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XAT 2016 — QA & DI Question 26

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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.

If the average salary is computed excluding students with no offers, in how many years will the new average salary be greater than the existing median salary? Refer the table below for number of students without offers.

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Answer & solution

  • 3

  • B

    4

  • C

    5

  • D

    6

  • E

    Cannot be solved without additional information.

Solution

Mean salary of job offered students = Average of all students × 100100-number of students without job offer

From the given chart and table, the following table is concluded

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From the table it can be easily seen that the Mean salary after discarding the unemployed students is greater than the mean for years 2008, 2010 and 2013.

Hence, option (a).

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