16.

What is the average of first 10

multiples of 9? a) 45, b) 36, c) 44.5, d)
AVERAGES 49.5
1. The average of 23, 21, 19, x, 22, 24 is
20. Find x. a) 10, b) 11, c) 12, d) 13 17. The average of a and b is 36. The
average of b and c is 42. What is the
2. Average of 27 numbers is zero. Out of difference between c and a? a) 18, b)
them, how many may be greater than 12, c) 16, d) 14
zero, at the most? a) 0, b) 15, c) 26, d)
20 18. The average of 7 consecutive numbers
is 20. The largest of these numbers is
3. Find the average of all natural numbers a) 24, b) 23, c) 22, d) 20
up to 100. a) 100, b) 50, c) 50.5, d)
49.5 19. The average of nine consecutive odd
numbers is 53. The smallest odd
4. Find the average of first 25 odd number is a) 21, b) 27, c) 35, d) 45
numbers. a) 25, b) 26, c) 50, d) 25.5
20. The average of 5 consecutive even
5. Find the average of first 30 even numbers is 22. Find the sum of
numbers. a) 30, b) 31, c) 29, d) 60 smallest and largest even number. a)
40, b) 44, c) 30, d) 46
6. The average of all odd numbers up to
100 is a) 99, b) 50, c) 50.5, d) 49 21. The average of 6 consecutive even
numbers is 11. Find the product of
7. Average of 2, 4, 6, 8, …, 40 is a) 20, smallest and largest even number. a)
b) 21, c) 20.5, d) 41 96, b) 98, c) 106, d) 94

8. Average of the first 1234 ______ 22. The average of 25 consecutive odd
numbers is equal to 1234. a) Odd, b) integers is 55. The highest of these
Even, c) Prime, d) Natural integers is a) 81, b) 79, c) 77, d) 75

9. Average of the first 101 ______ 23. If a, b, c, d, e are five consecutive odd
numbers is equal to 102. a) Odd, b) numbers, their average is a) 5(a+b), b)
Even, c) Perfect square, d) Natural a+4, c) a+e, d) 5a

10. The average of square of natural 24. The average of five consecutive even
numbers from 1 to 10 is a) 100, b) numbers is M. If the next five even
38.5, c) 50, d) 37.5 numbers are also included, the average
of ten numbers will be a) M+10, b) 11,
11. Average of 13, 23, 33, …, 103 is a) c) M+5, d) 10
302.5, b) 303.5, c) 300, d) 301.5
25. The average of 10 numbers is 8. If
12. Average of 101, 102, 103, …, 999 is a) each number is multiplied by 3, then
550, b) 650, c) 500, d) 600 the average of new set of numbers is a)
8, b) 11, c) 24, d) 28
13. Average of 20, 30, 40, 50, …, 180 is a)
200, b) 100, c) 150, d) 175 26. The average of 20 observations is 50.
If 1 is subtracted from each
14. Average of 51, 53, 55, …, 77 is a) 128, observation, what is the average of
b) 64, c) 120, d) 114 new set of numbers? a) 50, b) 49, c)
51, d) 0
15. Average of 11, 14, 17, …, 47 is a) 29,
b) 30, c) 28, d) 32
27. The average of six numbers a, b, c, d, e marks of students of all classes
is N. 5 is added to each number. What together? a) 157.5, b) 162.5, c) 155.5,
is the new average? a) 5N, b) N-5, c) d) 167.5
N+5, d) N
37. The average weight of all the vehicles
28. The average of 8 numbers is 44. If a in a parking is 4000 kg. The average
constant ‘Y’ is added to each number, weight of 12 vehicles is 6000 kg.
then average becomes 47. What is the Average weight of the remaining
value of ‘Y’? a) 21, b) 3, c) 8, d) 24 vehicles is 3000 kg. What is the total
number of vehicles in the parking? a)
29. The average of a and b is 10, average 40, b) 36, c) 20, d) 30
of b and c is 12, and average of c and a
is 15. Find the average of a, b, and c. a) 38. The average age of four brothers is 12
37/3, b) 74/3, c) 74, d) 37 years. If the age of their mother is also
included, the average is increased by 5
30. The average of x numbers is y. years. The age of the mother in years is
Average of y numbers is x. Then a) 37, b) 43, c) 48, d) 53
average of all the numbers taken
together is [no options provided] 39. Average weight of 25 students of a
class is 50 kg. If the weight of the class
31. The average of x numbers is y² and the teacher is included, the average is
average of y numbers is x². So the increased by 1 kg. The weight of the
average of all the numbers taken teacher is a) 76 kg, b) 77 kg, c) 74 kg,
together is [no options provided] d) 75 kg

