LIST OF QUESTIONS #2

1. What are the three ways to express a part-to-whole relationship? Give realworld examples of each and show how one form can be converted to another.
2. What do you understand by the term the Bowtie method? How does it help
in adding fractions?
3. What happens when you perform basic arithmetic operations (+,-,x,) with
fractions (numbers between 0 and 1)? How do they behave differently from
normal numbers (e.g. 5, 12, etc.)?
4. How are decimals converted to fractions? Illustrate with an example.
5. When the price of an item is increased by x%, and then decreased by x%,
why does it not return to its original price? Prove with an example.
6. Write down the decimal equivalents of all fractions a/b, in which a<b and
both a&b are single digit numbers. (See table on page 64)
7. What are the 3 different ways of expressing a ratio, which is a part-to-part
relationship. Is the ratio alone sufficient to find the actual amounts? Why?
8. What are the 3 pieces of puzzle in an Average Pie? How is the Average Pie
helpful in finding the weighted average?
9. How are the concepts of rate and speed similar to that of average? Can the
structure of an Average Pie be applied to questions involving rates, speed,
work, etc.?
10.Define the terms arithmetic mean, median, mode, range, and standard
deviation. Write down 8 values in a set and find its mean, median, mode,
range, and standard deviation.
11.What does the standard deviation of a set of values represent? Explain with
the help of a practical real-world example.
12.Define Normal Distribution. Why is it represented by a bell curve?
13.What are the 4 typical Data Sufficiency traps? Explain with the help of
examples.
14.Illustrate with the help of two separate Ratio Boxes how an original ratio
changes to a new ratio as a result of addition/subtraction from actual
numbers.
15.What is the basic difference between a Value Data Sufficiency question and
a Yes-No question? How are the criteria for sufficiency different for the two
types of questions? Why a Definite No answer is considered sufficient?