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The average age of the ten people on my basketball team was 13.5, but then a fifteen year old joined our team and an 11 year old quit the team. What is the average age of my team now?

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Answer:

The new average is 134/10, or 13.4 years.

Explanation:

a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i + j

------------------------------------------------ = 13.5 (the original average)

10

15 years is 1.5 year older than the 13.5 average and 11 years is 2.5 younger than that. The net change is 1.5 - 2.5, or -1. The number of players remains the same: 10. We subtract 1 from the sum of the player ages and divide the result by 10:

a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i + j - 1

--------------------------------------------------- = 13.4 (the new average)

10

Note that the sum of the original 10 ages is (10)(13.5), or 135, which becomes 134 after the 15-year-old joined the team and the 11 year old quit. The new

average is 134/10, or 13.4 years.

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