Data Interpretation-3

SNAPSHOT
 Bar Graphs
 Line Graphs
 EXAMPLES

DIRECTIONS FOR EXAMPLES 1-4: Answer the questions based on the bar graph given below.

Expenditures of four companies in different

quarters of the year 2017
600 558
527
498 490 500
500 478 470 456
430 426
400
400 360
$ in Millions

333
310 302
300

200
102
100

0
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

A B C D

1. Which of the following Companies has the highest expenditure in the year 2017?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D

2. During the second quarter, the profits of A, B, C and D are in the ratio 8: 7: 6: 5 respectively.
For which of the given companies, is profit as a percentage of expenditure, the highest?
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D

3. For how many quarters is the expenditure of company A, more than 25% of the total expenditure
of the four companies for that particular quarter?
1) 1
2) 2
3) 3
4) 4

4. What is the approximate % decrease in total expenditure of all the companies from the second
quarter to the third quarter?
1) 14%
2) 7.5%
3) 9%
4) 11%
 DIRECTIONS FOR EXAMPLES 5-8: Answer the questions using the information provided in the
following graph.

Exports and Imports of different countries

(in Crores)

Exports Imports
60
57
50 55
49
40
42 43
39 40
38
30 33 33 34

20 24

10

0
A B C D E F

Surplus = Export - Import

Deficit = Import- Export

5. If surplus/deficit is computed for all the given countries combined, then it is what percent of the
total exports.
1) 7.2%
2) 1.7%
3) 2.9%
4) 5%

6. Which of the following statements is Incorrect?

1) All the given countries combined have trade deficit.
2) Trade deficit of country E is 150% more than the trade surplus of country F
3) Difference between Cumulative exports and Cumulative imports is not more than 10 crores
4) Value of export by country D is more than the average value of exports.

7. Average cost of import is 80 and average cost of export is 60. Then what percent is the total
tonnage of imports is more/less than the total tonnage of exports.
1) 23% more
2) 36% more
3) 23% less
4) 36% less

8. If there is another country G that has equal import and export value. And now combined
surplus/deficit is calculated, then it is what percent of total imports
1) 7%
2) 1.8%
3) 3.6%
4) Cannot be calculated
 DIRECTIONS FOR EXAMPLES 9-12: Answer the questions using the information provided in the
following graph.
PR O F I T % EA R N ED O N EXPEN D I T U R E I N D I F F ER EN T M O N T H S
O N D I F F ER EN T PR O D U CT S ( v a l u e s i n mu l t i p l e s o f 5 )
Soap Cleaner Tissues

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
JAN FEB MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT

𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡 = 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑒 − 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒

𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡
𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡 % = ( ) ∗ 100
𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒

9. If Revenue from each product is same for every month and total revenue is also constant, then
what is the ratio of expenditure on soap to expenditure on tissue in the month of May?
1) 8/9
2) 29/28
3) 14/13
4) 12/11

10. If Expenditure is same in every month and equal on all three products, then what is the
approximate ratio of Revenue from Cleaner to that of soap in the all the months combined
1) 3:4
2) 11:16
3) 23:25
4) 11:13

11. Using the given information given in the graph, calculate the % drop in profit from tissues from
Aug to Sept.
1) 33.33%
2) 25%
3) 7.28%
4) Can’t be determined

12. If Revenue from soap is same in February and May then find the ratio of its profit in Feb to that
of May
1) 21/26
2) 3/4
3) 14/13
4) 4/5
 DIRECTIONS FOR EXAMPLES 13-16: Graphs below provide the sales figures for different type of
biscuits from 2014 to 2018. Answer the questions using the information provided in the graph.

