TRAINING AND PLACEMENT CELL

III YEAR / V SEM (COMMON TO ALL BRANCHES)

LACS - (U23CTCP4)
DATA INTERPRETATION, CLOCKS, CALENDARS
UNIT – V
CLOCKS
The Hands of a clock:
Hour hand: The hour hand covers one revolution in 12 hrs. This means that it
covers 360 degrees in 12 hrs. So, 1 hour= 360 / 12 = 30 deg.
Minute hand: The minute hand of a clock covers one revolution in 1 hour or 60
minutes. This means it covers 360 deg in 60 minutes. So, 1 minute =360/60 =6 degree.
Second hand: The second hand covers onerevolution in 1 minute or 60 seconds.
This means it covers 360 degrees in 60 seconds. So, 1 second = 360 /60 = 6 degree.
Important points to remember:
 In 60 minutes, minute hand gains 55 minute spaces over the hour hand. (In 60 minutes,
hour hand will move 5 minute spaces while the minute hand will move 60 minute spaces.
In effect the space gain of minute hand with respect to hour hand will be 60 - 5 = 55
minutes.) Both the hands of a clock coincide once in every hour.
 The hands of a clock are in the same straight line when they are coincident or opposite to
each other.
 When the two hands of a clock are at right angles, they are 15 minute spaces apart.
 When the hands of a clock are in opposite directions, they are 30 minute spaces apart.
 The hands of a clock will be in straight line but opposite in direction, 22 times in a day.
 The hands of a clock coincide 22 times in a day.
 The hands of a clock are straight 44 times in a day.
 The hands of a clock are at right angles 44 times in a day.
 If a watch or a clock indicates 9.15, when the correct time is 9, it is said to be 15 minutes
too fast.
 If a watch or a clock indicates 8.45, when the correct time is 9, it is said to be 15 minutes
too slow.
Type: 1 (Coincidence, right angles, straight line)
1. At what time between 2 and 3 o’clock will the hands of a clock be together, right angles,
opposite to each other or 180 degree angles or straight line?
2. At what time between 5.30 and 6 will the hands of a clock be at right angles?
a.43 5/11 min past 5 b. 43 7/11 min past 5 c. 40 min. past 5 d.45 min. past 5
3. At what time between 6 a.m. and 6:25 a.m. will the hands of a clock be at right angles? a.
44 minutes b.43 7 /11 minutes c. 42 7/11 minutes d. 45 minutes e. 42 minutes
4. Find the time between 3 and 4 will the hands of a watch point in the opposite direction?
A. 49(1/11) min past 3 B. 49(3/11) min past 3 C. 49(2/11) min past 3
D. 49(4/11) min past 3
5. At what time between 4 and 5’o clock will the hands of a watch point in opposite
directions?
Exercises:
6. At what time, in minutes, between 3 and 4, both the needles will coincide each other?
a.5 1/11 b. 12 4/11 c.13 4/11 d. 16 4/11
 Type:2 (Angle between hands of a clock)
7. When the time is 5:40, then what is the angle b/w the hour hand and the minute hand of a
clock? A. 70° B. 60° C. 74° D. 80°
8. What when the time is 6:32, then what is the angle b/w the hour hand & the minute
hand of a clock?
A. 2° B. 4° C. 8° D. 12°
Type: 3 (To find time at M minutes apart)
9. At what time between 7and 8 are the hands of a clock 8 minutes apart?
10. At what time between 5 and 6 o’ clock are the hands of a 3 minutes apart?
A) 24min B) 12min C) 13min D) 14min
Type: 4 (Gain or Loss)
11. A watch gains 5 minutes in one hour and was set right at 8 a.m. What time will it show at
8 p.m. on the same day?
12. A watch loses 5 minutes every hour and was set right at 6 a.m. on a Monday. When will it
show the correct time again?
13. A watch which gains time uniformly is 5 minutes slow at 8’0 clock in the morning on
Sunday and is 5 minutes 48 seconds fast at 8 p.m. the following Sunday. When was it
correct?
14. A clock is set right at 8 a.m. The clock gains 10 minutes in 24 hours. What will be the true
time at 1 p.m. the following day?
15. A clock is set at 5 am. The clock loses 16 minutes in 24 hours. What will the true time be
when the clock indicates 10 pm on the 4th day?
16. 2 clocks A and B are now showing 3’o Clock. Clock B is 2 mins/hour faster than clock A.
How long will it take them to show the same time again?
17. Two watches are correct at 6 O'clock. One watch gains 3 mins a day and other loses 7 mins
