Question

Five students were given a page of problems with instructions to solve as many as they could in one hour. The five students solved the following number of problems: 12, 10, 8, 6, and 4. What is the arithmetic mean number of minutes required per problem

Answer 1

We will first find out average time of each student.

Student 1 = 60 / 12 = 5

Student 2 = 60 / 10 = 6

Student 3 = 60 / 8 = 7.5

Student 4 = 60 / 6 = 10

Student 5 = 60 / 4 = 15

Now we will take the arithmatic mean of all students average time.

A = (5+6+7.5+10+15)/5 = 43.5/5 = 8.7 minutes per problem