document.write( "Question 1121376: Kim just finished a routine in a gymnastics contest. There were 7 judges and each judge gave an integer score from 1 to 10. Kim received a mean of 8.0 from the 7 judges. However, if the highest and lowest scores were removed, the mean of the 5 remaining scores would be 8.2. What was the lowest possible score that Kim could have received? \n" ); document.write( "
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "If 8.0 was the mean of 7 scores, then the total of the 7 scores must have been 56. If 8.2 was the mean of 5 scores, then the total of the 5 scores must have been 41. Therefore, the total of the highest score of the 7 plus the lowest score of the 7 must have been 15 (56 minus 41). Since the most the highest score could have been was 10, the least the smallest score could have been was 5.
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\n" ); document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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