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Data Interpretation-3
Data Interpretation Basics
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Answer the following questions based on the given information.

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Shot Gun jeans — the world famous jeans from Ghatkopar east has a system of demand estimation so that the production can be
planned as per the demand. However, because of limitation in production capacity at times, the production is less than the demand.

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The table below gives the estimated and the actual demand for Shot Gun jeans along with the target and actual production for the
period 1990-95 in thousand pairs.

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Estimated Actual Target Actual
1990-91 152 130 155 150
1991-92 165 155 155 155
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
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190
165
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165
175
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1. The supply-demand gap (in ‘000 pairs) in year 1994-95 is: 4.

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If the actual demand for Shot Gun jeans in year 1993-94 was

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14% higher than the figure mentioned, the new demand-
supply gap, if the production remains same would have been:

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2. Which of the following statements is/are true?

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I. The estimates of demand for Shot Gun jeans were goes up by 10% over actual demand in year 1994-95, while
higher than actual figures for all years. the production for year 1995-96 falls by 15% over year 1994-
95, then the demand-supply gap would be:

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II. The production targets of Shot Gun jeans were equal to
or higher than the actual production figures for all
years.
III. The actual demand was less than or equal to actual
supply for all years.

3. What is the average actual production for the given number

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Answer the following questions based on the given information.

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The pie-chart given below shows the expenditure break-up of the total monthly income of Ms. Jyoti Mishra. Her total monthly
income is Rs. 45,000.

Housing

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36.2°
Electricity
Saving

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Fooding
72.6°

Transportation
54.8°

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82°
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6. The amount spend by Jyoti on ‘Fooding’ and ‘Transportation’
together constitute what percent of her monthly salary?
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If she cut down her ‘Misc’ amount by 20% and invest this
amount as a part of her ‘Saving’ and rest of all the expenses
remains the same, then the measure of the central angle

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formed by ‘Saving’ is:

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than that of the amount spent on ‘Misc’?
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By what percentage, the amount spent on ‘Saving’ is more
10. What is the combined amount spent on ‘fooding’ and
‘housing’?

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8. The total amount spent on ‘Housing’ and ‘Fooding’ together is
what percent of amount spent on ‘Saving’ and ‘Electricity’
together?
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Answer the following questions based on the given information.

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Sales in '000 units

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50 RZX
PSX

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Years

The figure given above shows the yearly production of ‘J2TP(Junglee Toofaan Tyre Punture)’ company which produces only three
types of bikes namely XMX, PSX and RZX. The above graph shows the yearly production of these three bikes. During the period of
year 2000 to 2004.
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1. What is the percentage share of PSX in the total sales of the
company during the given period?
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sales of RZX over the given period?

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(a) 67.67% (a) 52 : 61

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(b) 59.72% (b) 27 : 49
(c) 52.68% (c) 31 : 43
(d) 57.87%

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Which of the following among the given options shows the
maximum decrease in the sales of the similar type of bike
with respect to the previous year?
(a) RZX, 2000-01
4. By what percentage, the total sales of XMX and RZX
together greater or less than the total sales of PSX over the
given period?
(a) 29.56%
(b) RZX, 2002-03 (b) 31.24%
(c) PMX, 2002-03 (c) 23.45%
(d) XMX, 2001-02 (d) 27.21%
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5. What is the average annual production of the company?
(a) 119400 units

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(b) 109200 units
(c) 121200 units
(d) 118200 units

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The pie-chart given below shows the percentage distribution of washing machine market for year 2003 for five companies A, B, C, D

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and E. These are the only five companies in the market from year 2002 to 2005. The bar graph shows the sales in unit for two
companies A and B over the given period.

Sales in unit

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3% A

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80000 D
22% 24%

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40000
B C

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36%

Market share in 2003

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period?

