Quiz Discussion

From a class of 42 boys, a boy aged 10 years goes away and in his place, a new boy is admitted. If on account of this change, the average age of the boys in that class increases by 2 months, the age of the newcomer is :

• 1] 19 years
• 2] 17 years
• 3] 10 years 6 months
• 4] 12 years 2 months

The average age of a family of 10 members is 20 years. If the age of the youngest member of the family is 10 years, then the average age of the members of the family just before the birth of the youngest member was approximately.

• 1]

  27.14 years

• 2]

  12.5 years

• 3]

  14.28 years

• 4]

  \(11\frac{1}{9}\) years

Distance between two stations A and B is 778km. A train covers the journey from A to B at 84 km per hour and returns back to A with a uniform speed of 56 km per hour. Find the average speed of train during the whole journey.

• 1]

  60 km/hr

• 2]

  30.5 km/hr

• 3]

  57 km/hr

• 4]

  67.2 km/hr

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

A batsman makes a score of 87 runs in the 17th inning and thus increases his average by 3. Find his average after 17th inning.

• 1] 40
• 2] 39
• 3] 52
• 4] 55

Find the average of 1.11, 0.01, 0.101, 0.001, 0.11 = ?

• 1] 0.2664
• 2] 0.2554
• 3] 0.1264
• 4] 0.1165

If 25a + 25b = 115, what is the average of a and b?

• 1] 2.5
• 2] 3.4
• 3] 4.5
• 4] 4.6
• 5] None of these

The frequency distribution data is given below. If the average age is 17 years, the value of m is

• 1] 1
• 2] 2
• 3] 3
• 4] 4

A train covers the first 16 km at a speed of 20 km per hour another 20 km at 40 km per hour and the last 10 km at 15 km per hour. Find the average speed for the entire journey.

• 1]

  24 km

• 2]

  26 km

• 3]

  21 km

• 4]

  km

Mean of 10 numbers is 30. Later on it was observed that numbers 15, 23 are wrongly taken as 51, 32. The correct mean is :

• 1] 25.5
• 2] 32
• 3] 30
• 4] 34.5