Quiz Discussion

A team of 8 persons joins in a shooting competition. The best marksman scored 85 points. If he had scored 92 points, the average score for the team would have been 84. The number of points the team scored was :

• 1] 672
• 2] 665
• 3] 645
• 4] 588

The present age of a father is 3 years more than three times the age of his son. Three years hence, father's age will be 10 years more than twice the age of the son. The father's age is :

• 1] 33 years
• 2] 39 years
• 3] 45 years
• 4] 40 years

The average of 50 numbers is 30. If two numbers, 35 and 40 are discarded, then the average of the remaining numbers is nearly:

• 1] 28.32
• 2] 29.68
• 3] 28.78
• 4] 29.27

The average age of a class is 15.8 years. The average age of the boys in the class is 16.4 years while that of the girls is 15.4 years. What is the ratio of boys to girls in the class?

• 1]

  1:2

• 2]

  2:3

• 3]

  3:4

• 4]

  3:5

The average income of A, B and C is Rs. 12,000 per month and average income of B, C and D is Rs. 15,000 per month. If the average salary of D be twice that of A, then the average salary of B and C is in Rs. :

• 1] 8,000
• 2] 18,000
• 3] 13,500
• 4] 9,000

Find the average of the following sets of scores:385, 441, 876, 221, 536, 46, 291, 428

• 1] 221
• 2] 403
• 3] 428
• 4] 536
• 5] None of these

The average age of an adult class is 40 years. 12 new students with an average age of 32 years join the class, thereby decreasing the average by 4 years. The original strength of the class was-

• 1] 10
• 2] 11
• 3] 12
• 4] 15

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

• 1] 18
• 2] 20
• 3] 24
• 4] 30

Out of 9 persons, 8 persons spent Rs. 30 on each of their meals. The ninth one spends Rs. 20 more than the average expenditure of all the nine. The total money spent by all of them was

• 1]

  Rs 260

• 2]

  Rs 290

• 3]

  Rs 292.5

• 4]

  Rs 400.5

If the arithmetic mean of 7, 5, 13, x and 9 is 10, then the value of x is :

• 1] 10
• 2] 12
• 3] 14
• 4] 16