a day. After how many days will the clock show same time which is 6 O'clock?
18. 1st Clock gains 5 mins every 1 hour. 2 nd Clock loses 5 min every 1 hour. Later how many
hours both will show the same time again?
19. A clock loses exactly 20 minutes every hour. It is now showing 4:00 a.m. and was correct at
midnight. The clock stopped 4 hours ago, what is the correct time now?
20. A clock strikes every hour once at 1.00 twice at 2.00 and so on. the clock takes 6 seconds
to strike 5.00 and 12 seconds to strike 9.00 the time needed to strike 1.00 is negligible.
how long does the clock need for all its striking in 24 hours?
Exercise:
21. The famous church in the city of Kumbakonam has a big clock tower and is said to be over
300 years old. Every Monday 10.00 A M the clock is set by Antony, doing service in the
church. The Clock loses 6 minutes every hour. What will be the actual time when the faulty
clock shows 3 P.M on Friday?
CALENDARS
Points to Remember:
Day: It is the smallest unit of the calendar. A day is the 7th part of a week and it has 24
hours.
Week: A week is a combination of 7 days such as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A week is the 52nd part of a year.
Month: A month has 28/29/30/31 days. A month is the 12th part of a year.
Year: Year is the time taken by Earth to make one revolution around the Sun. A year is the
100th part of a century.
Date: In general, date is a name given to each day. Date is the 28th /29th /30th /31 st part of
a month. Date is also the 365th/366th part of a years (Lunar/Leap Year)
Century: A block of 100 years is called a century.
Ordinary Year: An ordinary year is a year which has 365 days (52 weeks + 1 odd day).
Ordinary years are not divisible by 4.
Leap Year: A leap year is a year which has 366 days (52 weeks + 2 days). Such years are
exactly divisible by 4 and divisible by 400.
Tips and Tricks:
Tip # 1: In an ordinary year, the first day of the months are same for January and October (1-
10), April and July (4-7), February, March and November (2-3-11), September and December
(9-12)
Tip # 2: In a leap year, the first day of the months are same for January, April, July (1-4-7),
February and August (2-8), March and November (3-11), September and December (9-12)
Tip # 3: The first day of the century must be either Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday.
The last day of the century cannot be Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday.
Tip # 4: The same calendar repeats itself when the sum of odd days between the years and
months should be zero.
Tip # 5: A leap year calendar repeats in 28 years while the calendar of an ordinary year repeats
after 6 or 11 years. So, whenever you get these types of problems, then there is no need to
check all the options. You can just eliminate the options in the calendar reasoning questions
by using this.
Tip # 6: Remember, in 400 years there are 0 odd days, in 300 years there are 1 odd day, in
200 years there are 3 odd days, in 100 years there are 5 odd days
Pattern of Questions:
Type 1: To find the particular day of the date (reference date will give)
1. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
a. Sunday b. Saturday c. Friday d. Wednesday
2. If Feb 12th,1986 falls on Wednesday then Jan 1st,1987 falls on which day?
A) Wednesday B) Tuesday C) Thursday D) Friday
Type 2: To find the day of the particular date (without reference date)
3. What was the day of the week on 17th June, 1998?
a. Monday b. Tuesday c. Wednesday d. Thursday
Type 3: To find the day after some days
4. Today is Monday. After 61 days, it will be:
a. Wednesday b. Saturday c. Tuesday d. Thursday
5. What is 90 days from today? Hints: Today is 20th January 2017, Sunday
A)18th April, Friday B) 20th April, Saturday C) 21th April, Sunday
D) 19th April, Saturday
Type 4: Matching calendars
6. The calendar for the year 2007 will be the same for the year?
a) 2014 b) 2016 c) 2017 d) 2018
Type 5: No of Thursday, january
7. In a particular year, the month of january had exactly 4 thursdays, and 4 sundays. On
which day of the week did january 1st occur in the year.
a) Monday b) Tuesday c) Wednesday d) Thursday

