Data Interpretation

Foundation and Introduction

 Expenditure
Year % Profit
(in Crores)

2011 4860 8.33

2012 3296 12.5

2013 2480 62.5

2014 4896 18.75

2015 3681 22.22

Q1. Find the Profit (in Crores) of the company in 2011?

Q2. Find the Profit (in Crores) of the company in 2012?
Q3. If Revenue = Expenditure + Profit. Find the Revenue (in Crores) of the company in 2013?
Q4. If Revenue = Expenditure + Profit. Find the Revenue (in Crores) of the company in 2014?

DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Sales of Various Companies (in Crores) in two successive years is given in the following table:

2016 2017

Company A 1458 1944

Company B 1536 2048

Company C 2450 3185

Company D 1600 2000

Company E 5000 8000

Q5. Find the percentage change in the sales of company E from 2016 to 2017?
Q6. Find the percentage change in the sales of company D from 2016 to 2017?
Q7. Find the percentage change in the sales of company C from 2016 to 2017?
Q8. Find the percentage change in the sales of company B from 2016 to 2017?
Q9. Find the percentage change in the sales of company A from 2016 to 2017?
DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
The following table gives the percentage Increase in the population of different countries in the
given years compared to previous years.

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Country A 20 25 10 25 20
Country B 10 25 25 20 20
Country C 12.5 6.66 26.66 25 33.33

Q10. Find the percentage increase in the Population of country A from 2010 to 2012?
Q11. Find the percentage increase in the Population of country A from 2010 to 2015?
Q12. Find the percentage increase in the Population of country B from 2010 to 2015?
Q13. Find the percentage increase in the Population of country C from 2010 to 2015?

DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.

The following table gives the marks of different students in Various Subjects. The maximum marks
in each subject are 40.

Maths Reasoning English G.A.

A 24 36 40 10
B 16 24 32 18
C 20 18 18 12
D 18 26 24 20
E 32 30 28 16

Q14. Find the average marks of student B in all the sections?

Q15. Find the average marks of all the students in English section?
Q16. Which student obtained the highest average marks?
Q17. Find the % marks of student A in all the sections?
DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
The following table gives percentage marks of different students in Various Sections and maximum
marks in these subjects.

Maths Reasoning English

(200) (100) (150)
A 75 85 80

B 85 80 90

C 90 70 85

D 75 95 80

Q18. Find the average marks of student A in all the sections?

Q19. Find the Percentage marks of student B in all the sections?
Q20. Find the Percentage marks of student D in all the sections?

DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.

The break-up of all doctors working in Kamlavati Hospital into different departments has been shown
in the pie-chart. This respective percentage of doctors from each field was recorded after an audit
on 1st April, 2010.

Distribution of all Doctors Cardiology

8%

Others General
30% Medicine
16%

Gastro
Orthopae 12%
dics Paediatric
24% s
10%

Q21. If the number of doctors in the Paediatrics department in the year 2010 is 35, then how
many doctors in total work in the Gastro and General medicine department?
1. 72 2. 84 3. 98 4.None of these

Q22. If 20% of doctors in ‘Others’ belong to the Neurology department, then what is the sum of
number of doctors in the Orthopaedics and Cardiology departments if a total of 15 doctors work in
the Neurology department?
1. 80 2. 72 3. 60 4. 65

Q23. If in 2011, the hospital administrators decided to increase the number of ‘General
Medicine’ practitioners by 100%, Paediatricians by 50%, and ‘Others’ by 40%, then what
percentage does Gastro represent now given that there is no addition or subtraction in the
number of doctors from other departments?
1. 8% 2. 9% 3. 10% 4. No change

DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Khoonkhaar wild life sanctuary boasts of hundreds of native tigers and elephants, as shown by the
graph below, which gives the number of animals present in January each year. Every year in the
month of May, 30% of tigers and 40% of elephants present at the beginning of the year were
transferred out from Khoonkhar to Shantipriya wild life sanctuary. However, new tigers were
transferred/ added to Khoonkhar every year in July in the given period. In the first year (2002),
90% of tigers present at the beginning of the year were added in July; in the second year 50% were
added; and 60% were added to Khoonkhar in each of the subsequent years. In the case of elephants
80% elephants present at the beginning were added in July 2002 and 70% in each subsequent year.
It is also known that number of animals may decrease due to death but there is no other cause of
addition in Khoonkhar.

