BPSC Panchayat Auditor 2022 – Main Exam GS Paper I – Section III : Statistical Analysis Solution

  1. Given below in pie diagram, details of a company’s total 1800 employees working in different departments is given. The ratio of the male and female employees is shown in the table, which are employed in different departments. Read these carefully and give answer to the questions written below:

(a) What is the ratio of female employees in marketing department to the total number of employees in same department?

(b) What is the percentage of male employees of information technology department with respect to the total employees of all departments?

(c) In the accounts department, how much more is the number of female employees from the number of male employees?

(d) How much more is the number of male employees in the production department than female employees?

(e) What is the number of female employees in the production and marketing departments?

    2. A soft-drink company prepares drinks of three flavours โ€“ coke, orange and mango. The production of the three flavours over a period of six years has been expressed in multiple bar graph provided below. Study the graph and answer the following questions:

    (a) The total production of mango in 2016 and 2017 is what percentage of the total production of coke in 2014 and 2015?

    (b) For which flavour, the average annual production is maximum?

    (c) What is the difference between average production of coke in 2014, 2015 and 2016 and the average production of orange in 2017, 2018 and 2019?

    (d) For which of the following years the percentage of rise/fall in the production from the previous years is the maximum for orange?

    3. Exports from three companies A, B and C over the years (in crore Rs.) is given in the following line graph. Study the graph and answer the following questions:

    (a) Average annual exports during the given period of company B is approximately what percentage of the average annual exports for company C?

    (b) In which year, the difference between the exports from company A and B was the minimum?

    (c) In how many of the given years, were the exports from company C more than the annual exports over the given years?

    4. The following table shows the number of new employees added to different categories of employees in a company and also the number of employees from these categories who left the company every year. Study the table and answer the following questions:

    (a) What was the total number of operators working in the company in the year 2014?

    (b) During the period between 2011 and 2016, the total number of technicians who left the company is what percentage of technicians who joined the company?

    (c) For which of the following categories the percentage increase in the number of employees working in the company from 2011 to 2016 was the maximum?

    (d) What is the pooled average of the total number of employees of all categories in the year 2015?