IMO- Mathematics Olympiad (SOF) Class 9: Questions 778 - 780 of 918
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The owner of a plant nursery wanted to test the effectiveness of a new type of fertilizer. He measured the heights of 5 plants, and then gave each an equal amount of fertilizer. Two weeks later, he measured the heights of the plants again. The graph shows the height of the plants before and after the addition of fertilizer.
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What was mean growth of the plants, to the nearest tenth of a centimeter?
