Paper 1 · Data Interpretation
UGC NET December 2022 (13.03.2023) Shift-I (Environmental Sciences)
Passage
The following table gives the number of tickets of five movies A to E sold in a week at multiplexes of six cities: Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. The tickets sold for movies A, B, C, D and E are: Mumbai 10000, 7500, 17500, 13000 and 9000; Delhi 8500, 9500, 10500, 12500 and 14000; Kolkata 16000, 12000, 9500, 10500 and 8500; Chennai 9000, 10500, 16000, 14000 and 17000; Hyderabad 8000, 17000, 13000, 14500 and 11000; and Chandigarh 7500, 13500, 10000, 17500 and 13000. Based on the data in the table, answer the questions that follow.
The number of tickets of movie B sold in Hyderabad was approximately what percent of the total number of tickets of the same movie sold in all the cities together?
A15
B12
C20
D24 ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) 24 — The answer is about 24 percent.
Explanation
★The answer is about 24 percent.
★Movie B sold 7500, 9500, 12000, 10500, 17000 and 13500 tickets across the six cities.
★The total of these is 70000 tickets.
★In Hyderabad movie B sold 17000 tickets.
★So the share is 17000 divided by 70000, times 100.
★That is about 24.28 percent, or 24 percent.
★So the answer is 24.
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