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The average weight for three children was 79.6 pounds. What was the sum of their
weight?

User Ciro
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Answer: 238.8

Explanation:

To get an average, you add the weights together, the sum. And then you divide by how many children there was.

To go backwards, you'd times the average by the amount of children there were, 3, to get the sum

79.6 times 3 is 238.8

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