DATA

SUFFICENCY
 Approach - Data Sufficiency
Both
statements
Yes
individually
Is statement are sufficient
II alone
Yes
sufficient to
answer?
Only
No statement I
is sufficient

Is statement
Read the I alone
question sufficient to
Only
answer?
Yes statement II
is sufficient

Is statement
II alone
No
sufficient to Both
answer? Yes together are
sufficient
Check both
No statements
together.
Both even
put together
No
are not
sufficient
 Type 1:
Question: How much time did X take to reach the destination?
I. The ratio between the speeds of X and Y is 3: 4.
II. Y takes 36 minutes to reach the same destination.
Solution: I. If Y takes 4 minutes then X takes 3 minutes. But this does not
give the exact time taken by X.
II. If Y takes 36 minutes then time taken by X is not defined again.
Using information in both statements together, when Y takes 36 minutes and
the ration is 3:4 of time taken by them, time taken by X is 48 minutes
Thus, I and II together give the answer.
  Type 2:
Question. What is the usual speed of the train?   
Statements: I. The speed of the train is increased by 25 km/hr to reach the destination 150 km
away in time.
II. The train is late by 30 minutes.
Solution: Let the usual speed of the train be x kmph. Time taken to cover 150 km at usual
speed = 150/x hrs.
I. Time taken at increased speed = (150)/(x + 25) hrs.
II. This statement does not tell us anything about the usual speed of train.
On combining both the statements:
(150/x) – (150)/(x + 25) = 30/60. In other words we have:
1/x – 1/(x + 25) = 1/300. Therefore we have [(x + 25) – x] × 300 = x(x + 25).
Thus we have x2 + 25x – 7500 = 0. Also, (x + 100)(x – 75) = 0 and x = 75.
Thus, I and II together give the answer.
  Type 3:
Question: How many doctors are practicing in this town ?
Statements:
1. There is one doctor per seven hundred residents.
2. There are 16 wards with each ward having as many doctors as the number of wards.
Solution: From I, total number of doctors in town = (1/700 x N) , where N = total number
of residents in town. But, the value of N is not known.
From II, total number of doctors in town
= (Number of wards in town) x (Number of doctors in each ward)
= 16 x 16 = 256. Answer is Option B
  Type:4
Question: Among A, B, C, D and E, who is in the middle while standing in a row ?
Statements:
1. C, who is third to the left of D, is to the immediate right of A and second to the left of
E.
2. C is second to the left of E, who is not at any of the ends and who is third to the right
of A. D is at one of the ends.
Solution: From each one of I and II, we get the order : A, C, B, E, D. Clearly, B is in the
middle.
Answer is Option C
  TYPE 5:
Question: Among A, B, C, D, E and F, who is the heaviest ?
Statements:
1. A and D are heavier than B, E and F but none of them is the heaviest.
2. A is heavier than D but lighter than C.
Solution: From I, we conclude that since none of A and D is the heaviest and
each one of B, E and F is lighter than both A and D, so C is the heaviest.
Answer is Option A
 QUESTIONS:

QUESTION: What is Reena's rank in the class ?

STATEMENTS:
I. There are 26 students in the class.
II. There are 9 students who have scored less then Reena.
Ans: E

2. QUESTION: Who is the father of M? 

STATEMENTS:
I. A and B are brothers. 
II. B's wife is sister of M's wife.
Ans: D
3.  QUESTION: What day is the fourteenth of a given month?
STATEMENTS:
I. The last day of the month is a Wednesday.
II. The third Saturday of the month was seventeenth.
Ans: B

4. QUESTION: It is 8.00 p.m., when can Hemant get next bus for Ramnagar from
Dhanpur?
STATEMENTS:
I. Buses for Ramnagar leave after every 30 minutes, till 10 p.m.
II. Fifteen minutes ago, one bus has left for Ramnagar.
Ans: E
5. QUESTION: Rohit, Kajol, Tanmay and Suman are four friends. Who is the
oldest among them?
STATEMENTS:
I. The total age of Kajol and Tanmay together is more than that of Suman.
II. The total age of Rohit and Kajol together is less than that of Suman.
Ans: D

6. QUESTION: How many new year's greeting cards were sold this year in
your shop?
STATEMENTS:
I. Last year 2935 cards were sold.
II. The number of cards sold this year was 1.2 times that of last year.
Ans: E
7. QUESTION: How is Rakesh related to Keshav?
STATEMENTS:
I. Tapan's wife Nisha is paternal aunt of Keshav.
II. Rakesh is the brother of a friend of Nisha.
Ans: D

8. QUESTION:  In a certain language, 'pit nac mit' means 'red pant shirt'.
Which word means 'pant' in that language?
STATEMENTS:
I. 'mit tim nac sir' means 'he wore red pant'.
II. 'nee jic pit' means 'shirt is dirty'.
Ans: D
9. QUESTION:  What is the monthly salary of Praveen?
STATEMENTS:
I. Praveen gets 15% more than Sumit while Sumit gets 10% less than Lokesh.
II. Lokesh's monthly salary is Rs.2500.
Ans: E

10.  QUESTION: City M is situated in which direction with respect to city

D?
STATEMENTS:
I. City K is to the south of city P.
II. City M is to the north of city R, which is to the west city D.
Ans: B
11. QUESTION: What is the shortest distance between Devipur and
Durgapur?
STATEMENTS:
I. Durgapur is 20 km away from Rampur.
II. Devipur is 15 km away from Rampur.

12. QUESTION: A box contains oranges, bananas and apples. How many
apples are there in the box?
STATEMENTS:
I. Of the hundred fruits in the box, fifty percent constitute oranges and bananas
together.
II. Fifty percent of the fruits in the box are apples.
13. QUESTION: The area of a play ground is 1600 square metres. What its
perimeter?
STATEMENTS:
I. It is a perfect square play ground.
II. It costs Rs. 3200 to put a fence around the play ground at the rate of Rs. 20
per metre.
Ans: C

14. QUESTION: On which date of a particular year was Aryabhatta

commissioned into the Earth's orbit?
STATEMENTS:
I. China's secret services claim that it was between 7th and 10th of May.
II. The Japan's space research scientists claim that it was between 5th and 10th
of May.
15. QUESTION: How many employees of bank 'X' opted for VRS?
STATEMENTS:
I. 18% of the 950 officer cadre employees and 6% of the1100 of all other
cadre employees opted for VRS.
II. 28% of the employees in the age group of 51 to 56 and 17% of the
employees in all other age groups opted for VRS.
Ans: A