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The given diagram shows the number of students who failed in an examination comprising papers in English, Hindi and Mathematics. The total number of students who took the test is 500. What is the percentage of students who failed in at least two subjects? The original diagram is not available for this question.

The following figure represents time vs. learning curves of two students, Q and R, for learning a Mathematics lesson.

Which one of the following inferences can be drawn from the graph?

The distribution of 1,00,000 tourists who visited India during a particular year is shown in the given charts. Based on this, the number of Japanese tourists below the age of 39 who visited India in the year concerned is

The yield versus fertilizer input is shown in the graph. Consider the following statements based on this graph: I. Yield rate is zero at B and C. II. There is no yield with no fertilizer input. III. The yield is minimum at D. IV. The yield is neither minimum nor maximum at C.

Which of the above statements are correct? The original graph is not available for this question.

A company manufacturing air-conditioners has set a monthly target. The target and realised values are shown in the bar chart. Consider the following statements based on the chart: I. The targeted sales on a monthly basis have been achieved. II. The overall target value has been exceeded by 7.5%. III. The Sales Department deserves a pat on the back.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

In an office, the distribution of work hours is as shown in the following table: No. of Staff Members | No. of hours worked 5 | 0 – 19 12 | 20 – 24 25 | 25 – 29 40 | 30 – 34 15 | 35 – 39 8 | 40 – 45 Consider the following inferences drawn from the table: I. The average number of hours worked by a staff member is about 30. II. The percentage of those who worked 35 or more hours is less than 25. III. At least 5 staff members worked more than 44 hours.

Which of these inferences is/are valid?

The table below indicates the performance of India in rice and wheat production from 1950-51 to 1995-96.

Which of the following conclusions arrived at from the above table would be valid? I. Record production of rice as well as wheat has been in 1994-95. II. The ratio of wheat to rice production seems to have steadily increased over 16 years. III. Wheat has not been popular among the Indian population before 1980. IV. India became self-sufficient in rice and wheat only after 1990.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

The behaviour of a fictitious stock market index (comprising a weighted average of the market prices of a selected list of companies including some multinational corporations (MNCs) over a 15-day period is shown in the graph. The behaviour of the MNC’s in the same period is also shown in the second graph.

Which one of the following is a valid conclusion? The original graph is not available for this question.

The number of students in two sections, A and B, having different heights is shown in the following table: Height (in metres) Number of students with that height in Section A Section B 1.55

3

2

1.60

7

3

1.62

12

14

1.65

15

14

1.68

8

9

1.71

6

5

1.75

3

4

The ratio of the number of students of a particular height in Section A to that in Section B is the maximum for the height of

The following table shows the per cent change in the number of sales (in rupees) at different retail stores in a given neighbourhood market in the period 1993 to 1995: Retail Store — Percent Change 1993 to 1994 — 1994 to 1995 Anshu: +10, -10 Borna: -20, +9 Calpo: +5, +12 Dilip: -7, -15 Elegant: +17, -8 If the sales at Anshu store amounted to Rs. 8 lakhs in 1993, then the number of sales (in lakhs of rupees) at that store in 1995 was

A survey was conducted on a sample of 1000 persons with reference to their knowledge of English, French and German. The results of the survey are presented in the given Venn diagram. The ratio of the number of persons who do not know any of the three languages to those who know all the three languages is

The given pie charts show the proportion of literates and illiterates in a country, in the year 1970 and 1990 and also the proportion of males (M) and females (F) among the literates.

Which one of the following statements can be said to be beyond any doubt?

Consider the table given below providing details of traffic volume per hour for four locations (showing total traffic volume, % of heavy vehicles, average noise level in dB(A) and noise-pollution level in dB(A)). When the total traffic volume is the same, the factor(s) which affect(s) the noise-pollution level is/are

X and Y are two variables whose values at any time are related to each other as shown in Fig. (i). X is known to vary periodically with reference to time as shown in Fig. (ii).

Which of the following curves depicts correctly the dependence of Y on time?