document.write( "Question 1089676: Suppose a company has 10 employees, 1 earning R160 000, 1 earning R120 000, 2 earning
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document.write( "The mean (or the arithmetic mean, or average) is the sum of addends divided by the number of addends.\r\n" );
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document.write( "We can write the sum of addends as 160000 + 120000 + 2*60000 + 40000 + 5*32000.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The number of addends is 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 5.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore, the mean =  =  = 60000.\r\n" );
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