Average
1. Find the average of the following set of numbers: 354, 281, 623, 518, 447, 702, 876.
2. The body weight of six boys is recorded as 54 kg, 64 kg, 75 kg, 67 kg, 45 kg and 91 kg. What is the average body weight
of all six boys?
3. There are six numbers 30, 72, 53, 68, x and 87, out of which x is unknown. The average of the numbers is 60. What is
the value of x?
4. Find the average of all prime numbers between 30 and 50.
5. Find the average of first 40 natural numbers.
6. Find the average of first 20 multiples of 7.
7. A man bought 5 shirts at Rs.450 each, 4 trousers at rs.750 each and 12 pairs of shoes at ` 750 each. What is the average
expenditure per article?
8. 13 chairs and 5 tables were bought for ` 8280. If the average cost of a table be ` 1227, what is the average cost of a
chair?
9. The average of five consecutive numbers A, B, C, D and E is 48. What is the product of A and E?
10. The average monthly expenditure of a family was ` 2200 during the first 3 months; ` 2250 during the next 4 months and
` 3120 during the last 5 months of a year. If the total savings during the year were ` 1260, find the average monthly
income of the family.
11. Six persons went to a hotel for taking their meals. Five of them spent ` 32 each on their meals while the sixth person
spent ` 80 more than the average expenditure of all the six. What was the total money spent by all the persons?
12. The average age of a man and his son is 40 years. The ratio of their ages is 11 : 5 respectively. What is the son’s age?
13. Of the three numbers, second is twice the first and is also thrice the third. If the average of three numbers is 44, what is
the largest number?
14. The average of five numbers is 58. The average of the first two numbers is 48.5 and the average of last two numbers is
53.5. What is the third number?
15. The average of marks of 13 papers is 40. The average of marks of the first 7 papers is 42 and that of the last 7 papers is
35. What are the marks of the seventh paper?
16. The average age of A and B is 20 years. If A is replaced by C, the average age becomes 19 years and if B is replaced by C,
the average age becomes 21 years. Find the ages of A, B and C.
17. In a class there are 50 students. Their average weight is 45 kg. When a student leaves the class, the average is reduced
by 100 g. Find the weight of the student who left the class.
18. The average age of a class of 39 students is 15 years. If the age of the teacher be included, then the average increases
by 3 months. Find the age of the teacher.
19. The average of 11 players of a cricket team is increased by 2 months when two of them aged 18 years and 20 years are
replaced by two new players. Find the average age of the new players.
20. The average age of a class was 15 years. When 5 boys whose average age was 12 years 6 months were admitted in the
class, the average was reduced by 6 months. How many students were there in the class originally?