Instructions

Answer the questions on the basis of information given below.

Twitter allows its users to post/share and read short messages known as tweets. Tweets can be of three types – Positive Tweets (in support), Negative Tweets (against) and Neutral Tweets. The following table presents the Number of Votes and Tweets received by certain political parties.

* Any party which has secured less than 2% of the total votes falls under ‘Other Parties’ category. For example, Party E secured less than 2% of total votes, in the year 2000.

Note: If the vote share (%age of total votes) of a party changes from 15% to 40%, gain in vote share would be 25% (= 40%, – 15%).

XAT 2015 - Question 81

Which of the following options correctly arranges the political parties in descending order of gain in vote share from the year 2005 to the year 2010?

Solution

From the above table, it is clear that the decreasing order of gain of vote share = BCEDA

D is the correct answer.

XAT 2015 - Question 82

Which of the following parties received maximum number of “neutral tweets” in the year 2010?

Solution

Using the data in the table, we can calculate the number of neutral votes for each party as follows:

Party B: 108128 * (100 - 30.4 - 29.7)/100 = 43143

Party C: 96620 * (100 - 32.50 - 26.60)/100 = 39517

Party D: 41524 * (100 - 30.60 - 36.10)/100 = 13827

Party E: 32724 * (100 - 21.60 - 41) /100 = 12239

Thus, we can see that Party B has the maximum number of neutral votes.

Hence, option A is the correct answer.

XAT 2015 - Question 83

Between 2000 and 2010, in terms of gain in vote share which of the following cannot
be a possible value (approximated to one decimal place) for any party?

Solution

The table representing the Vote share of parties in the years 2000 and 2010 is as follows.

From the table, we can see that 2 and 7.5 are possible values.

Party E’s votes in 2000 are less than 2% of the total votes as given in the question. Thus, the Gain in vote share will be between 3 and 5%.

Thus, only 2.5% is the option that is not possible.

Hence, option B is the answer.

XAT 2015 - Question 84

In 2010, which of the following options has maximum difference between the vote share and tweet share?

Solution

The table representing the Vote share and Tweet share in the year 2010 is as follows:

The table shows that the maximum difference between the vote share and tweet share is for “Other” parties.

Hence, option E is the correct answer.

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