2007 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 1
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Theresa's parents have agreed to buy her tickets to see her favorite band if she spends an average of hours per week helping around the house for weeks. For the first weeks she helps around the house for , , , and hours. How many hours must she work for the final week to earn the tickets?
Solution 1
Let be the number of hours she must work for the final week. We are looking for the average, so Solving gives:
So, the answer is
Solution 2
Use average deviation:
The average is 10 hour per day. If work 8 hours then it is 2 hours short; if work 11 hours then there is 1 hour surplus, the last day need to cancel out the collective deviation from the previous 5 days.
So we got
The last day need to have +2 deviation to cancel out the -2 collective deviation to get 10 as average value, so .
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