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1. Find the average of the first hundred natural CGL Mains 2018
numbers? (A) 147.5 (B) 145.5
(C) 143.5 (D) 149.5
(A) 50.5 (B) 38.6 7. Eight consecutive numbers are given. If the av-
(C) 50.8 (D) 45.6 erage of the two numbers that appear in the
(E) None of these middle is 6, then the sum of the eight given
2. Average of all even numbers between 222 and numbers is
250 is _______.
222 250
______ (A) 54 (B) 64
CGL Mains 2018 (C) 36 (D) 48
8. Find average of five consecutive natural numbers
(A) 234 (B) 232
a, b, c, d, e.
(C) 236 (D) 230
3. The average of all odd numbers from 113 to 159 a, b, c, d, e
is _________. (A) c (B) a + 2
113 159 _________ a e
(C) (D) Anyone of above
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CGL Mains 2018 9. Find average of five consecutive even numbers
(A) 135 (B) 134 a, b, c, d, e.
(C) 133 (D) 136 a, b, c, d, e
4. Find average of first 19 multiple of 39.
abcde
(A) 5(a+4) (B)
(A) 385 (B) 390 5
(C) 360 (D) 372 (C) 5(a+b+c+d+e) (D) a+4
5. Find average of all multiple of 5 from 267 to 10. The average of 7 consecutive numbers is 20. The
572 largest of these numbers is:
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m n
(m+2)
(A) 37 (B) 39
(C) 41 (D) 43
12. The average of 41 consecutive odd numbers is 2n 5
(A) (B) (n+2)
49. What is the largest number. 2
2n 9
(C) (n+3) (D)
2
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18. The average revenue of 13 consecutive years of
(A) 89 (B) 91
a company is Rs. 70 lakhs. If the average of first
(C) 93 (D) 95
7 years is Rs. 65 lakhs and that of last 7 years is
13. The average of 44 consecutive odd numbers is
FINAL 144. What is the largest number?
Rs. 77 lakhs, find the revenue for the 7th year.
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(A) 2338 (B) 2238 26. Of the 3 numbers whose average is 22, the first
(C) 2337 (D) 2339 is 3/8th the sum of other 2. What is the first num-
(E) None of these ber?
22. Average of 29 number is 2762 if average of first 3
18 number is 2765 and average of last 12 number
is 2758 what is the 18th number.
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(A) 16 (B) 20
(C) 22 (D) 18
27. Three numbers are such that if the average of any
two of them is added to the third number, the sums
(A) 2775 (B) 2570
obtained are 168, 174 and 180 respectively. What
(C) 2590 (D) 2768 is the average of the original three numbers?
(E) None of these
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23. The average of twelve number is 42. The average
of the last five numbers is 40, and that of the first
four numbers is 44. The 6th number is 6 less than
the fifth and 5 less than the 7th number. The aver- (a) 86 (b) 87
age of the 5th and the 7th numbers is : (c) 89 (d) 84
28. The average weight of 24 students is 35 kgs. If
the weight of teacher is added the average
increased by 400 gms. What is the weight of the
teacher?
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(a) 87 (b) 86
(c) 86.5 (d) 87.5 (C) 7.05 (D) 7.55
25. The average of three consecutive odd number is (E) None of these
52 more than 1/3rd of the largest of these num- 30. The average of runs of a cricket player of 10
bers. What is the smalles of these number? innings was 32. How many runs must he score
in his next innings so as to increase his average
of runs by 4?
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(A) 76 (B) 70
(C) 75 (D) 42
(E) None of these
31. A batsman score 87 runs in the 21st match of his
career. His average runs per match increase by
2. What was his average before the 21st match. (A) 60 years (B) 58 years
(C) 56 years (D) 55 years
36. The average age of eight teachers in a school is
40 years. A teacher among them died at the age
of 55 years whereas another teacher whose age
CGL Mains 2018 was 39 years joins them. The average age of the
(A) 45 (B) 46 teachers in the school now is (in years)
(C) 44 (D) 43
32. A batsman makes 100 runs in the 25th match of
his career. His average runs per match increases
by 1.4. Find his average before the 25th match.
