Question

in a cheerleading competition, each team receives scores in eight categories. One team has a mean score of 7.25 in the eight categories. Write and solve am equation to find the teams total scrore (s).

Answer 1

The mean is calculated by dividing the total sum of all the numbers, by the number of numbers. or in this case...

Mean=(total score)/(number of categories)
plug in the data that we know
7.25=(total score)/(8)
multiply both sides by 8
58=(total score)

Answer=58