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Question 981626: In a basketball game, the star player scored 3 times as many points as the average (arithmetic mean) score of the other 9 players. What fraction of the points scored by the entire team did the star player score? Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! In a basketball game, the star player scored 3 times as many points as the average (arithmetic mean) score of the other 9 players. What fraction of the points scored by the entire team did the star player score?
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Let the average of the nine players be "x".
Then their total points is 9x.
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The star player scored 3x.
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Answer:: 3x/9x = 1/3
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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