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prealgebra senior

Problem

Four of the six numbers 1867, 1993, 2019, 2025, 2109, and 2121 have a mean (average) of 2008. What is the mean (average) of the other two numbers?
Solution
The sum of the six given integers is .

The four of these integers that have a mean of 2008 must have a sum of . (We do not know which integers they are, but we do not actually need to know.)

Thus, the sum of the remaining two integers must be .

Therefore, the mean of the remaining two integers is .

(We can verify that 1867, 2019, 2025 and 2121 do actually have a mean of 2008, and that 1993 and 2109 have a mean of 2051.)
Final answer
2051