Bar Graph Example Problems : Data Interpretation and Analysis

Direction (1 – 5): Study the following graph carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Three different products (in thousands) produced by a company in five different years.

1. What was the total number of all products produced by the company in the year 2006 and 2008 together?

(1) 10750

(2) 107.5 lacks

(3) 105700

(4) 10570

(5) None of these

2. What was the average number of Pen-drives produced by the company over all the years together?

(1) 1700

(2) 1.7 lacks

(3) 17000

(4) 85000

(5) None of these

3. What is the difference between the total number of Pen drives and CDs produced by the company together in the year 2008 and the number of Key Boards produced by the company in the year 2006?

(1) 40000

(2) 4000

(3) 35000

(4) 3500

(5) None of these

4. What was the respective ratio between the number of Key boards produced by the company in the year 2006, 2007 and 2009?

(1) 1:2:3

(2) 1:2:2

(3) 2:1:3

(4) 1:2: 1

(5) None of these

5. What was the respective ratio between the number of CDs produced by the company in the year 2009 and the number of keyboards produced by the company in the year 2005?

(1) 9:10

(2) 11:10

(3) 10:9

(4) 10:11

(5) None of these

Direction (6 – 10): Study the following graph carefully to answer the following question given below to it.

Number of students (number in thousands) passing and failing in an Entrance Exam from six different cities.

The total number of students in each city comprises the number of students passing and the number of students failing in the entrance exam.

6. What is the respective ratio of number of students passing in the entrance from City M to those passing from city Q?

(1) 11:7

(2) 9:11

(3) 7:12

(4) 9:5

(5) None of these

7. What is the average number of students failing in the examination from Cities L and M together?

(1) 22570

(2) 20180

(3) 21650

(4) 28750

(5) None of these

8. What is the total number of students failing in the entrance exam from all the cities together?

(1) 175000

(2) 16800

(3) 217500

(4) 16800

(5) None of these

9. Number of students failing in the entrance exam from City P is what percent of the total number of students from that City?

(1) 29.75

(2) 32.48

(3) 36.36

(4) 27.19

(5) None of these

10. Number of students passing in the examination from City O is approximately what percent of the total number of students passing in the examination from all cities together?

(1) 4

(2) 26

(3) 21

(4) 9

(5) 14

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