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Today Puzzle #688

Puzzle No. 688 – Tuesday 3 March

If the mean score of 30 pupils in a maths test was 140 marks and the total of 29 of the pupils was 4042. What was the mark of the 30th pupil?

Today’s #PuzzleForToday has been set by Mr Elive ‘The Maths Whisperer’ from Fitzalan High School

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30 pupils with mean of 140, so total number of marks is 30 * 140, which equals 4200. If 29 pupils scored 4042, then the 30th would have scored 4200 – 4042, which equals 158.

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