Tricky Math Problem?

Question

lets see how many people can get this problem right:

find a set of 10 numbers where the mean is greater then all of the numbers

Answer 1

that's like really hard

is it impossible?

if someone else answered this i swear i didn't look at their answer

i spent like 15 minutes trying to find out the answer.

the closest i got was 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. the mean is 11. argh!! :P

Answer 2

If anyone can answer this, I'd like to pick at their brain for a bit.

Answer 3

More like let's see how many people can waste their time and fail.

Answer 4

This is not possible.

Suppose all the numbers are the same, say X. Then the mean is X.

Now take any of the numbers and change it to Y which is < X

Then the mean is (9X + Y)/10 which is less than (9X + X)/10 = X.

So the mean is always less than the largest of the numbers.

Answer 5

katlyn! youre dumb. thats impossible

<<just like YOU! (:

Answer 6

I assume you mean arithmetic mean.

I don't think that is possible.

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