in a certain diving competition , 5 judges score each dive on a scale from 1 to 10 . the point value of the dive is obtained by dropping the highest score and the lowest score and multiplying the sum of the remaining scores by the degree of difficulty . if a dive with a degree of difficulty of 3.2 received scores of 7.5 , 7.8 , 9.0 , 6.0 , and 8.5 , what was the point value of the dive ?
degree of difficulty of dive = 3.2 scores are 6.0 , 7.5 , 8.0 , 8.5 and 9.0 we can drop 6.0 and 9.0 sum of the remaining scores = ( 7.5 + 7.8 + 8.5 ) = 23.8 point of value of the dive = 23.8 * 3.2 = 76.16 answer d
multiply(add(add(7.5, 7.8), 8.5), 3.2)