Miscellaneous Problems:
8. A man has a job, which requires him to work 8 straight days and rest on the ninth day. If
he started work on Monday, find the day of the week on which he gets his 12th rest day.
a) Thursday b) Wednesday c) Tuesday d) Friday
9. On what dates of April, 2001 did Wednesday fall?
a) 2nd , 9th, 16th, 23rd b) 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th c) 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th d) 1st, 8th,
15th, 22nd, 29 th

DATA INTERPRETATION
1. Study the following pie chart and table carefully and answer the questions.
Pie chart shows the percentage distribution of cars sold by a manufacturer in six different
cities (except city F).
Distribution for city F is given in absolute value

Type 1: Based on Ratio

What is the ratio of cars sold of company Suzuki to city A to the cars sold of same company in
city E?
(a) 21 : 34 (b) 34 : 21 (c) 31 : 21 (d) 34 : 19 (e) None
Type 2: Difference in Average
What is the difference of average of cars sold of company Tata in city B and C together and
average of Cars Sold of Company Suzuki in city D, F and E together?
(a) 241 (b) 231 (c) 280 (d) 211 (e) 341
Type 3: Percentage More or less
The number of cars sold of company Tata in city D is what percent more/less than the number
of cars sold of company Suzuki in city C? [Rounded off to two decimal places].
a) 83 7/25 % b)72 18/25 % c)77 7/9 %
d) 68 7 /9 % e)62 5/9 %
Type 4: Percentage Increase
If cars sold in city C is increased by 100/9% and cars sold in city D is increased by 200/3%
Find the difference of new total Tata cars sold in city C and D together to new total Suzuki
cars sold in city C and D together? (ratio of car sold of Tata and Suzuki remain same.
(a) 375 (b) 420 (c) 450 (d) 350 (e) 400
2. Given below is the pie chart which shows the distribution of 6 books sold by Ambitious baba
publication in degrees in one week. Table shows ratio of books sold online to sold from book
store. (Note – Sold DI books in one week in absolute value)
 Type 5: What percent
The total no. of male students in 2014 from all exam who are participating in seminar is
approximately what percent of total no. of female students from all exam who are participating
in seminar in 2013
(a) 547% (b) 457% (c) 455% (d) 452% (e) 745%

Type 6: To find total numbers if data given in percentage

If 10% of male students and 5% of female students preparing for Bank exam in year 2015
asked questions to the speaker in seminar and 10% of total students preparing for SSC asked
the question to the speaker in the same year, then total no. of student from banking who
asked question is what percent of the total no. of students from SSC who asked question in
year 2015? (Rounded off to two decimal places)
(a) 90.54% (b) 92.44% (c) 94.44% (d) 9.444% (e) 98.44%

Practice
1. The following line graph shows the total no. of students who are preparing for three different
exams viz. SSC, Bank and Railway who participated in a seminar organized by career power in
five different years.
The table shows the ratio of male to female who participated in seminar. Study both the graph
carefully and answer the questions that follows.
 The total no. of male students in 2014 from all exam who are participating in seminar is
approximately what percent of total no. of female students from all exam who are participating
in seminar in 2013?
(a) 547% (b) 457% (c) 455% (d) 452% (e) 745%
2. Study the following graph to answer the given questions
% of distribution of number of Computers sold by a shopkeeper during the given six months.
Total no of computer sold =96500
The ratio of no of Computers of Company Dell to that of Company Sony during the given six
months

