Standard 7

Worksheet 3
Chapter: Average
1) In four tests Ram scored 86%, 80%, 75% and 65%. How much percent should he
score in the fifth test so that his average in all the five tests become 80%.
(1) 92% (2) 94% (3) 96% (4) 98%
2) A student has an average score of 85% after completing four tests. What is the lowest
possible percentage score in any one of the tests?
(1) 40% (2) 30% (3) 35% (4) Information incomplete
3) Three years ago, the average age of Sunil, Anil and Milind was 27 years and that of
Anil and Milind, 5 years ago was 20 years. Sunil's present age is:
(1) 30 years (2) 35years (3) 40 years (4) 48 years
4) The average age of 30 students is 9 years. If the teacher's age is included the average
becomes 10 years. What is the age of the teacher?
(1) 27 years (2) 40 years (3) 35 years (4) 31 years
5) A car travels along the four sides of a square field at 100 km/hr, 200 km/hr, 300 km/hr
and 400 km/hr. Find its average speed.
(1) 250 km/hr (2) 180 km/hr (3) 192 km/hr (4) 200 km/hr
6) To pass at an examination of five tests each of 100 marks. Krina needs 65% average
marks. Her score in first four tests is 60, 72, 55 and 80. What is the lowest score she
must get in the fifth test to have a passing average?
(1) 52 (2) 76 (3) 48 (4) 58
7) The average weight of 12 tennis balls is 60 gm. If one cricket ball is included the
average weight of the balls increases by 7 grams. What is the weight of the cricket
ball?
(1) 144 gm (2) 160 gm (3) 151 gm (4) 163 gm
8) The present average age of 6 boys is 14 years. What will be their average age after
4 years?
(1) 18 years (2) 7 years (3) 24 years (4) 10 years
9) If average of P and Q is 18, average of Q and R is 25 and average of P and R is 23.
Then what is the average of P, Q and R?
(1) 25 (2) 32 (3) 22 (4) 28
10) The average weight of 5 sacks of rice is 35.5 Kg, the average weight of 5 sacks of
wheat is 45.5 kg and the average weight of 5 sacks of turdal is 30 kg. Find the
average weight of all sacks.
(1) 35.5 kg (2) 37 kg (3) 40 kg (4) 33 kg
11) The Captain of a football team of 11 members is 36 years old, and the goal keeper is
4 years older than the captain. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age
of the remaining players is two years less than the average age of the whole team.
What is the average age of the team?
(1) 29 years (2) 28 years (3) 27 years (4) 30 years
12) The average salary of group A and B is Rs. 25000, the average salary of group
B and C is Rs. 30000 and that of group A and C is Rs. 45000. If the salary of
group D is Rs.80000 then what is the average salary of all the groups (A, B, C
& D)?
(1) Rs. 45000 (2) Rs. 80000 (3) Rs. 60000 (4) Rs. 100000
13) The average of 20 numbers is 0. Of them, at the most, how many may be greater than
0?
(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 10 (4) 19
14) The average of 2, 7, 6 and x is 5 and the average of 18, 1, 6, x and y is 10. What is
the value of y?
(1) 20 (2) 10 (3) 5 (4) 30
15) The average price of 10 books is Rs. 12, while the average price of 8 books is
Rs. 11.75. Of the remaining two books, if the price of one book is 60% more than the
price of the other, then what is the price of each of these two books?
(1) Rs. 5 and Rs. 8 (2) Rs. 10 and Rs. 16
(3) Rs. 12 and Rs. 9 (4) Rs. 8 and Rs. 12.80
16) The average age of a class of 36 students is 14 years. A new boy joins the class and
the new average becomes 14.25 years. What is the age of the new boy?
(1) 23 yrs 3 months (2) 23 yrs 6 months (3) 22 yrs 6 months (4) 23 yrs 9 months
17) The average of 2, 8, 9 and x is 6, and the average of 10, 15, 12, x and y is 11. Find the
value of y?
(1) 16 (2) 11 (3) 7 (4) 13
18) The average of the six natural consecutive numbers is 22.5 and the average of the
first four of these numbers is 21.5, and the average of the last three numbers is 24,.
Find the average of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th numbers?
(1) 20.5 (2) 22.5 (3) 18.5 (4) 24.5
19) The average height of 40 students in a class is 124 cm. If the height of the teacher is
included the average increases by l cm. Find the height of the teacher.
(1) 164 cm (2) 165 cm (3) 170 cm (4) 158 cm
20) In a group of people, the oldest and the youngest have an age difference of 100 years.
If these two are left out of counting, then the average age of the remaining 40 people
is 28. The average age of the entire group being 30, how old is the eldest person?
(1) 101 years (2) 140 years (3) 120 years (4) 103 years
21) In the India-Australia one day match, due to rain, India needed 324 runs in 48 overs to
win. In the first 10 overs, the average scoring rate was 6, in the next 10 overs it
increased to 8.5. It then declined to 5.5 in the next 10 overs and again rose to 7 in next
10 overs. To win the match what average is needed?
(1) 8.25 (2) 6.75 (3) 7.75 (4) 7
22) Kevin appears for a certain number of tests. His average score increases by 1, if first
10 tests are not considered, and decreases by 1 if last 10 tests are not considered. His
average score for first 10 and last 10 tests are 20 and 30 respectively. Find total
number of tests given by Kevin.
(1) 55 (2) 64 (3) 65 (4) 60
23) Out of 12 persons, 11 spend Rs. 2000 monthly each. The twelfth person spends Rs.
110 more than the average spending of the 12 people. How much money does the
twelfth person spend?
(1) 2120 (2) 2210 (3) 2110 (4) 2040
24) The average weight of 20 students is 42kg. One student whose weight is 40kg is
replaced by a student whose weight is 50kg. Find the new average weight?
1) 42.25kg 2) 42.5kg 3) 43kg 4) 43.5kg
25) The average of first ten natural square numbers is?
1) 37.5 2) 40.5 3) 39.5 4) 38.5
26) Nakoma, Devesh and Sharanya are three book binders. Nakoma takes 8 minutes,
Devesh takes 12 minutes and Sharanya takes 16 minutes respectively to bind a book.
If they work each day for 12 hours, then on an average how many books each one
bind per day?
1) 55 2) 48 3) 60 4) None of these
27) The mean of 200 items was 50. Later on, it was discovered that items were
misread as 47 and 78 instead of 136 and 139. Find the correct mean? (Wrong
Question)
1) 75 2) 61.75 3) 50.75 4) 60.75
28) The average age of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of the boys in the class is
16.4 years, while that of the girls is 15.4 years. What is the ratio of the boys to girls
in the class?
(1) 1:2 (2) 3:4 (3) 3:5 (4) 2:3
29) The average age of a class of 36 students is 14 years. If the class teacher's age is
added, the average age is increased by one year. What is the age of the class
teacher?
(1) 51 years (2) 32 years (3) 36 years (4) 38 years
30) The average age of a husband and wife at time of their marriage was 25 years. After
7 years the average age of husband, wife and their son who was born during the
interval is 22 years. Find the age of the son?
(1) 2 years (2) 5 years (3) 4 years (4) 3 years