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prealgebra senior

Problem

Mrs. Riley recorded this information from a recent test taken by all of her students. Using the data, what was the average percent score for these students?

Solution
For simplicity, divide all the percent scores by We will account for this later by multiplying by The average percent score is equal to the sum of all percent scores divided by the total number of students The sum of all percent scores is Since we divided all the percent scores by in the beginning, we multiply by to get that the sum of all percent scores is Finally, dividing by the total number of students, we find that the average percent score is
Final answer
77