Quiz Discussion

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 ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in the class is-

• 1] 1 : 2
• 2] 2 : 3
• 3] 3 : 4
• 4] 3 : 5

The average age of 30 students of a class is 14 years 4 months. After admission of 5 new students in the class the average becomes 13 years 9 months. The youngest one of the five new students is 9 years 11 months old. The average age of the remaining 4 new students is :

• 1] 10 years 4 months
• 2] 12 years 4 months
• 3] 11 years 2 months
• 4] 13 years 6 months

The average of runs of a cricket player of 10 innings was 32. How many runes must be made in his next innings so as to increase his average of runs by 4?

• 1] 72
• 2] 74
• 3] 70
• 4] 76

The speed of the train going from Nagpur to Allahabad is 100 km/h while when coming back from Allahabad to Nagpur, its speed is 150 km/h. find the average speed during whole journey.

• 1] 125 km/hr
• 2] 75 km/hr
• 3] 135 km/hr
• 4] 120 km/hr

One-fourth of certain journey is covered at the rate of 25 km/h, one-third at the rate of 30 km/h and the rest at 50 km/h. Find the average speed for the whole journey.

• 1]

  600/53 km/h

• 2]

  1200/53 km/h

• 3]

  1800/53 km/h

• 4]

  1600/53 km/h

• 5]

  None of these

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

The average age of P, Q and R is 15 years more than R's age. If the total age of P and Q together is 39 years, then R's age is ?

• 1] 12 years
• 2] 24 years
• 3] 16 years
• 4] 14 years

The average of 11 players of a cricket team is decreased by 2 months when two of them aged 17 years and 20 years are replaced by two new players. The average age of the new players is-

• 1] 17 years 1 month
• 2] 17 years 7 months
• 3] 17 years 11 months
• 4] 18 years 3 months

The mean of 100 items was 46. Later on it was discovered that an item 16 was misread as 61 and another item 43 was misread as 34. It was also found that the number of item was 90 and not 100. Then what is the correct mean ?

• 1] 50
• 2] 50.7
• 3] 52
• 4] 52.7

If the mean of a,b,c is M and ab+bc+ca=0, then the mean of a²,b²,c² is:

• 1]

  M²

• 2]

  3M²

• 3]

  6M²

• 4]

  9M²