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1.

Which of the countries listed in the table has the highest ratio of the total
number of medals won to GDP? (A) Ethiopia(B) United States (C) Kenya(D)
Russia(E) Jamaica

2. How many of the countries listed had at least 30% of their medals tally
coming from silver medals? (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

3. The ratio of the combined tally of silver and bronze medals to gold medals
was the least for (A) Jamaica (B) China(C) Kenya(D) Ethiopia (E) Kazakhstan

DI 2

Sports Galaxy is a weekly sports magazine, of which exactly 52 issues are published
every year. The magazine can be subscribed either by direct mail or in e-book
format. For subscription through direct mail, the rates are $200 for a half-yearly
subscription, $350 for an annual subscription, $650 for a two-year subscription, and
$900 for a three-year subscription. All the above-mentioned direct mail
subscriptions are inclusive of postage, for all addresses within India. While the
news-stand price of the magazine is $12 per issue, a single issue of the e-book
version costs $25. For subscription of the e-book

format, the half-yearly subscription rate is $650 and the annual subscription rate is
$1200. Payment can be made either offline or online. Offline payment can be made
through either cheque or DD. While there are no processing charges for cheques
drawn on branches in New York, a processing fee of $20 per cheque is charged for
non-New York cheques. All DDs have to be payable at New York and do not elicit any
processing fee. Online payment can be made either through net-banking, which has
a zero processing fee, or through debit or credit cards, which elicit a 2% processing
fee. For the questions that follow, assume that postage takes place only to US
addresses.

1. Adam opts for an annual subscription of Sports Galaxy through direct mail
and pays through a single cheque drawn on an Arizona branch of Bank of
America. How much does Adam save (in percentage terms) when compared
to buying the magazine every week from a news-stand for the same period?
(A) 40% (B) 40.71% (C) 41.03% (D) 41.82% (E) 42.79%

2. Jabeena, a news vendor, orders for an annual subscription of two copies of Sports
Galaxy and makes the payment through her credit card. She plans to sell the
magazines at the news-stand price. In 36 weeks of the subscription year, both
copies of the magazine are sold each week; in seven weeks of the same year, both
copies remain unsold each week; in the remaining weeks, only one copy of the
magazine is sold each week. Jabeena arranges to dispose of each unsold copy in the
second-hand market at $4. What is the profit/loss percentage of Jabeena?

(A) 35.78% (B) 36.13% (C) 47.36% (D) 49.02% (E) 52%

3. Steve subscribes to 26 issues of Sports Galaxy in e-book format and makes the
payment through net-banking. If Steve's friend, Sophie, pays the same amount as
Steve does but subscribes through direct mail and pays via DD, how many more
issues of the magazine does Sophie receive when compared to Steve?

(A) 52 (B) 67 (C) 78 (D) 104 (E) 130

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