Problem
The following statistics represent weekly salaries at a construction company. $\begin{array}{llll}\text { Mean } & \$ 465 & \text { First quartile } & \$ 400 \\ \text { Median } & \$ 475 & \text { Third quartile } & \$ 550 \\ \text { Mode } & \$ 535 & 85 \text { th percentile } & \$ 703\end{array}$ The most common salary is $\$ 535$. The salary that half the employees' salaries surpass is $\$ 475$. The percent of employees' salaries that surpassed $\$ 50$ is . \%.
Solution
Step 1 ：From the given statistics, we know that the most common salary is $535, which is the mode.
Step 2 ：The salary that half the employees' salaries surpass is $475, which is the median.
Step 3 ：We are asked to find the percent of employees' salaries that surpassed $50.
Step 4 ：Since all the given salaries are greater than $50, we can conclude that 100% of the employees' salaries surpassed $50.
Step 5 ：So, the answer is \(\boxed{100}\) percent.