SALES OF BISCUITS IN CRORES

Goodday Unibic Parle Sunfeast Patanjali

2500
2250

2000 1800 1875

1425
1500 1350
1125 1125
1050 1125
1000 1050 825
900 825 825
675 825
525 525
500 375 600 525
300
300
150 225
0
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

13. Which of the biscuits achieved the maximum percentage change in the sales from 2014 to 2018?
1) Goodday
2) Unibic
3) Parle
4) Can’t be determined

14. Combined total sales of unibic and sunfeast is what percent less than the combine total sales of
Parle and Goodday for the period 2016 to 2018?
1) 52%
2) 48%
3) 108%
4) 50%

15. If sales of goodday is 15% of total sales of all the biscuits in 2017, then what is the percentage
share of Patanjali in 2017?
1) 4.16%
2) 4.8%
3) 3.8%
4) 3.5%

16. Which of the following statement is correct?

1) Percentage change in the sale of unibic from 2016 to 2017 is more than the percentage increase
in the sales of Goodday in same period.
2) Goodday witnessed the highest % growth in sales from 2017 to 2018
3) Parle witness the lowest % growth in sales from 2017 to 2018
4) All of the above.
 Assignment

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 1-5: Answer the questions using the information provided in the
following graph.
Va lu e o f to ta l p ro f it m a d e o n c o r p o ra te p a c ka ges b y 2
sh o p keep ers f ro m week 1 to week 7
Ajay Rajeev

16
14 14
12 12 12 12
11 11 11
Thousand of ₹

10 10 10
9 9
8 8 8
7
6
4
2
0
WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7

𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡 = 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑒 − 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒

𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡
𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡 % = ( ) ∗ 100
𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒

1. If in week 4 Ajay made 20% profit and in week 3 Rajeev made 40% profit by selling 16 and 7
corporate packages respectively. Then cost to Rajeev for each corporate package is what % of
cost to Ajay for each corporate package in mentioned weeks.
1) 87.5%
2) 133%
3) 200%
4) 233%

2. In how many weeks Revenue generated by Ajay is more than the revenue generated by Rajeev.
1) 5
2) 2
3) 4
4) Can’t be determined

3. If in week 4 ratio of Revenue generated by Rajeev and Ajay is in the ratio of 3:2 then what is
ratio of the expenditure made by Rajeev and Ajay
1) 2:3
2) 3:2
3) 103:102
4) Can’t be determined

4. How much is the profit made by Rajeev is more than the profit made by Ajay from week 3 to 5?
1) 20.7 %
2) 19.8 %
3) 22.3 %
4) 19.4 %
5. If total Revenue generated by Ajay in week 1 and 2 combines is 201 and by Rajeev is 145, then
how Ajay’s Expenditure is what % more than Rajeev’s expenditure
1) 30%
 2) 42%
3) 47%
4) 40%

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 6-10: following graphs show variation in values of different
currencies against USD.

USD/EUR
0.85
0.82
0.8 0.8

0.75 0.76
0.74
0.72
0.7
0.69
0.65

0.6
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

USD/JPY
130

125 125 124

120
117 116
115
114
110 110

105

100
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

6. How many JPY would 1000 INR amount to in 2002?

1) 2600
2) 385
3) 1300
4) 2580

7. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

1) INR gained against USD in 2 years. (gain means appreciation of the currency against other
currency
2) JPY gained against USD in at least 3 years.
3) In the years when EUR gained against USD, INR depreciated against USD.
4) In the years when INR depreciated against USD, EUR gained against USD.

8. A trader traded in USD/EUR and USD/INR from 2004 to 2005. He purchased bond worth 100
USD of each USD/EUR and USD/INR in 2004 and sold in 2005. Find his profit/loss. (if USD
appreciates by x% then invested money also increases by x%)
1) USD loss
2) 1.8 USD profit
3) 1.25 USD profit
 4) Cannot be calculated

9. A laptop costs 400 USD. James has 275 EUR, 18500 INR and 47000 JPY. If James buys laptop
in 2002, then which of the following currency did James use to buy the laptop without any
shortfall.
1) 275 EUR
2) 18500 INR
3) 47000 JPY
4) Either (B) or (C)

10. What is the total percentage change in USD/JPY from 2001 to 2006?
1) 9.1% decrease
2) 9.6% decrease
3) 8.2 % decrease
4) 8.8 % decrease

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 11-14: McD has recently opened his first store in Rajgarh. following
graphs show the data for the supply of burgers from the outlet of McD.

