Average Pay Without the Extremes

Easy

A department has several employees whose salaries are listed in pay, all different. So that a single director and a single intern do not skew the picture, an analyst computes the average salary leaving out the highest and the lowest one. Return that average. An answer is accepted if it is within 10⁻⁵ of the exact value.

Example 1

pay=[3200, 1500, 8000, 2500] → 2850.0

Drop the lowest pay 1500 and the highest 8000; 3200 and 2500 remain: (3200 + 2500) / 2 = 2850.

Example 2

pay=[1000, 5000, 1200] → 1200.0

After dropping the extremes, only 1200 is left, so that is the average.

Constraints

3 ≤ length of pay ≤ 100
1000 ≤ pay[i] ≤ 10⁶
all values in pay are distinct

Have you seen this problem in a real interview?

Solved by0

Tried by0

Submissions0

Acceptance—

Topics

Array Sorting

Similar problems

Merge Into the Spare Tail Easy The Candidate With Most Votes Easy Does Any Value Repeat Easy Make It to Every Meeting Easy The Lost Ticket Easy

Input

pay=[3200, 1500, 8000, 2500]

Expected

2850.0

Run checks the first 3 tests in your browser. Submit checks all 81 tests on the server, hidden ones included.