Practice Test

Q1) The percentage increase in sales from 2011 to 2012 was Show Answer

Q2) The sum of sales of cellular phones in the years 2009 and 2011 is equal to that in Show Answer

Q3) The two years between which the rate of change of cellular phones is minimum are: Show Answer

Q4) The difference in the sales of cellular phones for the years 2007 and 2009 is Show Answer

Q5) What was India's total FDI for the period shown in the figure ? Show Answer

Q6) What was the absolute difference in the FDI to India in between 2011 and 2012 ? Show Answer

Q7) What was the ratio of investment in 2012 over the investment in 2007 ? Show Answer

Q8) Which year exhibited the highest growth in FDI in India over the period shown ? Show Answer

Q9) If India's FDI from OPEC countries was proportionately the same in 2007 and 2012 as the total FDI from all over the world and if the FDI in 2007 from the OPEC countries was Euro 2 million, what was the amount of FDI from the OPEC countries in 2012 ? Show Answer

Q10) Which of the countries listed below accounts for the highest GDP during the half decade 2001 to 2005 ? Show Answer

Q11) Which of the countries listed below accounts for the maximum GDP during the half decade 2006 to 2010 ? Show Answer

Q12) Out of every Rs.10,000 spent during the decade 2001-10, approximately how much was the GDP of Russia during the half decade 2001-05? Show Answer

Q13) The GDP of UAE is what fraction of the GDP of the UK for the decade (approximately)? Show Answer

Q14) What is the approximate difference between the average sales turnover of all the companies put together between the years 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 ? Show Answer

Q15) What should have been the sales turnover of GM in 2012-13 to have shown an excess of the same quantum over 2011-12 as shown by the sales turnover of Maruti ? Show Answer

Q16) Which of the companies shows the maximum percentage difference in sales turnover between the two years ? Show Answer

Q17) What is the percentage change in the overall sales turnover of the five companies together between 2011-12 to 2012-13 ? Show Answer

Q18) What is the absolute change in the overall sales turnover of the five companies together between 2011-12 to 2012-13 ? Show Answer

Q19) The ratio of Hindustan Motor's production in 2011-12 to Honda's production in 2010-11 is : Show Answer

Q20) For how many companies has there been no decrease in production in any year from the previous year ? Show Answer

Q21) How many companies have shown production below their average production in 2010-11, but have showed above average production in 2011 - 12? Show Answer

Q22) The state whose surplus is nearly equal to the average of the four surplus countries is Show Answer

Q23) The ratio of the deficit of the first five deficit countries to the overall deficit of all the deficit countries is nearly equal to : Show Answer

Q24) The average of the total deficit of the middle five deficit countries is closest to the deficit of which country ? Show Answer

Q25) The net total deficit/surplus is equal to : Show Answer

Q26) The ratio between the difference between the highest and the lowest of the surplus countries to the difference between Bangladesh and Oman is : Show Answer

Q27) How many countries exhibited a trade surplus ? Show Answer

Q28) The highest trade deficit was shown by which country ? Show Answer

Q29) The ratio of Export to Imports was highest for which country ? Show Answer

Q30) The total trade deficit/surplus for all the countries put together was : Show Answer

Q31) The ratio of the maximum exports to the minimum imports was closest to : Show Answer

Q32) What fraction of India's GDP is accounted for by Services ? Show Answer

Q33) If the total GDP of Pakistan is Rs.10,000 crore, then the GDP accounted for by Manufacturing is : Show Answer

Q34) If the total GDP of India is Rs.30,000 crores, then the GDP accounted for by Agriculture, Services and Miscellaneous is : Show Answer

Q35) Which country accounts for higher earning out of Services and Miscellaneous together ? Show Answer

Q36) If the total GDP is the same for both the countries, then what percentage is Pakistan's income through agriculture over India's income through services ? Show Answer

Q37) What is the percentage of students who cleared CAT in 2010 ? Show Answer

Q38) What was the percentage of students who succeeded in at least one of the three exams in 2010 ? Show Answer

Q39) Which year showed the best result in MBA entrance exams for the institute (in terms of percentage of students who cleared)? Show Answer

Q40) What is the percentage increase in the number of students in 2012 over 2010 ? Show Answer

