XAT 2016QA & DI Question 25

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Answer the next 4 questions based on the information given below.

This graph depicts the last eight years annual salaries (in Rs. lacs.) offered to student during campus placement. Every year 100 students go through placement process. However, at least one of them fails to get placed. The salaries of all unplaced students are marked zero and represented in the graph.

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The bold line in the graph presents Mean salaries at various years.

Identify the number of years in which the difference between the average salaries of the top 25% and the bottom 25% is more than Rs. 20 lacs:

Answer & solution

  • A

    0

  • B

    1

  • C

    2

  • D

    3

  • None of the above

Solution

The number of years cannot be calculated with precision as the distribution pattern is unknown.

Hence, option (e).

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