HOTs Education Center

Primary 5 – Mathematics
Topics: Average

SECTION A:
1. What is the average of 12, 14, and 15 ? Give your answer in 2 decimal places.

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2. What is the average 21, 23, 25 , 27 and 29 ?

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3. Find the average 5 , 2 , 3, and 5. Give your answer in 2 decimal places.

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4. The average of 6 numbers is 72. What is the total of 6 numbers ?

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5. The average of 2 numbers is 84. One of the numbers is 92. What is the other number?

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6. The average of 5 terms is 60. If the first 4 terms are 45, 42, 90, and 82, what will be the last term?

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7. The average age of A, B and C was 15 years and that of B and C was 25 years. A’s present age is?

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8. The total amount of money Rebecca, Wilton and Xian is $78.6. what is their average amount of
money?

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9. The total score of Math test Friska, Yuse, Jason and Derren is 372.8. what is their average score of
Math test ?

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10. The mass of 7 childrens is 32 kg, 35 kg, 40 kg, 43 kg, 55 kg, 56 kg and 60 kg. what is their average
mass ?

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11. The mass of 5 pupils is 50 kg, 60 000 g, 55 kg, 45 kg and 75 000 g. what is their average mass ?

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12. The average mass of 9 pineapples is 3.4 kg. what is their total mass ?

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13. The average of 5 consecutive numbers is 20. The largest of these numbers is ?

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14. The total of 7 consecutive numbers is 119. The largest of these numbers is ?

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15. The average height of 8 adults is 172.5 cm. what is their total heights ?

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16. Find the average of 1km 200 m, 400 m, 2km 600 m, and 3km 20m. give your answer by meters!

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17. The average age of 7 member of Patel's family is 32 year. The average age of the same family 3 year
ago was?

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18. The average of 8 number is 24. if each of the number is multiplied by 8,the total new set of number
is ?

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19. The average of 3 terms is 40 and the 1st term is 1/3 of the remaining terms. What will be the total
second and third number?

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20. Renata and Joy scored an average of 83 marks for their English test. If Joy scored 6 marks more than
Renata, How many marks did Joy score?

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21. The average height of Bensy, Dento, and Reyno is 1m 75 cm. If Bensy is 10 cm higher than Dento,
and Reyno is 15 cm shorter than Dento. What is Dento’s height?

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22. The average mass of 5 adults is 66.4 kg. The masses of the first and the second adult are 63 kg each,
the third and the fourth adult are 58 kg and 70 kg. what is the mass of the fifth adult?

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23. The volume of 4 bottle of chocolates are 200 ml, 275 ml, 350 ml and 425 ml. what is the difference
between the average volume 4 bottle of chocolates and the least volume of the bottle chocolate?

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24. The length of 5 ribbons are 2 m, 3.2 m, 4.5 m, 4.7 m and 5 m. what is the difference between length
of 5 ribbons with the longest of ribbon? Give your answer in centimeters!

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25. For 10 innings, Roman has an average of 65 runs. In the tenth inning, he scores 100 runs, thus
increasing his average . His average increased by?

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SECTION B :
1. Find the average mass of 6 Durians, 3 with masses of 1.35 kg each and 3 with masses of 2.25
kg, 1.40 kg, and 1.70 kg.

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2. Find the average mass of 6 watermelon, 2 with masses of 1.55 kg each and 4 with masses of 1.52
kg, 2.40 kg, and 1.60 kg.

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 3. The average of 20 numbers is calculated as 15. It was discovered later on that while calculating the
average one number namely 36 was wrongly read as 26. Find the correct average.

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4. Mr Steven recorded the distance he drove each day of the week.

a) What was the distance he drove on Wednesday, if the average distance is 413 km?

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b) What was the average distance he drove from Monday to Wednesday?

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5. Mrs Dayana recorded the mass of fruits she ate each day of the week.
Day Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Distance ?
350 320 275 235 340 330
in g

a) What was the mass of fruits she ate on sunday, if the total mass is 2.3 kg ?
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b) What was the difference average mass of fruits she ate on weekdays and weekend ?

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6. An average of 200 people read the storybooks in the first week. Another 25% from the total in the first
week read the storybooks in the second and third week each.

a) What is the total people read the storybooks in the second and third week?

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b) What is the average number of people read storybook every week?

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7. An average of 8965 people visited Ancol beach in February and March. Another 3826 people visited
in April and 2/5 of the total people in February and March visited in May.
a) What is the total people visited February – May ?

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b) What is the average number of Visitors per month?

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8. A group of 5 girls scored 50, 35, 54, 44, and 47 marks for a test out of a total of 55 marks. A group of
6 boys scored 51, 53, 34, 33, 47, and 50 marks for the same test.

a) Find the average score of each group.

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b) which group performed better? Why?

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 9. A group of 5 boys scored 51, 53, 34, 33, and 49 marks for a test out of a total of 60 marks. The ratio
for the average 5 boys to 5 girls is 11: 7

a) What is the average scored of 5 boys ?

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b) Find the total of the girls scored.

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10. The table below shows the number of dictionaries borrowed from a library on 5 days.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

46 38 42 34 50

a) How many the total dictionaries was borrowed from a library on 5 days?
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b) How many more dictionaries must be borrowed so the average of 55 dictionary is borrowed on a day?

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11. The table below shows the number of comics that have been sold at the bookstore on 1 week
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

23 12 30 22 15 ? ?

a) What was the total comics sold at the bookstore if the average is 18 ?

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b) What was the total comics sold on Saturday if the ratio of the total Saturday to Sunday is 2:1?

