Exercise 3—Bar Graphs

Directions for questions 1 to 5: These questions are based on the following graph.
Public Sector Outlay (in percentage)
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45
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40
35
35 33
30 30 30
30
25 25 25 25
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20 20 20
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Fourth Plan Fifth Plan Sixth Plan Seventh Plan
Agriculture Energy Industry Others

1. Public sector outlay was `40,000 crores in the fifth plan and around `1 lakh crores in
the sixth plan. What is the percentage increase in the amount spent towards Energy
sector from the fifth plan to the sixth plan?
(1) 40% (2) 380% (3) 275% (4) 26%
2. In the seventh plan, the amount spent towards Industry was `26,400 crores. What was
the amount spent towards Transport and Communication, if it was 40% of “Others”?
(in `thousand crores)
(1) 29,000 (2) 22,000 (3) 88,000 (4) 43,000
3. During the fifth plan, 65% of the amount spent in the Agriculture sector was through
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private investment. If the private investment was 5,200 crores. What was the total
outlay of the fifth plan?
(1) `8,000 crores (2) `24,000 crores (3) `40,000 crores (4) `32,000 crores
4. During the fourth plan and the seventh plan, the total public sector outlay was `16,000
crores and `2.2 lac crores respectively. The percentage increase in deployment of
funds was the maximum for which of the following sectors from the fourth plan to
the seventh plan?
(1) Agriculture (2) Energy (3) Industry
(4) Both Agriculture and Industry
5. Out of the four sectors given, how many sectors showed a consistent trend (increase
or decrease) in the allocation between the fourth plan and the seventh plan?
(1) Zero (2) One (3) Two (4) Three
Directions for questions 6 to 10: The following bar graph gives the sales (by value) of products
of a company—A, B, C and D—as a percentage of its total sales (by value) over the period
2000-2004. The total sales (by value) of the company in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 were
`10 crore, `12 crore, `18 crore, `15 crore and `16 crore respectively.
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

A B C D

6. The sales (by value) of product A in 2002 is what per cent more than that of product
B in 2004?
(1) 68.75% (2) 62.25% (3) 50% (4) 72.5%
7. If the ratio of the volume of the sales of products A, B, C and D in 2003 is 3 : 2 : 4 : 5,
then the selling price (per unit) in 2003 is the highest for
(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D
8. The total sales (by value) from 2000 to 2004 is the highest for
(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D
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9. What is the highest percentage increase in sales (by value) of any product in an year
when compared to the previous year?
(1) 150% (2) 200% (3) 100% (4) 125%
10. In the given period, for how many products there is no decrease in sales in any year,
when compared to the previous year?
(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3
Directions for questions 11 to 15: These questions are based on the following bar chart.

Male students, female students and faculty as a percentage of their

respective total strength in a University.

6 Male Students = 1500

Physics 3 Female Students = 1200
8 Faculty = 250
4
Chemistry 9
7
12
Maths 5
12
8
Botany 12
6
8
Zoology 8
5
24
Management 18
25
8
Languages 11
6
8
Humanities 9
9
22
Others 24
22
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Male Students Female Students Faculty

11. If 25% of the faculty members teaching Management are absent for a particular
academic year, then approximately how many faculty will be available for every
batch of 40 students of Management in that year?
(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6
12. Which of the following is the maximum?
(1) Number of female students in the Botany department.
(2) Number of male students in Humanities.
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(3) Number of faculty teaching Management.

(4) Number of male students in the Chemistry department.
13. Zoology students pay an annual fees of `25,000 each. The average salary of each
Zoology faculty member is `10,000 per month. What percentage of the fees collected
are paid towards salary for faculty?
(1) 56% (2) 51% (3) 71% (4) 4.7%
14. What is the ratio of the number of students taking Maths, Physics and Chemistry
to that of students taking Botany, Zoology and Languages, after rounding off the
respective totals to nearest 100?
(1) 1 : 1 (2) 7 : 6 (3) 4 : 3 (4) 7 : 8
15. By what percentage does the number of students in the department with the highest
number of male students exceed that in the department with the lowest number of
female students?
(1) 214.8 (2) 281.6 (3) 350.7 (4) None of these
Directions for questions 16 to 20: The following bar graph shows the details of the number
of two-wheelers sold in the local market and the number of two-wheelers exported from the
year 2001 to 2005.

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80
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70
70 65
60
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40 40
40 35
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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Number of two-wheelers sold in the local market

Number of two-wheelers exported

16. What is the percentage increase in the number of two-wheelers exported from the year
2003 to 2004?
1 2
(1) 11 % (2) 9 1 % (3) 16 2 (4) 14 %
9 11 3 7
17. In every year if the selling price of a two-wheeler exported is 30% more than the
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selling price of that sold in the local market, then in which year was the revenue
from exports more than the revenue from the local market?
(1) 2002 (2) 2004 (3) 2001 (4) 2005
18. In which year is the total number of two-wheelers sold exactly 25% more than the
total number of two-wheelers sold in any other year in the given period?
(1) 2002 (2) 2001 (3) 2005 (4) 2003
19. In which year is the number of two-wheelers exported as a percentage of number of
two-wheelers sold in local market the highest?
(1) 2002 (2) 2001 (3) 2004 (4) 2005
20. From the year 2000 to year 2001, the number of two-wheelers sold in the local market
and the number of two-wheelers exported increased by 25% and 20% respectively.
In 2000 the number of two wheelers exported is what per cent of the number of two
wheelers sold in the local market?
(1) 56.5% (2) 62.5% (3) 75% (4) 45%

Answer Keys

1. (3) 2. (1) 3. (3) 4. (1) 5. (1) 6. (1) 7. (1) 8. (3) 9. (2) 10. (1)
11. (1) 12. (1) 13. (1) 14. (1) 15. (3) 16. (4) 17. (2) 18. (4) 19. (3) 20. (2)