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Master DI Tables for CAT 2026 with practice questions and detailed explanations

CAT 2025

Table-Based DI Sets

Tables are one of the most common DI formats, and nearly every CAT includes a set with data in table form.

  • CAT 2017:
    • Slot 1: “Matrix” DI (moderate)
    • Slot 2: Dormitory table (moderate)
  • CAT 2018 Slot 1: N×N matrix DI (moderate)
  • CAT 2019 Slot 2: Table of “Rainfall” data (moderate)
  • CAT 2021: Round-robin soccer table with missing values (table caselet)
  • CAT 2023 Slot 1: Table with missing sales figures (moderate difficulty)

Key Insights:

  • Table-based DI sets appear essentially every year.
  • Usually, 1 table set per slot when slots are independent.
  • Tests involve basic calculations like sums, differences, percentages across the table.
  • Difficulty may arise from missing data, requiring logical deduction (as seen in 2021 and 2023).
  • Expect at least one table-based set (4 questions) per CAT focused on interpreting tabular data.

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Weightage Over Past Years

YearQ.NODifficulty Level
20242Hard
20232Hard
20221Hard
20202Hard
20181Hard

CAT 2024 DI Tables questions

Question 1

Slot-3

The table given below shows the amount, in grams, of carbohydrate, protein, fat and all other nutrients, per 100 grams of nutrients in seven food grains. The first column shows the food grain category and the second column its codename. The table has some missing values.

The following additional facts are known.

  1. Both the pseudo-cereals had higher amounts of carbohydrate as well as higher amounts of protein than any millet.
  2. Both the cereals had higher amounts of carbohydrate than any pseudo-cereal.
  3. All the missing values of carbohydrate amounts (in grams) for all the food grains are non-zero multiples of 5.
  4. All the missing values of protein, fat and other nutrients amounts (in grams) for all the food grains are nonzero multiples of 4 .
  5. P1 contained double the amount of protein that M3 contains.

How many foodgrains had a higher amount of carbohydrate per 100 grams ofnutrients than M1?

How many grams of protein were there in 100 grams of nutrients in M 2 ?

How many grams of other nutrients were there in 100 grams of nutrients in M3?

What is the median of the number of grams of protein in 100 grams of nutrients among these food grains?

Question 2

Slot-3

Out of 10 countries -- Country 1 through Country 10 -- Country 9 has the highest gross domestic product (GDP), and Country 10 has the highest GDP per capita. GDP per capita is the GDP of a country divided by its population. The table below provides the following data about Country 1 through Country 8 for the year 2024.

• Column 1 gives the country's identity.

• Column 2 gives the country's GDP as a fraction of the GDP of Country 9.

• Column 3 gives the country's GDP per capita as a fraction of the GDP per capita of Country10.

• Column 4 gives the country's annual GDP growth rate.

• Column 5 gives the country's annual population growth rate.

Assume that the GDP growth rates and population growth rates of the countries will remain constant for the next three years.

Which one among the countries 1 through 8 , has the smallest population in 2024 ?

Country 8

Country 3

Country 7

Country 5

The ratio of Country 4's GDP to Country 5's GDP in 2026 will be closest to

1.195

0.963

1.314

1.032

Which one among the countries 1,4,51,4,5, and 7 will have the largest population in 2027 ?

Country 1

Country 5

Country 7

Country 4

For how many countries among Country 1 through Country 8 will the GDP per capita in 2027 be lower than that in 2024?

CAT 2023 DI Tables questions

Question 1

Slot-1

Five restaurants, coded R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 gave integer ratings to five gig workers – Ullas, Vasu, Waman, Xavier and Yusuf, on a scale of 1 to 5.

The means of the ratings given by R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 were 3.4, 2.2, 3.8, 2.8 and 3.4 respectively.

The summary statistics of these ratings for the five workers is given below.

UllasVasuWamanXavierYusuf
Mean rating2.23.83.43.62.6
Median rating24443
Modal rating24551 and 4
Range of rating*33443
  • Range of ratings is defined as the difference between the maximum and minimum ratings awarded to a worker.

The following is partial information about ratings of 1 and 5 awarded by the restaurants to the workers.

(a) R1 awarded a rating of 5 to Waman, as did R2 to Xavier, R3 to Waman and Xavier, and R5 to Vasu.

(b) R1 awarded a rating of 1 to Ullas, as did R2 to Waman and Yusuf, and R3 to Yusuf.

How many individual ratings cannot be determined from the above information?

To how many workers did R2 give a rating of 4 ?

