Basic Concepts Of Math MCQs For Job's Test Preparation

1 - 10 men can complete a work in 7 days. But 10 women need 14 days to complete the same work. How many days will 5 men and 10 women need to complete the work?





7

2 - 12 buckets of water fill a tank when the capacity of each bucket is 13.5 litres. How many buckets will be needed to fill the same tank, if the capacity of each bucket is 9 litres?





18

3 - 15 men can build a 500m long wall in 30 days. In how many days can 30 men build a 1.2 km long wall?





36 days

4 - 2 men and 12 women can finish a job in 4 days. 4 men and 6 women can do the same job in 5 days. Find the time taken by 1 man and 1 woman to complete the job.





24 days

5 - 25% of 30% of 45% is equal to__________?





0.03375

6 - 3 men and 7 women can complete a work in 10 days . But 4 men and 6 women need 8 days to complete the same work . In how many days will 10 women complete the same work?





40

7 - 4 men and 2 woman can complete a work in 2 days. If 2 men alone take 5 days to complete the work, find the time taken by 2 women alone to complete the work.





10 days

8 - 40 is subtracted from 60% of a number, the result is 50. Find the number?





150

9 - 40% of a number is more than 20% of 650 by 190. Find the number?





800

10 - 6 men and 8 women can complete a work in 10 days. 26 men and 48 women can finish the same work in 2 days. 15 men and 20 women can do the same work in_______days.





4 days

11 - 60% of a number is added to 120, the result is the same number. Find the number?





300

12 - 8 children and 12 men complete a certain piece of work in 9 days. If each child takes twice the time taken by a man to finish the work, in how many days will 12 men finish the same work ?





12 days

13 - 8 men can dig a pit in 20 days. If a man works half as much again as a boy, then 4 men and 9 boys can dig a similar pit in:__________?





16 days

14 - 85% of a number is added to 24, the result is the same number. Find the number?





160

15 - A alone can finish a work in 10 days and B alone can do it in 15 days. If they work together and finish, then out of a total wages of Rs.75. A will get:___________?





45 Rs.

16 - A alone can finish a work in X days. B alone can finish the same work in X+5 days. Together, they take 6 days to complete the work. Find X





10

17 - A and B can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They started doing the work together but after 2 days B had to leave and A alone completed the remaining work. The whole work was completed in___________?





12 days

18 - A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days; B and C in 15 days; C and A in 20 days. A alone can do the work in__________?





30 days

19 - A and B can do a piece of work in 21 and 24 days respectively.They start the work together and after some days, A leaves and B completes the rest of the task in 9 days. After how many days did A leave?





7

20 - A and B can do a piece of work in 72 days; B and C can do it in 120 days; A and C can do it in 90 days. In what time can A alone do it ?





120 days

21 - A and B can do a work in 8 days, 13, and C can do the same work in 12 days. A, B and C together can finish it in 6 days. A and C together will do it in_________?





8 days

22 - A and B can finish a piece of work in 20 days .B and C in 30 days and C and A in 40 days. In how many days will A alone finish the job?





48

23 - A and B can finish a work 30 days if they work together. They worked together for 20 days and then B left. A finished the remaining work in another 20 days. In how many days A alone can finish the work?





60

24 - A and B can together do a piece of work in 15 days. B alone can do it in 20 days. In how many days can A alone do it ?





60 days

25 - A and B together can complete a work in 1.2 days,. A alone can complete it in 20 days. If B does the work only for half a day daily, then in how many days A and B together will complete the work ?





15 days

26 - A and B together take 6 days to complete a task. B and C together take 12 days to complete the same task. A and C together take 8 days to complete it. If A, B and C are working together, how long does it take for them to complete the task?





5(1/3) days

27 - A and B working separately can do a piece of work in 9 and 12 days respectively. If they work for a day alternately. If A begins first, in how many days the work will be completed ?





41/4 days

28 - A batsman in his 17th innings makes a score of 85 and their by increasing his average by 3. What is his average after the 17th innings?





37

29 - A batsman makes a score of 64 runs in the 16th innings and thus increased his average by 3. Find his average after the 16th inning?





19

30 - A boat can move upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 35 kmph, then the speed of the current is_________?





5 kmph

31 - A boat covers a distance of 30 km in 2 ½ hours running downstream while returning it covers the same distance in 3 ¾ hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?





None of these

32 - A boat goes 100 km downstream in 10 hours, and 75 m upstream in 15 hours. The speed of the stream is________?





