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Data Interpretation

Directions (1 – 5) : 3. From 1990 to 2000, there is a projected

Distribution of criminal activity by decrease in the number of criminals for

category of crime for country x in 1990 and which of the following categories?

projected for 2000. (I) Vice (II) Assault

Criminal population : 10 million (III) White collar

(a) None (b) I only (c) II only
Vice
White (d) II & III only (e) I, II & III
17%
collar
38% Murder 4. What is the approximate projected percent
Robbery 5% increase between 1990 and 2000 in the
20%
Assault
number of criminals involved in Vice?
20%
(a) 25% (b) 40% (c) 60% (d) 75%
1990 (e) 85%
Criminal population : 20 million 5. The projected number of Robbers in 2000
will exceed the number of White collar
Vice criminals in 1990 by
White 15%
Murder (a) 1.2 million (b) 2.3 million
collar
10%
30%
(c) 3.4 million (d) 5.8 million
Assault
Robbery 20% (e) 7.2 million
25%
Directions (6 – 10)
2000 (projected) Distribution of imports & exports for country x

1. What is the projected number of white in 1994

collar criminals in 2000? Imports Exports

200 million items 100 million items
(a) 1 million (b) 3.8 million
(c) 6 million (d) 8 million Textiles
Food Tech
20% Auto
(e) 10 million 5% 15%
10%
Textiles
2. The ratio of the number of robbers in 1990 Food
30% Auto 40% Tech
to the number of projected robbers in 2000 50% 30%
is

(a) (b) (c) 1 6. How many autos did country x exports in

1994?
(d) (e)
(a) 10 million (b) 15 million

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(c) 16 million (d) 20 million
Female, less
(e) 30 million than 25 yrs
Male, less old 32%
7. In how many categories did the total than 25 yrs
old 35% Female, 25 yrs
number of items (import & export) exceed old and over
75 million? Male, 25 yrs 14%
old and over
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 19%
1975
(e) None

8. The ratio of the number of technology

items imported in 1994 to the number of Male, less Female, less
than 25 yrs than 25 yrs
textile items exported in 1994 is old 28% old 31%

(a) (b) (c) 1 (d)

Male, 25 yrs
(e) old and over Female, 25 yrs
old and over
17% 1995
9. If in 1995 the number of autos exported 25%
was 16 million, then the percent increase 11. If there were 10,000,000 college students in
from 1994 in the number of autos exported 1975, how many more male students were
is there than female students?

(a) 40% (b) 47% (c) 50% (d) 60% (a) 1000000 (b) 800000

(e) 65% (c) 1200000 (d) 7500000

10. In 1994, if twice as many autos imported to 12. In 1975 what percent of female college
country x broke down as autos exported students were atleast 25 years old?
from country x and 20 percent of exported (a) 14% (b) 30% (c) 45% (d) 69%
autos broke down, what percent of (e) 76%
imported autos broke down?
13. If the total number of students enrolled in
(a) 1% (b) 1.5% (c) 2% (d) 4%
college was 40% higher in 1995 than in
(e) 5.5% 1975, what is the ratio of the number of
male students in 1995 to the number of
male students in 1975?
Directions (11 – 15) :
(a) 5 : 6 (b) 6 : 7 (c) 7 : 6 (d) 6 : 5
College Enrollment, by Age & Gender:
(e) 7 : 5

14. In 1995 what percent of male college

students were atleast 25 years old?

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(a) 40% (b) 60% (c) 38% (d) 42% 17. The amount by which the number of cars in
1990 exceeded the number of accidents in
15. If the total number of students enrolled in
1991 was approximately
college was 50% higher in 1995 than in
1975, what is the ratio of the number of (a) 0.3 million (b) 0.7 million

female students in 1995 to the number of (c) 1.0 million (d) 1.7 million
female students in 1975? (e) 2.5 million

(a) 23 : 42 (b) 42 : 23 18. The number of accidents in 1993 was

(c) 46 : 56 (d) 56 : 46 approximately what percentage of number
of cars in the same year?
Directions (16 – 20) :
(a) 1% (b) 1.5% (c) 3% (d) 5%
Automobile accidents in country x : 1990 to
1994 (in ten, thousands) (e) 10%

19. In which of the following years will the

1994 number of accidents exceed 500 thousand?

