Question

The following are the ages (years) of 5 people in a room: 14, 16, 16, 13, 23 A person enters the room. The mean age of the 6 people is now 21. What is the age of the person who entered the room?

Answer 1

44.

Explanation:

Since the mean of 14, 16, 16, 13, 23, x is 21, then we have 14 + 16 + 16 + 13 + 23 + x is equal to 126. Summing we have 14 + 16 + 16 + 13 + 23 = 82. 82 + x is equal to 126. X = 44.