2 (1/2) km/h

33 - A boat goes 24 km downstream in 10 hours, it takes 2 hours more to cover the same distance against the stream. What is the speed of the boat in still water?





None of these

34 - A boat is rowed downstream at 15.5km/hr and upstream at 8.5 km/hr. The speed of the stream is________?





3.5km/hr

35 - A boat running downstream covers 24 km’s in 4 hours while for covering the same distance upstream it takes 6 hours whats the speed of the boat in still water?





None of these

36 - A boat takes half time in moving a certain distance downstream than upstream. What is the ratio between the rate in still water and rate of current?





0.12569444444

37 - A boat travels upstream from B to A and downstream from A to B in 3 hours. If the speed of the boat in still water is 9km/hr and the speed of the current is 3km/hr, the distance A and B is:_______?





12 km

38 - A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current in 10 minutes. How long will he take to go 5km in stationery water?





1 hr 15 Min

39 - A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current in 10 minutes. How long will it take to go 5 km in stationary water?





1 hr 15 min

40 - A building contractor employs 20 male, 15 female and 5 child workers. To a male worker he pays Rs.25 per day, to a female worker Rs.20 per day and a child worker Rs.8 per day. The average wage per day paid by the contractor is__________?





Rs.21

41 - A can complete a work in 12 days with a working of 8 hours per day. B can complete the same work in 8 days when working 10 hours a day. If A and B work together, working 8 hours a day, the work can be completed in_______days.





5 5⁄11

42 - A can do (1/3) of a work in 5 days and B can do (2/5) of the work in 10 days. In how many days both A and B together can do the work ?





75/8 days

43 - A can do a certain job in 12 days. B is 60% more efficient than A. The number of days it takes for B to do the same piece of work, is:_________?





15/2 days

44 - A can do a certain work-in the same time in which B and C together can do it. If A and B together could do it in 10 days and C alone in 50 days, then B alone could do it in_________?





25 days

45 - A can do a particular work in 6 days . B can do the same work in 8 days. A and B signed to do it for Rs. 3200. They completed the work in 3 days with the help of C. How much is to be paid to C?





Rs. 400

46 - A can do piece of work in 30 days while B can do it in 40 days. In how many days can A and B working together do it ?





120/7 days

47 - A can lay a railway track between two given stations in 16 days and B can do the same job in 12 days. With help of C, they did the job in 4 days only. Then, C alone can do the job in_________?





9.6

48 - A cistern has two taps which fill it in 12 min. and 15 min.respectively There is one outlet pipe in the cistern. When all the taps & pipe are opened, the empty cistern is full in 20 min. How long will the waste pipe (outlet) take to empty the full cis





10 min

49 - A completes 80% of a work in 20 days. Then B also joins and A and B together finish the remaining work in 3 days. How long does it need for B if he alone completes the work?





37 ½ days

50 - A cricketer has a certain average for 10 innings. In the eleventh inning, he scored 108 runs, there by increasing his average by 6 runs. His new average is_____________?





48 runs

51 - A family consists of grandparents, parents and three grandchildren. The average age of the grandparents is 67 years, that of the parents is 35 years and that of the grandchildren is 6 years. What is the average age of the family?





31 5/7 years

52 - A is thrice as good a work man as B and takes 10 days less to do a piece of work than B takes. B can do the work in:___________?





15 days

53 - A is thrice as good as B in work. A is able to finish a job in 60 days less than B. They can finish the work in___________days if they work together.





22 ½ days

54 - A leak in the bottom of a tank can empty the full tank in 6 hrs. An inlet pipe fills water at the rate of 4 lit. a minute. When the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due to the leak, the tank is empty in 8 hrs. The capacity of the tank in liters is





5,760 litres

55 - A leak in the lower portion of a tank can empty the full tank in 9 hrs. An inlet pipe fills water at the rtae of 10 lit. a minute. When the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due to leak, the tank is empty in 16 hrs. How many litres does the cistern





12,342 litres.

56 - A library has an average of 510 visitors on Sunday and 240 on other days. The average number of visitors per day in a month of 30 days beginning with a Sunday is___________?





285

57 - A man can row 30 km downstream and 20 km upstream in 4 hours. He can row 45 km downstream and 40 km upstream in 7 hours. Find the speed of man in still water?





12.5 kmph

58 - A man can row 6 kmph in still water. When the river is running at 1.2 kmph, it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and black. How far is the place?





