UPSC PYQPrelims 2026

Civil Services Examination · प्रश्न 25

The class average x in a test increases by 4 when the score of a student is rectified, whose corrected score is 100 instead of 0. Later, the score of another student was found to have been recorded as 81 in place of 56. If there are no other corrections and the final corrected average is y, then y - x is

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 6
उत्तर देखें और व्याख्या

उत्तर: (B) 3

व्याख्या

An increase of 100 raises the average by 4, so there are 25 students. The second correction subtracts 25, lowering the average by 1. Net change y - x = 4 - 1 = 3.