Question

Suzanne owns a small business that employs 5 other people. Suzanne makes $100,000 per year and the 5 employees make between $40,000and $50,000 per year. Suzanne decides to increase her salary per year and leave the rest of the salaries the same. How will increasing her salary affect the mean and median? plz help i know my account says high school but im only 11.

Answer 1

the mean will increase, because it's the sum of the salaries divided by the number of the salaries.

the median will still be the same because it's the value in the middle. since she only increased her salary (and she has the highest salary), the value in the middle didn't change.

Answer 2

The correct answer is B.

To increase the median you have to add or subtract a whole number from the set. Because this just changed the value of one of them the median stays the same.