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The average (arithmetic mean) of the weight of 10 vehicles is 12.2 tons. The average weight of the group of vehicles increased by 2.6 tons after a new heavy duty truck was added to the group? What is the weight in tons of the heavy duty truck?

A
40.8
B
41.6
C
42.2
D
43.5
E
44.8

Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0. Go to the official source →

AQuA-RAT items are crowdsourced algebra problems, not ACT questions. They carry five answer choices in the pre-2025 ACT Mathematics style and no ACT reporting category. Useful for drilling Preparing for Higher Math content; not a substitute for a real form.