Brain Teaser (light) - How well do you understand weighted averages?

Weighted averages are used frequently in engineering applications involving filtering and tracking, such as RADAR and neural network calculations, as well as determining school grades and estimating batting averages.

You should already have some intuitional understanding of weighted averages. For example, if a person taking a class has a score of 80 for 90% of the grade and a score of 95 for 10% of the grade you should know without calculation that the final grade will be between 80 and 95 and because the 90% factor is greater, the score will be closer to 80 than 95, so the final grade is between 80 and 87.5. I hope that most of you know that the calculation of the grade is .90*80 + .10*95 = 81.5.

Now consider the following problem. A person’s grade in a class is based on the scores on a quiz, a midterm and a final, with scores respectively of 80, 90 and 94. The final counts more than the midterm and the midterm counts more than the quiz. What can you say about the final grade? We know that it will be between 80 and 94 but a stronger statement can be made.