32. If the average of 30 results is 20 and 40. The average age of 30 students is 9
the average of 20 results is 30, what is years. If the age of their teacher is
the average of all the results? a) 24, b) included, the average age becomes 10
48, c) 25, d) 50 years. The age of the teacher in years is
a) 27, b) 31, c) 35, d) 40
33. The average marks of 32 boys in a
class is 60. The average of 40 girls is 41. Average expenditure of 50 students is
33. Find the average marks of the 455. Average decreases by 5 when
class. a) 44, b) 45, c) 46½, d) 45½ expenditure of 1 student is included.
Find expenditure of the new student. a)
34. The average age of 50 teachers of a 200, b) 250, c) 450, d) 400
school is 66 years and the average age
of 60 teachers of another school is 55 42. The average height of 12 students of a
years. What will be average age of class is 132.5 cm. If one more student
teachers of both schools together? a) joins, the average height becomes
60 years, b) 57.5 years, c) 65 years, 131.2 cm. The height of the new
d) 62.5 years student is a) 122.3 cm, b) 115.6 cm, c)
128.5 cm, d) 112.7 cm
35. The average marks of three sections A,
B, C is 30, 40, 50 and number of 43. The average height of 5 boys is 175
students in A, B, C is 24, 30, 36. What cm. A sixth boy joined the group and
is the combined average of three the average height of all the boys now
sections? [no options provided] increased by 1 cm. The height of the
sixth boy is a) 175 cm, b) 179 cm, c)
36. The average marks of 15 students of 180 cm, d) 181 cm
class first is 160. Average marks of 10
students of class second is 120. 44. Average weight of 50 students is 61
Average marks of 15 students of class kg. If weight of 2 more students is
third is 180. What will be the average included, the average becomes 63 kg.
 Find average weight of included age of the family of three, when the
students. a) 110, b) 226, c) 113, d) 103 child was born, was a) 23 years, b) 24
years, c) 18 years, d) 20 years
45. Average weight of 60 persons is 68 kg.
If 2 more persons are included, then 53. The average age of 8 men is increased
average becomes 68½ kg. Between by 2 years when two men whose ages
included persons, weight of 1st person are 21 and 23 years are replaced by
is 10 kg less than 2nd. Find weight of two new men. The average age of the
1st person. a) 78.5, b) 77.5, c) 75, d) two men is a) 22 years, b) 24 years, c)
80 28 years, d) 30 years