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12. The average height of 50 students is 123 cm. On a particular day, three students namely Nolan, Valey
and Olva were absent and the average of the remaining 47 students was found to be 122 cm. If Nolan
and Valey have equal height and the height of Olva be 6 cm less than that of Nolan,

a) Find the height of Nolan.

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b) Find the average height of Olva and Valey

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13. It took Henson 15 min to walk to the library at a speed of 20 m per minute. He returned from the
library at a walking speed of 60 m per minute. Find :

a) The total distance for the whole trip

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b) What was his average speed for the whole trip

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14. The average of A and B is 50
The average of B and C is 43
The average of A and C is 45
a) Find the average of A, B, and C !

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b) Find the new average, if D joined. D is ¾ from the total A-C

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15. The table shows different types of vehicles that passed by a shop in a day

If the average of vehicles that passed by the shop on that day was 479 and the number of
motorcycles was 559 more than the number of bicycles,
a) Find the number of bicycles that passed by the shop on that day

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b) Find the average of vehicles if the numbers each type of vehicles decrease by 30

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 16. The average mass of 45 pupils in primary 5B was 36 kg. when pupils A and B left, the average
mass became 33 kg. when pupil A comeback, the average mass was 36 kg again. What was the
mass of pupil B?

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17. 20 men and some ladies donated an average of $90.50to a charity. An average of $75 was donated
by the man. If there were 12 more man than ladies,
a) what was the average sum donated by each day?

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b) What was the difference donated by men and ladies?

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18. The average height of 25 students is 100 cm. On a particular day, six students namely A, B, C, D,
E and F were absent and the average of the remaining was found to be 81.42 cm. If A, B and C
have equal height and the height of D and E have equal height 5 cm less than C.

a) Find the height of F, if F 8 cm higher than E. answer by 1 decimal place

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a) Find the average height of D and F

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b) Sola and Mady have an average of 56 stickers. Sola and Reno have and average 62 stickers. If
Reno has 3 times as many stickers as sola
a) How many sticker does Reno have?

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b) How many more stickers does Mady have than Sola

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c) The average of five numbers is 20. The average of the five numbers is 21.8 when one of the
numbers is changed into 9. What was the original value of changed number?

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 SECTION C : Advanced questions
1. After replacing an old member by a new member, it was found that the average age of five members of
a club is the same as it was 3 years ago. What is the difference between the ages of the replaced and the
new member ?

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2. A car travelled from town A to town B at a speed of 30 km/h. the driver returned from town B in the
same car at a speed of 60 km/h. what was the average driving speed for the two trips, if the driver got
decreasing of the speed each travelled 20 km ?

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3. A certain factory employed 600 men and 400 women and the average wager was $25.50 per day, If a
woman got $ 5 less than a man, then
a) what are their daily wages ?

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b) what the new average man and woman daily, if woman got additional wages 2/5 of man’s ?

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4. factory M operates every day of the week except Sunday and produces 1750 vases on each day
of the operation. Factory N operates every day, but produces 70% as any vases as factory M each
day. If 3% of the total vases produced are defective, find the average number of non-defective
vases produced by the 2 factories in 1 week.( Round off in whole numbers)

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5. X , W and Z are 3 squares. The sum of area of the 3 squares is 154 cm2. The side of each square is a
whole number less than 10 cm. each side of square C is 3 times the side of square A . find :
a) The average area of square A and C

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b) The average perimeter of the 3 squares

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Answer Key
SECTION A:
1. 13.67
2. 25
3. 0.59
4. 44
5. 432
6. 76
7. 20
8. $26.2
9. 93.2
10. 45.86 kg
11. 57 kg
12. 30.6 kg
13. 22
14. 23
15. 1380 cm
16. 1 715 m
17. 29 year
18. 192
19. 80
20. 86 marks
21. 181.67 cm
22. 78 kg
23. 112.5 ml
24. 112 cm
25. 10

SECTION B :
1. 1.567 kg
2. 1.437 kg
3. 15.5
4. a) 573 km b) 435 km
5. a) 450 g b) 86 g
6. a) 200 people b) 200 people / week
7. a) 28 928 people b) 7 232 people/ month
8. a)46 marks b) The group of girls performed better (46 marks)
9. a) 44 marks b) 140 marks
10. a) 210 dictionaries on 5 days b) 65 more dictionaries must be borrowed
11. a) 126 comics sold b) 16 comics sold on Saturday
12. a) 140 cm b) 138 cm
13. a) 600 m b) 30 meter/ min
14. a) 92 b) 120.75
15. a) 295 b) 449
16. 165 kg
17. a) $204.25 b) $466
18. a) 167.2 cm b) 160.7 cm
19. a) 93 stickers b) 50 stickers
20. 19

SECTION C :
1. 15 years
2. 35.56 km/h
3. a) Man = $27.50, woman = $22.50 b) $30.5
4. 9251
5. a) 45 cm2 b) 26 2/3 cm
Sources:
1. Amiel Wan, Visible Thinking in Mathematics 5B,, (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Education,
2011), 29.

2. Ho Kheong Fong, Chelvi Ramakrishnan, Michelle Choo, Math Homeworks Primary 5B 2008
marshal, (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Education, 2008),34.

3. Henry Lee, Primary Math 1000+, (Singapore: Educational Publishing House Pte Ltd, 2009), 109.

4. Tan Cheow Seng, Math Builder 5B, (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Education, 2008), 63.

5. Chew Terry, Math Olympiad- Unleash the math Olympian In You! ( Intermediate), (Singapore
Asia Publishers, 2020).