Supply from outlet as supply of Burgers in nos

percentage of total demand 10000
8400 8100
80 8000 7700
75 6900
70
65 6000
percentage (%)

60 6200
55 4700
4000
45
40 40 2000
20 0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
0
Jan Feb March April May June supply in nos

DINE IN AND TAKE AWAY AS PERCENT OF

TOTAL BURGERS ORDERED
Dine in Take away

90 85
80
80 75 72 70
70 65
PERCENTAGE (%)

60
50
40 35
28 30
30 25 20
20 15
10
0
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE

11. If maximum burgers are sold in March from Jan to Aug (including July and Aug) and more than
30% of burgers in July and Aug were take-away orders, then when is the maximum numbers of
burgers sold in dine in?
1) March
 2) May
3) June
4) Can’t be determined

12. What was the total demand of burgers in February?

1) 15333
2) 14800
3) 3105
4) 3195

13. In which month the demand of burgers was lowest?

1) Jan
2) Feb
3) April
4) May

14. In how many months number of burgers consumed in dine in was at least 2.5 times the numbers
of burgers consumed in take away?
1) 2
2) 3
3) 4
4) 5

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 15-17: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
The National Oil Company of Liberia allocates a certain percentage of its operational budget
every year to its Social fund. The social fund has three heads: A, research funds for the
University of Liberia; B, Development funds; and C, Vocational training and SHG support. The
cumulative bar graph shown below shows the percentage break-up of social funds to the three
heads.
100%
90%
80%
70%
60% C
50%
B
40%
30% A
20%
10%
0%
2010 2011 2012

15. By what percentage did C’s overall budget decrease/increase from 2010 to 2011?
1) 20
2) 33.33
3) 50
4) Cannot be determined

16. Had 10% of the money originally allocated to C in 2010 been allocated instead to A, then by
what percentage would B’s share have been less than that of C’s?
1) 44.44
2) 50
3) 60
4) None of these
17. If C’s budget in 2010, 2011, and 2012 was $1.5 mn, $1.2mn, and $2mn, then the sum of budgets
of B in the three years must have been (in million dollars)
1) 2.8
2) 3.1
3) 3.7
4) None of these

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 18-21: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
The bar chart shown below gives the Total production, the export and the per capita consumption
of the aromatic spice Saffron in the state of Floboom. All the spice produced in the state is either
exported or consumed in the same year.

5.2
2012 3.9
3.33
5
2011 4
3
4.8
2010 3.9
3
4.2
2009 3.6
3.2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Total production (in 10,000 kg's) Export (in 10,000 kg's)

Per Capita Consumption (gm's)

18. What is the simple average annual growth rate of the total sale of saffron in Floboom?
1) 16%
2) 29%
3) 48%
4) None of the above

19. If the price of saffron, on average, was Rs. 2.5 lakhs/kg in the year 2011 and Rs. 2.7 lakhs/kg
in the year 2012, then the total revenue generated by exports in two years must have been (in
100 crores)
1) 18.5
2) 20.53
3) 22.3
4) 27
20. In which year was the ratio of internal consumption of saffron to its exports the highest?
1) 2009
2) 2010
3) 2011
4) 2012

21. If only a small fraction of the total population actually uses saffron and the average use by users
was 120 gm’s in 2011 and 140 gm’s in 2012, then the percentage change in the number of users
in 2012 compared to 2011 must be close to
1) 9.5%
2) 11.5%
3) 13%
4) 15%

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 22-24: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
Total sales of four book-series, Sherlock Holmes (SH), Harry Potter (HP), Sweet Valley (SW),
and Famous Five (FF), from the year 2000-2010, has been shown in the two graphs; one shows
the total sales of each book series and other shows the break-up of the sales of these four books
combined in different regions of the world.

