A. 15 years
B. 17 years
C. 18 years
D. 19 years
Explanation:
Sum of the ages of 14 students
= (16 * 35) – (14 * 21) = 560 – 294 = 266
Required average = (266/14) = 19 years
Related Mcqs:
- 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 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 mark of the students of a class in a particular exam is 80. If 5 students whose average mark in that exam is 40 are excluded, the average mark of the remaining will be 90. Find the number of students who wrote the exam.
A. 20
B. 15
C. 25
D. 35 - The average age of seven persons sitting in a row facing east is 28 years. If the average age of the first three persons is 21 years and the average age of the last three persons is 34 years, then find the age of the person sitting in the middle of the row?
A. 30 Years
B. 31 years
C. 26 years
D. 33 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 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 age of a husband and a wife is 23 years when they were married five years ago but now the average age of the husband, wife and child is 20 years(the child was born during the interval). What is the present age of the child?
A. 1 year
B. 2 years
C. 3 years
D. 4 years - 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 - Three years ago the average age of a family of six members was 19 years. A boy have been born, the average age of the family is the same today. What is the age of the boy?
A. 1 year
B. 1.5 years
C. 2 years
D. 2.5 years - The present average age of a family of five members is 26 years. If the present age of the youngest member in the family is ten years, then what was the average age of the family at the time of the birth of the youngest member ? (Assume no death occurred in the family since the birth of the youngest).
A. 18 years
B. 14 years
C. 20 years
D. 16 years
