Question 44

In a housing society, the newspaper boy keeps data of readers and notes down the sales figures of different newspapers and the gender of newspaper readers. The data is kept on a copy but unfortunately lost certain portions of the dairy. He has the following incomplete data:

Different Newspapers

Total
Sandesh Gujrat Samachar Ahmedabad Mirror
Females 16
Males 5
Total 15

Some more information that he remembered about the readers:

Each readers only read one paper

  1. Half the readers either read Gujarat Samachar or Ahmedabad Mirror
  2. 40% of the total readers are female
  3. One third of the male readers read Sandesh. Also, there are female readers for Sandesh.
Question
1 What is the percentage of Ahmedabad Mirror readers among the overall readers?
A. 12.5%
B. 5%
C. 0
D. cannot be determined
2 How many of the readers were both female and read the Ahmedabad Mirror?
A. 0
B. 8
C. 4
D. cannot be determined
3 How many of the readers are both male and read the Gujarat Samachar?
A. 8
B. 5
C. 11
D. cannot be determined
4 Among the Sandesh readers, what is the ratio of male to female persons?
A. 3:2
B. 1:2
C. 2:3
D. cannot be determined
5 What proportion of Ahmedabad Mirror readers to the Gujarat Samachar readers?
A. 0.33
B. 0.5
C. 0.25
D. cannot be determined
Answer
Question No. Answer
1 A
2 A
3 C
4 C
5 A