Sales of the 4 series Total Sales (in mn)

(in mn) in different from 2000-2010
regions of the World
56
46
36 32 36
20 24 18

Americas Asia Europe ROW SH HP SW FF

22. If it is known that number of million books sold of the SH series in the Americas and Asia are
squares of consecutive natural numbers, and that SH sold 13 million copies in ROW (rest of the
world), then SH sold in Europe may be
1) 16
2) 10
3) 1
4) 0

23. If the number of Famous Five books sold in Asia is greater than the total number of SW sold in
the whole world, and FF sold in the other three regions are consecutive multiples of 3, then what
is the maximum number of FF books that could have been sold in ROW?
1) 9
2) 12
3) 15
4) 18
24. If worldwide, SH series sold 30, HP sold 0, SW sold 15 and FF sold 50 mn copies in the previous
decade (90-00), which series showed the least percentage increase in sales?
1) SH
2) HP
3) SW
4) FF

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 25-27: Answer the questions based on the following information.
The two graphs given below exhibit the change in the trend of the working age population in
India from the year 1990 onwards. Working age population is defined as the number of people
in the age group of 20 to 65 able and likely to work whereas non-working age population is the
population not likely to work in the same age group. The second graph gives information about
the percentage of population above 50 and 65 years from the total population.

RWNP = Working age population/ Non working age population

Growth of working age to non-working age population,

1990-2050
2.5

2
RWNP

1.5

0.5

0
1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050
Age group of Population (in%)

Share of Older Indians

35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050
%50 + 12.5 13 16 19 23 28 32
%65 + 4 4.5 5 6.5 8.5 11 14
25. If the working age population in the year 2040 will be 0.8 billion and the population below 20
years was 0.15 billion more than the population over 65 years of age, the total population, in
billion, in 2040 is closest to
1) 1.6
2) 1.7
3) 1.8
4) Cannot be determined

26. If it is known that the Indian population in the year 2020 will touch 1.30 billion out of which
around 0.4 billion will be aged less than 20 years, how many people from the age group of 50-
65 years (in billion) are expected to be working in the same year?
1) 0.108
2) 0.54
3) 0.72
4) Cannot be determined

27. If the RWNP figures correspond to all age groups as well, then the working population in the age
group of 50-65 years grew by what percentage from 2020 to 2040? (Assume data from the
previous two questions)
1) 35%
2) 40%
3) 45%
4) None of these

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTIONS 28-30: Answer the questions based on the information given below.
The two graphs below show the overall garment sales of Madhur Lifestyle, a company, and the
sales of the 4 brands of shirts under Madhur Lifestyle. It is known that there is no other brand
of Madhur that sells shirts. The figures for sales in 2013 are projected figures.39963

Overall garment sales

(in mn)
13.2 13.5 15
12

2010 2011 2012 2013*

 6
4.8 5
5 4.5
4.2
4

3
1.8 2
1.7
2 1.4 1.6 1.4 1.3 1.4
1.2 1.1 1.3 1.3
1

0
2010 2011 2012 2013*

Louis P. Peter E. V. Hue A. Solly

28. Madhur Lifestyle, what is the overall percentage increase, from 2010 to 2012, in the sales of
shirts?
1) 5%
2) 7%
3) 9%
4) 10%

29. Which brand and year combination recorded (or may record) the highest percentage growth in
shirt sales over the previous year (including projected figures for 2013)?
1) Peter E, 2011
2) V. Hue, 2013
3) Louis P, 2011
4) None of these

30. For which year was the ratio of the garments, other than shirts, sale to the overall shirt sales
the highest?
1) 2010
2) 2011
3) 2012
4) 2013
 ANSWER KEY

Examples
1. 1 9. 2
2. 2 10. 3
3. 3 11. 4
4. 2 12. 3
5. 3 13. 2
6. 2 14. 1
7. 3 15. 1
8. 4 16. 4

Assignments

1. 3 9. 4 17. 3 25. 2

2. 4 10. 4 18. 4 26. 4

3. 2 11. 3 19. 2 27. 4

4. 1 12. 1 20. 4 28. 4

5. 2 13. 3 21. 2 29. 2

6. 1 14. 3 22. 2 30. 2

7. 4 15. 4 23. 3

8. 3 16. 1 24. 4