SOLUTION: A golfer recorded 5 scores for 5 rounds of golf in 1 week. 4 of these rounds were the same and one was 10 strokes higher than the others. if the average score for the weeks was 83

Question 221949: A golfer recorded 5 scores for 5 rounds of golf in 1 week. 4 of these rounds were the same and one was 10 strokes higher than the others. if the average score for the weeks was 83, what was the score for each of the 5 rounds?

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Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let

represent the score for each of the 4 rounds where the score was the same. Then

is the score for the 5th round. The average score is the sum of the scores divided by 5, so:

Just solve for

John

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