SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 2 · Quantitative Aptitude · Question 16 of 100

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Study the below data and answer the question that follows. Partners → Percentage of shares Jeevan — 10% Kiran — 15% Lokesh — 8% Rasool — 22% Meera — 45% The company has issued 10 lakh shares between its five partners. If Jeevan offers to sell 20,000 of his shares to Meera, how many shares will Meera have?

(a)4,60,000
(b)4,80,000
(c)4,70,000
(d)5,10,000

Answer

Why

Correct — C. The stem is an image: a table of five partners with Jeevan 10%, Kiran 15%, Lokesh 8%, Rasool 22% and Meera 45% of 10 lakh issued shares.

Total issued = 10,00,000 shares
Meera's 45% = 0.45 × 10,00,000 = 4,50,000
She buys 20,000 more: 4,50,000 + 20,000 = 4,70,000 → option (c)

Jeevan can cover the sale — his 10% is 1,00,000 shares, so he is left with 80,000.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
4,60,000 — 4,60,000 is 46% of the ten lakh, which is Meera's 45% plus only 10,000 shares. The transfer is 20,000, a full 2 percentage points.
(b)
4,80,000 — 4,80,000 is 48%, a transfer of 30,000 shares. Jeevan sells 20,000, and nothing in the table alters Meera's starting 45%.
(d)
5,10,000 — 5,10,000 is 51%, sitting 60,000 shares above Meera's 4,50,000 — three times the 20,000 that actually changes hands.

Concept

A percentage table with one stated total is a two-step question: convert the shares to counts, then apply the transaction.

Here 45% of 10,00,000 is 4,50,000, and the sale moves whole shares, not percentages, so add 20,000 directly rather than trying to add a percentage to a percentage.

If you would rather stay in percentages, convert the transfer first: 20,000 shares is 2% of ten lakh, Meera goes from 45% to 47%, and 47% of 10,00,000 is 4,70,000.

The five entries in the table add to 100% (10 + 15 + 8 + 22 + 45), which is the quick check that no partner has been left out of the data before you start computing.

Key facts

The table's five shares sum to 100%, so all ten lakh shares are allotted.
1% of 10,00,000 shares is 10,000 shares, which makes every entry in this table easy to convert.
Meera holds 4,50,000 shares before the sale and 4,70,000 after it.
Jeevan's 10% is 1,00,000 shares, so selling 20,000 leaves him with 80,000.

Study next

Percentage-distribution tables converted to counts against a stated totalTransfers between categories after a percentage splitVerifying that a distribution adds to 100% before using it

Common traps

Reading 20,000 as a percentage figure rather than as a count of shares.
Taking 10 lakh as 1,00,000, which scales every answer down by a factor of ten.
Subtracting the 20,000 from Meera, when it is Jeevan who is selling.

SSC prints a percentage table as an image, states the total separately in the sentence below it, then asks for a count after one change. The same shape is at 26 Sep 2024, 09:00, Quant Q.22, where a percentage distribution of students is applied to totals of 16,000 and 18,000 for two different years.

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