SOLUTION: On an exam for a class with 32 students, the mean score was 67.2 points. The instructor scored the exam by adding 8 points to the exam score for every student. What is the mean of

Question 1183423: On an exam for a class with 32 students, the mean score was 67.2 points. The instructor scored the exam by adding 8 points to the exam score for every student. What is the mean of the scores on the recorder exam?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the mean will increase by 8 to 75.2 points.
You can look at this with scores 1 through 9 with sum 45 and mean 5
Raise each score by 8, and the scores are 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17. the mean is 13.
The answer is 75.2 as stated above.
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