Exercise 1

(a) The mean age of 33 students of a class is 13 years. If one girl leaves the class, the mean becomes years. What is the age of the girl ?
(b) In a class test, the mean of marks scored by a class of 40 students was calculated as 18.2. Later on, it was detected that marks of one student was wrongly copied as 21 instead of 29. Find the correct mean.

Solution: (a)Given mean age = 13 Number of students = 33 Sum of ages = mean ×number of students = 13×33 = 429 After a girl leaves, the mean of 32 students becomes = 207/16 Now sum of ages =...

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