 kg each time, how much heavier is the 9th person than the
first one?

Q17) A library has an average of 265 visitors on Sundays and 130 visitors on other days. The average number of
visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Monday is:
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Q18) In a class of 80 students, 60% participate in games and the rest do not. The average weight of the former group
is 5% more than that of the latter. If the average weight of all the students is 51 ½ , then what is the average weight (in
kg) of the former group?

Q19) The average salary of a person for the months of February, March, April and May is Rs 12,000, and that for the
months March, April, May and June is Rs 3,000. If his salary for the month of June is Rs 6,000, then what is his salary
for the month of February?

Q20) The average of n numbers is 58. If each of 65% of the numbers is increased by 16 and each of the remaining
numbers is decreased by 9, then the new average of the numbers:

Q21) In JECRC college in [Link]. ECE branch there are three sections A, B and C. If number of students in section A,
B and C are 95, 209 and 171 respectively and the average marks of section A, B and C in an exam are 83, 78 and 85
respectively. What is the average marks of ECE branch?

Q22) If the average of 35 numbers is 22, the average of the first 17 numbers is 19, and the average of the last 17
numbers is 20, then the 18t number is:

Q23) The average of 33 numbers is 74. The average of the first 17 numbers is 72.8 and that of the last 17 numbers is
77.2. If the 17th number is excluded, then what will be the average of the remaining numbers (correct to one decimal
place)?
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Q24) The average weight of some students in a class was 58.4 kg, when 5 students having the average weight 62.8kg
joined the class, the average weight of all students in the increases by 0.55 kg. The number of students initially in the
class were:

Q25) The average weight of the students in a group 75.4 kg. Later on, four students having weights 72.9 kg, 73.8 kg,
79.5 kg and 87.4 kg joined the group. As a result, the average weight of all the students in the group increased by 240
gm. What was the number of students in the group initially?

Q26) The average weight of a certain number of students in a group is 72 kg. If 10 students having an average weight
of 78 kg leave and 4 students having an average weight of 80 kg join the group, the average weight of the students in
the decreases by 0.7 kg. The number of students initially in the group is:

Q27) Three numbers are such that if the average of any two of them is added to the third number, the sums obtained
are 168, 174 and 180 respectively. What is the average of the original three numbers?

Q28) The average of thirteen numbers is 80. The average of the first five numbers is 74.5 and that of the next five
numbers is 82.5. The 11th number is 6 more than the 12th number and the 12th number is 6 less than the 13th
number. What is the average of the 11th and the 13th number?

Q29) A bowler, whose bowling average is 24.85 runs per wicket. In next match he takes 5 wickets for 52 runs and
thereby decreases his average by 0.85. The number of wickets taken by him till the last match is?
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Q30) The average of A, B and C is 18 and that of C, D and E is 12 and that of E and F is 6.5 and that of E and C is 3.5.
What is the average of A, B, C, D, E and F?

Q31) In a group of 150 people, 2/5 are men, 1/3 are women and the rest are children. The average age of the women
is 4/5 of the average age of the men. The average age of the children is 1/5 of the average age of the men. If the
average age of the men is 50 years, then the average age of all the people in the group is:

Q32) A boy was asked of his age by his friend. The boy said, The number you get when you subtract 25 times my age
from twice the square of my age will be thrice your age. If the friend's age is 14, then the age of the boy is

Q33) A says, "If you reverse my own age, the figures represent my Brother's age. He is, of course, senior t me and the
difference between our ages is one-eleventh of their sum." Then A's brother's age is?

Q34) The sum of the present ages of a father and his son is 99 years. When the father was as old as he is now, his
age was four times the age of the son at that time. The ratio of the present ages of the son and the father is
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Q35) 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 age of this eight member joint family is nearest to:

Q36) While purchasing an item costing Rs. 400, one has to pay sales tax at 7% and on another item costing Rs. 6400,
he has to pay sales tax at 9%. The average percent sales tax one has to pay, on buying these two items, will be:

Q37) The average height of 22 toddlers increases by 2 inches when two of them leave this group. If the average height
of these two toddlers is one-third the average height of the original 22, then the average height, in inches, of the
remaining 20 toddlers is:

Q38) A number P, when added to a set of 24 numbers, increases the arithmetic mean of the set by a positive integer k.
If another number Q, is then added to the set of 25 numbers, the arithmetic mean of the set decreases by 2k. Which of
the following could be the difference between P and Q?

Q39) Ramesh and Gautam are among 22 students who write an examination. Ramesh scores 82.5. The average
score of the 21 students other than Gautam is 62. The average score of all the 22 students is one more than the
average score of the 21 students other than Ramesh. The score of Gautam is:

Q40) A set of several consecutive natural numbers beginning with 1 was written on the board. A number, out of those
numbers written, was erased and the average of the-remaining numbers was found to be 28 4/9 . Find the number that
was erased.
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Q41) A set of consecutive positive integers beginning with 1 is written on the blackboard. A student came along and
erased one number. The average of the remaining numbers is 35 7/ 17 . What was the number erased?