Q41) The year in which the gross profit is half of the sales is : Show Answer

Q42) The ratio of gross profit to sales for the entire period is Show Answer

Q43) What is the average gross profit as a percentage of sales for the entire period ? Show Answer

Q44) Average annual growth of sales is : Show Answer

Q45) The year in which the increase in gross profit is greater than that in sales is : Show Answer

Q46) The sales of cell phones for 1999 is : Show Answer

Q47) What is the percentage increase in sales between 1995 and 2002 ? Show Answer

Q48) What percentage of the total production has been sold during the year 1999 ? Show Answer

Q49) The year in which there was the maximum percentage change in production was : Show Answer

Q50) In which of the following years has the sale of Cell phones shown a negative trend ? Show Answer

Q51) If profit had grown at 20 per cent compounded since 1999 what would its projected profit have been in 1999 ? (Assume that relative contribution of the various products categories have remained unchanged between 1999 and 2001). Show Answer

Q52) What would have been the company's overall profit to sales ratio in 2006 if profits had doubled and sales trebled, over the 2001 figure. Show Answer

Q53) The products category with the highest profitability (i.e. profit / sales x 100) is : Show Answer

Q54) What is the ratio of sales of the company's soap to its detergent division ? Show Answer

Q55) What is the total cost (i.e. sales - profits) of the tea division ? ( in Rs. crore) Show Answer

Q56) What is the average marks per candidate in the CAT in 2001 ? Show Answer

Q57) The average marks per candidate of CAT from 1996 to 2001 : Show Answer

Q58) The average marks per student in 1996 of candidates other than the OBC category was Show Answer

Q59) What were the average marks in 1998 of candidates other than the OBC candidates (approx.) ? Show Answer

Q60) What are the average marks per student in the OBC category in 1996 ? (approx.) Show Answer

Q61) Which of the following statements is not true ? Show Answer

Q62) What is the average marks per student in the OBC category in the year 2000 ? Show Answer

Q63) What has been the percentage growth in the number of candidates in CAT from 1997 to 2000 ? Show Answer

Q64) What is the approximately average annual growth rate of the value of total marks in CAT from 1996 - 2001 ? Show Answer

Q65) If the trend in the value of the total marks is expected to remain the same as in the previous year, what would be the value of the total marks in 2002 ? Show Answer

Q66) In the beginning of the year, Malaysia had coal stock of 3 million tonnes which rose to 5 million tonnes at the end of the year. Approximately, what percentage of its production is exported ? Show Answer

Q67) If India imports its entire coal shortfall from Norway, what percentage of Norway's exports is not to India ? (Assume no change in coal stocks.) Show Answer

Q68) If US produces 5 per cent of the world coal production, what is the percentage share of Pakistan ? Show Answer

Q69) If all the countries which have shortfall of coal want to import from only one country, among the given countries which one can export coal to all countries which have a shortfall of it ? Show Answer

Q70) Which of the following is true ?
(i) At the given rate of production, reserves of Senegal would last the longest.
(ii) If each country produced only to meet its requirement, US reserves would last the longest.
(iii) Assuming constant stocks, total exports of these countries are 70 million tonnes. Show Answer

Q71) If coal requirement of the given set of countries is met by production within the set, approximately how long would the reserve last ? (Assume that they do no trade with countries other than specified, their requirements are constant and no new reserves are discovered during this time). Show Answer

Q72) Between 1995-2000, in which year has the average employment per factory shown an increment compared to previous year, but decreased in the next year ? Show Answer

Q73) If in 1996, 20, 100 factories had 659 employments on an average , the remaining factories had an average employment of : Show Answer

Q74) The total employment in 1999 is how many times to that in 1996 ? Show Answer

Q75) In which of the following five year period, number of factories has shown maximum increase ? Show Answer

Q76) Among the given period, in how many years has the trend of the average employment per factory not changed with respect to the previous year's change ? Show Answer

Q77) The production of which the company has changed the most between 1999 to 2001 ? Show Answer

Q78) What is the ratio between the average production by company R in three years to the average production by company S in three years ? Show Answer

Q79) The average production for three years was the maximum for which of the following companies ? Show Answer

Q80) The companies that didn't change their trend of production over the given time period are Show Answer

