2023 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 20
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Problem
Two integers are inserted into the list 
to double its range. The mode and median remain unchanged. What is the maximum possible sum of the two additional numbers?
Solutions
We have the set {3, 3, 8, 16, 28}. To double the range we must find the current range, which is 
, to then the double is 
Since we dont want to change the median we need to get a value greater than 8 (as 8 would change the mode) for the smaller and 53 is fixed for the larger as anything less than 3 is not beneficial to the optimization. So taking our optimal values of 53 and 7 we have an answer of 
-apex304, SohumUttamchandani, wuwang2002, TaeKim
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