XAT 2015 — QA & DI Question 26
Answer the following questions on the basis of information given below.
Twitter allows its users to post/share and read short messages known as tweets. Tweets can be of three types – Positive Tweets (in support), Negative Tweets (against) and Neutral Tweets. The following table presents the Number of Votes and Tweets received by certain political parties.
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* Any party which has secured less than 2% of the total votes falls under ‘Other Parties’ category. For example, Party E secured less than 2% of total votes, in the year 2000.
Note: If the vote share (%age of total votes) of a party changes from 15% to 40%, gain in vote share would be 25% (= 40%, –15%).
Which of the following options correctly arranges the political parties in descending order of gain in vote share from the year 2005 to the year 2010?
Answer & solution
- A
EBDCA
- B
EBCDA
- C
EBCAD
BCEDA
- E
BCEAD
Observe the options.
Either E or B can have the highest gain in vote share.
Let EG and BG represent the gain in vote shares of E and B from 2005 and 2010.
Since AG < DGââ
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Hence, option (d).