Query about question "A researcher collected data on the number..." [100]

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A researcher collected data on the number of children in 30 separate families. Unfortunately, the data for two of the families is not legible, but the researcher does recall that the mean number of children for all 30 families is 2.9 and that no family had 0 or greater than 5 children. How many distinct arrangements are possible regarding the missing data for the number of children of the two families? answer should be 6, not 5

It boils down to finding all distinct ordered pairs (f_1, f_2) where f_1 + f_2 = 6 and
f_i \in \{1,2,3,4,5\}. There are only 5 such pairs. You seem to have counted (3,3) twice.