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1491. Average Salary Excluding the Minimum and Maximum Salary

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Description

You are given an array of unique integers salary where salary[i] is the salary of the ith employee.

Return the average salary of employees excluding the minimum and maximum salary. Answers within 10-5 of the actual answer will be accepted.

 

Example 1:

Input: salary = [4000,3000,1000,2000]
Output: 2500.00000
Explanation: Minimum salary and maximum salary are 1000 and 4000 respectively.
Average salary excluding minimum and maximum salary is (2000+3000) / 2 = 2500

Example 2:

Input: salary = [1000,2000,3000]
Output: 2000.00000
Explanation: Minimum salary and maximum salary are 1000 and 3000 respectively.
Average salary excluding minimum and maximum salary is (2000) / 1 = 2000

 

Constraints:

  • 3 <= salary.length <= 100
  • 1000 <= salary[i] <= 106
  • All the integers of salary are unique.

Solution

average-salary-excluding-the-minimum-and-maximum-salary.py
class Solution:
    def average(self, salary: List[int]) -> float:
        mmax, mmin = max(salary), min(salary)
        res = count = 0

        for x in salary:
            if x != mmax and x != mmin:
                res += x
                count += 1

        return res / count