SOLUTION: If you are given an average for 5 tests and then one test score is deleted from the average and you are given a new average of the four remaining scores, how to you compute the gra
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Question 795807: If you are given an average for 5 tests and then one test score is deleted from the average and you are given a new average of the four remaining scores, how to you compute the grade on the deleted test?
I have tried several approaches but know that as I am doing it, it doesn't make sense for where I am headed..
Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let x be the average of 5 tests and
y be the average of 4 tests, then
5x -4y = the grade of the eliminated test
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