CAT Arithmetic > Mean, Median & Mode PYQs

The average salary of 5 managers and 25 engineers in a company is 60000 rupees. If each of the managers received 20% salary increase while the salary of the engineers remained unchanged, the average salary of all 30 employees would have increased by 5%. The average salary, in rupees, of the engineers is

The average number of copies of a book sold per day by a shopkeeper is 60 in the initial seven days and 63 in the initial eight days, after the book launch. On the ninth day, she sells 11 copies less than the eighth day, and the average number of copies sold per day from second day to ninth day becomes 66. The number of copies sold on the first day of the book launch is

The average of three distinct real numbers is 28. If the smallest number is increased by 7 and the largest number is reduced by 10, the order of the numbers remains unchanged, and the new arithmetic mean becomes 2 more than the middle number, while the difference between the largest and the smallest numbers becomes 64. Then, the largest number in the original set of three numbers is

A company has 40 employees whose names are listed in a certain order. In the year 2022, the average bonus of the first 30 employees was Rs. 40000, of the last 30 employees was Rs. 60000, and of the first 10 and last 10 employees together was Rs. 50000. Next year, the average bonus of the first 10 employees increased by 100%, of the last 10 employees increased by 200% and of the remaining employees was unchanged. Then, the average bonus, in rupees, of all the 40 employees together in the year 2023 was

There are four numbers such that average of first two numbers is 1 more than the first number, average of first three numbers is 2 more than average of first two numbers, and average of first four numbers is 3 more than average of first three numbers. Then, the difference between the largest and the smallest numbers, is

There are three persons $\mathrm{A}, \mathrm{B}$ and $C$ in a room. If a person $D$ joins the room, the average weight of the persons in the room reduces by $x$ kg . Instead of $D$ , if person $E$ joins the room, the average weight of the persons in the room increases by $2 \mathrm{x} \mathrm{kg}$. If the weight of $E$ is $12 \mathrm{~kg}$ more than that of $D$, then the value of $x$ is

In an examination, the average marks of $4$ girls and $6$ boys is $24$. Each of the girls has the same marks while each of the boys has the same marks. If the marks of any girl is at most double the marks of any boy, but not less than the marks of any boy, then the number of possible distinct integer values of the total marks of $2$ girls and $6$ boys is

In an examination, the average marks of students in sections $A$ and $B$ are $32$ and $60$, respectively. The number of students in section $A$ is $10$ less than that in section $B$ . If the average marks of all the students across both the sections combined is an integer, then the difference between the maximum and minimum possible number of students in section $A$ is

Consider six distinct natural numbers such that the average of the two smallest numbers is $14$, and the average of the two largest numbers is $28$. Then, the maximum possible value of the average of these six numbers is

Manu earns Rs. $4000$ per month and wants to save an average of Rs. $550$ per month in a year. In the first nine months, his monthly expense was Rs. $3500$, and he foresees that, tenth month onward, his monthly expense will increase to Rs. $3700$. In order to meet his yearly savings target, his monthly earnings, in rupees, from the tenth month onward should be

Five students, including Amit, appear for an examination in which possible marks are integers between $0$ and 50, both inclusive. The average marks for all the students is $38$ and exactly three students got more than 32. If no two students got the same marks and Amit got the least marks among the five students, then the difference between the highest and lowest possible marks of Amit is

The average of three integers is $13$. When a natural number $n$ is included, the average of these four integers remains an odd integer. The minimum possible value of $n$ is

The average weight of students in a class increases by $600$ gm when some new students join the class. If the average weight of the new students is $3$ kg more than the average weight of the original students, then the ratio of the number of original students to the number of new students is

The arithmetic mean of scores of $25$ students in an examination is $50$. Five of these students top the examination with the same score. If the scores of the other students are distinct integers with the lowest being $30$, then the maximum possible score of the toppers is

In a football tournament, a player has played a certain number of matches and $10$ more matches are to be played. If he scores a total of one goal over the next $10$ matches, his overall average will be $0.15$ goals per match. On the other hand, if he scores a total of two goals over the next $10$ matches, his overall average will be $0.2$ goals per match. The number of matches he has played is

Suppose hospital $A$ admitted $21$ less Covid infected patients than hospital $B$, and all eventually recovered. The sum of recovery days for patients in hospitals $A$ and $B$ were $200$ and $152$, respectively. If the average recovery days for patients admitted in hospital $A$ was $3$ more than the average in hospital $B$ then the number admitted in hospital $A$ was

Onion is sold for $5$ consecutive months at the rate of Rs $10,20,25,25$, and $50$ per kg, respectively. A family spends a fixed amount of money on onion for each of the first three months, and then spends half that amount on onion for each of the next two months. The average expense for onion, in rupees per kg, for the family over these $5$ months is closest to

A batsman played $n + 2$ innings and got out on all occasions. His average score in these $n + 2$ innings was 29 runs and he scored 38 and 15 runs in the last two innings. The batsman scored less than 38 runs in each of the first $n$ innings. In these $n$ innings, his average score was 30 runs and lowest score was $x$ runs. The smallest possible value of $x$ is

Dick is thrice as old as Tom and Harry is twice as old as Dick. If Dick's age is $1$ year less than the average age of all three, then Harry's age, in years, is

In a group of $10$ students, the mean of the lowest $9$ scores is $42$ while the mean of the highest $9$ scores is $47$. For the entire group of $10$ students, the maximum possible mean exceeds the minimum possible mean by

The mean of all $4-$digit even natural numbers of the form $'aabb',$ where $a > 0,$ is

The average of $30$ integers is $5$. Among these $30$ integers, there are exactly $20$ which do not exceed $5$. What is the highest possible value of the average of these $20$ integers?

Ramesh and Gautam are among $22$ students who write an examination. Ramesh scores $82.5$. The average score of the $21$ students other than Gautam is $62$. The average score of all the $22$ students is one more than the average score of the $21$ students other than Ramesh. The score of Gautam is

The arithmetic mean of $x, y$ and $z$ is $80$, and that of $x, y, z, u$ and $v$ is $75$, where $u=(x+y) / 2$ and $v=(y+z) / 2$. If $x \geq z$, then the minimum possible value of $x$ is

In an apartment complex, the number of people aged $51$ years and above is $30$ and there are at most $39$ people whose ages are below $51$ years. The average age of all the people in the apartment complex is $38$ years. What is the largest possible average age, in years, of the people whose ages are below $51$ years?

A CAT aspirant appears for a certain number of tests. His average score increases by $1$ if the first $10$ tests are not considered, and decreases by $1$ if the last $10$ tests are not considered. If his average scores for the first $10$ and the last $10$ tests are $20$ and 30, respectively, then the total number of tests taken by him is

The average height of 22 toddlers increases by 2 inches when two of them leave this group. If the average height of these two toddlers is one-third the average height of the original 22, then the average height, in inches, of the remaining 20 toddlers is

A class consists of $20$ boys and $30$ girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average score of the girls was $5$ higher than that of the boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the girls dropped by $3$ while the average score of the entire class increased by $2$. The increase in the average score of the boys is