Question

Two sections of a class took the same quiz. Section A had 15 students who had a mean score of 80, and Section B had 20 students who had a mean score of 90. Overall, what was the approximate mean score for all of the students on the quiz

Answer 1

86

Explanation:

In this question, we are asked to calculate the average mean score for a group of students split into two different emerging groups.

We calculate the total score for each of the groups. This is done by multiplying the average score by the number of students.

Total score of section A is 15 * 80 = 1,200

For section B, total score is 20 * 90 = 1,800

Overall score is thus 1200 + 1800 = 3000

We add the scores together and divide by the total number of students in both sections

Average score is thus 3000/35 = 85.71 which is approximately 86