2.88 km

59 - A man can row 6 kmph in still water. When the river is running at 1.2 kmph, it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and black. What is the total distance traveled by the man?





5.76 km

60 - A man can row 9 1/3 km/hr in still water and he finds that is thrice as much time to row u p than as to row down the same distance in river. The speed of the current is:________?





4 2/3 km/hr

61 - A man can row a boat at 20 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 6 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 60 km downstream?





30/13 hours

62 - A man can row downstream at 18 kmph and upstream at 10 kmph. Find the speed of the man in still water and the speed of stream respectively?





14, 4

63 - A man can row his boat with the stream at 6 km/h and against the stream in 4 km/h. The man’s rate is________?





1 kmph

64 - A man can row three-quarters of a kilometre against the stream in 11 minutes and down the stream in 7 minutes. The speed (in km/hr) of the man in still water is:_________?





5

65 - A man can row upstream at 25 kmph and downstream at 35 kmph, and then find the speed of the man in still water?





30 kmph

66 - A man can row with a speed of 15 kmph in still water. If the stream flows at 5 kmph, then the speed in downstream is________?





20 kmph

67 - A man can swim in still water at 4.5 km/h, but takes twice as long to swim upstream than downstream. The speed of the stream is_________?





1.5

68 - A man purchased 3 blankets @ Rs.100 each, 5 blankets @ Rs.150 each and two blankets at a certain rate which is now slipped off from his memory. But he remembers that the average price of the blankets was Rs.150. Find the unknown rate of two blankets?





None

69 - A man rows his boat 85 km downstream and 45 km upstream, taking 2 1/2 hours each time. Find the speed of the stream?





8 kmph

70 - A man spend Rs. 3300. This was 75% of his monthly income. His monthly income is__________?





4400

71 - A man swims downstream 30 km and upstream 18 km taking 3 hours each time, what is the speed of the man in still water?





8 kmph

72 - A man swims downstream 72 km and upstream 45 km taking 9 hours each time; what is the speed of the current?





1.5 kmph

73 - A man takes twice as long to row a distance against the stream as to row the same distance in favour of the stream. The ratio of the speed of the boat (in still water) and the stream is________?





0.12569444444

74 - A man whose speed is 4.5 kmph in still water rows to a certain upstream point and back to the starting point in a river which flows at 1.5 kmph, find his average speed for the total journey?





4 kmph

75 - A person can row at 9 kmph and still water. He takes 4 1/2 hours to row from A to B and back. What is the distance between A and B if the speed of the stream is 1 kmph?





None of these

76 - A person can swim in still water at 4 km/h. If the speed of water 2 km/h, how many hours will the man take to swim back against the current for 6km?





3

77 - A person travels from x to y at a speed of 40Km/h and returns by increasing his speed 50%. What is his average speed for both the trips?





48km/h

78 - A pupil’s marks were wrongly entered as 83 instead of 63. Due to the average marks for the class got increased by half. The number of pupils in the class is___________?





40

79 - A salt manufacturing company produced a total of 5000 tonnes of salt in January of a particular year. Starting from February its production increased by 100 tonnes every month over the previous months until the end of the year. Find its average monthly pr





5550

80 - A steamer goes downstream from one port to another in 4 hours, it covers the same distance upstream in 5 hours. If the speed of the stream is 2km/hr,the distance between the two parts is_______?





80 km

81 - A student scored an average of 80 marks in 3 subjects: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. If the average marks in Physics and Mathematics is 90 and that in Physics and Chemistry is 70, what are the marks in Physics?





80

82 - A tank can be filled by a pipe in 20 min. and by another pipe in 60 min. Both the pipes are kept open for 10 min. and then the first pipe is shut off. After this, the tank will be completely filled in__________?





20 min

83 - A tap can fill a tank in 32 min. and another can empty it in 16 min. If the tank is already half full and both the tanks are opened together, the tank will be_________?





16 min

84 - A team of eight entered for a shooting competition. The best marks man scored 85 points. If he had scored 92 points, the average scores for. The team would have been 84. How many points altogether did the team score?





665

85 - A total of 3000 chocolates were distributed among 120 boys and girls such that each boy received 2 chocolates and each girl received 3 chocolates. Find the respective number of boys and girls?





60, 60

86 - A trader purchased two colour televisions for a total of Rs. 35000. He sold one colour television at 30% profit and the other 40% profit. Find the difference in the cost prices of the two televisions if he made an overall profit of 32%?





