SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 1 · Quantitative Aptitude · Question 3 of 99

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Study the given pie chart and select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. The given pie chart shows the sales of different fruits in a day for a shop. If the total number of fruits sold by a fruit seller in a day is 1200, then the number of bananas sold is ___.

(a)520
(b)360
(c)480
(d)240

Answer

Why

Correct — c. Read the banana share off the chart, then take that share of the day's total.

The chart labels four slices: Apples 20%, Bananas 40%, Oranges 30%, Sweet lime 10%.

Bananas = 40% of 1200
= 40⁄100 × 1200
= 0.4 × 1200 = 480 → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
520 — 520 matches no slice — it would be 43.3% of 1200. The chart's four labels are 20, 40, 30 and 10 per cent.
(b)
360 — 360 is 30% of 1200, which is the Oranges slice. The stem asks for bananas, the 40% slice.
(d)
240 — 240 is 20% of 1200 — the Apples slice. Bananas is the largest slice on the chart, so its count must exceed a quarter of 1200.

Concept

A pie chart turns a share into a count with one multiplication: part = percentage × total.

The total, 1200 fruits, is given in the stem and the share comes off the chart, so the only judgement in the question is which slice belongs to bananas.

Read the legend rather than the colour order, then check that the four labels sum to 100 — 20 + 40 + 30 + 10 does — which proves you have read every slice.

The percentage is printed inside each slice and the fruit names sit in a legend below the circle, so colour is the only link between the two. Bananas is the large orange slice at 40%.

Key facts

The slices are Apples 20%, Bananas 40%, Oranges 30% and Sweet lime 10%.
40% of 1200 is 480, so 480 bananas were sold.
The labels on a percentage pie chart must total 100, and these do.

Study next

Converting a pie-chart percentage into a central angle, where 1% is 3.6°Combining two slices before converting to a count or an anglePie charts whose slices are labelled in degrees instead of per cent

Common traps

Matching the wrong legend colour to bananas and answering 360
Taking the largest option on offer without checking which slice it comes from
Giving the answer as a percentage when the stem asks for a number of fruits

A near-identical fruit-sale chart with the same 1200 total is set on 13 Sep 2024, 09:00, Quant Q.20, where the question is the combined central angle of oranges and apples rather than a count. Charts labelled in degrees instead of per cent appear on 18 Sep 2024, 12:30, Quant Q.11.

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