The given table shows the number of runs scored in IPL matches by four Indian batsmen in a particular year. What is the total number of runs scored by all four batsmen?

Correct — B. The table carries one data column, Runs scored, with four rows: P 800, Q 620, R 1200 and S 650. The question wants their sum, so all the work is in the addition.

Pair the round numbers first:
800 + 1200 = 2000
620 + 650 = 1270
2000 + 1270 = 3270

Total runs = 3270 → option (b)

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  3300 — 3300 sits 30 above the true total, which is what rounding 620 up to 650 does. Add the figures as printed: 800 + 620 + 1200 + 650 = 3270.
• (c)
  2900 — 2900 matches no subtotal this table can make. Dropping any one batsman leaves 2470, 2650, 2070 or 2620, and the full sum is 3270.
• (d)
  3760 — 3760 is 490 more than the four printed entries can produce. With 1200 as the largest single figure, a total this high means a row was misread rather than mis-added.

Table items in Tier-I are read-and-add. The difficulty lives in reading the right rows and the right column, not in the arithmetic.

Estimate before you add exactly. 800 + 600 + 1200 + 650 is about 3250, which already kills 2900 and 3760 and leaves a straight choice between 3270 and 3300.

Then add in pairs rather than left to right: 800 + 1200 = 2000 and 620 + 650 = 1270. Pairing round numbers is where carrying errors stop happening.

Key facts

• The table's four entries are P 800, Q 620, R 1200 and S 650.
• Their total is 3270 runs.
• Pairing 800 + 1200 = 2000 with 620 + 650 = 1270 reaches the same total with no carrying.
• A rough total of 3250 is enough to eliminate two of the four options before exact addition.

Common traps

• Adding three rows and stopping when the running total already looks like an option.
• Rounding 620 or 650 for speed and landing on 3300.
• Answering the top scorer's 1200 instead of the total.

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