1993 (a) 1994 (b) 1995 (c) 1998 (d) 2000

(e) It cannot be determined
1992

1991 20. If no car in 1993 was involved in more than

4 accidents, what is the minimum number
1990
of cars that would have been in accidents in
10 20 30 40 50
1993?
Cars in country x (a) 50 thousand (b) 60 thousand
(in millions) (c) 70 thousand (d) 80 thousand
(e) 90 thousand
1994
Directions (21 – 25) :
1993
The following diagram shows the
1992
percentage of population of Hindus, Sikhs and
1991
Muslims with respect to total population in a
1990 town during 2005 to 2008. Study the diagram
5 10 15 20 and answer the questions.
16. Approximately how many millions of cars
were in country x in 1994?

(a) 1.0 (b) 4.7 (c) 9.0 (d) 15.5

(e) 17.5

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→ Hindus Directions (26 – 30) :

→ Sikh Sales and earnings of consolidated
→ Muslim conglomerate

Sales (in millions of dollars)

70
65
60
55 110
50 100 0
45
90
40
80
35
30 70
25 60
20 50
15 40
10 30
5 20
H SM H SM H SM H SM 10
2005 2006 2007 2008 85 86 87 88 89 90
21. If the total population in 2007 was 80 lakh, Earnings (in millions of dollars)
then the number of Hindus in 2007 was

(a) 25 lakh (b) 16 lakh 14

12
(c) 18 lakh (d) 20 lakh
10
8
22. Percentage decrease in Hindu population
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from 2005 to 2008 is 4
2
(a) 50 (b) 40 (c) 25 (d) 15
85 86 87 88 89 90
23. Difference of percentage of population of
26. During what 2 years period did the
Hindus in 2005 and 2008 is
company’s earnings increase the greatest?
(a) 20 (b) 15 (c) 25 (d) 30
(a) 85 – 87 (b) 86 – 87
24. If the total number of Hindus in 2008 was (c) 86 – 88 (d) 87 – 89
12 lakh the number of Muslims in 2008
(e) 88 – 90
was
27. During the years 1986 through 1988, what
(a) 18 (b) 12 (c) 24 (d) 16
were the average earnings per year?
25. If the total population in 2008 was 1 crore, (a) 6 million (b) 7.5 million
then the number of Sikh in 2008 was
(c) 9 million (d) 10 million
(a) 65 (b) 85 (c) 55 (d) 45 (e) 27 million

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No. of students
5
28. In which year did sales increase by the
100 100
greatest percentage over the previous year? 94 92 98

(a) 86 (b) 87 (c) 88 (d) 89 82 90

84
72
(e) 90 94
72 86
29. If consolidated conglomerate’s earnings are
less than or equal to 10 percent of sales IMP IMP IMP
IMP IMP IMP
during a year, then the stock holders must 1st yr 2nd yr 3rd yr 4th yr 5th yr 6th yr
take a dividend cut at the end of the year. In
how many years did the stockholders of – 2008 – 2009

consolidated conglomerate suffer a [It is known that 76 students passed out of

dividend cut? final (6th year) class of IMP in the year
(a) none (b) one 2008]

(c) two (d) three 31. How many of the fresh students joined the
(e) four program (IMP) in the year 2009?

30. In which year did earnings increase by the (a) 94 (b) 92 (c) 90 (d) 88
greatest percentage over the previous year?
32. In how many classes did exactly four
(a) 87 (b) 86 (c) 88 (d) 89 students fail in the year 2008?
(e) 90 (a) 5 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 2
Directions (31 – 35) : 33. How many students in total failed in the
The line graph gives the number of students entire program of six years together in year
in a Engg. College’s M.Tech program integrated 2008?
(IMP) for the years 2008 & 2009. The program (a) 38 (b) 36 (c) 32 (d) 34
intakes the student in only 1 st year & students
34. In which year, pass percentage was the
can leave college only if they complete 6 years
highest in year 2008?
program. Every year the students who pass the
annual exam of a particular year are promoted to (a) Vth year (b) VIth year
the next class while students who fail, have to (c) IVth year (d) IIIrd year
study in the same class next year also. 35. How many total student failed together in
entire program in 2009?

