Instructions

Study the graph below and answer the questions that follow:

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.


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

Question 78

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.

Solution

Let's tabulate the information given in the graph, 

It is clear from the table that the  mean salary after discarding the unemployed students is greater than the mean salary for the years 2008,2010,2013

Hence A is the correct answer.


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