SOLUTION: in a trivia competition, your team earned 60, -100, 300, 120, and -80 points on 5 questions. The sixth question has a value of 300 points. By how many points will you team's mean

Question 991399: in a trivia competition, your team earned 60, -100, 300, 120, and -80 points on 5 questions. The sixth question has a value of 300 points. By how many points will you team's mean score per question change if you answer the sixth question correctly?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Add the first 5 scores. Divide by 5.

Add 300 to the sum of the first 5 scores. Divide by 6.

Compare the two quotients.

John

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