2001 AMC 10 Problems/Problem 1
Problem
The median of the list is . What is the mean?
Solution
The median of the list is , and there are numbers in the list, so the median must be the 5th number from the left, which is .
We substitute the median for and the equation becomes .
Subtract both sides by 6 and we get .
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The mean of those numbers is which is .
Substitute for and .
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