2021 Fall AMC 12A Problem 7
Problem 7 of 25EasierAlgebraCounting & Probability
A school has students and teachers. In the first period, each student is taking one class, and each teacher is teaching one class. The enrollments in the classes are and Let be the average value obtained if a teacher is picked at random and the number of students in their class is noted. Let be the average value obtained if a student was picked at random and the number of students in their class, including the student, is noted. What is
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The teacher average is
The student average weights each class size by how many students are in it:
So
Thus, the correct answer is B.