SOLUTION: Rita has scored 21,21,24,19 and 22 points in her five basketball games so far. How many points does she need to score in her next game so that her average (mean) is points per ga

Question 1024300: Rita has scored 21,21,24,19 and 22
points in her five basketball games so far. How many points does she need to score in her next game so that her average (mean) is
points per game?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You didn't state the mean you want.
Let's call it M.
You want to solve for X, the number of points she needs to score in the 6th game.
So then,

So plug in the value for M and then you'll find X.

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