Tables — XAT Previous-Year Questions
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Tables · XAT PYQs
Read the following scenario and answer the TWO questions that follow.
41 applicants have been shortlisted for interviews for some data analyst positions. Some of the applicants have advanced expertise in one or more fields among the following: data analysis, database handling and coding. The numbers of applicants with different advanced expertise are given in the 2 × 8 table below.
The number of applicants with advanced expertise in all three fields is given as x in the table, where x is a non-negative integer.
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What BEST can be concluded about the value of x?
Read the following scenario and answer the TWO questions that follow.
41 applicants have been shortlisted for interviews for some data analyst positions. Some of the applicants have advanced expertise in one or more fields among the following: data analysis, database handling and coding. The numbers of applicants with different advanced expertise are given in the 2 × 8 table below.
The number of applicants with advanced expertise in all three fields is given as x in the table, where x is a non-negative integer.
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How many applicants DID NOT have advanced expertise in any of the three given fields?
Go through the information given below, and answer the THREE questions that follow.
The table captures Age and Gender distribution of Covid Positive Cases in a country. However, a part of data is missing, represented through unknown categories.
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In unknown age category, the ratio of males (unknown age category) and females (unknown age category) to total unknown cases (unknown age category) is same as the ratio of males (All) and females (All) to the total (total confirmed covid positive cases). How many females were in the unknown age category (rounded to nearest integer)?
Go through the information given below, and answer the THREE questions that follow.
The table captures Age and Gender distribution of Covid Positive Cases in a country. However, a part of data is missing, represented through unknown categories.
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In which age category, the percentage of female covid patients is the HIGHEST?
Go through the information given below, and answer the THREE questions that follow.
The table captures Age and Gender distribution of Covid Positive Cases in a country. However, a part of data is missing, represented through unknown categories.
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Which of the following is true for “unknown gender Category”?
- Unknown age group patients are less likely (percentage term) to provide information about gender than any other age category
- Between 31 and 80, when age increases patients, in percentage terms, are less likely to provide information about gender
- Elderly (81+) category patients are more likely to give information about gender than 0-18 age group
Go through the information given below, and answer the THREE questions that follow.
The table captures Age and Gender distribution of Covid Positive Cases in a country. However, a part of data is missing, represented through unknown categories.
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The addition of 7 distinct positive integers is 1740. What is the largest possible “greatest common
divisor” of these 7 distinct positive integers?
Read the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.
A pencil maker ships pencils in boxes of size 50, 100 and 200. Due to packaging issues, some pencils break.
About the 20 boxes he has supplied to a shop, the following information is available:
* Box no. 1 through 6 have 50 pencils, Box no. 7 through 16 have 100 pencils and Box no. 17 through 20 have 200 pencils.
* No box has less than 5% or more than 20% broken pencils.
Following is the frequency table of the number of broken pencils for the twenty boxes:
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Which of the following can possibly be the sequence of the number of brokenpencils in Boxes 7-16?
Read the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.
A pencil maker ships pencils in boxes of size 50, 100 and 200. Due to packaging issues, some pencils break.
About the 20 boxes he has supplied to a shop, the following information is available:
* Box no. 1 through 6 have 50 pencils, Box no. 7 through 16 have 100 pencils and Box no. 17 through 20 have 200 pencils.
* No box has less than 5% or more than 20% broken pencils.
Following is the frequency table of the number of broken pencils for the twenty boxes:
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Which of the following cannot be inferred conclusively from the given information?
Read the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.
A pencil maker ships pencils in boxes of size 50, 100 and 200. Due to packaging issues, some pencils break.
About the 20 boxes he has supplied to a shop, the following information is available:
* Box no. 1 through 6 have 50 pencils, Box no. 7 through 16 have 100 pencils and Box no. 17 through 20 have 200 pencils.
* No box has less than 5% or more than 20% broken pencils.
Following is the frequency table of the number of broken pencils for the twenty boxes:
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Suppose that additionally it is known that the number of broken pencils in Boxes 17-20 are in increasing order. Which among the following additional information, if true, is not sufficient to uniquely know the number of defective pencils in each of the boxes numbered 17-20?
Read the following scenario and answer the three questions that follow.
A company awards incentives to its employees for successful project performances. It rates successful project performance in categories A*, A, B, and C. Employees, in solo projects rated A*, A, B, and C, are awarded incentives â¹6 lakh, â¹5 lakh, â¹3 lakh, and â¹1 lakh respectively. When a project has multiple team members, the following scheme is used to award the incentives:
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For example, for a project rated A, with three members, the team lead gets â¹4 lakh, and the other team members get â¹2.5 lakh each. A project always has a single team lead. Six employees: Altaf, Bose, Chakrabarthi, Dipa, Ernie, and Fatima receive a total of â¹45 lakh in incentives by participating in a total of eight different projects that does not involve any other person. Not all six employees are involved in all eight projects.
