### Bat Wings

Three students had collected some data on the wingspan of some bats. Unfortunately, each student had lost one measurement. Can you find the missing information?

### A Mean Tetrahedron

Can you number the vertices, edges and faces of a tetrahedron so that the number on each edge is the mean of the numbers on the adjacent vertices and the mean of the numbers on the adjacent faces?

### Pairs

Ann thought of 5 numbers and told Bob all the sums that could be made by adding the numbers in pairs. The list of sums is 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10,10, 11, 12. Help Bob to find out which numbers Ann was thinking of.

# Weekly Problem 26 - 2009

##### Stage: 3 Short Challenge Level:

The total weight of five ballet dancers is $425 \; \text{kg}$ and the average (mean) weight of ten rugby players is $40 \; \text{kg}$. What is the average weight of all fifteen people?

If you liked this problem, here is an NRICH task which challenges you to use similar mathematical ideas.

This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.

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