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CAT 1998 — DILR Question 18

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Passage / Data

Direction: The following table gives the quantity of apples (in tonnes) arriving at
New Delhi market from various states in a particular year. The month in which demand was more than supply, the additional demand was met by the stock from cold storage.

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If the yield per tree was 40 kg, then from how many trees were the apples supplied to New Delhi (in millions) during the year?

Answer & solution

  • A

    11.5

  • 12.5

  • C

    13.5

  • D

    Cannot be determined

Solution

Total quantity of apples supplied to Delhi during the year was (231028 + 258 + 262735) = 494021 tonnes = 494021000 kg
If one tree yields 40 kg of apple, then the number of trees required to yield 49,40,21,000 kg

=49402100040 = 1,23,50,525 trees

= 12.5 million trees (approximately)

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