COMBINATION GRAPHS

Questions 1 – 3:

The following table shows the distribution of the number of senior and junior associates in a firm in
2011 according to their departments and the pie-chart shows the percentage distribution of the
employees based on their age (in years), also in 2011. The minimum age criterion for being an associate
in the firm is that the person should be above 20 years old. An associate is given a ‘senior’ tag if he/she
has more than 10 years of experience in the firm; all other associates are ‘juniors’. No employee beyond
the age of 50 years is retained by the firm.
Department Seniors Juniors
Legal 32 55
Finance 15 32
Business Development 25 45
Content Advisor 28 18

20 < Age ≤
25
8%
45 < Age ≤
50 25 < Age ≤
20% 30
10%

30 < Age ≤
35
12%

40 < Age ≤ 35 < Age ≤

1. If the number of seniors aged more than 35 years is 75, what percent of associates aged more
than 30 years but less than or equal to 35 years are juniors?
A. 12.53% B. 16.67% C. 18.81% D. 22.50%

2. If all associates from ‘Content Advisor’ are aged less than or equal to 35 years but are greater
than 25 years, what maximum percent of juniors working in other departments belong to the
above age group?
A. 5.33% B. 6.09% C. 6.81% D. 7.14%

3. If no new associates join, what maximum percent of total associates would be seniors in 2016?
A. 34.83% B. 40.71% C. 62.50% D. None of These
Questions 4 – 7:

The line-graph shows the number of TV sets sold in a showroom in different quarters of 2012.
300

Number of TV sets sold 250

200

150

100

50
Q1 Q2
Samsung Q3
Panasonic LG Q4

The pie-chart below shows the distribution of revenue generated from the sales of the above TVs in Q2.

Samsung
LG 20%
38%

Panasonic
42%

4. What was the approximate average price of a Samsung TV in Q2? Assume that the average price
of an LG TV was Rs 32000. – medium
A. Rs 12500 B. Rs 13500 C. Rs 14500 D. Rs 15600

5. Which of the following is closest to the price ratio of a Panasonic TV and a Samsung TV in Q2?
A. 7:2 B. 11:3 C. 13:2 D. 41:8

6. If the price of a Samsung TV in Q1 and Q2 was Rs 36000 and Rs 32000, respectively, what was
the average revenue generated in Q1 and Q2 considering sales of all TVs? Assume that the
revenue share of Samsung in Q2 was 25% more than that in Q1.
A. Rs 365 lacs B. Rs 401 lacs C. Rs 416 lacs D. Rs 420 lacs

7. In Q4, the showroom decided to sell a new brand of TV, Micromax, whose price was the same as
the average price of all the other TV brands shown. If the revenue from Micromax has to
command at least 25% share of the revenue in Q4, what should be the minimum number of
units of Micromax sold in Q4?
A. 189 B. 196 C. 197 D. Cannot be determined
Questions 8 – 12:

The pie-chart below shows the percent of students placed in different sectors after the final placements
at a B-School were over in 2015. The bar graph shows the distribution of the specialization subjects of
the students in the B-School in the same year. Given, all the students present were placed.

Placements Specialization

E- 8%
commerce 12%
FMCG
16% 10%
27%
Systems
14% Opertions
Automobile Finance
18% HR
Marketing
56%
Bank
Consulting
24%
15%

8. If the ratio of the average salary offered by FMCG, Bank, Consulting, Automobile and E-
commerce sectors is 3:4:6:2:1, the average salary of all students forms what percent of the
salary offered by FMCG companies?
A. 31.9% B. 53.2% C. 79.8% D. 106.3%

9. If each student on an average received 1.3 offers, what could be the maximum number of offers
made by Banks as a percent of offers made by all companies?
A. 31.78% B. 41.53% C. 49.10% D. 51.66%

10. If each student on an average received 1.14 offers, what could be the maximum number of
offers from any sector rejected by the students as a percent of offers made by that sector?
A. 29.18% B. 44.10% C. 48.27% D. 51.71%

11. If the students from Operations and Systems were placed in only the FMCG sector, what could
be the minimum percent of students from any specialization who were placed in the FMCG
sector?
A. 12.5% B. 16.7% C. 37.5% D. 50.0%

12. What is the minimum number of sectors which had students from more than one specialization?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3