(A) 35 (B) 36
(C) 38 (D) 39
37. The average age of 24 boys and their teacher is
CGL Mains 2018 15 years. When the teacher’s age is excluded,
(A) 65 (B) 55 the average age decreased by 1 year. The age of
(C) 75 (D) 45 the teacher is–
33. The average weight of 8 people increase by 1.5
kg. if a man whose weight is 65 kgs is replaced
by another man. What is the weight of the new
man?
(A) 38 years (B) 39 years
(C) 40 years (D) 41 years
(E) None of these
38. There are 50 students in a class. Their average
(A) 77 kgs (B) 73 kgs weight is 45 kg. When one student leaves the
2nd
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(C) 75 kgs (D) 74 kgs class the average weight reduces by 100g. What
(E) None of these is the weight of the student who left the class?
34. The average age of 45 pernsons is decreased by
1/9 year when one of them of 60 years is re-
placed by a new comer. Then the age of the new
comer is:
(A) 45 kg (B) 47.9 kg
(C) 49.9 kg (D) 50.1 kg
39. In a class the average age of 40 students is 15
years. If 10 new students age included then the
(A) 45 years (B) 55 years
2nd
average age of the students increased by 0.2
(C) 59 years (D) 49 years years find the average age of the new students?
35. Out of 10 teachers of a school, one teacher re-
tires and at his place a new teacher of age 25
years joins, As a result of it, the average age of
the teachers is reduced by 3 years. The age of
the retired teacher is
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(A) 16 yrs (B) 15 yrs 44. The average age of 11 players of a cricket team
(C) 14 yrs (D) 13 yrs is increased by 2 months when two of them aged
(E) None of these 18 years and 20 years are replaced by two new
40. The average age of 40 students of a class is 18 players. The average age of the new players is
years. When 20 new students joined the class,
the average is increased by 6 months. The
average age of newly admitted students is
m
(A) (B) m+n
n
(A) 24.6 yrs (B) 23.5 yrs
(C) 22.6 yrs (D) 25.3 yrs (C) mn (D) m–n
(E) None of these (E) None of these
42. The average of marks of 28 students in Math- 46. In a class, average height of all students is 'a'
ematics was 50. 8 students left the school, then cms. Among them, average height of 10 students
this average increased by 5.What is the average is 'b' cms and the average height of the remain-
of marks obtained by the students who left the ing students is 'c' cms. Find the number of stu-
school? dents in the class. (Here a > c and b > c)
a cm
b cm
c cm
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(A) 50.5 (B) 37.5 ( a>c b>c)
(C) 42.5 (D) 45
43. In a committee the average age of 8 people a b c b c
(A) (B) a c
increase by 2 yrs when two people whose age a c
2nd were 35 years and 45 years are replaced by two
women. Find the average age of the two women? b c 10 b c
(C) 10 a c (D)
a c
47. The average temperature from Monday to
Wednesday is 37° C whi le the average
temperature from Tuesday to Thursday is 34°C.
(a) 48 yrs (b) 45 yrs The temperature of Thursday is 4/5 times to
(c) 44 yrs (d) 43 yrs that of Monday. Find the temperature of
(e) None of these Thursday?
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37° club donates Rs. 50 more than the average do-
34° nation of all (including President) of them. Then
the contribution of the president is
4/5
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(e) None of these (A) Rs. 106.25 (B) Rs. 156.25
48. There were 35 students in a hostel. If the number (C) Rs. 56.25 (D) Rs. 206.25
of students increase by 7, the expenses of the mess 52. The average of the marks obtained in
increase by Rs.42 per day while the average mathematics by 5 students is 50. Later it was
expenditure per head decreased by Rs.1. Find the realized that the marks obtained by one students
was read as 84 though it was originally 48. Find
original expenditure of the mess.
the correct average.
