Question

Marlon is bowling in a tournament and has the highest average after 5 games, with scores of 210, 225, 254, 231, and 280. In order to maintain this exact average, what must be Marlon's score for his 6th game?

Answer 1

By scoring 240 in the sixth game, Marlon can maintain this exact average

Explanation:

The first thing to do here is to calculate the average for the first 5 games.

Mathematically, the average can be calculated by adding all the scores in the games and dividing by 5;

= (210 + 225 + 254 + 231 + 280)/5 = 1200/5 = 240

Now to maintain this average score of 240, we want to know the score she must have in the 6th game.

Let the score be x;

By adding x to the previous total of 1200 before and dividing by the new count of 6, we can work our way to get x.

Mathematically, what we are saying is;

(1200 + x)/6 = 240

6 * 240 = 1200 + x

1440 = 1200 + x

x = 1440 -1200

x = 240