Q81) For which of the following companies, the percentage rise or fall in production of fertilizers from 1999 to 2000 was the maximum ? Show Answer

Q82) The total production of the five companies in 2001 is what per cent of the total production by companies Q and S in 1999 ? Show Answer

Q83) What is the per cent drop in production of company S from 1999-2001 ? Show Answer

Q84) What would be HT's rank if equal weightages were given to all the four parameters ? Show Answer

Q85) If a new newspaper offers sports like TOI, price like Indian Express, international news as good as Telegraph and political news equal to that of HT, then what would be its rank ? Show Answer

Q86) Which newspaper was ranked second best ? Show Answer

Q87) If price is not a consideration and equal weights are given to the other parameters, which newspaper should be chosen ? Show Answer

Q88) In how many parameters does TOI get the least score among all newspaper ? Show Answer

Q89) In which of the following state/states did the production of rice increase ever year ? Show Answer

Q90) What is the percentage rise in rice production in Gujarat in 1998over the previous year ? Show Answer

Q91) What is the difference between the average production of rice in the states of Haryana and Gujarat over the period ? Show Answer

Q92) The production of rice in Gujarat in 1998 is what per cent less than the production of rice in U.P in 1997 ? Show Answer

Q93) For which of the following years is the production closest to the average yearly production for the entire period ? Show Answer

Q94) If, when consumption is more than the production, the government has to import the shortfall, find what percentage of consumption will be required to be imported in 2003-04 ? Show Answer

Q95) What is the estimated percentage increase in installed capacity in the year 2003-04 ? Show Answer

Q96) Capacity utilization was/will be the maximum in which of the following years ? Show Answer

Q97) In which year production as a percentage of installed capacity will be the least/was the least ? Show Answer

Q98) The installed capacity of HP (in '000 tonnes) in 2003-04 is expected to be (Assume the same share of capacity for HP as it had in 2001-02) Show Answer

Q99) If TC will double its installed capacity of 2003-04 in the year 2005-06, what would be the installed capacity of the industry in 2005-06 ? (Assume that no other manufacturer adds to their capacity in 2005-06.) [Assume that TC had a 46% share in 2003-04] Show Answer

Q100) Approximately what percentage of the poor economies total workforce is in agriculture ? Show Answer

Q101) Approximately what percentage of the middle income economies total workforce is in services ? Show Answer

Q102) The ratio of rich economies workforce working in industry to poor economies workforce working in services sector is closest to : Show Answer

Q103) Which of the following statements is/are not true ?
(i) Of the total workforce in services, over 50% do not come from the poor economies.
(ii) Poor economies account for nearly one-third of the total unemployed workers in the world.
(iii) High income economies account for over 25% of the total industrial work force.
(iv) Middle income economies account for nearly one-third of the total services sector employees in the world.
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Q104) Which of the following statements is true ?
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Q105) Approximately what percentage of the total working population in the world earns less than $695 p.a ? Show Answer

Q106) Which foodgrain can be said to have displayed an identical trend in its production as the total foodgrain production over the entire period ? Show Answer

Q107) For which year was the percentage contribution of wheat to the total food grain production the highest ? Show Answer

Q108) Which of the following statements is/are true ?
(i) Except 1997-98, rice and wheat production have followed identical trends.
(ii) Pulses production can be expected to increase in 2001-02.
(iii) The highest percentage increase in coarse cereals production between two successive years over
the period was higher than the same figure for pulses.
(iv) Production of coarse cereals has remained the least volatile over the period except for 96-97.
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Q109) 1996-97 was the best year in terms of percentage growth of production for which of these. Show Answer

Q110) Which of the following statements is/are false?
(i) Except 1997-98, rice and wheat production have followed identical trends.
(ii) Pulses production can be expected to increase in 2001-02.
(iii) The highest percentage increase in coarse cereals production between two successive years over
the period was higher than the same figure for pulses.
(iv) Production of coarse cereals has remained the least volatile over the period except for 96-97. Show Answer

Q111) The highest absolute change in the production of oilseeds is for (with respect to previous year) : Show Answer

Q112) The highest percentage change for any category between any two years is shown by : Show Answer

Q113) The ratio of the number of years in which sesamum has exhibited a higher than average production to the number of years in which it has shown a lower than average production for the period shown is : Show Answer