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(A) 50 (B) 50.7
(C) 52 (D) 52.7
(A) Rs. 84 (B) Rs. 83
(C) Rs. 68 (D) Rs. 100 54. In an exam, the average was found to be 50
marks. After deducting computational errors the
50. In a team of 10 persons, nine persons spent Rs.
40 each for their meal and the remaining one marks of the 100 candidates had to be changed
from 90 to 60 each the and the average came
spent Rs. 9 more than the average expenditure
of all the 10 persons. The total expenditure for down to 45 marks. The total number of
candidates who took the exam were
their meal was
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55. The average of 30 integers is 5. Among these 30 58. The batting average for 30 inings of a cricket
integers, there are exactly 20 which do not ex- player is 40 runs. His highest score exceeds his
ceed 5. What is the highest possible value of the lowest score by 100 runs. If these two inning
average of these 20 integers? are not included, the average of the remaining
28 innings is 38 runs. The lowest score of the
player is :
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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
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an average weight of 78 kg leave and 4 students
having an average weight of 80 kg join the group,
the average weight of the students in the group
decreases by 0.7 kg. The number of students ini-
tially in the group is:
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(a) 20 (b) 16 (A) 44 (B) 46
(c) 18 (d) 26 (C) 56 (D) 54
62. Ramesh and Gautam are among 22 students who
write an examination. Ramesh scores 82.5. The
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65.💔 The number of students in a class is 75, out of
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which 33 % are boys and the rest are girls. The
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average score of the 21 students other than
average score in mathematics of the boys is
Gautam is 62. The average score of all the 22
1
students is one more than the average score of 33 % more than that of the girls. If the aver-
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the 21 students other than Ramesh. The score age score of all the students is 66, then the aver-
of Gautam is age score of the girls is:
1
33 %
3
2
66 %
(A) 49 (B) 48 3
(C) 51 (D) 53
63. The average weight of 3 men A, B and C is 84 kg.
Another man D joins the group and the average
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now becomes 80 kg. If another man E whose
(A) 54 (B) 52
weight is 3 kg more then that of D, replacees A,
(C) 55 (D) 58
then the average weight of B, C, D and E be-
66. In a class, the average marks of boys and girls is
comes 79 kg. Then weight of A is A. The ratio of boys and girls is 3 : 1. If the average
A, B C 84 kg marks obtained by boys is A + 1 then find the
average marks obtained by girls?
D
A
E D 3 kg
A B, C, D E
A+1
79 kg A
(A) 72 kg. (B) 74 kg.
(C) 75 kg. (D) 76 kg. (a) A + 3 (b) A + 1
(c) A + 2 (d) A – 3
64. The average weight of a certain number of stu-
(e) None of these
dents in a group is 72 kg. If 10 students having
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67. The average of 33 numbers is 74. The average of 71. In a one day match of 50 overs in an innings the
team A had a run rate of 5.3 runs per over. Team
the first 17 numbers is 72.8 and that of the last
B is playing and 5 overs are left and the required
17 number is 77.2. If the 17th number is excluded, run rate to tie the match is 7.2 per over to match
then what will be the average of the ramining the score of Team A. What is team B’s score?
numbers (correct to one decimal place)? A
B
A
B
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(A) 73.4 (B) 71.6 (C) 254 (D) 229
72. The average weight of a certain number of stu-
(C) 70.8 (D) 72.9
dents in a class is 68.5 kg. If 4 new students
68. The average age of 95 student in a class is 16.8 yr
having weight 72.2 kg, 70.8 kg, 70.3 kg and 66.7
if average age of boys 17.4 yr & average age of
girls 16.4. Find number of boys.
kg join the class, then the average weight of all
the students increases by 300 g. The number of
95 16.8
student in the class, initially, is:
17.4 16.4
68.5kg
72.2kg, 70.8kg, 70.3kg, 66.7kg,
(a) 48 boys (b) 32 boys
(c) 38 boys (d) 42 boys
300g
69. The average of 18 numbers is 37.5. If six num-
(a) 21 (b) 16
bers of average x are added to them, then the
(c) 11 (d) 26
average of all the numbers increase by one. The
73. Average marks obtained by all students in a class
value of x is:
is 49.85. If the average marks obtained by pass
18 37.5 6 x students is 73.85 and failed students is 28.85.
