Management Aptitude Test Feb 2012 Paper

Directions (Q. Nos. 136 to 140) Study the graph to answer these questions.

There are three retail marts in a city. The revenues of Retail Marts of India are shown in the following graph.
(All figures are in US

\$

Million).

Question : 139 of 200

Marks: +1, -0

The year(s) when Mart B recorded lower percentage growth over the previous year as compared to the industry is/are
(i) 2006-07
(ii) 2007-08
(iii) 2008-09

(i) only
(ii) only
(ii) and (iii) only
None of these.

Validate

Solution:

(3) Percentage growth of Mart B over the previous year.
During 2004-05 =

{224-134}/134

x 100 = 67.2 %
During 2005-06 =

{472-224}/224

x 1 0 0 = 110.7 %
During 2006-07 =

{846-472}/472

x 1 0 0 = 79.2%
During 2007-08 =

{998-846}/846

x 1 0 0 = 17.9%
During 2008-09 =

{1024-998}/998

x 1 0 0 = 2.6 %
Comparing these percentage growths with the percentage growth of industry (in solution 136), we get that there are two years in w hich percentage growth of Mart B are lower which are 2007-08 and 2008-09.

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