Q24. How many tigers died during the period 2002 (beginning) to 2006 (beginning)?
1. 192 2. 246 3. 278 4. 312

Q25. In which of these years was the ratio of new elephants added to Khoonkhar, to the number
of dead elephants the highest?
1. 2003 2. 2004 3. 2005 4. 2006

Q26. Which year recorded the maximum percentage change in the total number of deaths over
the previous year?
1. 2003 2. 2004 3. 2005 4. None of these
 DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
The graph given below gives the figures for the increase in the number of cars on road over the
previous year as well as the number of spark plugs sold separately as replacements to faulty ones.
For example, total number of cars increased by 1.5 lacs in 1966 over 1965 whereas the number of
spark plugs sold as a replacement to faulty spark plugs was 2.5 lacs in the same year. It is also
known that no old cars were taken off the roads in these four years.

Sales figures (in lacs)

4
3.3 3.6
2.5

2
1.5 1.2 1
1966 1967 1968 1969
Increase in no. of cars (on road) Sales of Spark plugs

Q27. If the number of cars on road in 1965 were 5.5 lacs, percent increase in number of cars in
1968 over number of cars in 1967 is
1. 13.33 2. 15 3. 12 4. 10

Q28. If the total number of cars on the road in the year 1967 was 11 lacs, what percentage of
cars on road in the year 1969 were not affected by a faulty spark plug?
1. 60% 2. 65% 3. 70% 4. Cannot be
determined

Q29. If the average cost of a car, whose selling price was Rs. 215 in 1966, increased by 10% per
annum for the next three years and the selling price of a spark plug, which cost Rs. 18 in 1966,
increased by 10% in 67 and 5% per annum for the next two years, then the revenue generated, in
lacs, by the sale of cars and spark plugs in the year 1969 must have been
1. 360 2. 373 3. 395 4. Cannot be determined

DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Sales of the iPhone 5 helped Apple sell 37.4 million phones in the smart phone segment in Quarter-
1, FY13-14, up 6.67 percent from sales in Quarter1 in FY 12-13. This increase in volume, however,
was not enough to stop its share of the market dropping to 19.3 percent from 23 percent.

A flood of cheaper Android-powered devices from Samsung lifted its sales to 70.7 million units in
the same quarter and segment, a sharp rise from the 28.8% market share that it enjoyed a year
ago. It is also known that Apple and Samsung occupied the top two positions in terms of sales of
smart phones in Q1 FY13-14.
Q30. What is the percentage change in the sales of Samsung in Quarter1 of FY13-14 compared to
the sales in Quarter1 of FY12-13?
1. 53% 2. 60% 3. 67% 4.71%

Q31. If there are only 3 other players in the smart phone segment and their sales grew by 92%,
36% and 70% in Q1 FY13-14 over Q1, FY12-13, then the maximum possible sale of either of these
brands (in millions) in Q1 FY12-13 is
1. 25 2. 27.5 3. 29.5 4. 33.1

Q32. If on a particular day 12,000 employees leave Exit 6 in the morning to reach office, what is
the approximate number of employees working in Gopaldas and the A. Estate?
1. 24,000 2. 27,000 3. 30,000 4. cannot be determined

DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions based on the information given below.

Barren Wuffet (BW), an investor, decides to invest his total yearly savings of Rs. 8,000 in the stocks
of four companies: Billfosys, IMC, Windeal, and Rittal steel belonging to the IT industry, FMCG,
Financial services and manufacturing industry respectively. It is known that the expected annual
returns from these four companies are 10%, 12.5%, 15% and 20% respectively.

Q33. If BW invests, in rupees, one thousand and three thousand in one company each, and two
thousand in two companies, then the minimum return, in rupees, at the end of the year over his
initial investment will be
1. 850 2. 1050 3. 1200 4. None of these

Q34. If BW invests equal amounts in the four companies, then what percentage return can he
expect?
1. 12.3% 2. 14.4% 3. 16% 4. 17.7%

Q35. If BW decides to invest the entire amount in exactly two companies and ends up earning a
total of Rs. 1500 over his investment, then how much must he have invested in Windeal given that
the amount invested in either is an integral multiple of Rs. 1000?
1. Rs. 2000 2. Rs. 3000 3. Did not invest in Windeal 4. Cannot be
determined