What rating did R1 give to Xavier?

What is the median of the ratings given by R3 to the five workers?

Which among the following restaurants gave its median rating to exactly one of the workers?

R2

R5

R4

R3

Question 2

Slot-3

In a coaching class, some students register online, and some others register offline. No student registers both online and offline; hence the total registration number is the sum of online and offline registrations. The following facts and table pertain to these registration numbers for the five months - January to May of 2023. The table shows the minimum, maximum, median registration numbers of these five months, separately for online, offline and total number of registrations. The following additional facts are known.

  1. In every month, both online and offline registration numbers were multiples of 10.
  2. In January, the number of offline registrations was twice that of online registrations.
  3. In April, the number of online registrations was twice that of offline registrations.
  4. The number of online registrations in March was the same as the number of offline registrations in February.
  5. The number of online registrations was the largest in May.
MinimumMaximumMedian
Online4010080
Offline308050
Total110130120

What was the total number of registrations in April?

What was the number of online registrations in January?

Which of the following statements can be true?

I. The number of offline registrations was the smallest in May.

II. The total number of registrations was the smallest in February.

Both I and II

Only II

Neither I nor II

Only I

What best can be concluded about the number of offline registrations in February?

80

50 or 80

30 or 50 or 80

50

Which pair of months definitely had the same total number of registrations?

I. January and April

II. February and May

Both I and II

Only II

Only I

Neither I nor II

CAT 2022 DI Tables questions

Question 1

Slot-3

All the first-year students in the computer science (CS) department in a university take both the courses (i) AI and (ii) ML. Students from other departments (non-CS students) can also take one of these two courses, but not both. Students who fail in a course get an F grade;others pass and are awarded A or B or C grades depending on their performance. The following are some additional facts about the number of students who took these two courses this year and the grades they obtained.

  1. The numbers of non-CS students who took AI and ML were in the ratio 2:52: 5.
  2. The number of non-CS students who took either AI or ML was equal to the number of CS students.
  3. The numbers of non-CS students who failed in the two courses were the same and their total is equal to the number of CS students who got a C grade in ML.
  4. In both the courses, 50%50 \% of the students who passed got a BB grade. But, while the numbers of students who got AA and CC grades were the same for AIA I, they were in the ratio 3:23: 2 for MLM L.
  5. No CS student failed in AI, while no non-CS student got an A grade in AI.
  6. The numbers of CS students who got A,B\mathrm{A}, \mathrm{B} and C grades respectively in Al were in the ratio 3:5:23: 5: 2, while in ML the ratio was 4:5:24: 5: 2.
  7. The ratio of the total number of non-CS students failing in one of the two courses to the number of CS students failing in one of the two courses was 3:13: 1.
  8. 30 students failed in ML.

How many students took AI?

60

210

90

270

How many CS students failed in ML?

How many non-CS students got BB grade in ML?

165

75

25

90

How many non-CS students got A grade in ML?

How many students got A grade in AI?

42

99

84

63

CAT 2020 DI Tables questions

Question 1

Slot-2

A chain of departmental stores has outlets in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata. The sales are categorized by its three departments - 'Apparel', ‘Electronics’, and ‘Home Décor’. An Accountant has been asked to prepare a summary of the 2018 and 2019 sales amounts for an internal report. He has collated partial information and prepared the following table.

Sales Amounts (Crore Rupees)Delhi 2018Delhi 2019Mumbai 2018Mumbai 2019Bengaluru 2018Bengaluru 2019Kolkata 2018Kolkata 2019
Apparels-------54
Electronics789882102907080100
HomeDecor-100-72-80-54

The following additional information is known.

  1. The sales amounts in the Apparel departments were the same for Delhi and Kolkata in 2018.

  2. The sales amounts in the Apparel departments were the same for Mumbai and Bengaluru in 2018. This sales amount matched the sales amount in the Apparel department for Delhi in 2019.

  3. The sales amounts in the Home Décor departments were the same for Mumbai and Kolkata in 2018.

  4. The sum of the sales amounts of four Electronics departments increased by the same amount as the sum of the sales amounts of four Apparel departments from 2018 to 2019.

  5. The total sales amounts of the four Home Décor departments increased by Rs 70 Crores from 2018 to 2019.

  6. The sales amounts in the Home Décor departments of Delhi and Bengaluru each increased by Rs 20 Crores from 2018 to 2019.

  7. The sales amounts in the Apparel departments of Delhi and Bengaluru each increased by the same amount in 2019 from 2018. The sales amounts in the Apparel departments of Mumbai and Kolkata also each increased by the same amount in 2019 from 2018.