What is the ratio between pass to fail students.
x 49.85
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(A) 38.5 (B) 42 28.85
(C) 41.5 (D) 40
70. In a one day match of 50 overs in an innings the
(a) 8 : 7 (b) 7 : 8
Team A had a run rate of 6.1 runs per over. Team (c) 9 : 2 (d) 5 : 3
B is playing and 10 overs are left and the re- 74. The average age of 95 student in a class is 16.8
quired run rate to tie the match is 6.5 per over. yr if average age of boys 17.4 yr & average age
What is Team B’s score now? of girls 16.4. Find number age of boys.
A 95 16.8
B 17.4 16.4
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the teachers and students is 7 years, then the 79. The average income of 40 persons is Rs. 42000
number of students is and that of another 35 persons is Rs. 40000. The
average income of the whole group is
A+1
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24.85
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(A) 54 (B) 52
(C) 55 (D) 58
(a) 85 wickets (b) 90 wickets
87. The average score in Mathematics of 90 students
(c) 65 wickets (d) 80 wickets
of section A and B of class IX was 63. The number
84. Bowling average of bowler in certain inning was
of students in A were 10 more than those in B.
12.4 runs per wicket. He gives 26 runs and takes
The average score of students in A was 30% more
5 wicket in next match after which his average
than that of students in B. The average score of
becomes 12 runs per wicket. How many wickets
students in B is:
had been taken till the last match?
A B
A B A
B
B
(a) 60 (b) 54
(a) 85 (b) 90
(c) 50 (d) 56
(c) 65 (d) 72
88. Sunita cuts a sheet of paper into three pieces.
(e) None of these
Length of first piece is equal to the average of
85. In a one day match of 50 overs in an innings the
the three single digit odd prime numbers. Length
team A had a run rate of 5.3 runs per over. Team
of the second piece is equal to that of the first
B is playing and 5 overs are left and the required
plus one-third the length of the third.“The third
run rate to tie the match is 7.2 per over to match
piece is as long as the other two pieces together.
the score of Team A. What is team B's score?
The length of the original sheet of paper is
A
B
2
3
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of patient admitted in hospital A was
A B
CAT 2018 A B
(A) 60 (B) 72 A
(C) 58 (D) 80
B
90. Suppose hospital A admitted 21 less Covid
infected patients than hospital B, and all A
eventually recovered. The sum of recovery days CAT 2021
for patients in hospitals A and B were 200 and (A) 35
152, respectively. If the average recovery days (B) 40
for patients admitted in hospital A was 3 more (C) 30
than the average in hospital B then the number (D) 60
ANSWER KEY
1. (A) 11. (D) 21. (A) 31. (A) 41. (A) 51. (A) 61. (C) 71. (D) 81. (A)
2. (C) 12. (A) 22. (D) 32. (A) 42. (B) 52. (A) 62. (C) 72. (B) 82. (B)
3. (D) 13. (C) 23. (B) 33. (A) 43. (A) 53. (B) 63. (C) 73. (B) 83. (D)
4. (B) 14. (B) 24. (A) 34. (B) 44. (C) 54. (B) 64. (B) 74. (C) 84. (B)
5. (C) 15. (B) 25. (D) 35. (D) 45. (C) 55. (C) 65. (A) 75. (A) 85. (D)
6. (D) 16. (C) 26. (D) 36. (C) 46. (D) 56. (A) 66. (D) 76. (B) 86. (A)
7. (D) 17. (A) 27. (B) 37. (B) 47. (A) 57. (A) 67. (D) 77. (D) 87. (B)
8. (D) 18. (B) 28. (A) 38. (C) 48. (A) 58. (B) 68. (C) 78. (D) 88. (D)
9. (D) 19. (A) 29. (D) 39. (A) 49. (D) 59. (D) 69. (C) 79. (C) 89. (A)
10. (D) 20. (D) 30. (A) 40. (B) 50. (C) 60. (A) 70. (C) 80. (A) 90. (A)