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

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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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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