APPSC GROUP-I MAINS
PAPER-V (DATA APPRECIATION &
INTERPRETATION) PREVIOUS PAPER-2008
Time: 3 Hours Max.
Marks: 150
SECTION -I
1. A given machine is
assumed to depreciate 40 % in value in the first year, 25 % in the second year and 10 % per annum for the next three years,
each percentage being calculated on the diminishing value. What is the average
percentage of depreciation, reckoned on the diminishing value for the five years?
2. A's method: Divide set
into sets of 1,000 each, calculate the average in each set and then calculate the average of these averages.
B's method: Divide the set into
2,000 and 3,000 numbers, take average in each set and then take the average of
the averages.
C's method: 500 numbers were unities.
He averaged all other numbers and then added one.
Are these methods correct?
3. If you travel at a
constant speed of 20 KMPH from A to B and from B to A at 60 KMPH, what is your
average speed? Suppose that your friend travels for half an hour from X to Y at
a constant speed of 30 KMPH and from Y to Z for one and a half hours at 40 KMPH.
What is your friend's average speed?
4. In a class of 50
students, there are 30 boys and 20 girls. In a test, the average marks obtained
by boys was computed to be 40 and those by girls to be 45. However, on
scrutiny, it was found that the marks obtained by one of the boys was wrongly
taken as 30 instead of 60 and the marks obtained by one of the girls was taken
as 70 instead of 50. Find out the correct average marks for the boys and for
the girls and for the class as a whole.
5. Lives of two models of refrigerators
turned in for new models in a recent survey are given in the following table:
|
Life (No. of years) |
Model A |
Model B |
|
0-2 |
5 |
2 |
|
2-4 |
16 |
7 |
|
4-6 |
13 |
12 |
|
6-8 |
7 |
19 |
|
8-10 |
5 |
9 |
|
10-12 |
4 |
1 |
SECTION – II
6. In a trip organised by
a college there were 80 persons, each of whom paid Rs. 15.50 on an average.
There were 60 students, each of who paid Rs. 16. Members of the teaching staff
were charged at a higher rate. The number of servants was 6 (all males) and
they were not charged anything. The number of ladies was 20 % of the total of
which one was a lady staff member. Tabulate the above information and fill the
blanks in the table, if any.
7. Educational Levels in Two Cities X
and Y.
 |
 |
Answer the following questions based on the above chart:
1. If there are 70 post graduates in City: X, what is the population of City: X?
2.What percent of the population in City: Y is at school level?
3. If the ratio of the number of graduates in City: X to those in City: Y is 0.45, what is City: Y's population?
4. What is the proportion of students at gradents and post graduate level in cities X and Y taken together?
5.Which educational level is the least in City: Y
8. Cement Consumption
in India figures in million tons)
 |
1.In India, how much more cement was consumed in 2002 than in 2001 (in million tons)?
2.Which region showed the highest percentage increase from 2001 to 2002?
3.What is the average consumption of cement per region in 2001 (in million tons)?
4.What is the approximate percentage decrease of cement consumption in the Eastern region for the period 2001-2002?
5.In 2002, if the India's population was 67,5 crores, what was the per capita cement consumption in 2002?
9.
|
Brand |
Sales in 2002 |
Percentage change from earlier year |
|
A |
7.5 |
12% |
|
B |
10 |
3% |
|
C |
22 |
-5% |
|
D |
34 |
-10% |
|
E |
16 |
-20% |
Answer the following questions based on the above table:
1.Sales of brand C in 2002 was what the percentage of 2001 sales?
2.The ratio of sales of D in 2002 to E sales in 2002 15 ....
3.What is the proportion of sales of A, B and C to the total sales of all brands is 2002?
4.By how much have the sales of D and E together fallen in 2002 as compared to 2001?
5.Which brand faced the maximum change in sales from 2001 to 2002?
