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Sum of 30 integers is 150. Out of them 20 integers don't exceed 5, then what is the maximum possible average of those 20 integers ?


Nitesh 25th Nov, 2019
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Anand Aggarwal 25th Nov, 2019

Hello Nitesh, Hope you are doing good and preparing hard for the exams you are preparing for. Coming Back to your questions the answer to this question is simple but logic needs to be applied here.

Here the question says sum of 30 integers is 150. Here average is means 150/30 i.e. 5.

Out of these 20 integers don't exceed 5. Let's take case where we imagine all numbers of these that is 20 numbers to be 5 . Since we have to maximise the average of these 20 numbers that's why we are taking 5. So total of these 20 numbers would be 20*5 i.e. 100 giving us the average to be 5.

Now the rest 10 numbers can be also taken as 5 giving sum of 50 fulfilling our required sum. So it shows that the average is same as we got from the 30 numbers in total.

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So we got the answer that the maximum of those 20 numbers average can be 5.

Hope you understood the solution and wish you all the best for your preparation.


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25th Nov, 2019
Actually i got it right sir but i got little confused because some of my friends say 4.5 is ans. They think rest of the 10 has to be more than 5. (This is CAT 2019 Slot 2 question). Thank you for the confirmation
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25th Nov, 2019
Nitesh Even i marked 5 as my answer
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25th Nov, 2019
Dhruv Kumbhare And we are right n ?? are you sure ?
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25th Nov, 2019
Nitesh Hello Nitesh...I'm not sure about 4.5 but here's why I think 5 is not the answer.
Consider we take the maximum possible average of the 20 integers to be 5. This means that their sum = 5*20 = 100.
Total sum is 150 so remaining sum = 150 - 100 = 50. So the average for the remaining numbers will be 50/10 = 5, which means now all the numbers doesn't exceed 5(else the question should have been no number exceeds 5 instead of only 20,which means that the other 10 should exceed 5 for sure and not be equal or less) and that makes the question wrong, so should not be the answer.
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25th Nov, 2019
Sreekanth S G As you said but consider this you want to make maximum average for those 20 numbers and among these 20 numbers no one exceeds 5. out of rest 10 they should have sum of 50. Now how these 10 number have sum of 50 it doesn't matter be it one number 41 and rest 9 as 1 or all 10 numbers to be 5. The average of those 10 would remain as 5 only. So answer is 5 only.
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30th Nov, 2019
Anand Aggarwal So Answer is 4.5 and not 5 :( as per CAT Answer key !!!
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