(a) 32 (b) 34 (c) 38

(d) Can’t be determined

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Directions for the questions 36 – 40 : Study (a) Rs.124000 (b) Rs.140000
the following graph carefully and answer (c) Rs.150000
the questions given below it. % profit (d) cannot be determined
earned by a company over the years.
Percent of profit

40. If the profit earned by the company in the

year 2008 was Rs.90,000, what was the
income of the company in that year?
80
(a) Rs.2,90,000 (b) Rs.2,00,000

Production of food grains by a state

60
(c) Rs.2,50,000
40

over the years (1000) tons

(d) cannot be determined
20
Directions (41 – 45) :

0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Study the following graph carefully and
answer the questions given below:
Years
100
36. What is the average % profit earned by the
90
company over the years? 80
70
(a) 55 (b) 52 (c) 62 (d) 59
60
50
37. If the expenditure of the company in the
40
year 2006 was Rs.75000. What was the 30
ratio of income to the expenditure of the 20
10
company in that year?
1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
(a) 3 :2 (b) 5 : 4 (c) 4 : 3
Years
(d) cannot be determined 41. The average production of 1990 and 1991

38. The % profit earned by the company in the was exactly equal to the average production

year 2009 was what percent of the percent of which of the following pairs of years?

profit earned by the company in the year (a) 1991 & 1992 (b) 1992 & 1994
2005? (c) 1993 & 1994 (d) 1994 & 1995
(a) 200 (b) 240 (c) 160 (d) 255 (e) None of these

39. If the income of the company in the year 42. In which of the following years was the
2005 and the year 2007 was Rs.680000 percentage increase in production from the
each, then what was the difference in previous year the maximum among the
expenditure of the company in the year given years?
2005 and 2007? (a) 1991 (b) 1993 (c) 1995 (d) 1990

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(e) None of these 48. What is the number of students studied
only Mathematics?
43. What was the difference in the production
of food grains between 1991 & 1994? (a) 30 (b) 19 (c) 2 (d) 9

(a) 10000 tons (b) 15000 tons 49. What is the number of students studied
(c) 500 tons (d) 5000 tons only Statistics?
(e) None of these (a) 2 (b) 5 (c) 9 (d) 11

44. In how many of the given years was the 50. How many students studied none of these
production of food grains more than subjects?
average production of the given years?
(a) 100 (b) 72 (c) 28 (d) 32
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 1
Directions (51 – 55) :
(e) None of these
A survey among 100 students shows that of
45. What was the percentage drop in the
the 3 ice cream flavours Vanilla, Chocolate and
production of food grains from 1991 to
Strawberry. 50 students like Vanilla, 43 like
1992?
Chocolate, 28 like Strawberry, 13 like Vanilla
(a) 15 (b) 20 (c) 25 (d) 30 and Chocolate, 11 like Chocolate & Strawberry,
(e) None of these 12 like Strawberry & Vanilla and 5 like all of

Directions (46 – 50) : them. Find the number of students surveyed who
like each of the following flavours.
In a survey of 100 students, it was found
that 30 studied Mathematics, 54 studied 51. Chocolate but not Strawberry.
Statistics, 25 studied Operation Research, 1 (a) 24 (b) 8 (c) 32
studied all the three subjects. 20 studied (d) None of these
Mathematics & Statistics, 3 studied Mathematics
52. Chocolate and Strawberry, but not Vanilla.
& Operation Research and 15 studied Statistics
& Operation Research. (a) 6 (b) 12 (c) 30 (d) 9

46. What is the number of students studied 53. Vanilla or Chocolate, but not Strawberry.
only Mathematics and Statistics? (a) 62 (b) 54 (c) 32 (d) 38
(a) 20 (b) 19 (c) 18 (d) 15
54. Only Strawberry
47. What is the number of students studied (a) 20 (b) 28 (c) 17 (d) 10
only Mathematics & Operation Research?
55. Only Vanilla
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 5
(a) 50 (b) 42 (c) 30 (d) 35

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In 1990, the number of white collar
criminals was 3.8 million (38% of 10 million).
SOLUTIONS
From the projected crime graph, we see that the
1. Ans : c criminal population in 2000 will be 20 million

From the projected crime graph, we see that and these 5 million will be robbers (25% of 20

criminal population will be 20 million and million). Hence, the projected number of robbers

of these 30 percent are projected to be in 2000 will exceed the number of white collar

involved in white collar crime. Hence the criminals in 1990 by 5 – 3.8 = 1.2 million.