Rs. 21000

87 - A work can be finished in 16 days by twenty women. The same work can be finished in fifteen days by sixteen men. The ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman is_________?





0.16875

88 - A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. In how many days can A do the work if he is assisted by B and C on every Third day ?





16 days

89 - A, B and C together earn Rs.150 per day while A and C together earn Rs.94 and B and C together earn Rs.76. The daily earning of C is:__________?





20 Rs.

90 - A,B,C, can do a work in 8,14,16 days respectively. A does the work for the first 2 days. B continues from it and finishes 2/3rd of the remaining work. C finishes the remaining work. How many days would have taken to complete the work?





13

91 - Aftab bought 65 books for Rs.1150 from one shop and 50 books for Rs.920 from another. What is the average price he paid per book ?





Rs.18

92 - After decreasing 24% in the price of an article costs Rs.912. Find the actual cost of an article?





1200

93 - Assume that 20 cows and 40 goats can be kept for 10 days for Rs.460. If the cost of keeping 5 goats is the same as the cost of keeping 1 cow, what will be the cost for keeping 50 cows and 30 goats for 12 days?





Rs.1104

94 - B can work 3 times faster than A. They work together on a task and complete it in a day. How long does it take for B alone to complete the task?





32 hours

95 - Bilal can do a work in 15 days and Jalal in 12 days. If they work on it together for 4 days, the fraction of work that is left is________?





44962

96 - C takes 6 days to complete half of a work and D takes 5 days to complete 1/3rd of the same work. They take turns to complete the task. If C works for the first 4 days, in how many days will D complete the rest of the work without the help of C?





10 days

97 - Efficiency of Rashid and Danish are in the ratio 5:8. If Danish takes 51 days less than Rashid to complete the work, find the time taken by Rashid to complete the work.





136 days

98 - Farjan and Kashif can complete a task in 30 days. Farjan leaves after 20 days and Kashif alone completes it in another 25 days. How many days does Farjan alone take to complete the entire task?





50

99 - Find the average of all the numbers between 6 and 34 which are divisible by 5.





20

100 - Find the average of the first 20 natural numbers?





10.5

101 - Find the average of the series : 312, 162, 132, 142 and 122?





174

102 - Five years ago the average of the ages of A and B was 40 years and now the average of the ages of B and C is 48 years. What will be the age of the B ten years hence?





Data inadequate

103 - How much 60% of 50 is greater than 40% of 30?





18

104 - How much is 80% of 40 is greater than 4/5 of 25?





12

105 - If 10 bulls can plough 20 identical fields in 3 days working 10 hours a day, then in how many days can 30 bulls plough 32 same identical fields working 8 hours a day?





2

106 - If 10 workers can make 10 tables in 10 days, then how many days would it take for 5 workers to make 5 tables?





10

107 - If 12 men work 8 hours a day to complete a work in 10 days, how many men working 12 hours a day can complete the work in 5 days?





16

108 - If 28 men can finish a work in 15 days, 21 men can finish the same work in___________?





20 days

109 - If 3 men or 4 women can construct a wall in 43 days, then the number of days that 7 men and 5 women take to construct it is :





16 days

110 - If 6 men can make 10 sofas in 2 days, then 8 men can make 8 sofas in__________?





1.2 days

111 - If 6 men take 9 days to complete a work, how many men can complete the work in 3 days?





18 men

112 - If 6 men working together can complete 50 identical tasks in 4 hours then how many such identical tasks can be completed if 10 men are working together for 6 hours?





125

113 - If a man rows at the rate of 5 kmph in still water and his rate against the current is 3.5 kmph. then the man’s rate along the current is__________?





6.5 kmph

114 - If daily wages of a man is double to that of a woman, how many men should work for 25 days to earn Rs.14400? Given that wages for 40 women for 30 days are Rs.21600.





16

115 - If the arithmetic mean of seventy five numbers is calculated, it is 35. If each number is increased by 5, then mean of new number is___________?





40

116 - If the average marks of three batches of 55, 60 and 45 students respectively is 50, 55, 60, then the average marks of all the students is__________?





54.68

117 - If two pipes function together, the cistern will be filled in 6 hrs. One pipe fills the cistern 5 hrs. faster than the other. How many hours it take the second pipe to fill the cistern?





15 hrs

118 - If X and Y complete a certain work in 10 days, Y and Z in 16 days and X and Z in 22 days, find the time required for each one to complete the work while working separately.





120, 40, 60 days

119 - If y exceeds x by 20%, then x is less than y by_______?





