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                Doug, Dick, and Dean are triplets in Mr. Finch's first-period 
                Algebra I class, but Friday's exam is to be their last in that 
                school.  
              (Their father is in the military, which frequently reassigns 
                him, so the boys sometimes change schools even in the middle of 
                the semester.)  
              On the following Monday, after the triplets have left the school, 
                Mr. Finch announces the class averages.  
              "Before Doug, Dick, and Dean left, the class average was 74% 
                -- not bad, really. However, removing their scores causes the 
                class average to rise by one percentage point. Okay?"  
              "Furthermore," he adds, "the ratios of the triplets' scores is 
                6 : 5 : 3. What are the scores of our three departing friends?" 
               
              It didn't take long for all dozen students in the class to arrive 
                at a satisfactory answer.  
              BONUS: There is a more precise mathematical term than " average" 
                to describe this situation. What is it? 
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