Calculating arithmetic mean

Practice Questions

GMAT Quantitative Reasoning › Calculating arithmetic mean

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What is the mean of the following data set in terms of and ?

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The average of 10, 25, and 70 is 10 more than the average of 15, 30, and x. What is the missing number?

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The average high temperature for the week is 85. The first six days of the week have high temperatures of 89, 76, 92, 90, 80, and 84, respectively. What is the high temperature on the seventh day of the week?

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If and , then give the mean of , , , , and .

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What is the mean of this data set?

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Find such that the arithmetic mean of is equal to the arithmetic mean of

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The average of the following 6 digits is 75. What is a possible value of ?

80, 78, 78, 70, 71,

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When assigning a score for the term, a professor takes the mean of all of a student's test scores except for his or her lowest score.

On the first five exams, Donna has achieved the following scores: 76, 84, 80, 65, 91. There is one more exam in the course. Assuming that 100 is the maximum possible score, what is the range of possible final averages she can achieve (nearest tenth, if applicable)?

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Salaries for employees at ABC Company: 1 employee makes $25,000 per year, 4 employees make $40,000 per year, 2 employees make $50,000 per year and 5 employees make $75,000 per year.

What is the average (arithmetic mean) salary for the employees at ABC Company?

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A bakery sold a daily average of 25 croissants last week. The table above shows the number of croissants sold each day except Sunday. Find the number of croissants sold on Sunday.

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