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A car dealership's goal is to sell a mean of 55 cars per day. In one week, it

sold the following numbers of cars each day:
53, 60, 48, 57, 52, 54, 56
How many more cars would it have had to sell during the week to meet its
goal?
A. 5
B. 35
C. 25
D. 15

User Digidigo
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Answer: they neeed to sell 5 more

Explanation:

User Bartlomiej
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Answer - A.) 5

Explanation

Add all the number to get a sum

The sum is 380

Then you use the different answers and add them into the sum then divide by 8

380 + 5 = 385

385/7 = 55

55 is the mean they were aiming for.
so now we know they needed 5 more cars to get a mean of 55
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