Question

The monthly salary of 10 employees in a factory are given below : 

Rs 5000, Rs 7000, Rs 5000, Rs 7000, Rs 8000, Rs 7000, 17000, Rs 8000, Rs 7000, Rs 5000 

Find the mean, median and mode.

Answer 1

The monthly salary of 10 employees are Rs 5000, Rs 7000, Rs 5000, Rs 7000, Rs 8000, Rs 7000, Rs 7000, Rs 8000, Rs 7000, Rs 5000. 

Writing in ascending order Rs 5000, Rs 5000, Rs 5000, Rs 7000, Rs 7000, Rs 7000, Rs 8000, Rs 8000 

Number of values = 10 which is an even number.

Median 

In this given data Rs 7000 occurs maximum number of 5 times

∴ Mode = Rs 7000/- 

∴ Mean = Rs 6600/- 

Mode = Rs 7000/-