Civil Service Review Sessions

Sample Exam: Data Interpretation

Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. If the dollar amount of sales at Store P was $800,000 for 2006, what was the dollar
amount of sales at that store for 2008?
A. $727,200
B. $792,000
C. $800,000
D. $880,000
E. $968,000

2. At Store T, the dollar amount of sales for 2007 was what percent of the dollar amount of
sales for 2008?
Give your answer to the nearest 0.1 percent.

3. Based on the information given, which of the following statements must be true?

Indicate all such statements.

A. For 2008 the dollar amount of sales at Store R was greater than that at each of
the other four stores.
B. The dollar amount of sales at Store S for 2008 was 22 percent less than that for
2006.
C. The dollar amount of sales at Store R for 2008 was more than 17 percent greater
than that for 2006.
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Sample Exam: Data Interpretation

The table above shows imports for three types of steel over a six month period. Use this
information to answer the following questions.

1 Which month showed the largest decrease in total imports over the
previous month?
A B C D E
Feb Mar Apr May Jun

2 What was the total value of sheet steel (in $) imported over the 6 month
period?
A B C D E
56,750 75,300 55,550 42,370 44,750

3 What was the percentage of scrap steel imported in the 6 month period?
A B C D E
37.5 35.2 36.1 31.2 38.3

4 What was the difference (in thousands of tons) between coil steel and
sheet steel imports in the first 3 months of the year?
A B C D E
10 16 18 19 20

5 What was the approximate ratio of sheet steel and coil steel imports in
the first 3 months of the year?
A B C D E
11:9 8:9 7:11 3:8 7:4
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Sample Exam: Data Interpretation

The pie charts above show the percentage of students in each faculty at North West University
and the number of non-US students in the Arts faculty. These percentages have been rounded
to the nearest whole number. There are a total of 1049 students in the Arts faculty. Use this
information to answer the following questions.

6 What percentage of students in the Arts faculty are non-US students?

A B C D E
14% 9% 30% 11% 15%

7 How many students are there in the Engineering faculty?

A B C D E
420 410 390 440 400

8 How many students are there at the university?

A B C D E
4650 4560 4640 4450 4460

9 If six percent of Science students are Asian. How many Asian students
are there studying Science?
A B C D E
48 66 120 57 43

10 There are 34 European medical students. What percentage of the

faculty does this represent?
A B C D E
14% 18% 12% 16% 15%