If an associate’s average sale to 5 customers is $125, and her sales to four of the customers are $200, $150, $125, and $75, what is the associate’s sale to the fifth customer?
$75
$50
$125
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$100

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anonymous · Answer

you only have to think about how you calculate average. Do you know?

anonymous · Answer

get the sum of all the numbers and divide by the number them

anonymous · Answer

correct! how can you use this here?

anonymous · Answer

so add all the $ amounts then divide by 5?

anonymous · Answer

when I do written problems I always think about what  should be the variable x

anonymous · Answer

here it should be the 5th customers sale, can you write an equation with that?

anonymous · Answer

have you given it up? :)

anonymous · Answer

got kicked off internet

anonymous · Answer

so the average is (200+150+125+75+x)/5 =125   

this is the equation that you have to solve

anonymous · Answer

yeah Eliza did it :-)

anonymous · Answer

give me a min

anonymous · Answer

I'll be back in a few minutes