number of white collar criminals is 6. Ans : a

30% of 20 million 6 million. The graph shows that 100 million items

2. Ans : a were exported in 1994 and 10% were autos.

Hence 10 million autos were exported.
Ratio = = . 7. Ans : b

The following chart summarizes the items

3. Ans : a
imported & exported :
The following table lists the number of
Imports Exports Total
criminals by category for 1990 and 2000
and the projected increase or decrease. Auto 100 10 110

Category No in No in Projected Projected Textiles 60 20 80

1990 2000 increase decrease
Food 10 40 50
(millions) (millions) (millions) (millions)
Tech 30 30 60
Vice 1.7 3 1.3 None

Assault 2 4 2 None The chart shows that only autos and textiles
exceeded 75 million of total items.
White- 3.8 6 2.2 None
Collar 8. Ans : e
As the table displays, there is no projected Forming the ratio of the above numbers
decrease in all three categories. yields

4. Ans : d =

Projected percent increase =

=

= 9. Ans : d

= 75%. ×100
5. Ans : a
= × 100

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= 60%. number of male students in 1975 is 63 : 54

10. Ans : d = 7 : 6.

Country x imported 1000 millions autos} 14. Ans : c

= (50% × 200) In 1995, of every 100 college students 45

were male, in which 28% is less than 25
Forming the percentage yields
years & 17% is 25 years old & over. So, 17
of every male students were atleast 25
= 0.04
years old.
= 4%.
Required % = × 100
11. Ans : b
≈ 38%.
From the graph, we see that in 1975, 54%
15. Ans : a
(35% + 19%) of all college students were
male and the other 46% were female. So From the two graphs, we see that in 1975,

there were 5400000 males & 4600000 46% of college students are female.

females a difference of 800000. Whereas in 1995, the corresponding figure

was 56%(31 + 25).
12. Ans : b
For simplicity, assume that there were 100
In 1975, of every 100 college students, 46
college students in 1975, 46 of whom were
were female. 32 of whom were less than 25
female. Then in 1995, there were 150
years old and 14 of whom were 25 years
students, 84 of whom were female.
old and over. So, 14 of every 46 female
students were atleast 25 years old. Finally, So, the ratio of number of female students
in 1995 to no. of students in 1975 is
× 100 30%.
46 : 84.
13. Ans : c = 23 : 42.

From the 2 graphs, we see that in 1975, 16. Ans : e

54% (35% + 19%) of all college students The bar for 1994 ends half way between 15
were male, whereas in 1995 the and 20. Thus, there were about 17.5 million
corresponding figure was 45%(28% + cars in 1994.
17%). For simplicity, assume that there
17. Ans : d
were 100 college students in 1975, 54 of
From the bottom chart, there were 2 million
whom were male. Then in 1995, there were
cars in 1990, and from the top chart there
140 college students, 63 of whom were
were 340 thousand accidents in 1991.
male (45% of 140 = 63). So, the ratio of the
number of male students in 1995 to the Forming the difference yields

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2000000 – 340000 23. Ans : b
1660000 Required difference = 15.
≈ 1.7 million.

18. Ans : c 24. Ans : d

From the charts, the no. of accidents in No. of muslims = 16 lakhs.
1993 was 360000 and no. of cars was 25. Ans : a
11000000. Forming the percentage yields.
No. of Sikh = 100 ×

= 65 lakhs.
≈ 3%. 26. Ans : c
19. Ans : e Reading from the graph, the company’s

From the graphs, there is no way to predict earnings increased from $5 million in 1986

what will happen in future. The number of to $10 million in 1987, and then to $12

accidents could continually decrease after million in 1988. The two year increase

1994. from ‘86 to 88’ was $7 million clearly the

largest on the graph.
20. Ans : e
27. Ans : c
The no. of cars involved in accidents will
The graph yields the following information
be minimized when each car has exactly 4
Year Earnings
accidents. Now from the top chart, there
were 360000 accidents in 1993. Dividing 1986 $5 million

360000 by 4 yields, 1987 $10 million

1988 $12 million

Average yields =
= 90000.
= 9.
21. Ans : d 28. Ans : c

Year Percentage Increase

Number of Hindus = 80 ×

86 = –12.5%
= 20 lakhs.

22. Ans : a
87 = –29%

Percentage decrease = × 100

= 50.

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stay back in 6th year in 2009 also. It means
88 = 60%
in 2009, out of 98 students, 14 students are
those who failed in 2008, in 6 th year, and
89 = 12.5%
rest 98 – 14 = 84 students are those who
passed in 5th year in 2008 & being
90 = 11%
promoted to 6th year in 2009.

