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In a company with 100 employees, 45 earn Rs. 20,000 per month, 25 earn Rs. 30,000, 20 earn Rs.40,000, 8 earn Rs. 60,000, and 2 earn Rs. 150,000. The median of the salaries is

The correct answer is
Rs. 30,000

To find the median salary among the employees, we need to follow these steps:

  1. Arrange the Salaries in Ascending Order: We list out all the salaries in ascending order and count how many employees fall into each salary category. Given:
    • 45 employees earn Rs. 20,000
    • 25 employees earn Rs. 30,000
    • 20 employees earn Rs. 40,000
    • 8 employees earn Rs. 60,000
    • 2 employees earn Rs. 150,000
  2. Determine the Location of the Median: With 100 employees, the median will be the average of the 50th and 51st salaries.
  3. Count Up to Find the Median:
    • First 45 employees (1 to 45): Rs. 20,000
    • Next 25 employees (46 to 70): Rs. 30,000
    • The 50th and 51st persons are among the ones earning Rs. 30,000.

Therefore, the median salary is Rs. 30,000.

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Important Questions from Mean Median Mode

  1. A data set is given to be $[1, 2, 0, -1, -3, 1, 2, 0, 1]$. 

    The median of the data set is ____. (rounded off to the nearest integer)

  2. The following sequence of numbers is arranged in increasing order: 1, x, x, x, y, y, 9,16,18. Given that the mean and median are equal, and are also equal to twice the mode, the value of y is
  3. The sample average of 50 data points is 40. The updated sample average after including a new data point taking the value of 142 is ________.
  4. The mean absolute deviation about the median for the data 3, 9, 5, 3, 12, 10, 18, 4, 7, 19, 21 (rounded off to two decimal places) is ________________.

  5. In a company with 100 employees, 45 earn Rs. 20,000 per month, 25 earn Rs. 30,000, 20 earn Rs. 40,000, 8 earn Rs. 60,000, and 2 earn Rs. 150,000. The median of the salaries is
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