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(a) 71.4%
(b) 48,00 units

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(b) 15%
(c) 12,000 units
(c) 46.7%

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(d) 18,750 units
(d) 20%

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What was the average sales of B over the given period?
(a) 7,083 units
(b) 45,000 units
9. What was the sales of E in year 2004?
(a) 3,500 units
(b) 6,250 units
(c) 2,400 units
(c) 56,250 units
(d) Cannot be determined
(d) 37,500 units
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10. What was the total volume of washing machine market in year 2003?
(a) 1,600 units

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(b) 8,000 units
(c) 7,200 units
(d) 125,000 units

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Answer the following questions based on the given information.

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The percentage break-up of the volume share of IFFCO fertilizers in a country Bharat for year 2006 and 2007 is shown in figure (i) and
the percentage break-up of the fertilizer market according to market share by volume in Bharat for year 2006 is shown in figure (ii).

Bio-fertilizer
Figure (i)

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Figure (ii)

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10% 5%

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DAP 25% IFFCO
20% UREA 40%

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FACT
10%

NFL
NPK 20%
25%
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1. If sale of UREA by IFFCO in Bharat for year 2006 was 63000
tonnes, then what was the total sales of fertilizer in that year?
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If the total fertilizer sold in Bharat in the year 2006 was 2.5

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lakh tonnes, then what was the difference between the sales
of NPK by IFFCO and NFL?

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(a) 1.5 lakh tonnes

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(a) 0.5 lakh tonnes
(b) 2.5 lakh tonnes
(b) 1.5 lakh tonnes
(c) 3 lakh tonnes

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(c) 2.5 lakh tonnes
(d) 3.5 lakh tonnes
(d) 0.15 lakh tonnes

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(e) 4.5 lakh tonnes
(e) 0.25 lakh tonnes

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If the total fertilizer sold in Bharat in the year 2006 was 5 lakh
tonnes, then how much DAP was sold by IFFCO?
(a) 4000 tonnes
4. If the total fertilizer sold in Bharat in the year 2006 was 3 lakh
tonnes, then how much does HFC and FACT together
account for?
(a) 1.05 lakh tonnes
(b) 2000 tonnes
(b) 0.05 lakh tonnes
(c) 0.4 lakh tonnes
(c) 1.15 lakh tonnes
(d) 1.2 lakh tonnes
(d) 0.15 lakh tonnes
(e) None of these
(e) 1.5 lakh tonnes
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If the total fertilizer sold by IFFCO in Bharat in the year 2006 was 2 lakh tonnes, then what was the ratio of the sales of UREA and Bio-
fertilizer for IFFCO?

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(a) 2 : 9

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(c) 5 : 2
(d) 3 : 1
(e) Cannot be determined

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Answer the following questions based on the given information.

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The Haffkine research lab conducts experiment on white mice. The cage contains male and female mice in the ratio 3 : 2. The cage is

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left open and a few mice run away. Anita notices that one-fourth of male and one-fourth of female mice are missing. She reports the

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same to her boss but forgets to close the cage. When the boss checks, there are only three-fifths and four-fifths the number reported
by Anita. The boss reports the matter to the security and as soon as the security guard opens the cage some more mice run away. The

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total number of male and female mice remaining are two-thirds and one-half of the number observed by the boss.

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6. If the number of male mice in the cage originally was 90, then 7. If the original number of mice in the cage was 150, the
number of male mice observed by the security guard was number of female mice observed by the security guard was
_______. ______.
(a) 30
(b) 27
(c) 25
(d) 20
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(b) 18
(c) 32
(d) 10
(e) 15 (e) 28
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8. If Anita observed 72 male mice, the total number of mice
originally in the cage was:
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What is the ratio of male to female mice when Anita observed
them?

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(c) 160 (c) 5 : 3
(d) 150
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What was the ratio of male to female mice when the boss
observed them?
(a) 9 : 8
(b) 9 : 5
(c) 7 : 6
(d) 5 : 4
(e) None of these
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