SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 19 September 2024, Shift 1 · Quantitative Aptitude · Question 9 of 100

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The following table shows the sales during two seasons of a company. Study the table and answer the question that follows. Sales in summer season (in ₹) → May | June | July 25,000 | 24,000 | 18,000 Sales in winter season (in ₹) → November | December | January 35,000 | 26,000 | 22,000 What is the percentage share of sales during months of June and July to the total sales?

(a)30%
(b)24%
(c)28%
(d)33%

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Read the two months asked for, then the whole table.

June + July = 24,000 + 18,000 = ₹42,000

Total = 25,000 + 24,000 + 18,000 + 35,000 + 26,000 + 22,000
= ₹67,000 (summer) + ₹83,000 (winter) = ₹1,50,000

Share = 42,000 ⁄ 1,50,000 × 100
= 0.28 × 100 = 28% → option (c)

Why the others are wrong

(a)
30% — 30% of ₹1,50,000 is ₹45,000, three thousand more than June and July actually bring in. It is the rounded neighbour of the true figure, not the figure.
(b)
24% — 24% would need ₹36,000. The number merely echoes June's ₹24,000 sales, which is one month of the pair rather than a percentage.
(d)
33% — 33% is one-third of the table, or ₹50,000. Two months out of six average a third only if every month sold the same amount, and here they do not.

Concept

A share question is one fraction: the part over the whole, times 100.

The part is named in the question (June and July, ₹42,000) and the whole is the entire table, both seasons together, ₹1,50,000. Missing the winter half is the standard way this is lost.

Adding the six figures in season blocks — ₹67,000 and ₹83,000 — is quicker and easier to check than one running total of six numbers.

The table gives only three months per season, so 'total sales' means the six months printed, not a full year. Answer with the data on the page.

Key facts

The six months listed total ₹1,50,000 in sales.
June and July together account for ₹42,000, which is 28% of that total.
Winter sales of ₹83,000 exceed summer sales of ₹67,000 in this table.

Study next

Percentage share of one row against a column total in a two-way tablePercentage increase from one period to the next within the same tableRatio and average questions built on the same table

Common traps

Taking the total as the summer season alone, which turns 28% into roughly 63%.
Adding May instead of July when the months are read too quickly.
Rounding 42,000 to 45,000 to force a neat 30%.

SSC prints a small table and then asks a percentage that needs the grand total, so the arithmetic is trivial and the reading is not. Table-reading also carries Quant Q.12 and Q.23 in this shift.

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