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DATA INTERPRETATION PRACTICE EXERCISE
Ref: DEX1162001
Directions for questions 1 to 5:Study the following table carefully, which shows the details of sales and profits of
six 4- wheeler companies in a state for two financial years 2015-16 and 2016-17.
Company Avg sales per outlet Total profit of all outlets
Number of outlets
(in ` crores) (in ` crores)
Year
2015-16 2016-17 2015-16 2016-17 2015-16 2016-17
Bharath 3 3 30 90 120 160
Ferito 5 5 120 150 200 240
Golvo 3 8 150 180 60 100
BML 6 9 85 100 80 160
Lata 2 10 70 90 140 200
Kicher 4 6 60 80 10 12
1. What is the ratio of percentage increase in profit to 4. Which company had the highest profit per outlet in
that in sales for the company Kicher in all the 2016-17?
outlets in 2016-17 over 2015-16? (1) Ferito (2) BML (3) Bharath
(1) 5 : 1 (2) 1 : 5 (3) 3 : 5 (4) Golvo (5) Kicher
(4) 3 : 1 (5) None of these
5. If profit is equal to total sales (of all outlets) minus
2. Which company had the highest total sales in the of total investment, then what was the total
year 2016-17?
investment of Ferito in 2015-16? (in `crore)
(1) BML (2) Lata (3) Golvo
(4) Bharath (5) Ferito (1) 400 (2) 300 (3) 350
(4) 150 (5) None of these
3. Which company experienced the highest percentage
increase in profit in 2016-17 over that in 2015-16?
(1) Bharath (2) Ferito (3) Lata
(4) BML (5) None of these
Directions for questions 6 to 10: Study the data given in the line-graphs and answer the questions that follow.
Percentage mark up of six products dealt by PQR Trading company
50
50
40
40 40
30
30
20 25
20
10
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A B C D E F
Discount percentage allowed on six products dealt by
PQR Trading company
30
25
20
20 20 20
15
10
10
0
A B C D E F
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Note: (1) Percentage mark up indicates the percentage by which marked price is more than the cost price
(2) PQR Trading company deals with only six products A, B, C, D, E and F.
6. What is the ratio of the cost price and the selling (4) `180 (5) `240
price of product D?
(1) 19 : 21 (2) 20 : 21 (3) 21 : 22
9. On which product the company got the highest
(4) 19 : 22 (5) None of these
amount of profit?
(1) A (2) B (3) C
7. If the ratio of the selling price of C and D is 3 : 4,
(4) E (5) Cannot be determined
by what approximate percentage is D's cost price
more than C's cost price?
(1) 27% (2) 29% (3) 32% 10. If the discount allowed on product B is `540, what
(4) 37% (5) None of these is the amount of profit on B?
(1) `480 (2) `360 (3) `240
8. If the cost prices of A and E are `500 and
(4) `150 (5) None of these
`600 respectively, what is the difference between
their selling prices?
(1) `90 (2) `120 (3) `160
Directions for questions 11 to 15: Study the following bar graph and pie chart carefully to answer the questions below.
Percentage of females in total population of six towns in 2013-14
Population in the six towns in 2013-14
F A
62° 64°
E B
56° 58°
D
C
54°
66°
11. If the female population in the towns C and D 13. What is the ratio of the male population of the town
together is 15210, then what is the female C to the male population of the town D?
population of village A? (1) 4 : 3 (2) 9 : 14
(1) 110592 (2) 101592 (3) 9216 (3) 12 : 17 (4) 15 : 19
(4) 1960 (5) None of these
(5) None of these
12. What is the male population in the towns E and
F together, if the total population of the given 14. In which of the given towns was the male
six towns is 216000? population the highest?
