Aptitude - Tables

Tables are very commonly used to represent the set of related data. Tabulation is a very popular technique of data interpretation in which a set of questions are derived from a given table of data/ observations.

Food item	Jan	Feb	March	April	May	June
Rice	250	230	210	260	240	220
Wheat	320	340	280	290	300	360
Sugar	240	210	200	210	160	150
Pulses	360	300	320	245	235	250
Vegetable	380	390	385	375	355	370
Misc.	460	485	440	460	475	480

For example, using the above table, you want to check in percentage of sugar in April.

Quantity of suger used in April = 210 Kg
Total quantity of food items used in april month = (260+290+210+245+375+460) kg
= 1860 kg
Required % = (210/1840*100)% = 11.4%

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