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Set A currently has five numbers, and its mean is 918,273,645,321. If a new number 918,273,645,987 is added to the set A, what will be a new mean of the set A?

(A) 918,273,645,421
(B) 918,273,645,431
(C) 918,273,645,432
(D) 918,273,645,441
(E) 918,273,645,442


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Re: Set A currently has five numbers, and its mean is 918,273,645,321. If [#permalink] New post   29 Jul 2021, 12:32
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Honestly I cannot explain what I did but I just saw the last 3 digits were different. So I subtracted the two numbers and got 666. Then later just divided that number by 6 coz the addition of new number makes the number of entries 6. I got the answer 111. Now I added 111 to the number which was initially the mean of 5 numbers. And Arrived at option C and to my surprise it turns out to be Correct. So despite solving it please explain what I really should have done and what is the real method for solving such sums ?
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Re: Set A currently has five numbers, and its mean is 918,273,645,321. If [#permalink] New post   29 Jul 2021, 12:50
iampratikthorat wrote:
Honestly I cannot explain what I did but I just saw the last 3 digits were different. So I subtracted the two numbers and got 666. Then later just divided that number by 6 coz the addition of new number makes the number of entries 6. I got the answer 111. Now I added 111 to the number which was initially the mean of 5 numbers. And Arrived at option C and to my surprise it turns out to be Correct. So despite solving it please explain what I really should have done and what is the real method for solving such sums ?

Your answer and logic are correct.
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Re: Set A currently has five numbers, and its mean is 918,273,645,321. If [#permalink] New post   30 Jul 2021, 09:16
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iampratikthorat wrote:
Honestly I cannot explain what I did but I just saw the last 3 digits were different. So I subtracted the two numbers and got 666. Then later just divided that number by 6 coz the addition of new number makes the number of entries 6. I got the answer 111. Now I added 111 to the number which was initially the mean of 5 numbers. And Arrived at option C and to my surprise it turns out to be Correct. So despite solving it please explain what I really should have done and what is the real method for solving such sums ?

Your answer and logic are correct.


Oh, Thanks. Generally I approach most Mean(averages) questions as Sums of Entities. Basically, sum of entities = Mean * number of entities. This formula is quite underrated in my opinion
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Re: Set A currently has five numbers, and its mean is 918,273,645,321. If [#permalink] New post   19 Aug 2021, 19:58
HI , in this method i subtracted both the mean and new entity by 918,273,645 . I got the mean as 321 and the entity as 987 . I then multiplied 321 * 5 and got the answer as 1605 and added 987 to it and then divided by 6 and got the answer as 432 which is the last digit of option C .

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Set A currently has five numbers, and its mean is 918,273,645,321. If [#permalink] New post   20 Aug 2021, 03:44
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Yes that can be done as well.

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As this is a large no, take the last two 21 as the mean of five nos, so total will be 105.

Now new no 987, but take last two 87 and add them to 105, so the sum will be 192.

When divided by 6, the answer will be 32. Last two digits of the correct answer.


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HI , in this method i subtracted both the mean and new entity by 918,273,645 . I got the mean as 321 and the entity as 987 . I then multiplied 321 * 5 and got the answer as 1605 and added 987 to it and then divided by 6 and got the answer as 432 which is the last digit of option C .

Is my method correct?


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