Question

During a school celebration, all the students participate in a canady hunt on the schools ground. your team consists of you, kyle, mandy, michelle, doug, and simon. you find 18 pieces of candy, kyle find 23 pieces, mandy finds 20 piece, and michelle finds 28 pieces. the average number of pieces that each member in your group found is 22. how many pieces did simon find? who found the most pieces of candy on your team?

Answer 1

Let's call the team members: y(ou), k, ma, mi, d, s , that's 6 members.

We know that the number of candies is 18+23+20+28 (which is 89) plus whatever Simon and Doug found.

If the average per person is 22, then all people in total found 6*22=132.

We don't know how much doug and Simon found, but together they found 132-89=32+11=43,

Once we know how much Doug found, we can subtract it from 43 and we'll know.

From all the people so far, Michelle found the most, but it could be that either Doug or Simon found more: the problem is we don't have enough information now to find out.