66th BPSC Main Exam : Solved Question Papers

Q.No.12 : The circle table given below shows the land-allocation (in a village) allotted for various food crops. Study the circle table carefully and answer the questions given below:


(a)        Which combination of three crops allocates 50% of the total area of food crops?

(b)       If the  total  area  under  jwar  was 1.5 million acres, then what was the area (in million acres) under rice?

(c)        If the production of wheat is six times that  of barley, then what is the ratio between yield  per  acre of wheat  and barley?

(d)       If  the yield  per  acre of rice was 50 % more than that of barley, then the production of barley is what percent of that  of rice?

(e)        If the total area goes up by 5 % and the area under wheat production goes up by 12 % , then what will be the angle for wheat  in the new pie chart?

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13. The following line graph shows the percentage profit earned by two companies X and Y during the period 1996-2001. Study the line graph and answer the questions based on it:Percentage of profit earned by two companies X and Y in the given years


(a) If the expenditure of company Y in 1997 was rupees 220 crore, what was its income in 1997?

(b)  If the income of two companies where equal in 1997, then what was the ratio of expenditure of company X to that of company Y in 1997?

(c) The income of company X and Y in 2000 where in ratio of 3 : 4 respectively. What was the respective ratio of their expenditure in 2000 ?

(d) The expenditure of company X and Y in 1996 where equal and the total income of the two companies in 1996 was rupees 342 crores. What was the total profit of the two companies together in 1996 ?

(e) the expenditure of company X in the year 1998 was rupees 200 crores and the income of company X in 1998 was the same as its expenditure in 2001. Find the income of company X in 2001 .

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14. Answer the following questions based on the information given below :




The first table gives the percentage of students in MBA. class, who sought employment in the areas of finance, marketing and software. The second table gives the average starting salaries of the students per month (in ruppes) in these areas. The third table gives the number of students who passed out in each year.

(a) Calculate the numbers of students who get jobs in finance less than the students getting marketing job in five years.

(b) What was the percentage increase in the average salary of finance from 1992 to 1996?

(c) Find the average annual rate at which the initial salary offered in software increases.

(d) What was the average monthly salary offered to a management graduate in 1993?

(e) Calculate the difference in  earning by students seeking jobs in finance from those opting for software {per annum) in 1994.

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15.  A soft-drink company prepares drinks of three different flavors — X, Y and Z. The production of the three flavors over a period of six years has been expressed in the bar graph provided below . Study the graph and answer the questions based on it :


Production of three different flavors of soft drinks X, Y and Z by a company over the years (in lakh bottles)

(a) For which year, the percentage of rise/ fall in production from the previous year is the maximum for the flavor Y?

(b) For which flavor the average annual production is maximum in the given period?

(c) The total production of flavor Z in 1997 and 1998 is what percentage of the total production of flavor X in 1995 and 1996?

(d) What is the difference between the average production of flavor X in 1995, 1996 and 1997 and the average production of flavor Y in 1998, 1999 and 2000?

(e) What was the percentage decline in the production of flavor Z in 2000 as compared to the production in 1998?

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