[Link] is the total of the no of computer of Company Dell sold during July?
a) 13780 b) 12769 c) 11001 d) 10100 e) None of these
[Link] is the difference between the number of computers of Company Sony sold during Aug
and Dec?
a) 3650 b) 5210 c) 4400 d) 3806 e) None of these
[Link] 42% of the Computers of Company Dell were sold at a discount in Dec, how many
computers were sold without any discount during the same month?
a) 3358 b) 5790 c) 4530 d) 2675 e) None of these
[Link] the Company Sony earned a profit of Rs.350 on each computer sold during Oct. What was
the total profit earned on the computer during the same month?
a) 31,90,400 b) 28,30,800 c) 22,76.700 d) 17,65,900 e) None of these
[Link] is the total of the number of computers of Company Dell sold during September and
November?
a) 12980 b) 14786 c) 15200 d) 17039 e) None
3. Study the following graph to answer the given questions
Total population 39lak Total population 32lak
 [Link] is the ratio between the Female population of state UP and the male population of M?
a) 60:95b) 80:117c) 85:112d) 45:77e) none of these
[Link] is the total population of State J & K?
a) 11.55lakb) 10.65lakc) 10.55lakd) 9.78lake) none of these
[Link] the difference between Male population and Female population in the state WB? a) 5.76
lak b) 4.67 lak c) 3.69lak d) 3.96 lak e) none of these
[Link] the average number of males in all the 7 states?
a)5lak b)6lak c)5.57lak d)6.57lak e) none
5. The angle corresponding to the female population in the states AP and M?
a) 56.9degree b) 76.5degree c) 48.6degree d) 68.4degree e) none of these
4. Study the given Pie-Chart and Bar Graph carefully and answer the questions given below
Percentagewise distribution of employees in 5 different Organizations in a state Total No of
Employees = 1,32,500
Number of Female employees out of the total employees

[Link] is the total number of female employees in Wipro and male employees in Sun and
Infosys? a) 28900b) 30850c) 32600d) 26980e) None of these
[Link] is the difference between the total numbers of employees in Polaris to the number of
male employees in HCL?
a) 10500b) 10000c) 10725d) 10475e) None of these
[Link] of the following Organizations has more number of female employees than male
employees? a) Wiprob) Sunc) Infosysd) CTSe) None of these
[Link] number of male employees in CTS is approximately what % of the total number of
employees in Sun? a) 47%b) 32%c) 51%d) 28%e) None of these
[Link] is the average number of male employees in Wipro, Polaris and CTS?
a) 12560b) 15220 c) 13725 d) 14375 e) None of these
5. Study the table below to answer these questions.
Additional Details
Rate of Interest, Dividend Payout Ratio and the Retained Earnings of Five Companies

Profit earned is either paid out as dividend or ploughed back in business as retained earnings.
Interest is paid on borrowings.
1. By how much do the borrowings of Company B exceed that of Company A ?
1. Rs. 1,210,000 2. Rs.1,320,000 3. Rs.1,000,000 4. Rs.1,100,000
2. By how much does the dividend paid by Company D exceed the dividend paid by Company
B?
1. Rs.23 lakh 2. Rs.32 lakh 3. Rs.320 lakh 4. Rs.230 lakh
3. The profit of E is more/less than that of C by _____ %
1. 33.3% less 2. 33.3% more 3. 25% less 4. 25% more
4. What is the sum of profits made by Companies A and B ?
1. Rs.500 lakh 2. Rs.600 lakh 3. Rs.700 lakh 4. Rs.800 lakh
5. What is the sum of the borrowings of all five companies ?
1. Rs.146 lakh 2. Rs.14.6 lakh 3. Rs.14.6 crore 4. None of these