(1) 25,460 (2) 35,064
(1) C (2) E (3) A
(3) 29,016 (4) 32,016
(4) F (5) Cannot be determined
(5) 24,560
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15. If the difference between the male population and Zone wise Distribution of TTEs
the female population in the towns A and B
together is 1456, then what is the total population East South
of the given six towns? Coast Zone
(1) 754800 (2) 256800 (3) 658800
Zone 16%
(4) 160800 (5) 252000
10%
Directions for questions 16 to 20: These questions
are based on the following data.
Central
In a city, there are 13600 employees. The ratio of Zone
number of males and females among them is 11 : 6. 15%
All the people work in a particular establishment
East Zone
among six establishments i.e., Pizza point, Pasta
centre, Frenzy ice-cream, Cookieyum, Caketake and West 18%
Spice N cream. 20% of the total persons are employed Zone
at Pizza point. 24% of the females work in Spice N 21% North
2 Zone
cream. 10 % of the males work in Cookieyum. 20%
11
Females working in Caketake are 50% of the females
5 21. What is the average number of TTEs who were
working in Spice N cream. 20 % of the males work appointed to East zone, North zone and EastCoast
11
zone?
in Frenzy ice-cream. Males working in Frenzy ice-
(1) 636 (2) 864 (3) 768
cream are 20% more than females working there. 30%
(4) 756 (5) 896
of the total employees work in Spice N cream. The
number of females employees in Spice N cream is 22. Of the total TTEs appointed in 2018 in North zone
equal to the number of males working in Pasta centre. and West zone, 360 were given promotion in
The ratio of number of males to females working in 2019.
Pasta centre is 3 : 1 and that working in Caketake is 5 : The number of TTEs who did not get promotion
8. from North and West zones in 2019 was 13 : 11.
The number of employees who got promotion from
16. How many people are working in Cookieyum? North zone form what percentage of the number of
(1) 1028 (2) 936 (3) 3300 employees who did not get promotion from West
(4) 2396 (5) 2896 zone?
(1) 9.3% (2) 16.2% (3) 9.8%
17. The number of females working in Caketakeis (4) 17.6% (5) 12.07%
what percentage of the number of females working
in Pasta centre? 23. The ratio of the number of postgraduates among
(1) 100% (2) 150% (3) 200% the TTEs appointed to North zone, West zone and
(4) 250% (5) 300% Central zone is 2 : 9 : [Link] 50% of those appointed
to West zone are graduates, then what is the
18. How many people are working in Frenzy ice-cream? number of TTEs appointed to the three zones are
(1) 936 (2) 1028 only graduates? (It is known that a TTE can be
(3) 3300 (4) 2396 only a graduate or a post graduate)
(5) 2896 (1) 1848 (2) 1632 (3) 1068
(4) 1566 (5) 840
19. How many people are working in Pasta centre?
(1) 1356 (2) 2652 24. If the number of males among the TTEs appointed
(3) 2079 (4) 1536 to Northzone is same as thrice the number of male
(5) 1653 TTEs appointed to Centralzone and the number of
female TTEs appointed to Centralzone and North
20. The females working in Frenzy ice-cream is zone are equal, then what percentage of the TTEs
approximately what percentage of the number of appointed to these zones are females?
employees in the city? (1) 50% (2) 83.33%
(1) 5% (2) 7% (3) 8% (3) 44.44% (4) 71.42%
(5) 66.66%
(4) 9% (5) 11%
25. In 2019, some TTEs appointed to East Coast zone
Directions for questions 21 to 25: Analyze the resigned and the number of resultant employees in
pie-chart shown below and answer the questions that that zone and in South zone was in the ratio 1 : 2.
follow. If no TTEs who were appointed to South zone did
resign, then the number of TTEs who resigned
The pie chart gives the percentage - wise breakup of from East Coast zone form what percentage of the
the newly recruited TTEswho were appointed to total number of employees appointed to East
six different zones –South zone, East zone, North Coast zone?
zone, West zone, Central zone and East Coast zone in (1) 16% (2) 20% (3) 18%
the year 2018. A total of 4800 TTEswere recruited in (4) 15% (5) 12%
the year.
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