Q114) For how many years does rapeseed account for over 25% of the total production of oilseeds ? Show Answer

Q115) The number of years in which the production of oilseeds exceeds its average production over the period shown, to the number of years for which groundnut exceeds its average production is : Show Answer

Q116) SXAA stands for St. Xavier's Alumni Association. Find the student (in %) who could not become a member of SXAA in the years 1992 to 2001 ? Show Answer

Q117) If pass percentage is the best indication of the school's performance, in which year did the school have its best performance ? Show Answer

Q118) In how many years has the number of points for the school been higher than the average points scored per year over the time period shown ? Show Answer

Q119) Suppose that in the year 1996, the students who failed were allowed to take their exams again the next year (against the normal trend of the school) and 50% of the students who repeated the exam in 1997 failed again, then what would have been the percentage of students passing in 1997 if no repeaters had been allowed ? Show Answer

Q120) In 1994, the principal of the school decided not to throw out the failed students but to give them one more chance. It was then decided that the performance of those students would not be counted for the score of the school. If all those students passed next year, then what would have been the score of the school if their results had been included in the final tally ? Show Answer

Q121) Which of the following can be inferred from the following data ? Show Answer

Q122) In which year sales per distributor was lowest ? Show Answer

Q123) In which year did the sales increase by a higher percentage than the number of distributors ? Show Answer

Q124) In which of these countries can it be said that the rewards for eduction are the highest (amongst those shown) ? Show Answer

Q125) A post-secondary male worker is likely to have the highest income in which country ? Show Answer

Q126) The highest percentage increase for a post-secondary educated worker over a primary educated worker is for : Show Answer

Q127) On an average (irrespective of sex) the highest percentage benefit of primary eduction would be available for which country ? Show Answer

Q128) For the countries shown, the average wage ratio for male workers with post-secondary eduction with respect to male workers with no eduction is approximately equal to : Show Answer

Q129) In how many sectors is it proposed that full ownership by foreign investors will be allowed ? Show Answer

Q130) The number of sectors that currently allow a majority (>50%) stake for foreign investor is: Show Answer

Q131) The sector whose existing FDI cap as a percentage of its proposed FDI cap is least is: Show Answer

Q132) The sector whose existing FDI cap as a percentage of its proposed FDI cap, the highest percentage is exhibited by : Show Answer

Q133) The number of sectors where the existing FDI cap is over 50% of the proposed FDI cap is: Show Answer

Q134) The ratio of the number of sectors where it is proposed to allow full ownership to foreign investors to the number of sectors where it is not proposed to be allowed is : Show Answer

Q135) The highest percentage increase in minimum support prices has been exhibited by which foodgrain (over the period)? Show Answer

Q136) The highest percentage increase in minimum support prices has been exhibited by which food grain for the least percentage increase : Show Answer

Q137) The % growth in the total value of foodgrains was approximately (over the period)
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Q138) If the rate of inflation was exactly equal to the percentage growth of the Minimum Support Price for coarse cereals in 1998-99,what was the number of food grains whose % growth in Minimum Support Price between 1997-98 to 1998-99 was higher than the rate of inflation? Show Answer

Q139) The total number of students selected in 2001 was: Show Answer

Q140) Total number of engineering students selected over the period was : Show Answer

Q141) The maximum number of students were selected in the year : Show Answer

Q142) The ratio of commerce students selected over 2002-03 to the number of Arts students selected over 2001-03 works out to : Show Answer

Q143) Engineering students selected in 2002 formed what percentage of the total student strength in 2002 ? Show Answer

Q144) In the year 2003, students of which category dominated the total student strength ? Show Answer

Q145) If the total number of students selected goes up by 40% in 2004 compared to 2003; then the number of students selected in 2004 will exceed those selected in 2000 by : Show Answer

Q146) Which of the categories exhibit the same trend over the period 2000-03 ? Show Answer

Q147) The maximum percentage growth rate over any two consecutive years in shown by: Show Answer

Q148) The highest percentage increase in quantity between any two consecutive years was for (from the data available) Show Answer

Q149) The expected value of % change in quantity for wheat for 1999-2000 over 1998-99 was closest to : Show Answer

Q150) The number of instances of over 100% increase seen in quantity between any two consecutive years for all agricultural products shown in the table was about : Show Answer

