2002 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 15
- The following problem is from both the 2002 AMC 12A #15 and 2002 AMC 10A #21, so both problems redirect to this page.
Problem
The mean, median, unique mode, and range of a collection of eight integers are all equal to 8. The largest integer that can be an element of this collection is
Solution 1
As the unique mode is , there are at least two s.
As the range is and one of the numbers is , the largest one can be at most .
If the largest one is , then the smallest one is , and thus the mean is strictly larger than , which is a contradiction.
If we have 2 8's we can add find the numbers 1, 2, 3, 8, 8, 13, 14, 15. They add to 64 and 64/8 = 8. We can also see that they satisfy the need for the mode and median to be 8. This means that the answer will be .
See Also
2002 AMC 12A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
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