The average marks of three students A, B and C are 48.

Another student D joins t

he group and the new average becomes 44 marks. If another student E, who has thr
ee marks more than D, joins the group, the average of four students B, C, D and
E becomes 43 marks. How many marks A got in the exam?
39
42
47
48
50

A salesman gets a bonus of Rs (3x + 7), if he sell articles worth Rs. x2 . In th

e month of January, value of his sale was Rs 100, in February Rs. 400, from Marc
h to December it was Rs. 900 each month. Apart from this, he receives a basic sa
lary, which is 50 times his total bonus. Find his average salary for the year.
Rs. 4262.4
Rs.4373.4
Rs. 4472.5
Rs. 4564.5

There are three sections in a class whose average marks are 72, 79 and 75 respec
tively. If the number of students in these sections respectively is 52, 63 and 4
5, find the average of the entire class.
75.50
77.20
75.60
76
time more
The average score of a cricketer from certain number of innings
is 15. When he scored a duck in one inning, his average dropped to 13.5. How man
y innings have been played in total, including the latest one?
12
11
10
9

The average of 11 results is 50. If the average of first 6 results is 49 and tha
t of the last 6 is 52, find the 6th result.
48
50
60
56

Question :
The average marks scored by 60 pupils in a class were 32.5. The marks of the fir
st pupil were altered from 88 to 78; and that of the last pupil were altered fro
m 13 to 43. What was the new average?
31
31.5
32.83
34
The average age of 8 persons in a committee is increased by 2 years when two men
aged 35 yrs and 45 yrs are substituted by two women. Find the average age of th
ese two women.
48
50
56
96

here are five containers in a trucks hold. The weight of the first container is
150 kg and the weight of the second container is 30% higher than the weight of t
he third container, whose weight is 20% lighter than the first container s weight.
The weight of the fourth container is equal to the average weight of first and
the third container and the weight of the fifth container is equal to the averag
e of the weight of second and fourth container. Find the average of the four lig
hter containers and the four heavier containers.
151.5 kg
142.1 kg
223.5 kg
112.5 kg

Question :
A man s average expenses for 8 years from 1989 to 1996 are Rs. 9000. He spent Rs.
2000 in 1997, Rs. 4000 in 1998, and Rs. 5000 in every year from 1989 to 2004. Fi
nd the average annual expenditure for the year 1989 to 2004?
Rs. 4750
Rs. 6350
Rs. 6750
Rs. 6950

he average monthly rainfall for a year in Guntur district is 2.7 inches; the ave
rage for the first 7 months is 1.1 inches less than the annual average. If the t
otal rainfall for the next 4 months is 20.8 inches, the rainfall in the last mon
th is:
1.3 inches
0.4 inches
1.4 inches
None of these

A motorist covered the first 20 km of his journey in 30 minutes and the remainin
g 29 km in 40 minutes. His average speed in km/hr is:
41 ¾
42
49
57 1/6

The average age of a class of n boys is X years. Three new boys join the class w
hose ages are X 1, X + 1 and X + 2 years. What is the new average age of the cla
ss?
X + 2/(n+3)
Can't be determined

Question :
In hotel Park Plaza, the rooms are numbered from 221 to 250 on the first floor,
446 to 460 on the second floor and 661 to 700 on the third floor. In the month o
f December 2003, the rooms unoccupancy was 50% on the first floor, 60% on the se
cond floor and 40% on the third floor. It is also known that there are three typ
es of room charges as Rs. 1000, Rs. 600 and Rs. 300. The room charges are the sa
me for all the rooms on a particular floor. Find the maximum average income per
room for the month of December 2003.
Rs. 251.5
Rs. 409.41
Rs. 396.3
Rs. 605.7