SOLUTION: Your average score on four exams is 82. If your professor drops the lowest exam score then your average will be 86. What was the lowest score?

SOLUTION: Your average score on four exams is 82. If your professor drops the lowest exam score then your average will be 86. What was the lowest score?

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Question 328741: Your average score on four exams is 82. If your professor drops the lowest exam score then your average will be 86. What was the lowest score?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

1.
Let be the lowest grade.

2.
Substitute eq. 2 into eq. 1,

The lowest grade was a 70.
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