This document contains a 23 question practice exercise on interpreting bar graphs and line graphs related to topics like trade balance, production output, automobile industry trends, retail costs, and pain reliever sales. The questions test understanding of reading graphs to determine highest or lowest values, percentages, inferences that can be made, and relative comparisons between data points.

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Data Interpretation: Bar Graphs
Total Time: 45 mins Practise Exercise no. 1 Total no. Of Qs: 23
Q. 1 to 5 Answer the questions based on the following graph.
1. In which year was the trade deficit highest?
a) 1987-88 b) 1988-89 c) 1989-90 d) 1990-91
2. In how many years was the trade deficit less than the trade deficit in the succeeding year?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
3. Export earning in 1990-91 is how many per cent of imports in 1991-92?
a) 82% b) 85% c) 90% d) 15%
4. In the last three years, the total export earnings have accounted for how many per cent of the value of
the imports?
a) 80% b) 83% c) 95% d) 88%
5. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the graph?
a) In all the years shown in the graph, the trade deficit is less than the export earnings.
b) Export earnings increased in every year between 1989-90 and 1991-92.
c) In all the years shown in the graph, the earning by exports is less than the expenditure on imports
in the preceding year.
d) None of these
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1987-88
1988-89
1998-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
Foreign trade (in billion dollars)
Imports
Exports

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Q. 6 to 10 Answer the questions based on the following graph.
6. In which year the annual growth rate of total production (of all products) is highest?
a) 1991 b) 1992 c) 1993 d) 1995
7. If the stability of the production during 1990 to 1995 is defined as,
Average Production
Maximum Production −Minimum Production
then, which product is most stable?
a) Product P b) Product Q c) Product R d) Product S
8. If four products P, Q, R and S shown in the graph are sold at price of Rs.9, Rs.4, Rs.13 and Rs.3
respectively during 1990-1995, then the total revenue of the all the products is lowest in which year?
a) 1991 b) 1992 c) 1993 d) None of the above
9. Individual revenue of P, Q, R and S for the entire period (1990-1995) is calculated based on the price
of Rs.9, Rs.4, Rs.13 and Rs.3 respectively. Which product fetches the lowest revenue?
a) Product P b) Product Q c) Product R d) Product S
10. Four products P, Q, R and S shown in the graph are sold at price of Rs.9, Rs.4, Rs.13 and Rs.3
respectively during 1990-1995. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
a) Product R fetches second highest revenue across products in 1991.
b) Sum of revenue of P, Q and S is more than the revenue of R in 1994.
c) Cumulative revenue of P and Q is more than the revenue of S in 1993.
d) None of the above
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ProductioninTonnes
Production of P, Q, R & S (1990-95)
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Q
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Q. 11 to 16 Answer the questions based on the following graphs
11. Which of the following year exhibited highest percentage decrease over the preceding year in the
automobile production?
a) 2005 b) 2006 c) 2007 d) 2008
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450
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1350
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Numberin‘000
Automobile Production Trends
Passanger Vehicles Commercial Vehicles Three Wheelers
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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Numberin‘000
Automobile Domestic Sales Trends

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12. Assuming whatever that is not sold domestically was exported, then which year has registered
highest growth in exports of automobiles?
a) 2005 b) 2006 c) 2007 d) 2008
13. If the ratio of the domestic sale price of a commercial vehicle, a passenger vehicle, and a three
wheeler is 5:3:2 then what percent of earnings (approximately) is contributed by commercial vehicle
segment to the overall earnings from domestic sales during the period 2004-2008?
a) 45% b) 43% c) 11% d) 27%
14. For which year were the domestic sales of automobiles closest to the average (2004-2008) domestic
sales of automobiles?
a) 2005 b) 2006 c) 2007 d) 2008
15. Which of the following years exhibited highest percentage increase over the preceding year in the
automobile sales?
a) 2005 b) 2006 c) 2007 d) 2008
16. The ratio between absolute increase in domestic sales over preceding year and absolute increase in
production over the preceding year is highest during which year?
a) 2005 b) 2006 c) 2007 d) 2008
Q. 17 to 20 Refer to the following bar diagram showing the sales (in Rs Crores) of top market brands among pain
killers in India and answer the questions
17. What is the difference between the sales of Voveran in 2006 and those of Calpol in 2005 (in Rs
lacs)?
a) 1000 b) 50 c) 100 d) 500
18. Percentage of increase in sales from 2005 to 2006 is the highest for which brand of a pain killer?
a) Voveran b) Volini c) Dolonex d) Sumo
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Voveran Calpol Nise Combiflam Dolonex Sumo Volini Moov Nimulid
2005 2006

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19. Percentage increase in sales from 2005 to 2006 is the lowest for which brand of a pain killer?
a) Voveran b) Volini c) Moov d) Nise
20. What is the approximate percentage of increase in the sales of Voveran from 2005 to 2006?
a) 35% b) 40% c) 45% d) 50%
Questions 21 to 23 Following graph represents the cost per square feet of four retailers from the financial
year 2004 to 2012. The expected cost per square feet for year 2010, 2011 and 2012 are forecasted figures.
21. Which retailer shows the sharpest decline in cost per square feet and in which year?
a) Westside, 2005 b) Pantaloon, 2008 c) S.Stop, 2009 d) Vishal, 2010
22. Which retailer has shown the maximum increase in its cost per square feet and in which year?
a) S.Stop, 2006 b) S.Stop, 2007 c) Pantaloon, 2006 d) Vishal, 2006
23. What is the average rate of change in the cost per square feet of the retail sector, if the sector is
represented by the above four retailers in the period FY07 to FY10E?
a) -8.12 b) -10.86 c) -6.73 d) None of these
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Bar Graphs Practise Exercise 1 (Solutions)