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If a company has five employees with annual salaries of $40,000, $90,000, $40,000, $30,000, and $80,000, respectively, what is the mean annual salary at the company?

A. $70,000
B. $56,000
C. $40,000
D. $80,000

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Answer:56,000

Step-by-step explanation:

User LCaraway
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Mean is where you add all of the values together and then divide the total by the number of values.

After doing this, you should see this...

20,000+40,000+20,000+60,000+70,000 = 210,000

After you get this number, you divide by the number of values, in this case, 5.

210,000/5 = 42,000

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