  8. The sales amounts in the Apparel departments of Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru in 2019 followed an Arithmetic Progression.

In Home Décor departments of which cities were the sales amounts the highest in 2018 and 2019, respectively?

Bengaluru and Delhi

Mumbai and Mumbai

Mumbai and Delhi

Delhi and Delhi

What was the increase in sales amount, in Crore Rupees, in the Apparel department of Mumbai from 2018 to 2019 ?

12

8

5

10

Among all the 12 departments (i.e., the 3 departments in each of the 4 cities), what was the maximum percentage increase in sales amount from 2018 to 2019?

25

28

75

50

What was the total sales amount, in Crore Rupees, in 2019 for the chain of departmental stores?

600

900

150

750

Question 2

Slot-3

XYZ organization got into the business of delivering groceries to home at the beginning of the last month. They have a two-day delivery promise. However, their deliveries are unreliable. An order booked on a particular day may be delivered the next day or the day after. If the order is not delivered at the end of two days, then the order is declared as lost at the end of the second day. XYZ then does not deliver the order, but informs the customer, marks the order as lost, returns the payment and pays a penalty for non-delivery.

The following table provides details about the operations of XYZ for a week of the last month. The first column gives the date, the second gives the cumulative number of orders that were booked up to and including that day. The third column represents the number of orders delivered on that day. The last column gives the cumulative number of orders that were lost up to and including that day. It is known that the numbers of orders that were booked on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of the last month that took two days to deliver were 4, 6, and 8 respectively.

| Day   | Cumulative orders booked | Orders delivered on day | Cumulative orders lost |
|-------|--------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|
| 13th  | 219                      | 11                      | 91                     |
| 14th  | 249                      | 27                      | 92                     |
| 15th  | 277                      | 23                      | 94                     |
| 16th  | 302                      | 11                      | 106                    |
| 17th  | 327                      | 21                      | 118                    |
| 18th  | 332                      | 13                      | 120                    |
| 19th  | 337                      | 14                      | 129                    |

Among the following days, the largest fraction of orders booked on which day was lost?

15th

16th

13th

14th

On which of the following days was the number of orders booked the highest?

14th

15th

12th

13th

The delivery ratio for a given day is defined as the ratio of the number of orders booked on that day which are delivered on the next day to the number of orders booked on that day which are delivered on the second day after booking. On which of the following days, was the delivery ratio the highest?

13th

16th

15th

14th

The average time taken to deliver orders booked on a particular day is computed as follows. Let the number of orders delivered the next day be x and the number of orders delivered the day after be y. Then the average time to deliver order is (x+2y)/(x+y). On which of the following days was the average time taken to deliver orders booked the least?

15th

13th

16th

14th

CAT 2018 DI Tables questions

Question 1

Slot-1

A company administers a written test comprising of three sections of 20 marks each - Data Interpretation (DI), Written English (WE) and General Awareness (GA), for recruitment. A composite score for a candidate (out of 80) is calculated by doubling her marks in DI and adding it to the sum of her marks in the other two sections. Candidates who score less than 70%70 \% marks in two or more sections are disqualified. From among the rest, the four with the highest composite scores are recruited. If four or less candidates qualify, all who qualify are recruited.

Ten candidates appeared for the written test. Their marks in the test are given in the table below.

Some marks in the table are missing, but the following facts are known:

  1. No two candidates had the same composite score.
  2. Ajay was the unique highest scorer in WE.
  3. Among the four recruited, Geeta had the lowest composite score.
  4. Indu was recruited.
  5. Danish, Harini, and Indu had scored the same marks the in GA.
  6. Indu and Jatin both scored 100%100 \% in exactly one section and Jatin's composite score was 10 more than Indu's.

Which of the following statements MUST be true?

  1. Jatin's composite score was more than that of Danish.
  2. Indu scored less than Chetna in DI.
  3. Jatin scored more than Indu in GA.

Both 2 and 3

Only 1

Only 2

Both 1 and 2

Which of the following statements MUST be FALSE?

Bala scored same as Jatin in DI

Harini's composite score was less than that of Falak

Bala's composite score was less than that of Ester

Chetna scored more than Bala in DI

If all the candidates except Ajay and Danish had different marks in DI, and Bala's composite score was less than Chetna's composite score, then what is the maximum marks that Bala could have scored in DI?

If all the candidates scored different marks in WE then what is the maximum marks that Harini could have scored in WE?

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