2021 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 5
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Problem
The quiz scores of a class with students have a mean of
. The mean of a collection of
of these quiz scores is
. What is the mean of the remaining quiz scores of terms of
?
Solution
The total score in the class is
The total score on the
quizzes is
Therefore, for the remaining quizzes (
of them), the total score is
Their mean score is
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Solution 2 (Convenient Values and Observations)
Set The answer is the same as the last student's quiz score, which is
From the answer choies, only
yields a negative value for
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Video Solution (Using average formula)
~ pi_is_3.14
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