In a certain company, the average (arithmetic mean) salary of finance

IS there something wrong with the question stem?

B
statment 1 is not sufficient, the number of pepole in each group crosses out
statement 2 is sufficient because it provides information about which average is bigger

avg of both = (N *finance avg. + n* market avg)/(N+n)

Option A: N >n but we do not relation between finance avg and market avg
so not sufficient

Option B: says finance avg < market avg
Not sufficient as well

Combining both
N* (market avg - 10000) + n *market avg /(N+n)

we can't conclusive says its more than sum of avg /2 or not..In some scenarios it is greater but rest it is smaller...

Hence E is the answer

Total avg = xa+yb/a+b ==> when a=b, avg= x+y/2
1) NS
2) NS
1+2) a(y-10000)+ by / a+b ' even if a is less than a , the avg is less than x+y/2........Ans C

(1) We know that finance people are less than marketing but we did not know if x was greater than or less than y.

(2) We know x is less than y but nothing about how many are getting x and how many are getting y.

Together, we know that there are more people getting than the people getting x so.

Average of all executives' salaries is > \(\frac{x+y}{2}\) as it will be more tilted towards y.

E ,not sufficient information to tell the values

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There was an issue with the original question and hence I am revisiting it post finishing the rest of the questions - apologies for the delayed response to Q2 but I feel it is only fair to allow a 10 min extension to it as it had a problem to begin with.

In my opinion Option E is the answer

Please find soln attached in image.

Best,
G

Hey,

Thank you for the questions.

It maybe just me, but I couldn't understand the last part of your question
2(x+y)2(x+y)?

Thanks for making the changes.

So,

Imagine this question in terms of weights

Imagine one finance person as average of all finance folks with salary x*

same for marketing person salary y*

St 1 tells us about number of people (more finance than marketing) but we know nothing about the relation between x and y

St 2 tells us about the relation bt x and y, but now we don't know relatively number of people

1 and 2 combine to give us info.

Finance X -------------------(x+y)/2-------------(Actual average)-------------Marketing Y

Actual average has to be closer to marketing side because there are more number of people there taking the overall average above (x+y)/2

In a certain company, the average (arithmetic mean) salary of finance executives is $x and the average (arithmetic mean) salary of marketing executives is $y. Is the average (arithmetic mean) salary of finance executives and marketing executives combined greater than $(x+y)/2?
1) The number of the finance executives is less than the number of the marketing executives.
2) x is $10,000 less than y.

Weighted average will be closer to the value with the higher number of executives than to strict (x+y)/2

1) the weight average will be closer to the value of $y but $y could be anything larger or smaller than $x. Insufficient
2) Also insufficient because we don't know anything about the number of executives in each group. If there are the same number of both executives for example, the average salary combined will be equal to $(x+y)/2 (not greater than). If there are 20x more marketing executives, then the average will be greater than.
1+2) There are more marketing executives and they make a higher salary, therefore the average will be greater than (x+y)/2

C

Picking numbers works aswell.

Let the number of finance executives be 0 and the number of marketing executives 1. \(x\) is 0$ and \(y\) is 10,000$.

Therefore the average of \(x\) and \(y\) would be \(\frac{(0*0+1*10000)}{1}=10,000$\) therefore bigger than \(\frac{(0+10000)}{2}=5000$\)

Hence, C