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Consider the following for the next three (03) items that follow:

Circulation figures (in thousands) of different newspapers (A, B, C, D, E) for five years are given below:

Year	A	B	C	D	E
2019	20	10	15	8	20
2020	12	12	18	12	12
2021	24	14	17	14	15
2022	26	10	16	15	9
2023	22	16	14	16	11

How many cases are there in which average of the circulation for an individual newspaper was more than the average of the circulation of all the newspapers?

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One

Two

Three

Four

The correct answer is

Three

By comparing the average circulation for each newspaper to the average circulation of all newspapers, there are three instances where the circulation of an individual newspaper was greater than the overall average. Hence, the correct answer is (c) Three.

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