0.16666666667

120 - In a hostel there were 100 students. To accommodate 20 more students the average is decreased by rupees 5. But total expenditure increased by Rs.400. Find the total expenditure of the hostel now?





Rs.5400

121 - In an exam, Amir scored 64 percent, Masood scored 36 percent and asif 44 percent. The maximum score awarded in the exam is 800. Find the average mark scored by all the three boys?





384

122 - In an examination a pupil’s average marks were 63 per paper. If he had obtained 20 more marks for his Geography paper and 2 more marks for his History paper, his average per paper would have been 65. How many papers were there in the examination?





11

123 - In the first 10 overs of a cricket game, the run rate was only 3.2. What should be the rate in the remaining 40 overs to reach the target of 282 runs?





6.25

124 - Jameel can complete a task in 15 hours and Nasir can complete the same task in 12 hours. Jameel starts the task at 9:00 am and stops working at 2:00pm. Nasir starts working on the task at 4:00 pm. At what time is the task completed?





0

125 - Kamal will complete work in 20 days. If Suresh is 25% more efficient than Kamal, he can complete the work in________days.





16

126 - Machine P can print one lakh books in 8 hours. Machine Q can print the same number of books in 10 hours while machine R can print the same in 12 hours. All the machines started printing at 9 A.M. Machine P is stopped at 11 A.M. and the remaining two machi





0.54166666667

127 - Mansoor-Ul-Haque and Aaqib are working on a special assignment. Mansoor-Ul-Haque needs 6 hours to type 32 pages on a computer and Aaqib needs 5 hours to type 40 pages. If both of them work together on two different computers, how much time is needed to ty





8 hour 15 minutes

128 - Nine men went to a hotel. Eight of them spent Rs.3 each over their meals and the ninth spent Rs.2 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. Determine the total money spent by them?





Rs.29.25

129 - P and Q can complete a work in 15 days and 10 days respectively. They started the work together and then Q left after 2 days. P alone completed the remaining work. The work was finished in__________days.





12

130 - P and Q can complete a work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. P alone started the work and Q joined him after 4 days till the completion of the work. How long did the work last?





10 days

131 - P and Q can do a work in 30 days. Q and R can do the same work in 24 days and R and P in 20 days. They started the work together, but Q and R left after 10 days. How many days more will P take to finish the work?





18

132 - P and Q need 8 days to complete a work. Q and R need 12 days to complete the same work. But P, Q and R together can finish it in 6 days. How many days will be needed if P and R together do it?





8

133 - P can do a work in 24 days. Q can do the same work in 9 days and R can do the same in 12 days. Q and R start the work and leave after 3 days. P finishes the remaining work in_________days.





10

134 - P can do a work in the same time in which Q and R together can do it. If P and Q work together, the work can be completed in 10 days. R alone needs 50 days to complete the same work. then Q alone can do it in__________?





25 days

135 - P can finish a work in 18 days. Q can finish the same work in 15 days. Q worked for 10 days and left the job. how many days does P alone need to finish the remaining work?





6

136 - P can lay railway track between two stations in 16 days. Q can do the same job in 12 days. With the help of R, they completes the job in 4 days. How much days does it take for R alone to complete the work?





9(3/5) days

137 - P is 30% more efficient than Q. P can complete a work in 23 days. If P and Q work together, how much time will it take to complete the same work?





13

138 - P is able to do a piece of work in 15 days and Q can do the same work in 20 days. If they can work together for 4 days, what is the fraction of work left?





45153

139 - P takes twice as much time as Q or thrice as much time as R to finish a piece of work. They can finish the work in 2 days if work together. How much time will Q take to do the work alone?





6

140 - P works twice as fast as Q. If Q alone can complete a work in 12 days, P and Q can finish the work in________days





4

141 - P, Q and R can complete a work in 24, 6 and 12 days respectively. The work will be completed in________days if all of them are working together.





3 3⁄7

142 - P, Q and R can do a work in 20, 30 and 60 days respectively. How many days does it need to complete the work if P does the work and he is assisted by Q and R on every third day?





15 days

143 - P,Q and R together earn Rs.1620 in 9 days. P and R can earn Rs.600 in 5 days. Q and R in 7 days can earn Rs.910. How much amount does R can earn per day?





