SOLUTION: The average of 5 numbers is 25.After one of the numbers is removes,the average of the remaining numbers is 31.what no. Has been removed?

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Question 981060: The average of 5 numbers is 25.After one of the numbers is removes,the average of the remaining numbers is 31.what no. Has been removed?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The five numbers are of unknown value. Say u is four of them.
One of them is v.



The average of four of them when v is removed becomes 31.





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Now solve for v.




----------the number which was removed.

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