For P6 exams, the average questions will be more challenging than those in P5 papers.
Questons like these will require students to make use of the information in the table to find the subtotal of each column in order to solve.
Such questions usually appear in Paper 2 P6 Prelims.
Calculator usage is allowed.
The table below show the number of customers whom bought pencils in the bookshop yesterday.
| Number of pencils bought by each customer |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Number of customers | 0 | 10 | 9 |
Two of the numbers in the table are missing.
The customers bought an average of 2.5 pencils yesterday in the bookshop.
a) What was the total number of pencils bought at the bookshop yesterday?
b) How many customers bought 4 pencils each?
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