Rs.70

144 - Rs. 6000 is lent out in two parts. One part is lent at 7% p.a simple interest and the other is lent at 10% p.a simple interest. The total interest at the end of one year was Rs. 450. Find the ratio of the amounts lent at the lower rate and higher rate of





0.20902777778

145 - Running at the same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a total of 270 bottles per minute. At this rate, how many bottles could 10 such machines produce in 4 minutes?





1800

146 - Sarfaraz obtained 76, 65, 82, 67 and 85 marks (out of 100) in English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. What are his average marks?





None of these

147 - Speed of a boat in standing water is 9 kmph and the speed of the stream is 1.5 kmph. A man rows to a place at a distance of 105 km and comes back to the starting point. The total time taken by him is_________?





24 hours

148 - The arithmetic mean of the scores of a group of students in a test was 52. The brightest 20% of them secured a mean score of 80 and the dullest 25% a mean score of 31. The mean score of remaining 55% is___________?





51.4 approx.

149 - The average age 9 members of a committee are the same as it was 2 years ago, because an old number has been replaced by a younger number. Find how much younger is the new member than the old number?





18 years

150 - The average age of 15 students of a class is 15 years. Out of these, the average age of 5 students is 14 years and that of the other 9 students is 16 years. The age of the 15th student is____________?





11 years

151 - The average age of 8 men increases by 2 years when two women are included in place of two men of ages 20 and 24 years. Find the average age of the women?





30 years

152 - The average age of a group of 10 persons was decreased by 3 years when one person, whose age was 42 years, was replaced by a new person. Find the age of the new person?





12

153 - The average age of a husband and a wife is 23 years when they were married five years ago but now the average age of the husband, wife and child is 20 years(the child was born during the interval). What is the present age of the child?





4 years

154 - The average age of a husband, wife and their child 3 years ago was 27 years and that of wife and the child 5 years ago was 20 years. The present age of the husband is___________?





19 years

155 - The average age of M boys is ‘b’ years and of ‘n’ girls ‘c’ years. The average age of all together is_________?





(mb + nc)/ (m + n) years

156 - The average age of seven persons sitting in a row facing east is 28 years. If the average age of the first three persons is 21 years and the average age of the last three persons is 34 years, then find the age of the person sitting in the middle of the ro





31 years

157 - The average age of students of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of boys in the class is 16.4 years and that of the girls is 15.4 years. The ration of the number of boys to the number of girls in the class is___________?





0.085416666667

158 - The average age of three boys is 15 years and their ages are in proportion 3:5:7. What is the age in years of the youngest boy?





9

159 - The average amount with a group of seven numbers is Rs. 20. If the newly joined member has Rs. 50 with him, what was the average amount with the group before his joining the group?





Rs. 15

160 - The average height of 35 boys in a class was calculated as 180cm. It has later found that the height of one of the boys in the class was wrongly written as 166 cm whereas his actual height was 106 cm. Find the actual average height of the boys in the clas





178.29 cm

161 - The average height of 50 pupils in a class is 150 cm. Five of them whose height is 146 cm, leave the class and five others whose average height is 156 cm, join. The new average height of the pupils of the class (in cm) is __________ .





151

162 - The average mark of the students of a class in a particular exam is 80. If 5 students whose average mark in that exam is 40 are excluded, the average mark of the remaining will be 90. Find the number of students who wrote the exam.





25

163 - The average marks in mathematics scored by the students of a school at the public examination were 39. If four of these students who actually scored 5, 12, 15 and 19 marks at the examination had not been sent up, the average marks for the school would hav





25

164 - The average marks of a class of 30 students is 40 and that of another class of 50 students is 60. Find the average marks of all the students?





52.5

165 - The average monthly income of P and Q is Rs. 5050. The average monthly income of Q and R is 6250 and the average monthly income of P and R is Rs. 5200. The monthly income of P is____________?





Rs. 4000

166 - The average monthly salary of 20 employees in an organisation is Rs. 1500. If the manager’s salary is added, then the average salary increases by Rs. 100. What is the manager’s monthly salary?





Rs. 3600

167 - The average of 10 numbers is 23. If each number is increased by 4, what will the new average?





27

168 - The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of first six is 10.5 and that of the last six is 11.4 the sixth number is_____________?





11.5

169 - The average of 11 results is 50, if the average of first six results is 49 and that of the last six is 52. Find the sixth result?





56

170 - The average of 13 numbers is 60. Average of the first 7 of them is 57 and that of the last 7 is 61. Find the 8th number?





46

171 - The average of 18 observations was calculated and it was 124. Later on it was discovered that two observations 46 and 82 were incorrect. The correct values are 64 and 28. The correct average of 18 observations is___________?