10. Two Products of Firm
Answer the following questions based on the above chart:
1. If in 2003 - 2004, Product - A is 16 % more than the previous year, what is its value in 2003-2004?
2. What is the average annual growth rate of Product - B during 2001-2002?
3. If Product - B in 2002-2003 is 19 % less than the Product - B in 2002-2004, what is its value?
4. During which year is Product - A / Product - B, the maximum?
5.If Product - B in 2002 - 2003 has increased by 60 % from 2000 - 2001, what is the ratio of Product - B in 2000 - 2001 to Product - A in 2001 - 2002?
SECTION -III
11. Each of the following is a sequence of numbers that follows a definite pattern.
1.10001, 10100, 10111, ......... 11101
2. 13, 22, 39 .........., 137
3. ..........: 14: : 22: 32
4.13, 32, 87, ......... 737
5.NAOB, PCQD .........., TGUH
12 1. If LADY is coded as B6A1B2A13 then find the
code of INDIA.
2.If THURSDAY is coded as VIJWTUFCA then
decode JQPGUVA
3.AODR is the code for ROAD, then the
code of HUMANITY is…………
4.Find the odd - man out of the series: 2007, 999, 499, 243, 117,54.
5.If MANGO = 20 and PINEAPPLE - 44, then
what is the value of ORANGE?
13.
1. Find the day on 24th May, 1984
2. At what time between 4 o'clock and 5
o'clock will the minute hand and the hour hand be perpendicular to each other?
3. Four doctors Laxman, Lala, Lazar and Laxmi
and four engineers Murali, Murari, Mukund and Mamatha are sitting around a
table. No two doctors sit adjacent to each other. Laxmi is two places to the
right of Laxman and adjacent to Mamatha, who is two places to the left of
Murali, who is adjacent to Laxman. If Murari is seated three places to the left
of Lal, then Murari is seated between which two persons?
14.
People in twin cities are facing the problem of traffic jams frequently
everywhere. You are asked to investigate and submit a brief report on the
reasons for traffic jams. Suggest suitable solutions to prevent the traffic jam,
explaining the parameters on which you to collect data.
15.
Smoking, consuming high - calorie fast food and alcohol, will not only cut
short life - span but will also cost the country dear. A report jointly
prepared by WHO and the WEF says India will incur an accumulated loss of $
236.6 billion by 2015 due to unhealthy lifestyle and faulty diet. The resultant
chronic dis eases like heart disease, paralytic stroke, cancer, diabetes and
respiratory infections will severely affect people's earnings. The income loss
to India due to these diseases, which was $ 8.7 billion in 2005, is estimated
to rise to $ 54 billion in 2015. It is much more in China. According to a
report by World Health Assembly (WHA), 60 % of all deaths worldwide in 2005, i.e.,
35 million deaths resulted from non - communicable diseases (NCDs) and
accounted for pre mature deaths. This number is likely to rise to 47 million
deaths in a year, in the next 25 years. What
is worrying is around 80 % of these deaths will occur in low- and middle-income
countries like India Almost half of those who will die from chronic dig: eases
will be in their productive years.
The cost
to employers of morbidity attributed to NCDs is increasing rapidly. Work -
places should make possible healthy food choices and support physical activity.
Unhealthy diet, excessive energy intake, physical inactivity and tobacco use
are major risk factors for NCDs.
The study
cited scientific evidence that healthy diet and adequate physical activity at least
30 minutes per day for at least five days a week helped to pre vent NCDs. In
India, 10 % of adults suffer from hypertension while the country is said to
have 25-30 million diabetics. 3 out of 1000 people suffer from a paralytic stroke.
The number of deaths from heart attack is projected to increase from 1.2
million to 2 million in 2010. Let us prevent this situation and make India more
healthy. Answer the following:
1. What
is the main problem of the above passage?
2. What
are the major risk factors for getting non communicable diseases?
3. What are the preventive measures for non -
occurrence of non - communicable diseases?
4. What is meant by productive years?
5. What is the expected income loss to India in 2015?
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