29. Ans : d On the basis of same reasoning we can

draw the following chart
Year 10% sales Earnings
No. of Stud. No. of Stud. No. of No. of No. of
85 8 8
in class passed Stud Stud. Stud
86 7 5 (2008) failed in class promoted
(2009) (2009)
87 5 10
1st year 84 78 6 94 99–6 = 88
88 8 12
2nd year 72 68 4 82 82–4 = 78
89 9 11
3rd year 100 96 4 72 72–4 = 68
90 10 8
4th year 94 90 4 100 100–4=96
85, 86 & 90 have earnings were 10% or
5th year 86 84 2 92 92–2 = 90
less of sales.
6th year 90 76 14 98 98–14=84
30. Ans : a
31. Ans : d
Year Percentage Increase
88 fresh students came to 1st year in 2009.
86 × 100 = –37.5%
32. Ans : b

In each of classes 2nd, 3rd, 4th year of 2008,

87 × 100 = 100%
four students failed.

33. Ans : d
88 × 100 = 20%
Total no. of students failed in 2008 = 6 + 4
89 × 100 = –8.3% + 4 + 4 + 2 + 14 = 34.

34. Ans : d
90 × 100 = –27.2%
From the table directly pass percentage is
Solution (31 – 35) : highest in 3rd year in 2008.

If 76 students passed out of 6 th year in 35. Ans : d

2008. Out of 90 students, it means 14 Can’t be determined, because no data about
student who are failed in 2008, they will total number of students passed in 2009.

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36. Ans : b = 10000 tonnes.

= 52.

44. Ans : c
37. Ans : a Average production
Required ratio
=
50 =
=
= 3 : 4.
= 55.
38. Ans : c
There are 4 years where the production
Required % =
of food grains is more than the average
production of the given years.
= 160.
45. Ans : c
39. Ans : d

Cannot be determined. Required percentage drop = × 100

40. Ans : b
= 25%.
Income of the 2008,
Directions from (46 – 50) :
90,000 = 45% of income
|A| = 30; |B| = 54, |C| = 25,

Income = |A B| = 20, |A C| = 3, |B C| = 15 &

|A B C| = 1
= 200000.
46. Ans : b
41. Ans : e
No. of students studied only Maths &
42. Ans : d
Statistics = n(A B) – n(A B C)
Percentage increase in production in 1990 = 20 – 1
is height given by
= 19.
47. Ans : a
= × 100
No. of students studied only Maths &
= 60%. Operation Research
43. Ans : a = n(A C) – n(A B C)
Required difference = 60 – 50 =3–1

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= 2. |(B C) – A| = 6
48. Ans : d Therefore, 6 students like both Chocolate &
No. of students studied only Maths = 30 – 19 – 2 Strawberry, but not Vanilla.

= 9.

49. Ans : a 53. Ans : a

No. of students studied only Statistics |(A B) – C| = 30 + 8 + 24

= 25 – 19 – 14 = 62

= 2. Therefore, 62 students like Vanilla or

50. Ans : c Chocolate, but not Strawberry.

No. of students who studied none of these 3 54. Ans : d

subjects = 100 – 72 Only Strawberry = 28 – 7 – 6 – 5

= 28. = 10.

[(A B C) = |A| + |B| + |C| – |A B| – |A C| 55. Ans : c

– |B C| + |A B C| Only Vanilla = 50 – 8 – 7 – 5
= 30 + 54 + 25 – 20 – 3 – 15 + 1 = 30.
= 72].

Directions (51 – 55) :

V B C
A

30 8 24

5
7 6

10

C S 10

51. Ans : c

|B – C| = 24 + 8

= 32

So, 32 students like Chocolate but no

Strawberry.

52. Ans : a

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25. a 53. a

26. c 54. d

27. c 55. c

28. c

ANSWER KEY
1. c 29. d

2. a 30. a

3. a 31. d

4. d 32. b

5. a 33. d

6. a 34. d

7. b 35. d

8. e 36. b

9. d 37. a

10. d 38. c

11. b 39. d

12. b 40. b

13. c 41. e

14. c 42. a

15. a 43. d

16. e 44. c

17. d 45. c

18. c 46. b

19. e 47. a

20. e 48. d

21. d 49. a

22. a 50. c

23. b 51. c

24. d 52. a

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