Q42) Two consecutive numbers are removed from a list of first 'n' natural numbers. The average of the remaining
numbers is 21 1/3 . What is the product of the two numbers that have been removed?

Q45) There are a certain number of consecutive natural numbers written on a blackboard. If one of them is erased,
then the average of the remaining numbers is 32 7/24 Which of the following could be the number that was erased?

Q46) There are certain number of boxes numbered 1, 2, 3 and so on, each of which contains exactly as many apples
as the number on the respective box. One of these boxes is now emptied so that the average number of apples per
box becomes 15. Which of the following can be the total number of apples that were there initially?

Q47) Raman studying a chemical course, calculated the average weight of all the students of the class as A. He also
calculated the average of average weights of all the possible pairs of class students as B. Further, he calculated the
average of average weights of all the possible triplets of class students as C. Find the value of. A +C/ B

Q48) A class consists of 60 boys and 40 girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average score of the girls was 5
less than the average score of the boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the girls increased by 7 while
the average score of the entire class increased by 1. The decrease of the average score of the boys in
the final exam is:
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Q49) A class consists of 60 boys and 80 girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average score of the girls was 7
higher than that of the boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the girls dropped by 4, while the average
score of the entire class increased by 2. The increase in the average score of the boys in the final exam is?

Q50) A class consists of 20 boys and 30 girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average score of the girls was 5
higher than that of the boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the girls dropped by 3 while the average
score of the entire class increased by 2. The increase in the average score of the boys is:

Q51) A local merchant mixed four types of sugar S1, S2, S3 and S4 priced at Rs 62, Rs 68, Rs 72, and Rs 80
respectively in the ratio 3: 4: 6: 7 respectively. To 10 kg of this mixture, he adds S1 and S4 in the ratio 4: 9 such that
the average cost of per kg of the mixture becomes Rs 74. How much kg of S1 was added to the 10 kg of mixture?

Q52) A, B, C and D are standing in the ascending order of their heights respectively. The average height is 74 inches.
The difference in height between each pair of adjacent persons among the first three friends in the given order is 2
inches. The difference between the heights of the third and the fourth person is 6 inches. What is the height of the
tallest person?

Q53) Average of 3 integer is 13, when a number n is included the average of 4 integers remains odd, minimum
possible value of n is.

Q54) Urvashi mixes three varieties of wheat costing Rs 10 per kg, Rs 13 per kg and Rs 14 per kg and sells the mixture
at Rs 18 per kg and thereby incurring a gain of 50%. If the mixture contains 5 kg of the first variety, x kg of the second
variety and y kg of the third variety then the maximum possible integral value of (x + y) is?
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Q55) In an apartment complex, the number of people aged 51 years and above is 30 and there are at most 39 people
whose ages are below 51 years. The average age of all the people in the apartment complex is 38 years. What is the
largest possible average age, in years, of the people whose ages are below 51 years?

Q56) The average earning of a group of person is Rs. 50 per day. The difference between the highest earning and the
lowest earning of any two person of the group is Rs. 45. If these two people are excluded, the average earning of the
group decreases by Re. 1. If the minimum earning of the person in the group lies between 42 and 47, and the number
of persons initially in the group was equal to a prime number, then the number of persons in the group initially was:

Q57) In a class of 51 students, the difference between the highest mark and the least mark is 70. If the average score
is calculated without considering the student who got the highest mark, then the average score decreases by 1%. If the
average score is calculated without considering the student who got the least mark, then the average score increased
by 1 1/3 %. What is the original score of class?

Q58) Average of 20 observation is 36. If smallest observation is 22 and all observation is integer and distinct. Find the
maximum value of any one observation?

Q59) The average marks of the students in four sections A, B, C and D together is 60%. The average marks of the
students of A, B, C and D individually is 45%, 50%, 72% and 80% respectively. If the average marks of the students of
section A and B together is 48% and that of the students of section B and C together is 60%. What is the ratio of the
number of students in section A and D?
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Q60) The average marks of classes A, B, C in a certain test are 62, 71, 79 respectively. The average marks of classes
A and B is 66. The average marks of classes B and C is 74. The average marks of classes A and C approximately is:

Q61) In the Adams family, the average weight of 70 family members is 60 kg. The ratio of the total number of men to
the total number of women is 9: 5, and the ratio of the average weight of women to the average weight of men is 5 : 7.
Find the average weight (in kg) of the women.

Q62) The average of N distinct integers is 47. The following operations are performed on these numbers: one-fifth of
the numbers each are increased by 12, three-tenth of the numbers each are increased by 6 and each of the remaining
integers is decreased by 'n'. If the new average of the N integers is 49.2, then what is the value of 'n’?

Q63) The arithmetic mean of a set of 'n' numbers was calculated wrongly as 20, since the digits of one of the numbers,
which happened to be a two-digit natural number, were interchanged. When calculated after the correction, the mean
was found to be 26. How many values of 'n' are possible?