CAT 2000 Question Paper
Directions for the next 4 questions: Answer these questions based on the data presented in the figure below. FEI for a country in a year, is the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of its foreign equity inflows to its GDP. The following figure displays the FEIs for select Asian countries for the years 1997 and 1998.
CAT 2000 - Question 21
China’s foreign equity inflows in 1998 were 10 times that into India. It can be concluded that:
Directions for the next 4 questions: Answer these questions based on the table below:
The table shows trends in external transactions of Indian corporate sector during the period 1993-94 to 1997-98. In addition, following definitions hold good:
Sales, Imports, and Exports, respectively denote the sales, imports and exports in year i.
Deficit in year I, Deficit1 = Imports - Exports
Deficit Intensity in year I, DI = Deficit/Sales Growth rate of deficit intensity in year I, GDI = $$\frac{DI_i - DI_{i-1}}{DI_{i-1}}$$
Further, note that all imports are classified as either raw material or capital goods.
Trends in External Transactions of Indian Corporate Sector (All figures in %)
CAT 2000 - Question 23
The value of the highest growth rate in deficit intensity is approximately:
CAT 2000 - Question 24
In 1997-98 the total cost of raw materials is estimated as 50% of sales of that year. The turn over of Gross fixed assets, defined as the ratio of sales to Gross fixed assets, in 1997-98 is, approximately;
CAT 2000 - Question 25
Which of the following statements can be inferred to be true from the given data?
Answer these questions based on the data given below: The figures below present annual growth rate, expressed as the % change relative to the previous year, in four sectors of the economy of the Republic of Reposia during the 9 year period from 1990 to 1998. Assume that the index of production for each of the four sectors is set at 100 in 1989 Further, the four sectors: manufacturing, mining and quarrying, electricity, and chemicals, respectively, constituted 20%, 15%, 10%, 15 % of total industrial production 1989.
CAT 2000 - Question 26
Which is the sector with the highest growth during the period 1989 and 1998?
CAT 2000 - Question 27
The overall growth rate in 1991 of the four sectors together is approximately:
CAT 2000 - Question 28
When was the highest level of production in the manufacturing sector achieved during the nine-year period 1990-98?
CAT 2000 - Question 29
When was the lowest level of production of the mining and quarrying sector achieved during the nine year period 1990-1998?
CAT 2000 - Question 30
The percentage increase of production in-the four sectors, namely, manufacturing, mining & quarrying, electricity and chemicals, taken together, in 1994, relative to 1989, is approximately:
