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Algebra Difficulty 1.8 Junior Find the answer Canada

A quiz has three questions, with each question worth one mark. If 20% of the students got 0 questions correct, 5% got 1 question correct, 40% got 2 questions correct, and 35% got all 3 questions correct, then the overall class mean (average) mark was

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Solution

Without changing the overall class mean, we may consider that the class has 100 students.

That is, 20 students got 0 questions correct, 5 students got 1 question correct, 40 students got 2 questions correct, and 35 students got 3 questions correct.
The combined number of marks achieved by all 100 students in the class is then, $(20\times0)+(5\times1)+(40\times2)+(35\times3)=0+5+80+105=190.$ Since the 100 students earned a total of 190 marks, then the overall class average was $\frac{190}{100}=1.9$ .

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