SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 3 · Quantitative Aptitude · Question 15 of 98

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The following table shows the expenditure of a company (in ₹ lakh) per annum over the given years. Study the table and answer the question that follows. The total amount of bonus paid by the company during the given period is what percentage of the total amount of fuels and transport paid during this period (correct to two places of decimals)?

(a)2.93%
(b)3.29%
(c)2.39%
(d)3.92%

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Total the Bonus column across all five years:
3.00 + 4.25 + 4.50 + 4.85 + 4.90 = 21.50

Total the Fuel and transport column:
110 + 145 + 120 + 168 + 190 = 733

Both columns are already in the same unit, rupees lakh, so no conversion is needed.

Percentage = 21.50 ⁄ 733 × 100
= 2150 ⁄ 733 = 2.9331...
= 2.93% to two decimals → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
3.29% — 3.29% is the same digits reordered. It would need a bonus total near 24.1 lakh, but the Bonus column adds to 21.50 lakh.
(c)
2.39% — 2.39% would need a bonus total near 17.5 lakh. The five bonus entries add to 21.50, four of them above 4 lakh on their own.
(d)
3.92% — 3.92% needs about 28.7 lakh of bonus. That is more than five times the largest single-year bonus in the table, 4.90 lakh, so it is unreachable.

Concept

All four options are the digits 2, 9 and 3 rearranged, so the method earns nothing and the arithmetic earns everything. Add both columns carefully once rather than fast twice.

"During the given period" means all five years, 2005 to 2009 — five entries from each column, not the latest year and not an average year.

The phrase "A is what percentage of B" always puts B on the bottom: here fuel and transport is the base and bonus is the part.

Bonus is printed to two decimals and fuel and transport in whole numbers, but both are in rupees lakh, so the ratio can be taken straight off the table.

Key facts

Total bonus 2005 to 2009 = 21.50 lakh, from 3.00 + 4.25 + 4.50 + 4.85 + 4.90.
Total fuel and transport 2005 to 2009 = 733 lakh, from 110 + 145 + 120 + 168 + 190.
21.50 ⁄ 733 × 100 = 2.93% correct to two decimal places.

Study next

Table DI questions that ask for a share across a whole period rather than one yearPercentage change between two years read off the same tableRounding to two decimals without recomputing the whole division

Common traps

Comparing one year of bonus with one year of fuel and transport instead of the five-year totals.
Sliding a column: Interest on loans sits between Bonus and Fuel and transport.
Marking 3.29% because the digits look right after a hurried division.

A single table is set with a share, a ratio or an average asked off it, and the wrong options are usually digit rearrangements of the right one — so total the columns before you divide.

Table data is also set at Quant Q.1 of this shift (scooters made by four companies), Q.9 (employees with a male-female split) and Q.20 (production under a constant growth rate).

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