Average &mixture and alligation

1.a. The average of 11, 18, 25, 32, 39 is

b.The average age of a group of seven girls is 23 years. One more girl joins this group and the average
age increases to 24 years. What is the age of the girl who has joined this group?
(1)31 (2) 24
(3)27 (4) 29

2.The average age of teachers in a school is 42 years. In the middle of the school year, three new teachers
with an average age of 50 years join the school and the average age of the entire group becomes 45 years.
How many teachers were there initially?
(1) 3 (2)5
(3) 10 (4) Cannot be determined

3.The average weight of 15 students of a class is 45kgs. The average weight of 5 students is 44kgs and
that of the other 9 students is 46kgs. What is the weight of the 15th student?

4.The average age of 36 students in a group is 14 years. When the teacher’s age is included, the average
increases by one. What is the teacher’s age in years?
(1) 31 (2) 36 (5) None of these

5.The average weight of 8 persons increases by 2.5kg when a new person comes in place of one of them
weighing 65 kg. What might be the weight of the new person?
(1) 76 (2) 76.5
(3) 85 (4) Data Inadequate

6.The average age of a couple and their three children around four years ago was 15 years. After some
time, one more child was born. The current average age is 16 years. It is known that the husband’s age at
the moment is 40 years and the wife is two years younger than him. Considering this, what could be
maximum possible age of the eldest child?

7.A shopkeeper sells rice of 1kg for Rs.75 w two quality of rice whose worth for 1kg is Rs.70 and Rs.80.

8.A dishonest milkman professes to sell his milk at cost price but he mixes it with water and thereby
gains 25%.The percentage of water in the mixture?

9.The Ratio ,in which tea costing Rs.192 per kg is to be mixed with tea costing Rs.150 per kg so that the
mixed tea when sold for Rs.194.40 per Kg,gives a profit of 20%.

10.The Grocer sells apples of 3 varieties whose price per kg’s are Rs.40,Rs.60 and Rs. 90 .If he sells 1kg
of apple by missing all these 3 varieties for Rs.80 what is the ratio by which these varieties are to be
mixed?

5.Tea worth Rs.126 per kg and Rs.135 per kg are mixed with a third variety in the ratio 1:1:2.If the
mixture is worth Rs.153 per kg, the price of the third variety per kg will be?
11.There are three vessels of equal capacity holds milk and water in the ratio of 1:2,2:3 and 1:4if the
content of all the three vessel s are mixed in asingle vessel then.Find the ratio of milk and water in the
new vessel?
12)How much water must be added to 60 litres of milk at 1.5 litre for Rs.20,So as to have a mixture worth
Rs.10 2/3 per litre?

13)In a 729 litres mixture of milk and water ,the ratio of milk to water is 7:2.To get a new mixture
containing milk and water in the ratio 7:3,the amount of water to be added is?

14)8 litres are drawn from a cask filled with wine and is then filled with water .This operation is
performed three more times.The ratio of the quantity of wine now left in the cask to that of the total
solution is 16:81.How much wine does the cask originally ?

15)A vessel contains mixture of liquids A and B in the ratio 3:2.When 20 litres of the mixture is taken
out and replaced by 20litres of liquid B,the ratio changes to 1:4.How many litres of liquid A was there
initially present in the vessel?

16.A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first contains 25% water and he rest milk.The second container
50% water.How much milk should he mix from each of the containers so as to get 12 litres of milk such
that the ratio of water to milk is 3:5?

17.The milk and water in two vessels A and B are in the ratio 4:3 and 2:3 respectively .In what ratio the
liquids in both vessels be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel c consisting half milk and half water?

18.In a zoo there are Rabbits and Pigeons.If heads are counted ,there are 200 and if legs are counted
there are 580.How many pigeons are there?

19.The total number of people in the village is 5000.If the male and female increases by 10% and 15%
respectively,the population of the village becomes 5600.What is the number of male in the village?

20.A shopkeeper sells 1000kg of sugar ,part of which he sells at 8% profit and the rest at 18% profit .He
gains 14% on the whole. The quantity sold at Rs.18% is?

21. Asha buys a total of 15 litres milk. In the milk bought from shop A, the ratio of milk to water is 3:2
while in the milk bought from shop B, the ratio of milk and water is 4: 1. If the ratio of milk to water,
when both the milk [of shop A and shop B ] are mixed in a vessel is 2: 1, the find the quantity of milk
bought from shop B.
a) 10litres b) 5litres c) 12litres d) 9litres

21) A mixture of 70 litres of milk and water contains 20% water. How many litres of water is to be added
so that the water may be 30% of the mixture?
a) 70 litres b) 10 litres c) 30 litres d) 20 litres e) 40 litres

22. 48litres of a mixture has 75% alcohol. How much water must be added to it to get 60% alcohol
concentration?
a) 12litres b) 15litres c) 10litres d) 8litres

23. Ina 45litres mixture of milk and water, the ratio of milk and water is 2: 1. When some quantity of
water id added to a mixture, the ratio becomes 1:2. The quantity of water added is
a) 10 litres b) 21 litres c) 35 litres d) 45 litres
24. Find the ratio in which there qualities of rice costing Rs 75, Rs 70 and Rs 60 per kg should be mixed
to produce the mixture worth Rs 65/kg.
a) 2:1:2 b) 3:1:1 c) 5:4:3 :d) None of these