1990 AJHSME Problems/Problem 20
Problem
The annual incomes of families range from dollars to dollars. In error, the largest income was entered on the computer as dollars. The difference between the mean of the incorrect data and the mean of the actual data is
Solution
Let be the sum of all the incomes but the largest one. For the actual data, the mean is , and for the incorrect data the mean is . The difference is
This assumes that incomes of all the families are unique. Otherwise, more than one family could have $98000 as income and the above reasoning will not work.
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