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Lê Quốc Trần Anh Coordinator

16/03/2018 at 07:42
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Kathy Beckhardt weighs four of her sheep at the fair. She can weigh two of them at a time on the big scale. Sheep A and sheep B have an average weight of 150 pounds, sheep B and sheep C have an average weight of 127 pounds, and sheep C and sheep D have an average weight of 168 pounds. What is the average weight of sheep A and sheep D?




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    Doan Le Minh Hong moderators 17/03/2018 at 04:24

    From the question, we have some equations:

    \(\left \{ \begin{array}{l} A+B=150\times 2=300\quad(1)\\ B+C=127\times 2=254\quad (2)\\ C+D=168\times 2 =336\quad(3) \end{array}\right.\)

    We do the following operation \((1)+(3)-(2)\). after that, we have \(A+D=300+336-254=382\).

    Therefore, the average weight of sheep A and sheep D is: \(382\div 2= 191\)(pounds)

    Note that \(A,B,C,D\) is the weight of each sheep A, B, C, D, respectively.

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