The average age of the people at a meeting is . A year old leaves the meeting. The average age of the room is now approximately . How many people were at the meeting when the average age was
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Let there be x number of people. Their average age is 28 years. So, the sum of all of their ages is 2 8 x .
When a 13 year old boy leaves, the sum of ages of people in the meeting decreases by 13 and becomes 2 8 x − 1 3 . The number of people also decreases by 1 and becomes x − 1 . The new average age is 2 8 . 0 0 7 4 5 .
So, x − 1 2 8 x − 1 3 = 2 8 . 0 0 7 4 5 .
On solving this equation, we get x ∼ 2 0 1 4