Data Interpretation Capsule Part I

Directions (1-5): Study the pie chart carefully to answer the questions that follow: Percentage breakup of
number of children in five different villages and breakup of children attending school from those villages

Total No. of children=2040

L
15%

P
30%

M
25%

O
20%

N
10%

Total No. of children attending school=1450

L
14%

P
22%

M
32%

O
20%
N
12%

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1. What is the respective ratio of total number of children from village O to the number of children attending
school from the same village?
(1) 204: 145
(2) 179: 131
(3) 167: 111
(4) 266: 137

(5) None of these

2. What is the number of children attending school from village N?

(1) 145
(2) 159
(3) 170
(4) 164

(5) None of these

3. What is the total number of children not attending school from villages M and N together?
(1) 69
(2) 56
(3) 76
(4) 63

(5) None of these

4. What is the total number of children from villages P and M together?

(1) 1422
(2) 1142
(3) 1122
(4) 1211

(5) None of these

5. The number of children attending school from village L. is approximately, what percentage of the number of
children from that village?
(1) 78%
(2) 72%
(3) 57%
(4) 57%

(5) 66%

Directions for questions (6-10): These questions are based on the information given below.
The following table gives the number of students who appeared and the number of the students who passed
from five colleges P, Q, R, S and T in five different year from 2005 06 to 2009 2010.

6. In the year 2007 08, for which college the percentage of students fail the highest?
(a) Q
(b) S
(c) T
(d) P

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7. For college R, in which of the given years, is the number of students who failed, the least?
(a) 2008 09
(b) 2007 08
(c) 2009 10
(d) 2006 07
8. The difference between the number of students passed from college Q in 2005 06 and 2009 10 in
(a) 212
(b) 502
(c) 302
(d) 168
9. The number of students who failed from college T in the year 2005- 06 is what percentage more than the
number of students who failed from college Q in the year 2008 09?
(a) 60%
(b) 70%
(c) 65%
(d) 80%
10. In which year is the total number of students who appeared from all the given colleges together, the
maximum?
(a) 2006 07
(b) 2005 06
(c) 2009 10
(d) 2007 08
Directions (11-14): Study the following line graph carefully and answer the questions given below. This graph
is between literacy rates vs. years.
80

75.26

70
60

56.38

50

45.96
40.4

40

64.13

64.84

52.21

53.97

43.57

Female

39.29
34.45

30

27.16

20

18.33

10

Persons

29.76

28.3
21.97

Males

15.35

8.86

0
1951

1961

1971

1981

1991

2001

11. In the year 1951, among the total population what was the ratio of males to females in the country X?
(1) 947: 881
(2) 943: 883
(3) 883: 947
(4) Data inadequate
(5) none of these
12. In which of the census years percentage increase given in male literacy rate was the highest with respect to
previous census year?
(1) 1981
(2) 1991
(3) 2001
(4) 1961
(5) None of these
13. In which of the given census years was the percentage increase in the literacy rate of females the lowest
with respect to that of previous census year?
(1) 1981
(2) 1991
(3) 2001
(4) Data inadequate
(5) none of these
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14. In which of the given census years were the percentage increase in the number of males the highest with
respect to the previous census year?
(1) 1981
(2) 1991
(3) 2001
(4) Data inadequate
(5) none of these

Directions for questions (15-19): The following bar graph depicts the percentage of families with respect to
their monthly income in three different divisions (say D1, D2 and D3) of a city C in 2012.

15. In D3, the number of families whose income is less than one lakh rupees and more than Rs. 50, 000 is ____.
(a) 3600
(b) 4200
(c) 5700
(d) 3300
16. The number of families having an income less than Rs. 50000 (in D1) is what percentage of the number of
families having income between, Rs. 75, 000 and rupees one lakh in D3?
(a) 42.85%
(b) 25%
(c) 15%
(d) 62.5%
17. What is the average number of families in the three divisions together having monthly income less than Rs.
50000?
(a) 1240
(b) 960
(c) 1040
(d) 1180
18. Find the ratio of the number of families having more than Rs. 75000 as monthly income in D1 to those in D3
(a) 1 :1
(b) 10 : 11
(c) 3 : 4
(d) 5 : 7

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19. The difference between the number of families having their monthly incomes between Rs. 75000 and rupees
one lakh in D1, D3 together and that in D2 is _____.
(a) 220 0
(b) 3200
(c) 800
(d) 1600
Directions (20-23) Given questions are based on the following radar chart displaying benchmarking
scores on various parameters related to business excellence being pursued by a plant X of company Y for
two years (2004 and 2005).

Customer Result

Leadership
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

People
X-2004
X-2005
company-Y

Process

Strategy

Partnership

20. On which of the two parameters there exists comparatively less gap between X- 2004 and company?
(a) People and leadership
(b) People and strategy
(c) Strategy and leadership
(d) People and customer results
21. Beyond 2005, to achieve the company Y benchmark X should focus on
(a) Customer results
(b) people
(c) Leadership
(d) partnership
22. The maximum improvement achieved by X in 2005 compared to 2004 was in
(a) Customer Results
(b) strategy
(c) Leadership
(d) partnership
23. The only partner in which X could reach the closest to the company Ys benchmark in 2004 was
(a) People
(b) strategy
(c) Customer Results

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