A grocery store has an empty display container that is to be filled with bags that contain at most 20 oranges. After a clerk pla
ced the first 20 bags of oranges into the container, the average (arithmetic mean) number of oranges per bag was 9. What is the least number of oranges that can be in the 21st bag if the average number of oranges per bag is at least 11 after 25 bags are placed in the container?
The constant of proportionality is the ratio between two directly proportional quantities. Two quantities are directly proportional when they increase and decrease at the same rate. The constant of proportionality k is given by k=y/x where y and x are two quantities that are directly proportional to each other.
