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The Data Interpretation section is a very interesting section of the Xavier Aptitude Test. It is also a highly scoring topic. Therefore, students should pay special attention while preparing for this topic. The Data Interpretation section tests the candidate's ability to analyse data presented in various formats and draw conclusions from the given data. The XAT Data Interpretation Practice Questions with Solutions are a set of practice questions along with solutions for XAT aspirants to practice. These practice tests will enhance the students' analytical abilities and boost their performance in the XAT exam. They will also understand the format of the questions asked in the exam.
The Data Interpretation section will have a total of about 28 questions in the XAT exam paper. The important topics included in this section are bar graphs, pie charts, tabular data, line & mixed graphs, caselets, data analysis, and comparison. Practising with the XAT Data Interpretation Practice Questions with Solutions regularly will help students to develop their thinking and analytical skills. It is advised for candidates to practise at least 15 to 20 questions on Data Interpretation every week, for strong exam preparation. It will also help them build confidence and solve each question on Data Interpretation accurately, resulting in good scores in the XAT exam.
Go through the information given below, and answer the THREE questions that follow.Comprehension:The three graphs below capture relationship between economic (and social) activities and subjective well-being. The first graph (Graph-1) captures relationship between GDP (percapita) and Satisfaction with life, across different countries and four islands: Gizo, Roviana, Niijhum Dwip, and Chittagong. The Graph-2 captures three different measures of subjective well-being (Satisfaction with life, Affect Balance and Momentary Affect) across the four islands, which have different levels monetization (Index). The Graph-3 captures levels of thirteen different socio-economic activities across four islands.
Which of the following will BEST capture the relationship between GDP (x-axis) and Life Satisfaction (y-axis) of countries?
Which of the following, about the four islands, can be BEST inferred from the graphs?
Which of the following site has the highest fishing to economic ratio?
Go through the information given below, and answer the THREE questions that follow.
Comprehension:
The table captures Age and Gender distribution of Covid Positive Cases in a country. However, a part of data is missing, represented through unknown categories.
*Includes <5 cases in age group 19-30 and 51 -60 who reported gender as Other/Transgender. * In unknown age category, the ratio of males (unknown age category) and females (unknown age catego1y) to total unknown cases (unknown age category) is same as the ratio of males (All) and females (All) to the total (Total Confirmed Covid Positive Cases).
In unknown age category, the ratio of males (unknown age category) and females (unknown age category) to total unknown cases (unknown age category) is same as the ratio of males (All) and females (All) to the total (total confirmed covid positive cases). How many females were in the unknown age category (rounded to nearest integer)?
In which age category, the percentage of female covid patients is the HIGHEST?
Which of the following is true for “unknown gender Category”?
1. Unknown age group patients are less likely (percentage term) to provide information about gender than any other age category
2. Between 31 and 80, when age increases patients, in percentage terms, are less likely to provide information about gender
3. Elderly (81+) category patients are more likely to give information about gender than 0-18 age group
Read the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.
An examination had ten multiple choice questions; labelled Q1 to Q10 respectively. Each question had four answer options — A, B, C and D — of which one and only one was the correct answer. For each correct answer, the candidate obtained 1 mark. There were no negative marks for wrong answers. The answers chosen by six candidates named Om, Pavan, Qadir, Rakesh, Simranjeet and Tracey to each of the ten questions and the total marks obtained by each of them are shown in the table.
What is the correct answer for Q5?
For which of these questions is D the correct answer?
Which of these questions witnessed the least number of the students answeringcorrectly?
I have five 10-rupee notes, three 20-rupee notes, and two 50-rupee notes in my wallet.
A small store has five units of a new phone model in stock: two white, two black, and one red. Three customers arrive at the shop to buy a unit each. Each one has a pre- determined choice of the colour and will not buy a unit of any other colour. All the three customers are equally likely to have chosen any of the three colours. What is the probability that the store will be able to satisfy all the three customers?
Read the following scenario and answer the three questions that follow.
