CAT 2025 Slot 3 QA Question 20: The average salary of 5 managers and 25 engineers in a company is 60000 rupees. If each of the managers received 20% salary increase while the salary of the engineers remained unchanged, the average s

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The average salary of 5 managers and 25 engineers in a company is 60000 rupees. If each of the managers received 20% salary increase while the salary of the engineers remained unchanged, the average s

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Let the total salary of the $5$ managers be $M$ and the total salary of the $25$ engineers be $E$.
$M + E = 30 	imes 60000 = 1800000$
The average salary increases by $5\%$, so the new total salary is
$30 	imes 60000 	imes 1.05 = 1890000$
Only the managers get an increase. Hence, the total increas