SOLUTION: Adam tried to compute the average of his 7 test scores. He mistakenly divided the correct sum of all of his test scores by 6, which yielded 84. What is Adam's correct average test

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6*84 would equal the sum of Adam's test scores = 504

Correctly dividing by 7 to obtain the average test score

 504/7 = 72, the correct average test score of the 7 tests.