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A man is selling watermelons. He has 15 watermelons in his cart with an average weight of 3.4kg. The man sells 2 watermelons and the average increases to 3.8kg. What was the combined weight of the 2 watermelons sold?

 Sep 12, 2016
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A man is selling watermelons. He has 15 watermelons in his cart with an average weight of 3.4kg. The man sells 2 watermelons and the average increases to 3.8kg. What was the combined weight of the 2 watermelons sold?

 

original total weight =  15* 3.4 = 51Kg

 

afterwards total weight is  13*3.8 = 49.4Kg

 

so the sold watermellons weighed a total of     51-49.4 = 1.6Kg      They were very little !!

 Sep 12, 2016

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