46. Average expenditure of 35 students is 54. Out of 6 numbers, the sum of the first
Rs. 320. If expenditure of 2 more 5 numbers is 7 times the 6th number. If
students is included, average decreases their average is 136, then the 6th
by 10 rupees. Find expenditure made number is a) 84, b) 96, c) 116, d) 102
by new students. a) 270, b) 280, c)
300, d) 330 55. The average of marks in Mathematics
for 5 students was 50. Later, it was
47. The average age of 14 girls and their discovered that in the case of one
teacher is 15 years. If the teacher's age student, the marks 48 were misread as
is excluded, the average reduces by 1. 84. The correct average is a) 40.2, b)
What is the teacher's age? a) 35 years, 40.8, c) 42.8, d) 48.2
b) 32 years, c) 30 years, d) 29 years
56. The average of 25 observations is 13. It
48. The average age of mother and her six was later found that an observation 73
children is 12 years, which is reduced was wrongly entered as 48. The new
by 5 years if the age of the mother is average is a) 12.6, b) 14, c) 15, d) 13.8
excluded. The age of the mother in
years is a) 50, b) 40, c) 48, d) 42 57. Mean of 10 numbers is 30. Later it was
observed that numbers 15, 23 are
49. Six friends have an average height of wrongly taken as 51, 32. The correct
167 cm. A boy with height 162 leaves mean is a) 25.5, b) 32, c) 30, d) 34.5
the group. Find the new average
height. a) 168 cm, b) 166 cm, c) 169 58. The average of runs of a cricket player
cm, d) 167 cm of 10 innings was 32. How many runs
must he take in his next innings so as
50. The average weight of 8 persons to increase his average of runs by 4? a)
increases by 2.5 kg when a new person 76, b) 70, c) 4, d) 2
comes in place of them weighing 65
kg. The weight of the new person is a) 59. The average of 20 numbers is 12. The
84 kg, b) 85 kg, c) 76 kg, d) 76.5 kg average of the first 12 numbers is 11
and that of the next 7 numbers is 10.
51. In a class there are 30 boys and their The last number is a) 40, b) 38, c) 48,
average age is 17 years. On one boy d) 50
aged 18 years leaving the class and
another joining, the average age 60. The average of nine numbers is 50.
becomes 16.9 years. The age of new The average of the first five numbers is
boy is a) 25 years, b) 11 years, c) 13 54 and that of the last three numbers is
years, d) 15 years 52. Then the sixth number is a) 30, b)
34, c) 24, d) 44
52. The average age of a husband and his
wife was 23 years at the beginning of 61. The average of 13 results is 70. The
their marriage. After five years they average of first seven is 65 and that of
have a one-year-old child. The average
 last seven is 75. The seventh result is 30 overs, if it has to chase a target of
a) 67, b) 70, c) 68, d) 70.5 282 runs in total? a) 6.8, b) 6.3, c) 6.0,
d) 6.4
62. The average of 11 results is 50. If the
average of the first six results is 49 and 71. Three numbers are such that if the
that of the last six is 52, the sixth average of any two of them is added to
number is a) 48, b) 50, c) 52, d) 56 the third number, the sums obtained
are 168, 174, and 180 respectively.
63. The average monthly income of X and What is the average of the original
Y is Rs 5050. The average monthly three numbers? a) 86, b) 87, c) 89, d)
income of Y and Z is Rs 6250 and the 84
average monthly income of X and Z is
Rs 5200. The monthly income of X is 72. The average age of husband, wife, and
a) Rs 4050, b) Rs 3500, c) Rs 4000, d) their child 4 years ago was 26 years
Rs 5000 and that of wife and child 3 years ago
was 22 years. What is the present age
64. Average income of A and B is Rs 200 of the husband? a) 44 years, b) 46
and average income of C and D is Rs years, c) 42 years, d) 40 years
250. The average income of A, B, C, D
is a) 105, b) 225, c) 200, d) 210

65. Of three numbers, the first is 4 times

the second and 3 times the third. If the
average of all three numbers is 95,
what is the third number? a) 76, b) 60,
c) 130, d) 57

66. Of the three numbers, the first is twice

the second and the second is 3 times
the third. If their average is 100, the
largest of the three numbers is a) 120,
b) 150, c) 180, d) 300

67. Of the three numbers whose average is

60, the first is one-fourth of the sum of
the others. The first number is a) 30, b)
36, c) 42, d) 45

68. In a class of 40 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? a) 49.8, b)
49.7, c) 49.6, d) 49.5

69. The average weight of L, M, and N is

93 kg. If the average weight of L and
M is 89 kg and that of M and N is 96.5
kg, then the weight of M in kg is a) 92,
b) 86, c) 101, d) 95

70. The average run rate of a cricket team

during the first 20 overs is 4.5. What
should be the required rate per over for