document.write( "Question 1204991: A teacher wants to calculate the average score of her students. She has the scores of 20 students, but she accidentally misplaced one score. If the average of the remaining 19 scores is 85, what should be the misplaced score to maintain a weighted mean of 87? \n" ); document.write( "
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A teacher wants to calculate the average score of her students. She has the scores of 20 students, but she accidentally misplaced one score. If the average of the remaining 19 scores is 85, what should be the misplaced score to maintain a weighted mean of 87?\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The average of the 19 students is 85 as calculated by teacher
\n" ); document.write( "So total score = 19*85 =1615\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Let the misplace score be x\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Total score of 20 students will be 1615+x
\n" ); document.write( "The average is 87
\n" ); document.write( "The average now is (1615+x)/20= 87\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "1615+x = 87*20\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "1615+x= 1740\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x = 1740-1615\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "x =125\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " The misplaced score is 125 to maintain a mean of 87.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "1615+125 =1740\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "1740/20=87\r
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