Q151) By what percentage has the total imports grown from 1997-98 to 1998-99 ? Show Answer

Q152) Which of the following has shown a continuous decrease in its quantity of imports ? Show Answer

Q153) The highest price for vegetable and animal fats was realized in the year: Show Answer

Q154) The likely growth (expected) for total agricultural imports in 1999-2000 over 1998-1999 is closed to: Show Answer

Q155) The value of how many agricultural products have followed the same trend (as of total agricultural products imports ): Show Answer

Q156) If Amar stars from A, he can reach all cities except : Show Answer

Q157) If Amit starts from H, how many places can he reach ? Show Answer

Q158) If Vikas has reached I from A, he must have traveled through : Show Answer

Q159) In order to reach M from A, the total distance traveled should be : Show Answer

Q160) The distance between A and K is : Show Answer

Q161) What is the ratio of export in 2002-03 and 2000-01 ? Show Answer

Q162) During which year was the difference in production and export the highest ? Show Answer

Q163) By what percentage did production go up in 2002-03 ? Show Answer

Q164) What was the increased in production during 2002-03 as compared to that during 2000-01 ? Show Answer

Q165) By what percentage did the domestic demand increase in 2002-03 (assume whatever is produced is sold) Show Answer

Q166) In which year did capacity decrease by 12.5% ? Show Answer

Q167) What percentage of the total market share did Nirma have in 2002 ? Show Answer

Q168) What percent of the total production of soaps were Ganga soaps in 1999 ? Show Answer

Q169) From the soaps shown in the table, the ratio of the number of soaps that showed a decrease in 2000 to the number of soaps that showed an increase in 2003 was : Show Answer

Q170) The market share of Lifebuoy increased in 20003 over its value in 1999 by : Show Answer

Q171) The average income of AMS is what percent of the average income of BMS over the period shown? Show Answer

Q172) If the percentage profit earned by both the companies is the same in 1993 and expenditure of AMS in 1993 is $ 15 billion, what is the amount of expenditure of BMS in 1993 (in$ billion)? Show Answer

Q173) Income of AMS in 1991 is what percent of the income of company BMS in 1996? Show Answer

Q174) If the expenditure of AMS in 1998 is 60% of income, and the profit earned by AMS in 1990 and 1998 together is 50% of total revenues, what is the amount of expenditure of AMS in 1990 (in $ billion)? Show Answer

Q175) If BMS had a loss of 20% in the year 1995, what was its expenditure in the year? Show Answer

Q176) The average number of letters sent by speed post per month from the Kannad GPO over period shown is. Show Answer

Q177) For the period shown (from January to June), how much overall growth was registered in the number of letters sent by registered post at the Kannad GPO? Show Answer

Q178) What is the ratio of largest number of letters sent (in one month ) to the lowest (in any month|) considering all three categories together? Show Answer

Q179) If on an average, the unit cost of a registered letter is Rs 6.83, how much amount must have been spent on registered letters for the entire period shown? Show Answer

Q180) If it is ensured that the total number of letter dispatches is evenly distributed throughout the month which of the following months recorded the highest daily dispatches from the Kannad GPO? Show Answer

Q181) If all oridinary post letters are posted with stamps of Re 0.6 per letters, what is the total revenue through ordinary post over the period shown? Show Answer

Q182) How much is the overall increase in the total number of letters sent in June over that in January? Show Answer

Q183) Which time period showed the highest percentage of India's annual FDI inflows as a percentage of China's FDI inflows and what was the value of the same? Show Answer

Q184) India's net FDI inflow as a percentage of China's net FDI inflow during the period 1985 - 96 was: Show Answer

Q185) Which of the following is true?
I. India's FDI inflows grew faster than China's FDI inflow during the period.
II. India showed a higher growth rate than China during 1993 - 96
III. The ratio, China FDI/ India FDI was highest in the years 1985 - 91. Show Answer

Q186) Between which period was India's growth rate the highest? Show Answer

Q187) .Between 2004 and 2005, the increase in yield per tonne km in April as a ratio to the increase in yield per tonne km in July is closest to which of the following? Show Answer

Q188) In 2004 - 05 the average price charged per tonne km was: Show Answer

Q189) Air India's average profit from 2001 - 02 to 2004 - 05 was: Show Answer

Q190) Air India's yield per tonne km from April to May 2004 increased by: Show Answer

