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Ramesh receives the following scores in his maths test: 78, 92, 83 and 99. What score does he need in the next
test in order to have an average of 90 in the five tests?

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The average age of the students in an institute was 15 years. Then 10 students of average age 12 years joined the
institute and the average age of the students of this institute became 14.8 years. What was the initial number of
students in that institute?
(1) 140

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(2) 120
(3) 150

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The average rainfall for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is 4.3 cm. The average rainfall for Friday, Saturday and
Sunday is 3.9 cm. If the average rainfall for the total week is 3.7 cm, then what is the rainfall recorded on
Thursday?
(1) 1.4 cm

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(2) 1.3 cm
(3) 1.2 cm

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(4) 1.1 cm

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The average age of 7 consecutive natural numbers is K, then what will be the average of next 7 consecutive natural
numbers?

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(1) K
(2) K + 7
(3) K + 1
(4) K + 49
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A is the average of a series of n consecutive odd numbers starting with x and B is the average of n consecutive odd
numbers starting with x + 4. The value of (B – A)

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(1) is always 4.
(2) depends on x.
(3) depends on n
(4) is always a multiple of 4.
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Ramu appears in six different papers in his semester examination, where the maximum marks were 50 for each
paper. His marks in these papers are in the proportion 8 : 9 : 10 : 13 : 14 : 15. Considering his aggregate in all the
papers together, he fails to obtain 50% of the total marks. What is the minimum possible additional marks Ramu

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should get to obtain 50% of the total marks, given that he got integral marks in each paper?
(1) 81
(2) 57
(3) 12
(4) 18
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The average weight of 20 students in a class is 50 kg. Find the new average in each of these cases.
(a) A student whose weight was actually 40 kg, was earlier mistaken to be 50 kg.

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(b) A student whose weight was 40.5 kg left the group.
(c) Two students whose average weights were 45.5 kg left the group.

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(d) A student whose weight was 71 kg joined the group.
(e) Two students whose average weight was 39 kg joined this group.

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The average age of a group of 23 persons increases by 4 months, when a person of 20 years is replaced by a new
person. The age of the new person is

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(1) 28 years
(2) 27 years 8 months
(3) 27 years
(4) 26 years 6 months
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The average age of a group of officers goes down to 56 years from 58 years, when an old member is replaced by a
young member. What is the total number of members in that team if the age difference between those two
members is 30 years?

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height of the new person?

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10. The average height of 13 people reduces by 2 cm if a person of height 184 cm is replace by a new person. Find the

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(1) 154 cm
(2) 159 cm
(3) 197 cm
(4) 158 cm
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11. There are ‘n’ students in a class. The average age of a student of this class is ‘A’ years. Two students left the class
and 4 new students joined. Incidentally, the average age of a student in the class, did not change. The sum of the
ages of the 6 students (who either left or joined the class) was 72 years. Find the value of A.

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12. The average age of 5 members of a committee is the same as it was 3 years ago, because an old member has
been replaced by a new member. The difference between the ages of old and new member is:

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13. Ten years ago, the ages of the members of a joint family of eight people added up to 231 years. Three years later,
one member died at the age of 60 years and a child was born during the same year. After another three years, one
more member died, again at 60, and a child was born during the same year. The current average age of this eight-
member joint family is nearest to

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14. The average age of 11 players of a cricket team is increased by 2 months when two of them aged 18 years and 20

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(1) 19 years 1 month
(2) 19 years 6 month
(3) 19 years 11 month
(4) 19 years 5 month
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was 72 km/hr. What was the average speed of the train for the entire journey?

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15. The average speed of a train for the first 5 hours was 63 km/hr, for next 3 hours was 58 km/hr and for next 2 hours

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(1) 65 km/hr
(2) 63.3 km/hr
(3) 60 km/hr
(4) 64.33 km/hr
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16. The class teachers of three classes X, Y and Z give an algebra test to their respective students. The average
scores in class X, Y and Z are 83, 76 and 85 respectively. The average score of all students in classes X and Y
together is 79 and the average score of all students in classes Y and Z together is 81. What is the average for all
the three classes?
(1) 81

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(3) 82
(4) 84.5
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17. The average marks obtained by the candidates who passed and those who failed in an examination are 60 and 25
respectively. The average marks obtained by all the candidates who appeared for the examination is more than 43
but not more than 49. The number of candidates who passed as a fraction of the total number of candidates who
appeared for the examination could never be

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18. The bowling average of a cricketer was 12.4. He improves his bowling average by 0.2 points when he takes 5
wickets for 26 runs in his last match. The number of wickets taken by him before the last match was

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(1) 125
(2) 150
(3) 175
(4) Data insufficient
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19. A class consists of 20 boys and 30 girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average score of the girls was 5

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higher than that of the boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the girls dropped by 3 while the
average score of the entire class increased by 2. The increase in the average score of the boys is: (CAT)
(1) 9.5

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20. Ram lives along with his wife, son and daughter-in-law. The average age of Ram’s family 3 years ago was 40
years. Three years later Ram dies due to illness at the age of 53 years and at the same time his daughter-in-law
gave birth to Ram's grandson. If all the ages are always taken as integral value, now what is the average age of
Ram's family?
(1) 24.80 years

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(2) 26.45 years
(3) 29.75 years
(4) 31.90 years
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21. The average height of 22 toddlers increases by 2 inches when two of them leave this group. If the average height of

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these two toddlers is one-third the average height of the original 22, then the average height, in inches, of the
remaining 20 toddlers is (CAT)
(1) 30

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(3) 32

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22. CAT aspirant appears for a certain number of tests. His average score increases by 1 if the first 10 tests are not

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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 (CAT)

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23. In an apartment complex, the number of people aged 51 years and above is 30 and there are at most 39 people

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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? (CAT)
(1) 25

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(3) 27

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(4) 28

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average of the remaining numbers is 31
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24. Ramu writes all numbers from 1 to N on the white board. A student comes and erases one of the numbers. The

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25. A school has two sections of 20 students each. The difference in the average weights of the students in the two
sections is 1 kg. The average weight of both the sections together is 64 kg. Ramu shifts from section A to section
B, and Pooja shifts from section B to section A. The average weights of the two sections has now been

(1) 53 kg

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interchanged. If Ramu alone shifts, the average weight of both the new sections is equal. What is Ramu’s weight?

(2) 74 kg
(3) 54 kg
(4) 73.5 kg
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26. The weights of 10 students in a class are as follows:
45, 74, 35, 78, 78, 100, 95, 45, 78, 50.

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(a) What is the modal weight?
(b) What is the median weight?

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the mean of their weights is 2 kg. Find the sum of all the possible values of x?

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27. The weights of 5 students in a class is 30 kg, 25 kg, 50 kg, 45 kg and x kg. The difference between the median and

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(1) 10
(2) 85
(3) 135
(4) 235
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28. The table below gives the distribution of scores of 235 students in a class.

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In group A no two students got the same score.
In group B the number of students getting the same score did not exceed 2.

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In group C, there were two modes. All other students who did not get the modal marks had the same scores. The
mean was the least possible.

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In Group D, every score appeared equal number of times.
(a) What is the mode of the class?
(b) What is the median of the class?
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29. Ramesh analysed the monthly salary figures of five vice presidents of his company. All the salary figures are

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integers. The mean and the median salary figures are Rs 5 lakh, and the only mode is Rs 8 lakh. Which of the
options below is the sum (in Rs lakh) of the highest and the lowest salaries? (XAT)
(1) 9

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(3) 11

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difference between the median and the mean of the scores?

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30. Five students take a test on which any integer score from 0 to 100 inclusive is possible. What is the largest possible

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