Assignment on Averages

1. There are seven consecutive natural numbers such that the average of the first five is n.
Then average of all seven numbers will be?
A. n B. (n+ 2/7) C. n + 1 D. None
2. A boy finds the average of 10 positive integers. Each integer contains two digits. By
mistake, the boy interchanges the digits of one number say ‘ba’ for ‘ab’. Due to this, the
average becomes 1.8 less than the previous one. What was the difference of the two
digits a and b?

3. The average age of a group of 16 persons decreased by 2 years when a new person
aged 33 years joined the group and one of the existing person left. What is the age of
the person, who left the group?

4. If the average of five numbers, a, b, c, d and e is 20, then what will be average of (4a –
3), (4b – 3) , (4c -3), ( 4d – 3) and (4e -3)?

5. If the average of marks obtained by 8 students in an examination was 70 and the

average of marks obtained by the other 17 students was 80, find the average marks of
all 25 students.
A. 75.2 B. 76.2 C. 76.8 D. 75.4

6. The average of 30 integers is 5. Among these 30 integers, there are exactly 20 that do
not exceed 5. What is the highest possible value of the average of these 20 integers?
A. 4 B. 4.5 C. 3 D. 5

7. 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:
A. 48 B. 49 C. 51 D. 53
8. 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?
A. 25 B. 26 C. 27 D. 28
9. The arithmetic mean of the scores of 25 students in an examination is 50. Five of these
students top the examination with the same score. If the scores of the other students
are distinct integers with the lowest being 30, then the maximum possible score of the
toppers is:

10. The average marks of a student in ten papers are 80. If the highest and the lowest
scores are not considered, the average is 81. If his highest score is 92, find the lowest.
A. 60 B. 55 C. 62 D. CBD

11. A batsman played n + 2 innings and got out on all occasions. His average score in these
n + 2 innings was 29 runs and he scored 38 and 15 runs in the last two innings. The
batsman scored less than 38 runs in each of the first n innings. In these n innings, his
average score was 30 runs, and lowest score was x runs. The smallest possible value of
x is:
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
12. A CAT aspirant appears for a certain number of tests. His average score increases by 1 if
the first 10 tests are not considered and decreases by 1 if the last 10 tests are not
considered. If his average scores for the first 10 and the last 10 tests are 20 and 30,
respectively, then the total number of tests taken by him is:

13. An elevator has a weight limit of 630 kg. It is carrying a group of people of whom the
heaviest weighs 57 kg and the lightest weighs 53 kg. What is the maximum possible
number of people in the group?

14. Three maths classes: X, Y and Z take an algebra test.

The average score in class X is 83.
The average score in class Y is 76.
The average score in class Z is 85.
The average score of all students in classes X and Y together is 79.
The average score of all students in classes Y and Z together is 81.
What is the average for all the three classes?
A. 81 B. 81.5 C. 82 D. 84.5

15. The average of three integers is 13 . When a natural number ‘n’ is included, the average
of these four integers remains an odd integer. The minimum possible value of ‘n’ is:
A. 4 B. 5 C. 3 D. 1

16. Manu earns ₹4000 per month and wants to save an average of ₹550 per month in a
year. In the first nine months, his monthly expense was ₹3500, and he foresees that
tenth month onwards, his monthly expense will increase to ₹3700. In order to meet his
yearly savings target, his monthly earnings, in rupees, from the tenth month onwards
should be:
A. 4200 B. 4300 C. 4350 D. 4400

17. 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?
A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 D. None

18. Let A, B and C be three positive integers such that the sum of A and the mean of B and
C is 5. In addition, the sum of B and the mean of A and C is 7. Then the sum of A and B
is:
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7
19. In a group of 10 students, the mean of the lowest 9 scores is 42 while the mean of the
highest 9 scores is 47. For the entire group of 10 students, the maximum possible mean
exceeds the minimum possible mean by:
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
20. Onion is sold for 5 consecutive months at the rate of Rs 10, 20, 25, 25, and 50 per kg,
respectively. A family spends a fixed amount of money on onion for each of the first
three months, and then spends half that amount on onion for each of the next two
months. The average expense for onion, in rupees per kg, for the family over these 5
months is closest to:
A. 16 B. 18 C. 20 D. 26
21. Suppose hospital A admitted 21 less Covid infected patients than hospital B, and all
eventually recovered. The sum of recovery days for patients in hospitals A and B were
 200 and 152, respectively. If the average recovery days for patients admitted in hospital
A was 3 more than the average in hospital B then the number admitted in hospital A
was:

22. The average of a non-decreasing sequence of ‘n’ numbers a1, a2, a3 ……………….an is 300.
If a1 is replaced by 6 a1 , the new average becomes 400. The number of possible values
of a1 is:

23. Five students, including Amit, appear for an examination in which possible marks are
integers between 0 and 50, both inclusive. The average marks for all the students is 38
and exactly three students got more than 32. If no two students got the same marks
and Amit got the least marks among the five students, then the difference between the
highest and lowest possible marks of Amit is:
A. 21 B. 24 C. 20 D. 22
24. In a football tournament, a player has played a certain number of matches and 10 more
matches are to be played. If he scores a total of one goal over the next 10 matches, his
overall average will be 0.15 goals per match. On the other hand, if he scores a total of
two goals over the next 10 matches, his overall average will be 0.2 goals per match. The
number of matches he has played is:

25. Consider six distinct natural numbers such that the average of the two smallest numbers
is 14, and the average of the two largest numbers is 28. Then, the maximum possible
value of the average of these six numbers is:
A. 22.5 B. 23.5 C. 24 D. 23

26. A shipping clerk has five boxes of different but unknown weights each weighing less than
100 kg. The clerk weighs the boxes in pairs. The weights obtained are 110, 112, 113,
114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, and 121 kg. What is the weight of the heaviest box in kg?

27. A class consists of 20 boys and 30 girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average
score of the girls was 10 less than that of the boys. In the final exam, however, the
average score of the girls increased by 10, while the average score of the entire class
increased by 2. What is the increase/decrease in the average score of the boys?
A. Increase of 10 B. Decrease of 10 C. Increase of 2 D. Decrease of 2

28. In a rotary club, the average funds paid by ‘A’ male members is ‘B' lakhs and the
average funds paid by ‘B' female members is ‘A'. The average fund of everyone,
including the 62 lakhs fund paid by the chairman (assume he's not a member of the
club) is A + B. If A and B are in integer lakhs, find the possible numerical value of A + B
A. 8 B. 10 C. 12 D. 14