Q191) The number of passenger carried by Air India in 2003 - 04 Show Answer

Q192) Tonnage availability between 2002 - 03 and 2004 - 05 increased by: Show Answer

Q193) The average increase in the passenger load factor over the four years was: Show Answer

Q194) What is the average salary of finance graduates passing out of XLRI and Kellogg's? (in Rs thousand) Show Answer

Q195) If the number of marketing graduates from IIM, XLRI, Kellogg's and S.P Jain are in the ratio 4:3:5:4, find the average salary of H.R graduates from all the four institutes? Show Answer

Q196) The average salary of finance graduates passing from Kellogg's and S.P Jain is Rs 7.9 lakh per annum. The ratio of finance graduates in Kellogg's and S.P Jain is: Show Answer

Q197) The average salary of marketing graduates from IIM's and XLRI together is Rs 5.87 lakh per annum. The minimum number of students who are of marketing in IIM's is: Show Answer

Q198) The country exporting the maximum proportion of it's production is: Show Answer

Q199) Of the countries shown, how many countries export over 50% of their production? Show Answer

Q200) Approximately what percentage of the total tobacco production is produced by China? Show Answer

Q201) Approximately what percentage of the total tobacco export is accounted for by China? Show Answer

Q202) If India imports a special kind of tobacco from China (since the particular variety is not produced anywhere), and this import accounts for 20% of China's total of tobacco, then what is the internal consumption of tobacco in India? (Assume no change in India's stock of tobacco in the year and assume no other imports for India in the year). Show Answer

Q203) Which of the following ratio is the highest? Show Answer

Q204) If the number of male students in Arts and Computer Maths were to be exchanged, by what percent would the number of males in Arts be lesser than their female counterparts? Show Answer

Q205) What is the ratio of the total number of female students to that the male students? Show Answer

Q206) If the four courses were given weights of 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively, what is the weighted average of the batch? Show Answer

Q207) What is the percentage difference between the average number of students studying Courses 1 and 3 to the average number of students Courses 2 and 4? Show Answer

Q208) By what percentage is the total expenditure greater/smaller than the total revenue for the given period? Show Answer

Q209) What is the percentage point difference in the maximum percent increase in expenditure and the minimum percentage decrease in revenue? Show Answer

Q210) The closest approximation of the ratio of the simple annual reduction rate of revenue to the simple annual growth rate of expenditure is: Show Answer

Q211) Which of the following is true?
i. The difference in the average for the revenue and the expenditure for the period is 19:6.
ii. The revenue and expenditure both follow the same increase/ decrease trend for the given [period.
iii. The percentage increase in expenditure is the highest in the eighth year.
iv. The number of years in which the revenue has fallen as compared to the immediately preceding year is seven. Show Answer

Q212) If the price of B in 2001 is Rs 125 per unit, what is the sales revenue in the same year due to sale of B (in Rupees lakhs)? Show Answer

Q213) Assuming no pile up of inventory at the beginning or the end of the year, what is the ratio of the number of units of C produced in these four years? Show Answer

Q214) If the price of four product is in the ratio of 3:5:7:8, what is the ratio of the revenue generated by these products in 2002? Show Answer

Q215) If due to extra set up time required, the production in 2001 drops by 12.5% over that in 2000, what should be the growth rate if production in 2000, what should be the growth rate of production in 2002 to maintain the compounded annual growth rate(CAGR) of 20% (approximately)? Show Answer

Q216) Which of the following is not true? Show Answer

Q217) If India's tinned fish export in 2001 - 02 is 3.125% of the world's total export, what is the world exports figure for 2002 - 03, if there was a 8.75% increase in the following year?(In Rupees lakh) Show Answer

Q218) The simple annual growth rate of tinned is what percent of the simple annual growth rate of mushrooms in the given period? Show Answer

Q219) If the given commodities form only 10.416% of India's total exports for the year 2002 - 03, then what is India's GDP if total exports form 3.75% of the country's GDP? (In Rupees corer) Show Answer

Q220) What is the difference in the average exports of flowers to the average of the sum of the export of Mushrooms and others in the given period?(In Rupees million) Show Answer