The following are additionally known about these eight projects:
1. One project involves all six employees. Four projects involve three each, and the rest, two each.
2. Exactly three projects are rated C, for which a total of â¹4.8 lakh is paid.
3. Only one project is rated A*
What BEST is known about the team compositions for the projects rated C?
Read the information given below and answer the 3 associated questions.
During 2015-2019, the revenues of four companies P-S were as follows:
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Which of the given companies has seen the highest year-on-year growth (in percentage) in any single year during this five-year period?
Read the information given below and answer the 3 associated questions.
During 2015-2019, the revenues of four companies P-S were as follows:
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It was discovered later that one of the companies misreported its revenue of one of the years. If the misreported revenue is replaced by the correct revenue, the revenues of that company over the five-year period will be in an arithmetic progression. The company that misreported its revenue was
Read the information given below and answer the 3 associated questions.
During 2015-2019, the revenues of four companies P-S were as follows:
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During the period from 2014 to 2015, the revenue increased by 25% for three of the companies and by 50% for the remaining company. The total increase in revenue, for all four companies put together, was Rs. 125 lakhs.
Which of the following CANNOT be true?
Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
Study the data given in the table below and answer the question that follow:
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All figures are in percentage
Based on survey of ‘shop types’ Kamath categorized Indian states into four geographical regions as shown in the table above. His boss felt that the categorization was inadequate since important labels were missing. Kamath argued that no further labels are required to interpret the data.
A consultant observing the data made the following two inferences:
Inference I: The number of Grocers per-thousand-population is the highest in North India.
Inference II: The number of Cosmetic per-thousand-population is the highest in South India.
Which of following options is DEFINITELY correct?
Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
Study the data given in the table below and answer the question that follow:
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All figures are in percentage
Based on survey of ‘shop types’ Kamath categorized Indian states into four geographical regions as shown in the table above. His boss felt that the categorization was inadequate since important labels were missing. Kamath argued that no further labels are required to interpret the data.
The average size of Food Shops in East India was twice that of Food Shops in West India. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the above data?
Answer the following questions based on the information given below.
Study the data given in the table below and answer the question that follow:
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All figures are in percentage
Based on survey of ‘shop types’ Kamath categorized Indian states into four geographical regions as shown in the table above. His boss felt that the categorization was inadequate since important labels were missing. Kamath argued that no further labels are required to interpret the data.
Bala collected the same data five years after Kamath, using the same categorization. His data is presented below:
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Which of the following statements can DEFINITELY be concluded?
Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.
Twitter allows its users to post/share and read short messages known as tweets. Tweets can be of three types – Positive Tweets (in support), Negative Tweets (against) and Neutral Tweets. The following table presents the Number of Votes and Tweets received by certain political parties.
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* Any party which has secured less than 2% of the total votes falls under ‘Other Parties’ category. For example, Party E secured less than 2% of total votes, in the year 2000.
Note: If the vote share (%age of total votes) of a party changes from 15% to 40%, gain in vote share would be 25% (= 40%, –15%).
Which of the following options correctly arranges the political parties in descending order of gain in vote share from the year 2005 to the year 2010?
Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.
Twitter allows its users to post/share and read short messages known as tweets. Tweets can be of three types – Positive Tweets (in support), Negative Tweets (against) and Neutral Tweets. The following table presents the Number of Votes and Tweets received by certain political parties.
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* Any party which has secured less than 2% of the total votes falls under ‘Other Parties’ category. For example, Party E secured less than 2% of total votes, in the year 2000.
Note: If the vote share (%age of total votes) of a party changes from 15% to 40%, gain in vote share would be 25% (= 40%, –15%).
Which of the following parties received maximum number of “neutral tweets” in the year 2010?
Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.
Twitter allows its users to post/share and read short messages known as tweets. Tweets can be of three types – Positive Tweets (in support), Negative Tweets (against) and Neutral Tweets. The following table presents the Number of Votes and Tweets received by certain political parties.
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* Any party which has secured less than 2% of the total votes falls under ‘Other Parties’ category. For example, Party E secured less than 2% of total votes, in the year 2000.
Note: If the vote share (%age of total votes) of a party changes from 15% to 40%, gain in vote share would be 25% (= 40%, –15%).
Between 2000 and 2010, in terms of gain in vote share which of the following cannot be a possible value (approximated to one decimal place) for any party?
Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.
Twitter allows its users to post/share and read short messages known as tweets. Tweets can be of three types – Positive Tweets (in support), Negative Tweets (against) and Neutral Tweets. The following table presents the Number of Votes and Tweets received by certain political parties.
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* Any party which has secured less than 2% of the total votes falls under ‘Other Parties’ category. For example, Party E secured less than 2% of total votes, in the year 2000.
Note: If the vote share (%age of total votes) of a party changes from 15% to 40%, gain in vote share would be 25% (= 40%, –15%).
In 2010, which of the following options has maximum difference between the vote share and tweet share?