122

172 - The average of 1st 3 of 4 numbers is 16 and of the last 3 are 15. If the sum of the first and the last number is 13. What is the last numbers?





5

173 - The average of 20 numbers is zero. Of them, at the most, how many may be greater than zero?





19

174 - The average of 35 numbers is 25. If each number is multiplied by 5, find the new average?





125

175 - The average of 35 students in a class is 16 years. The average age of 21 students is 14. What is the average age of remaining 14 students?





19 years

176 - The average of 9 observations was 9, that of the 1st of 5 being 10 and that of the last 5 being 8. What was the 5th observation?





9

177 - The average of first 10 even numbers is___________?





11

178 - The average of first 10 natural numbers is____________?





5.5

179 - The average of first 10 odd numbers is_____________?





10

180 - The average of first five multiples of 3 is____________?





9

181 - The average of first five prime numbers greater than 20 is____________?





32.2

182 - The average of first ten prime numbers which are odd is____________?





15.8

183 - The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 61. What is the difference between the highest and lowest numbers?





8

184 - The average of five numbers is 27. If one number is excluded, the average becomes 25. The excluded number is__________?





35

185 - The average of five results is 46 and that of the first four is 45. The fifth result is__________?





50

186 - The average of four positive integers is 69. The highest integer is 93 and the least integer is 39. The difference between the remaining two integers is 28. Which of the following integers is the higher of the remaining two integers?





86

187 - The average of non-zero number and its square is 5 times the number. The number is__________?





9

188 - The average of runs of a cricket player of 10 innings was 32. How many runs must he make in his next innings so as to increase his average of runs by 4?





76

189 - The average of the marks of 12 students in a class is 36. If the marks of each student are doubled, find the new average?





72

190 - The average of the two-digit numbers, which remain the same when the digits interchange their positions, is__________?





55

191 - The average of women and child workers in a factory was 15%yr. The average age of all the 16 children was 8yr and average age of women workers was 22 yrs if ten women workers were married then the number of unmarried women workers were________?





6

192 - The average runs scored by a batsman in 20 matches is 40. In the next 10 matches the batsman scored an average of 13 runs. Find his average in all the 30 matches?





31

193 - The average salary of a person for the months of January, February, March and April is Rs.8000 and that for the months February, March, April and May is Rs.8500. If his salary for the month of May is Rs.6500, find his salary for the month of January?





4500

194 - The average salary of all the workers in a workshop is Rs. 8000. The average salary of 7 technicians is Rs. 12000 and the average salary of the rest is Rs. 6000. The total number of workers in the workshop is__________________?





21

195 - The average salary of workers in an industry is Rs.200 the average salary of technicians being Rs.400 and that of non-technicians being Rs.125. What is the total number of workers?





550

196 - The average salary per head of the entire staff of an office including the officers and clerks is Rs.90. The average salary of officers is Rs.600 and that of the clerks is Rs.84. If the number of officers is 2, find the number of officers in the office?





1020

197 - The average temperature for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 48 degrees and for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 46 degrees. If the temperature on Monday was 42 degrees. Find the temperature on Friday?





34 degrees

198 - The average weight of 16 boys in a class is 50.25 kg and that of the remaining 8 boys is 45.15 kg. Find the average weights of all the boys in the class.





48.55 kg

199 - The average weight of 25 persons sitting in a boat had some value. A new person added to them whose weight was 46 kg only. Due to his arrival, the average weight of all the persons decreased by 5 kg. Find the average weight of first 25 persons?





None

200 - The average weight of a group of boys is 30 kg. After a boy of weight 35 kg joins the group, the average weight of the group goes up by 1 kg. Find the number of boys in the group originally?





4

201 - The average weight of a group of persons increased from 48 kg to 51 kg, when two persons weighing 78 kg and 93 kg join the group. Find the initial number of members in the group?





23

202 - The average weight of A, B and C is 45 kg. If the average weight of A and B be 40 kg and that of B and C be 43 kg, then the weight of B is___________?





31 kg

203 - The average weight of A, B and C is 45 kg. If the average weight of A and B be 40 kg and that of B and C be 43 kg, then the weight of B is___________?





31 kg

204 - The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the averag





23 years

205 - The current of a stream at 1 kmph. A motor boat goes 35 km upstream and back to the starting point in 12 hours. The speed of the motor boat in still water is_________?