A quick survey at the end of a purchase at buyagain.com asks the following three questions to each shopper:
1. Are you shopping at the website for the first time? (YES or NO)
2. Specify your gender: (MALE or FEMALE)
3. How satisfied are you? (HAPPY, NEUTRAL or UNHAPPY)
240 shoppers answer the survey, among whom 65 are first time shoppers. Furthermore:
i. The ratio of the numbers of male to female shoppers is 1 : 2 while the ratio of the numbers of unhappy, happy and neutral shoppers is 3 : 4 : 5
ii. The ratio of the numbers of happy first-time male shoppers, happy returning male shoppers, unhappy female shoppers, neutral male shoppers, neutral female shoppers and happy female shoppers is 1 : 1 : 4 : 4 : 6 : 6
iii. Among the first-time shoppers, the ratio of the numbers of happy male, neutral male, unhappy female and the remaining female shoppers is 1 : 1 : 1 : 2, while the number of happy first-time female shoppers is equal to the number of unhappy first-time male shoppers
What is the number of happy male shoppers?
Which among the following is the lowest?
Which among the following cannot be determined uniquely?
Nalini has received a total of 600 WhatsApp messages from four friends Anita, Bina, Chaitra and Divya. Bina and Divya have respectively sent 30% and 20% of these messages, while Anita has sent an equal number of messages as Chaitra. Moreover, Nalini finds that of Anita’s, Bina’s, Chaitra’s and Divya’s messages, 60%, 40%, 80% and 50% respectively are jokes. What percentage of the jokes, received by Nalini, have been sent neither by Divya nor by Bina?
Given below is the time table for a trans-continental train that cuts across several time zones. All timings are in local time in the respective cities. The average speed of the train between any two cities is the same in both directions.
Which of the following pairs of cities are in the same time zone?
What is the total time taken in minutes by the train to go from Zut to Raz?
What time is it at Yag when it is 12:00 noon at Sab?
Six teams are playing in a hockey tournament where each team is playing against every other team exactly once. At an intermediate stage, the status is as follows:
Notes:
• The team that scores more goals than it concedes wins the match, while if both the teams score the same no. of goals, the match is declared drawn.
• Ina match played between Team X and Team Y, if team X scores 1 and concedes none. then the score line would read: Team X — Team Y (1-0)
Which of the following matches are yet to be played?
Which of the following score line is a possible outcome in the tournament?
Which of the following score line is not a possible outcome in the tournament?
A dice is rolled twice. What is the probability that the number in the second roll will be higher than that in the first?
In an examination, two types of questions are asked: one mark questions and two marks questions. For each wrong answer, of one mark question, the deduction is 1/4 of a mark and for each wrong answer, of two marks question, the deduction is 1/3 of a mark.
Moreover, 1/2 of a mark is deducted for any unanswered question. The question paper has 10 one mark questions and 10 two marks questions. In the examination, students got all possible marks between 25 and 30 and every student had different marks. What would be the rank of a student, who scores a total of 27.5 marks?
The median of 11 different positive integers is 15 and seven of those 11 integers are 8, 12, 20, 6, 14, 22, and 13.
Statement I: The difference between the averages of four largest integers and four smallest integers is 13.25.
Statement II: The average of all the 11 integers is 16.
Which of the following statements would be sufficient to find the largest possible integer of these numbers?
A teacher noticed a strange distribution of marks in the exam. There were only three distinct
scores: 6, 8 and 20. The mode of the distribution was 8. The sum of the scores of all the students was 504. The number of students in the in most populated category was equal to the sum of the number of students with lowest score and twice the number of students with the highest score. The total number of students in the class was:
Arun has to go to the country of Ten to work on a series of tasks for which he must get a permit from the Government of Ten. Once the permit is issued, Arun can enter the country within ten days of the date of issuance of the permit. Once Arun enters Ten, he can stay for a maximum of ten days. Each of the tasks has a priority, and takes a certain number of days to complete. Arun cannot work on more than one task at a time. The following table gives the details of the priority and the number of days required for each task.
Arun's first priority is to complete as many tasks as possible, and then try to complete the higher priority tasks. His last priority is to go back as soon as possible.
The tasks that Arun should try to complete are:
Arun has to go to the country of Ten to work on a series of tasks for which he must get a permit from the Government of Ten. Once the permit is issued, Arun can enter the country within ten days of the date of issuance of the permit. Once Arun enters Ten, he can stay for a maximum of ten days. Each of the tasks has a priority, and takes a certain number of days to complete. Arun cannot work on more than one task at a time.
The following table gives the details of the priority, the number of days required for each task and the number of days required for background research on each task.
Six playing cards are lying face down on a table, two of them are kings. Two cards are drawn at random. Let a denote the probability that at least one of the cards drawn is a king, and b denote the probability of not drawing a king. The ratio a/b is
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