Numerical Reasoning Questions and Answers


The table above shows the number of nanotechnology papers published by leading US universities over a six year period. Use this information to answer the following questions


86)

In what year did researchers at Princeton publish more papers than those at Harvard?

Answer: C
87)

In what year did researchers at Duke and Yale first publish the same number of papers?

Answer: A
88)

In what year did researchers at Stanford publish most papers?

Answer: C
89)

How many papers were published by researchers at Yale in 2002?

Answer : D

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


90)

What was the approximate ratio of sheet steel and coil steel imports in the first 3 months of the year?

Answer: A

Explanation: Looking at the working for the previous question you can see that the totals are:
Coil 93 thousand tons
Sheet 113 thousand tons
Therefore the ratio is 113:93 or approximately 11:9
One of the key lessons to learn from answering questions of this type is to write down your intermediate results and working-out. You will often find that you can save time in subsequent questions if you do this.

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