SOLUTION: This is a question from the GRE. A student has test scores of 85, x, and y, respectively, and an average score of 96 on the three tests. What is the average of x and y? how to you
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Question 317244: This is a question from the GRE. A student has test scores of 85, x, and y, respectively, and an average score of 96 on the three tests. What is the average of x and y? how to you solve this problem? Thank you.
Answer by Jstrasner(112) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hey,
So for this one, we have three numbers that average out to be 96
Therefore the sum of these numbers is equal to 96 x 3 = 288
Then we subtract 85 from 288 and get = 203
So we know that x + y = 203
Therefore, the average of these two numbers is the sum divided byt he number of parts:
203/2 = 101.5
Therefore:
the average of x and y is 101.5
I hope this helps!
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