Assignment 3 OTP – Average

(solutions)

1. A shop keeper earned Rs.504 in 12 days. His average income for the first four days was Rs.40 a day. Find his
average income for the remaining days.
Ans - Let the avg for remaining 8 days be Rs. y a day.

Then, ( 4 x 40 ) + 8y = 504

= 8y = 344

= y = 43

∴ required average Rs. 43

2. The average age of 24 students in a class is 10. If the teacher's age is including, the average increases by one. What is
the age of the teacher ?

Ans - (240+x)÷25 = 11

240+x= 25×11

240+x= 275

x=275–240

x=35.

Teachers age is 35 years.

3. The average expenditure of a man for the first five months is Rs.120 and for the next seven months it is Rs.130. If he
saves Rs.290 in that year, find his monthly average income.

Ans Total income = total expenditure + total saving

= Rs. (120 X 5 + 130 X 7 + 290)

=Rs. 1800

Average monthly income

=1800 / 12

=150 Rs

4. The average weight of a class of 40 students is 40 kg. If the weight of the teacher is included, the average weight
increases by 500 gms. Find the weight of the teacher.
Total weight of 40 students =40×40=1600 kg

total weight of student and teacher =41×40.5= 1660.5 kg

weight of teacher =1660.5-1600 =0.5 kg

5. The average weight of 8 men is increased by 2 kg when one of the men, whose weight is 50 kg is replaced by a new
man. What is the weight of the new man joined?

Let the average weight of 8 men be =x ,

increase of 2kg than new man 's weight = x+2=50 ,

x=50-2

=48

6. The average age of an adult class is 40 years. 12 new students with an average of 32 years join the class, thereby
decreasing the average by 4 years. Find the original strength of the class.

Ans - the original strength of class is x, which means there were x number of students in the class.

Overall average = {(40x) + 384}/(x+12)

= {(40x) + 384}/(x+12) = 36

= 40x + 384 = 36x + 432

= 40x - 36x = 432 - 384

= 4x = 48

x = 12

original strength was 12 students.

7. The average of 6 observations is 12. A new seventh observation is included and the new average is decreased by 1.
What is seventh observation?

Ans - Total of 6 observations = 6×126×12 = 72

Total of 7 observations (including the 7th)

= 7×(12−1)=777×(12−1)=77

Therefore, 7th observation = 77 - 72 = 5

8. Out of four numbers, the average of first three is 15 and that of the last three is 16. If the last number is 19, what is the
first number?

9. The average of marks obtained by 120 candidates was 35. If the average of marks of passed candidates was 39 and that
of failed candidates was 15, find the number of candidates who passed the examination.

10. The average salary of 20 workers in an office is Rs.1900 per month.  If the manager's salary is added, the average salary
becomes Rs.2000 p.m.  What is the manager's annual salary?

MCQs (answers are underlined)

11. The average of 5 numbers is 150. The largest number exceeds the smallest number by 100. If the five numbers
are in arithmetic progression, find the smallest number.
(a) 100 (b) 150 (c) 170 (d) 135 (e) None
12. Runs scored by a batsman from the first to the sixth innings in an ODI series were in increasing arithmetic
progression. What is the average of the runs scored by him in the last five innings?
(a) Average of the runs scored in 3rd and 4th innings (b) Runs scored in the 3rd innings
(c) Runs scored in the 4th innings (d) Cannot be determined (e) None
13. A family consists of two grandparents, two parents and three grandchildren. The average age of the
grandparents is 67 years, that of the parents is 35 years and that of the grandchildren is 6 years. What is the
average age of the family?
4 5 1 2
(a) 28 (b) 31 (c) 32 (d) 32 (e) None
7 7 7 7
14. The average temperature of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 38∘ and that of Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 40∘. If the temperature on Monday was 30∘, the temperature of Friday
was:
(a) 40 (b) 39 (c) 38 (d) 37 (e) None
15. The average of 50 numbers is 38. If two numbers, namely 45 and 55 are discarded, the average of the remaining
numbers is:
(a) 36.5 (b) 37 (c) 37.5 (d) 38 (e) None
16. If a, b, c, d, e are five consecutive odd numbers, their average is:
(a) 5(a+4) (b) (a+4) (c) 5(a+b+c+d+e) (d) 5(b+d) (e) None
17. The average age of three boys is 15 years. If their ages are in the ratio 3:5:7, the age of the youngest boy is :
(a) 9 years (b) 15 years (c) 18 years (d) 21 years (e) None
18. The average height of 30 girls out of a class of 40 is 160 cm. and that of the remaining girls is 156 cm. The
average height of the whole class is:
(a) 158 cms (b) 158.5 cms (c) 159 cms (d) 159.5 cms (e) None
19. A man goes to a place at the rate of 4 kmph. He comes back on a bicycle at 16 kmph. His average speed for the
entire journey is:
(a) 5 km/hr (b) 6.4 km/hr (c) 8.5 km/hr (d) 10 km/hr (e) None
20. A pupil's marks were wrongly entered as 83 instead of 63. Due to that the average marks for the class got
increased by half (1/2). The number of pupils in the class is:
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 40 (d) 73 (e) None