A. 20
B. 15
C. 25
D. 35
Let the number of students who wrote the exam be x.
Total marks of students = 80 x.
Total marks of (x – 5) students = 90(x – 5)
80x – (5 * 40) = 90(x – 5)
250 = 10x => x = 25
Related Mcqs:
- The average of 35 students in a class is 16 years. The average age of 21 students is 14. What is the average age of remaining 14 students?
A. 15 years
B. 17 years
C. 18 years
D. 19 years - The average marks of a class of 30 students is 40 and that of another class of 50 students is 60. Find the average marks of all the students?
A. 50
B. 47.5
C. 59
D. 52.5 - The average height of 50 pupils in a class is 150 cm. Five of them whose height is 146 cm, leave the class and five others whose average height is 156 cm, join. The new average height of the pupils of the class (in cm) is __________ .
A. 149
B. 151
C. 152
D. 153 - The average age of 15 students of a class is 15 years. Out of these, the average age of 5 students is 14 years and that of the other 9 students is 16 years. The age of the 15th student is____________?
A. 11 years
B. 14 years
C. 15 years
D. 15 2/7 years - The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average of the team?
A. 23 years
B. 24 years
C. 25 years
D. None of these - The average of five numbers is 27. If one number is excluded, the average becomes 25. The excluded number is__________?
A. 25
B. 27
C. 30
D. 35 - In an exam, Amir scored 64 percent, Masood scored 36 percent and asif 44 percent. The maximum score awarded in the exam is 800. Find the average mark scored by all the three boys?
A. 384
B. 364
C. 324
D. 404 - 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 ration of the number of boys to the number of girls in the class is___________?
A. 1:2
B. 2:3
C. 3:4
D. 3:5 - The average marks in mathematics scored by the students of a school at the public examination were 39. If four of these students who actually scored 5, 12, 15 and 19 marks at the examination had not been sent up, the average marks for the school would have been 44. Find the number of students sent up for examination from the school?
A. 20
B. 25
C. 30
D. 32 - The average weight of 16 boys in a class is 50.25 kg and that of the remaining 8 boys is 45.15 kg. Find the average weights of all the boys in the class.
A. 47.55 kg
B. 48 kg
C. 48.55 kg
D. 49.25 kg
