Average salary of a manager increase by 26.5%, while that of executive increase by 20%. If the average salary of both the manager and the executive together increased by 22.5% and there are 40 executives in the company, how many managers are there in the company?

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deepti pandey · Answer

solve this question by alligation method.

Shubham gupta · Answer

lets suppose that total salary of manager and exec is 100a and 100b initially. since first is increase by 26.5 percent , it becomes 126.5a and for exec , total salary becomes 120b. Now , it is said that overall change was 22.5 percent i.e (100a+100b)*1.225 . Thus the above sum(126.5a+120b) is equal to (100a+100b)*1.225. on solving , we got 1.6a=b. which means a= 40/1.6 =25. Hope it helps.

Aryan Kalwnkar · Answer

25

Shiv Raj · Answer

I got that
it's
(26.5x + 20*40)= 22.5(40+x)

Shiv Raj · Answer

Yes 25 is the answer but I don't understand how?
Can you please provide the explanation?

Average salary of a manager increase by 26.5%, while that of executive increase by 20%. If the average salary of both the manager and the executive together increased by 22.5% and there are 40 executives in the company, how many managers are there in the company?

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