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Year

CAT 2020

Section

Data

Topic

DI Tables

Difficulty

Hard

Question

Slot-2

Read the passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

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.

Question 1

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

Question 2

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

12

8

5

10

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

600

900

150

750

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