2002 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 25
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Problem
When is appended to a list of integers, the mean is increased by . When is appended to the enlarged list, the mean of the enlarged list is decreased by . How many integers were in the original list?
Solution
Let be the sum of the integers and be the number of elements in the list. Then we get the equations and . With a lot of algebra, the solution is found to be .
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