Question

The following are the ages (years) of 5 people in a room: 22, 13, 17, 15, 17 A person enters the room. The mean age of the 6 people is now 17. What is the age of the person who entered the room?

Answer 1

the 6th man's age is 58!

Explanation:

First you have to find the mean of 22, 13, 17, 16, and 17, by first adding 22, 13, 17, 16, and 17 to get 85. Because mean is the numbers added up divided by the total amount of numbers, there are 5 numbers and then you have to divided 85 by 5.

After you get the mean of these numbers, find the other number which will level the mean to 17.

yes this was a lame explanation sorry i'm only in 7th grade and this is all new to me