Data Interpretation 1. Study the following table and answer the questions based on it.

Expenditures of a Company (in Lakh Rupees) per Annum Over the given Years. Item of Expenditure Year Salary Fuel and Transport Bonus 1998 1999 2000 2001 288 342 324 336 98 112 101 133 3.00 2.52 3.84 3.68

Interest on Loans 23.4 32.5 41.6 36.4

Taxes 83 108 74 88

2002 420 142 3.96 49.4 98 1. What is the average amount of interest per year which the company had to pay during this period? A. Rs. 32.43 lakhs B. Rs. 33.72 lakhs C.Rs. 34.18 lakhs D.Rs. 36.66 lakhs 2. The total amount of bonus paid by the company during the given period is approximately what percent of the total amount of salary paid during this period? A. 0.1% B. 0.5% C.1% D.1.25% 3. Total expenditure on all these items in 1998 was approximately what percent of the total expenditure in 2002? A. 62% B. 66% C.69% D.71% 4. The total expenditure of the company over these items during the year 2000 is? A. Rs. 544.44 lakhs B. Rs. 501.11 lakhs C.Rs. 446.46 lakhs D.Rs. 478.87 lakhs 5. The ratio between the total expenditure on Taxes for all the years and the total expenditure on Fuel and Transport for all the years respectively is approximately? A. 4:7 B. 10:13 C.15:18 D.5:8 2. Study the following table and answer the questions. Number of Candidates Appeared and Qualified in a Competitive Examination from Different States Over the Years. Year State 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

App. Qual. App. Qual. App. Qual. App. Qual. App. Qual. M N P Q R 5200 720 8500 980 7400 850 6800 775 9500 1125 7500 840 9200 1050 8450 920 9200 980 8800 1020 6400 780 8800 1020 7800 890 8750 1010 9750 1250 8100 950 9500 1240 8700 980 9700 1200 8950 995 7800 870 7600 940 9800 1350 7600 945 7990 885

1. Total number of candidates qualified from all the states together in 1997 is approximately what percentage of the total number of candidates qualified from all the states together in 1998? A. 72% B. 77% C.80% D.83% 2. What is the average candidates who appeared from State Q during the given years? A. 8700 B. 8760 C.8990 D.8920 3. In which of the given years the number of candidates appeared from State P has maximum percentage of qualified candidates? A. 1997 B. 1998 C.1999 D.2001 4. What is the percentage of candidates qualified from State N for all the years together, over the candidates appeared from State N during all the years together? A. 12.36% B. 12.16% C.11.47% D.11.15% 5. The percentage of total number of qualified candidates to the total number of appeared candidates among all the five states in 1999 is? A. 11.49% B. 11.84% C.12.21% D.12.57% 6. Combining the states P and Q together in 1998, what is the percentage of the candidates qualified to that of the candidate appeared? A. 10.87% B. 11.49% C.12.35% D.12.54%

The bar graph given below shows the sales of books (in thousand number) from six branches of a publishing company during two consecutive years 2000 and 2001. Sales of Books (in thousand numbers) from Six Branches - B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6 of a publishing Company in 2000 and 2001.

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1. What is the ratio of the total sales of branch B2 for both years to the total sales of branch B4 for both years? A. 2:3 B. 3:5 C.4:5 D.7:9 2. Total sales of branch B6 for both the years is what percent of the total sales of branches B3 for both the years? A. 68.54% B. 71.11% C.73.17% D.75.55% 3. What percent of the average sales of branches B1, B2 and B3 in 2001 is the average sales of branches B1, B3 and B6 in 2000? A. 75% B. 77.5% C.82.5% D.87.5% 4. What is the average sales of all the branches (in thousand numbers) for the year 2000? A. 73 B. 80 C.83 D.88 5. Total sales of branches B1, B3 and B5 together for both the years (in thousand numbers) is? A. 250 B. 310 C.435 D.560 4. The bar graph given below shows the data of the production of paper (in lakh tonnes) by three different companies X, Y and Z over the years. Production of Paper (in lakh tonnes) by Three Companies X, Y and Z over the Years.

1. For which of the following years, the percentage rise/fall in production from the previous year is the maximum for Company Y? A. 1997 B. 1998 C.1999 D.2000 2. What is the ratio of the average production of Company X in the period 1998-2000 to the average production of Company Y in the same period? A. 1:1 B. 15:17 C.23:25 D.27:29 3. The average production for five years was maximum for which company?

A. X B. Y C.Z D.X and Z both 4. In which year was the percentage of production of Company Z to the production of Company Y the maximum? A. 1996 B. 1997 C.1998 D.1999 5. What is the percentage increase in the production of Company Y from 1996 to 1999? A. 30% B. 45% C.50% D.60% 6. What is the difference between the production of Company Z in 1998 and Company Y in 1996? A. 2,00,000 tons B. 20,00,000 tons C.20,000 tons D.2,00,00,000 tons

In each of the following questions, find out which of the answer figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) completes the figure matrix ? 1. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

A. 1 C.3

B. 2 D.4

2. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

A. 1 C.3

B. 2 D.4

3. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

A. 1 B. 2 C.3 D.4 In each of the following questions, you are given a figure (X) followed by four alternative figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) such that figure (X) is embedded in one of them. Trace out the alternative figure which contains fig. (X) as its part. 4. Find out the alternative figure which contains figure (X) as its part.

(X) A. 1 C.3

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4) B. 2 D.4

5. Find out which of the figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) can be formed from the pieces fiven in figure (X).

A. 1 C.3

B. 2 D.4

6. Find out which of the figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) can be formed from the pieces fiven in figure (X).

A. 1 C.3

B. 2 D.4

7. Find out which of the figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) can be formed from the pieces fiven in figure (X).

A. 1 B. 2 C.3 D.4 In each of the following questions, group the given figures into three classes using each figure only once. 8. Group the given figures into three classes using each figure only once.

A. 1,4 ; 2,3 ; 5,6 B. 1,5 ; 2,6 ; 4,3 C. 1,6 ; 2,3 ; 4,5 D. 1,2 ; 3,6 ; 4,5