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Geometry Difficulty 2.5 Junior Find the answer Canada

In the diagram, ABCDABCD is a rectangle.

If the area of triangle ABPABP is 40, then the area of the shaded region is

Pick one

Solution

Reading from the graph, Riley-Ann scored 8 points in Game 1, 7 points in Game 2, 20 points in Game 3, 7 points in Game 4, and 18 points in Game 5.

Therefore the mean number of points that she scored per game is 8+7+20+7+185=605=12\frac{8+7+20+7+18}{5}=\frac{60}{5}=12.

Since the ordered list (smallest to largest) of the number of points scored per game is 7,7,8,18,207,7,8,18,20, then the median is 8, the number in the middle of this ordered list.
The difference between the mean and the median of the number of points that Riley-Ann scored is 128=412-8=4.

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