Of the three numbers whose average is $60$,the first is one-fourth of the sum of the others. The first number is

The average of three consecutive odd numbers is $52$ more than $\frac{1}{3}$ of the largest of these numbers. What is the smallest of these numbers?

With an average speed of $40 \, km/h$,a train reaches its destination on time. If it goes with an average speed of $35 \, km/h$,it reaches late by $15 \, \text{minutes}$. The total journey is (in $km$):

The average weight of five persons sitting in a boat is $38\, kg$. The average weight of the boat and the persons sitting in the boat is $52\, kg$. What is the weight of the boat (in $kg$)?

$A$ batsman makes a score of $270$ runs in the $87^{th}$ inning and thus increases his average by a certain number of runs that is a whole number. Find the possible values of the new average.

The average salary,per head,of all the workers of an institution is $Rs.\, 60$. The average salary of $12$ officers is $Rs.\, 400$; the average salary,per head,of the rest is $Rs.\, 56$. The total number of workers in the institution is: