Question 1 of 5
A park manager measures the circumferences, in feet, of 5 circular garden beds and records the values , , , , and . After a sixth garden bed is added, the mean circumference of the 6 garden beds is feet, and the range of the 6 circumferences remains feet. What is the circumference, in feet, of the sixth garden bed?
Explanation
First find the total of the 5 recorded circumferences: . If the mean of 6 garden beds is , then the total for all 6 must be . So the sixth circumference is . Check the range: the original minimum is and maximum is , so the original range is . Adding a circumference of does not change the minimum or maximum, so the range stays . Therefore, the sixth circumference is feet.
Concept summary
Use the mean to find a missing data value by working with the total sum, then verify that the added value also satisfies the stated range condition.