joe ’ s average ( arithmetic mean ) test score across 4 equally weighted tests was 60 . he was allowed to drop his lowest score . after doing so , his average test score improved to 65 . what is the lowest test score that was dropped ?
"the arithmetic mean of 4 equally weighted tests was 60 . so what we can assume is that we have 4 test scores , each 60 . he dropped his lowest score and the avg went to 65 . this means that the lowest score was not 60 and other three scores had given the lowest score 5 each to make it up to 60 too . when the lowest score was removed , the other 3 scores got their 5 back . so the lowest score was 3 * 5 = 15 less than 60 . so the lowest score = 60 - 15 = 45 answer ( b )"
subtract(multiply(60, 4), multiply(65, const_3))