CAT 2023 Slot 2 QA Question 10: In a company, 20% of the employees work in the manufacturing department. If the total salary obtained by all the manufacturing employees is one-sixth of the total salary obtained by all the employees

Question

In a company, 20% of the employees work in the manufacturing department. If the total salary obtained by all the manufacturing employees is one-sixth of the total salary obtained by all the employees

Accepted Answer

Assume there are 100 employees and the total salary paid by the company is 600 units.

Then 20 employees are in manufacturing and their total salary is one-sixth of 600, which is 100 units.
$	ext{Average manufacturing salary} = \dfrac{100}{20} = 5$

The remaining 80 employees are non-manufacturing