SOLUTION: five students were given a page of problems with the instructions to solve as many as they could in one hour. Five students solved the following number of problems: 12, 10, 8, 6 an

Question 316650: five students were given a page of problems with the instructions to solve as many as they could in one hour. Five students solved the following number of problems: 12, 10, 8, 6 and 4. what is the arithmatic mean number of minutes required per problem?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First, find the average minutes per question for each student.

5,6,7.5,10,15
Now take the average for the 5 students,
minutes per problem
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