6 kmph

206 - The current of a stream runs at the rate of 4 kmph. A boat goes 6 km and back to the starting point in 2 hours, then find the speed of the boat in still water?





8 kmph

207 - The mean marks of 30 students in a class is 58.5. Later on it was found that 75 was wrongly recorded as 57. Find the correct them.





59.1

208 - The mean of 50 observations was 36. It was found later that an observation 48 was wrongly taken as 23. The corrected new mean is___________?





36.5

209 - The present average age of a family of five members is 26 years. If the present age of the youngest member in the family is ten years, then what was the average age of the family at the time of the birth of the youngest member ? (Assume no death occurred





20 years

210 - The speed at which a man can row a boat in still water is 15 kmph. If he rows downstream, where the speed of current is 3 kmph, what time will he take to cover 60 metres?





12 seconds

211 - The speed of a boat in still water is 2km/hr. If its speed upstream be 1km/hr then speed of the stream is________?





1km/hr

212 - The speed of a boat in still water is 5 km/hr, it can go 30km upstream and return downstream to the original point in 4 hours 30 min. The speed of the stream is_______?





5km/hr

213 - The speed of a boat in still water is 60kmph and the speed of the current is 20kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream?





80, 40 kmph

214 - The speed of a boat in upstream is 60 kmph and the speed of the boat downstream is 80 kmph. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the stream?





70, 10 kmph

215 - The speed of a motor boat is that of the current of water as 36:5. The boat goes along with the current in 5 hours 10 min, it will come back in_______?





6 hours 50 min

216 - The sum of five numbers is 655. The average of the first two numbers is 85 and the third number is 125. Find the average of the two numbers?





180

217 - The time taken by a man to row his boat upstream is twice the time taken by him to row the same distance downstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 42 kmph, find the speed of the stream?





14 kmph

218 - The total marks obtained by a student in Mathematics and Physics is 60 and his score in Chemistry is 20 marks more than that in Physics. Find the average marks scored in Mathematics and Chemistry together.





40

219 - The total marks obtained by a student in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics is 150 more than the marks obtained by him in Physics. What is the average mark obtained by him in Chemistry and Mathematics?





75

220 - Three years ago the average age of a family of six members was 19 years. A boy have been born, the average age of the family is the same today. What is the age of the boy?





1 year

221 - To fill a cistern, pipes P, Q & R take 20, 15 & 12 minutes respectively. The time in minutes that the three pipes together will take to fill the cistern is:__________?





5 min

222 - Today is khadija’s birthday. After one year, she will become two times as she was ten years ago. current age of Khadija?





21

223 - Twelve men can do a work in twenty days while twenty women can finish the same work in sixteen days. Find the ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman.





0.16875

224 - Twenty women can do a work in sixteen days. Sixteen men can complete the same work in fifteen days. What is the ratio between the capacity of a man and a woman ?





0.16875

225 - Two pipes can fill a tank in 10 hrs. and 12 hrs. respectively while a third pipe empties the full tank in 20 hrs. If all the three pipes operate together , in how much time the tank will be filled ?





7.5 hrs

226 - Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 min. and 15 min. respectively but a third pipe ‘R’ can empty the full tank in 6 min. P and Q are kept open for 5 min. in the beginning and then ‘R’ is also opened. In what time is the cistern emptied ?





45 min

227 - Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 minutes and 16 minutes respectively. Simultaneously both the pipes are opened together, then after how much time Q should be closed so that the tank is full in 9 min ?





4 min

228 - Two taps X and Y can fill a tank in 10 hrs. and 15 hrs.respectively. If the both taps are opened together, the tank will be full in_________?





6 hrs.

229 - Visitors to show were charged Rs.15 each on the first day. Rs.7.50 on the second day, Rs.2.50 on the third day and total attendance on the three days were in ratio 2:5:13 respectively. The average charge per person for the whole show is___________?





Rs.5.00

230 - What are Prime Numbers?





Which can be divided by Number 1 & by itself Number

231 - What percent of 120 are 90?





0.75

232 - wo pipes X and Y fill a tank in 15 hrs. and 20 hrs. respectively, while a third pipe ‘Z’ can empty the full tank in 25 hrs. All the three pipes are opened in the beginning. After 10 hrs. Z is closed. In how much time, will the tank be full ?





12 hrs

233 - X and Y can do a piece of work in 20 days and 12 days respectively. X started the work alone and then after 4 days Y joined him till the completion of the work. How long did the work last ?





10 days

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