XYZ Organization

CAT 2020 Slot 3 · DILR · Medium · Data Interpretation

Passage / data set

XYZ organization got into the business of delivering groceries to home at the beginning of the last month. They have a two-day delivery promise. However, their deliveries are unreliable. An order booked on a particular day may be delivered the next day or the day after. If the order is not delivered at the end of two days, then the order is declared as lost at the end of the second day. XYZ then does not deliver the order, but informs the customer, marks the order as lost, returns the payment and pays a penalty for non-delivery.

The following table provides details about the operations of XYZ for a week of the last month. The first column gives the date, the second gives the cumulative number of orders that were booked up to and including that day. The third column represents the number of orders delivered on that day. The last column gives the cumulative number of orders that were lost up to and including that day.

It is known that the numbers of orders that were booked on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of the last month that took two days to deliver were 4, 6, and 8 respectively.

DayCumulative orders bookedOrders delivered on dayCumulative orders lost
13th2191191
14th2492792
15th2772394
16th30211106
17th32721118
18th33213120
19th33714129

Question 1 of 4

Among the following days, the largest fraction of orders booked on which day was lost?

  1. A.

    15th

  2. B.

    16th

  3. C.

    13th

  4. D.

    14th

Answer

A

Explanation

The fraction of orders booked that were lost was highest for the orders booked on the 15th.

Question 2 of 4

On which of the following days was the number of orders booked the highest?

  1. A.

    14th

  2. B.

    15th

  3. C.

    12th

  4. D.

    13th

Answer

D

Explanation

Calculating the daily bookings from cumulative figures shows the highest bookings occurred on the 13th.

Question 3 of 4

The delivery ratio for a given day is defined as the ratio of the number of orders booked on that day which are delivered on the next day to the number of orders booked on that day which are delivered on the second day after booking. On which of the following days, was the delivery ratio the highest?

  1. A.

    13th

  2. B.

    16th

  3. C.

    15th

  4. D.

    14th

Answer

D

Explanation

Calculating the ratio of next-day deliveries to day-after-next deliveries gives the maximum value on the 14th.

Question 4 of 4

The average time taken to deliver orders booked on a particular day is computed as follows. Let the number of orders delivered the next day be xx and the number of orders delivered the day after be yy. Then the average time to deliver order is x+2yx+y\frac{x+2y}{x+y}. On which of the following days was the average time taken to deliver orders booked the least?

  1. A.

    15th

  2. B.

    13th

  3. C.

    16th

  4. D.

    14th

Answer

D

Explanation

Evaluating x+2yx+y\frac{x+2y}{x+y} for each day shows the least average delivery time was for orders booked on the 14th.

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