PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

DATA INTERPRETATION (BAR GRAPH)

PREPARATORY SET-59 (BAR GRAPH)

Direction (Qs.1-5):  Study the following graph carefully to answer the questions that follow:

 

Number of students (in hundreds) from two different schools who qualified in an exam in six different years.

 

 

Question No : 1

Total number of students who qualified in the exam from School-P over all the years together is approximately what percentage of the total number of students who qualified in the exam from both the schools together in the years 2006 and 2007?

(1) 143%

(2) 159%

(3) 155%

(4) 165%

(5) 147%

Question No : 2

If 40 percent of the total students who qualified in the exam from both the schools together over all the years are females, then what is the total number of males who qualified in the exams over all the years from both the schools together?

(1) 51000

(2) 54000

(3) 56000

(4) 52000

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

What is the approximate percent increase in the number of students who qualified in the exam from School Q in the year 2007 as compared to the previous year?

(1) 30%

(2) 36%

(3) 45%

(4) 49%

(5) 26%

Question No : 4

What is the ratio of the number of students who qualified in the exam from School P in the year 2005 to the number of students who qualified in the exam from School Q in the year 2008?

(1) 13 : 18

(2) 17 : 18

(3) 17 : 19

(4) 13 : 19

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

What is the difference between the total number of students who qualified in the exam in the year 2005 from both the schools together and the total number of students from School-Q who qualified in the exam over all the years together?

(1) 30000

(2) 30500

(3) 29000

(4) 29500

(5) None of these