Ok, there’s 7 employees gathered together at a table and they want to figure out the average salary without anyone divulging their own salary. Two questions to clarify the puzzler. I’m clueless on this one so far: Does this mean no one can divulge their salary to any other person in the group, …

As I read the puzzler, there are only 7 employees. If all 7 employees made the same salary, the average would be obvious to the employees. However, it was stated that the salaries are all different. Now if one knows the highest salary and the lowest salary, one would know the median salary. The …

Now if one knows the highest salary and the lowest salary, one would know the median salary.No you wouldn’t. That doesn’t make any sense. Suppose you had seven salaries that were: 1 - $25,000 2 - $30,000 3 - $50,000 4 - $55,000 5 - $80,000 6 - $90,000 7 - $100,000 The median salary there is $…

You are right–I don’t know what I was thinking. One couldn’t get the median salary from knowing the lowest and the highest. I’ll rethink the problem.

My quick-and-dirty solution (which will not win any prizes): everyone agrees that, tomorrow, he/she will bring 1/7 of his/her salary in Monopoly money, and deposit it into a box. Someone then counts the contents of the box, and that is the average salary. Granted, if one’s salary is not evenly divi…

The solution is the same as it was the other time(s) they used this one. “Pretty cute, huh?” (That phrase grates on me, please stop.)

Thanks for the comments. I thought about this week’s puzzler last night, and “eureka”, it can be solved exactly as stated on the Car Talk web site. The only hint I’ll give is that the sol’n is easier than last week’s puzzler. Last week’s threw me for a loop. I thought and thought and finally f…

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Rod-Knox January 30, 2012, 7:14am 2

What is the total payroll? How many employees?

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