Practice Exercise

1. Naila bought color pencils with price 3.45, 16.75, 9.84 and 8.16. Find the average amount spent
on a pencil.
(A) 7.80 (C) 9.55
(B) 8.20 (D) 18.20
2. A man bought packets of Chilli Milli at $ each, packets of Chilli Milli at $ each
and packets of Chilli Milli at $ each. Find the average price per packet of Chilli Milli.
(A) $ (C) $
(B) $ (D) $
3. The population of villages is Find the population
of Ninth village if the average population of Nine villages is
(A) (C)
(B) (D)
(E) none
4. If X persons are admitted in a hospital during the last five years and Y persons are recovered out
of them during this period then find the average number of persons admitted in one year:

(A) (C)

(B) (D)
(E) none of these
5. A family with six members has an average age of 25 while a family of 9 has an average age of 35.
The combine average of both families will be:
(A) 30 (C) 39
(B) 34.93 (D) 43
(E) none of these
6. The average height of a class of 18 students is 105 cm. After the arrival of 7 new students the
average decreases by 5cm. Find sum of the heights of all the students in the class.
(A) 1890 (C) 2625
(B) 2500 (D) 2890
(E) none of these
7. A shopkeeper purchases 5 cartoons in 105 rupees and 8 cartoons in 155 rupees. If a cartoon
contains 5 items then average price per item is
(A) 4 (C) 20
(B) 15.75 (D) 27.15
(E) 135.75
8. The average age in a city of 10,000 is 40 years. The average of half of them is 50 years. The
average of remaining ones is.
(A) 15 (C) 30
(B) 25 (D) 35
(E) 47.5
9. The average of 8 observations is 24. if one more observation of 33 is added then the new average
will be
(A) 20 (C) 24
(B) 25 (D) 28
 (E) 27
10. The average weight of the class of 35 students was 45 kg. With the admission of a new student
the average weight came down to 44.5 kg. Find the weight of new student.
(A) 27 kg (C) 25 kg
(B) 30 kg (D) 45 kg
(E) 44Kg
11. Find the temperature on Sunday if sum of temperatures of other 6 days is 145 C ° and average of
the week is 25 C°.
(A) 29C (C) 28C
(B) 30C (D) 31C
(E) 32C
12. Sum of weights of a class of 20 is 290 Kg. Another student of weight 25 Kg is also enrolled. Find
the new average of the class.
(A) 15Kg (C) 21Kg
(B) 17Kg (D) 14Kg
(E) 12 Kg
13. Ali drove at 50 km per hour for first three hours of his trip. Then due to heavy traffic, he
drove at 40 km per hour for two hours. Find his average speed for the trip.
(A) 48 km per hr (C) 46 km per hr
(B) 45 km per hr (D) 43 km per hr
(E) none of these
14. Average of 8 numbers is 31, seven of them are 15,45,17,19,33,48,65. What is the eighth number?
(A) 15 (C) 23
(B) 6 (D) 34
(E) 30
15. Average of 5 numbers is 80. If three of these are 70, 80 and 90. Find the average of last two.
(A) 90 (C) 80
(B) 70 (D) 85
(E) 88
16. If average of 8, 7, 12, 15 and x is 11 what is x?
(A) 10 (C) 11
(B) 13 (D) 12
(E) none of these
17. What is median of 87,62,55,48,59,35,64,91,50?
(A) 59 (C) 48
(B) 55 (D) 62
(E) none of these
18. What is mode of 52,50,52,18,7,2,3,18,5,7,5,3,2,2,2?
(A) 7 (C) 2
(B) 18 (D) 1
(E) none of these

19. A man spent of his salary in three weeks with the average of Rs.250 for first two weeks and
Rs.200 in the third week. His salary will be:
(A) 450 (C) 2100
(B) 700 (D) 2350
(E) none of these
20. A team won 5 matches with the average margin of 32 runs. In next two matches they are
defeated by an average of 10 runs. The average margin for all the matches will be:
(A) 20 (C) 25.7
(B) 22 (D) 27
(E) none of these
21. The average age of a class of 60 boys which is 11.9 years is raised to 12 years by coming of a
new boy, the age of the new boy is:
(A) 27 years (C) 10 years
(B) 23 years (D) 17 years
22. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of the positive integers from 101 to 200, inclusive?
(A) 150.5 (C) 145
(B) 155 (D) 160.5
(E) 140.2
23. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of the positive integers from 1 to 100, inclusive?
(A) 49 (C) 50
(B) 49.5 (D) 50.5
(E) 51
24. If what is the average (arithmetic mean) of

(A) (C)

(B) (D) 11
(E) 22
25. If which of the following is the average (arithmetic mean) of a, b, c and d?

(A) (C)

(B) (D)
(E) c + d
26. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of the measures of the five angles in a pentagon?
(A) (C)
(B) (D)
(E)
27. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of
(A) (C)
(B) (D)
(E)
28. Let M be the median and m the mode of the following set of numbers: What
is the average (arithmetic mean) of M and m?
(A) 50 (C) 60
(B) 55 (D) 62.5
(E) 65