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CSIR-UGC-NET/JRF | GATE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Assignment - 5 : General Aptitude (Average)
1. The average of 6 consecutive even number is 21. Find the largest number?
2. The average of 6 consecutive odd number is 22. Find the smallest number?
3. The average of 20 numbers is 0. At most, how many may be greater than 0?
4. The average age of a husband and wife is 20 years. After 5 years, they have a one year old child. Find
the average age of the family now?
5. The average of 5 numbers is 29. If one number is excluded, the average becomes 27. Find the excluded
number?
6. The average age of 36 students is 15 years, when teachers age is included to it, the average increases by
1. What is the teachers age?
7. The average weight of 8 persons increases by 2.5 kg. When a new person comes in place of one of them
having weight 40 kg. What is the wieght of new person?
8. The average weight of 10 persons decreases by 2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them
having weight 70 kg. What is the weight of the new person?
9. A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his average by 3 runs. Find his
average after 17th inning.
10. A bowler took 5 wickets after giving 26 runs in the final match. So his average is reduced 12 from 12.4.
So find the total number of wickets are taken by the bowler?
11. The average of 11 results is 60. If the average of 1st 6 results is 58 and that of last 6 results is 63. Find
the 6th result?
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MCQ
1. Weights of 13 persons are given: 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94. Two new persons
having weights 100 kg. and 79 kg. join the group. The average weight of the group increases by
(a) 0 kg (b) 1 kg (c) 1.6 kg (d) 1.8 kg
2. The average staff salary of a company is Rs. 8000%. A new guard and a new manager are recruited with
salaries of Rs. 5000 and Rs. 20000 respectively. What is the current staff strength if the new average salary
is Rs. 4000 more than that of the guard?
(a) 7 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 11
3. The average age of A, B and C, whose ages are integers x, y and z respectively ( x y z ) is 30. If the
age of B is exactly 5 more than that of A, what is the minimum possible value of z?
(a) 31 (b) 33 (c) 35 (d) 37
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4. The average rainfall over a given place during the three-year period of 2003-05 was 65 cm. During the
3 year period 2002-04, the average rainfall was 63 cm. The actual rainfall during 2005 was 60 cm. What
was the rainfall in 2002?
(a) 55 cm (b) 60 cm (c) 54 cm (d) 53 cm
5. A student received the following marks in the 5 of the 6 courses : 91, 86, 81, 79 and 92. Average of his
marks in 6 subjects is 85. How many marks did he receive in the 6th subject?
(a) 83 (b) 85 (c) 81 (d) 88
6. The mean of a set of 10 numbers is M. By combining with it a second set of M numbers, the mean of the
combined set becomes 10. What is the sum of the 2nd set of numbers?
(a) 10 M – 1 (b) 10 M + 1 (c) 20 (d) 100
7. The 9 numbers x1 , x2 ... x9 are in ascending order. Their average m is strictly greater than all the first
8 numbers. Which of the following is true?
(a) Avg.( x1 , x2 ... x9 , m) m and Avg.( x2 , x3 ... x9 ) m
(b) < , <
(c) = , >
(d) < , =
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