Question
The pie chart below has the breakup of the number of students from different departments in an engineering college for the year 2012. The proportion of male to female students in each department is . There are males in Electrical Engineering. What is the difference between the numbers of female students in the Civil department and the female students in the Mechanical department?
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- 32
- From
- Official GATE 2015 answer key
Solution
Use the male-to-female ratio and Electrical Department headcount to determine total college enrollment, then compute the difference between female students in Civil and Mechanical.
- Analyze Electrical Engineering:
- From the pie chart, Electrical Engineering accounts for of the total student body.
- The ratio of male to female students in each department is .
- There are males in Electrical Engineering. Since the male component corresponds to 5 parts:
- Number of females in Electrical Engineering .
- Total students in Electrical Engineering .
- Find Total College Enrollment:
- Since Electrical Engineering is of total students:
- Calculate Civil and Mechanical Departments:
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Civil Department ():
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Mechanical Department ():
- Difference in Female Students:
Alternatively, since female students are in both departments:
32
Calculating the total difference in students (72) rather than the difference specifically in female students (32).
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2015 Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) Session 1
- Question
- 9 of 65, printed as GA Q.9
- Section
- General Aptitude
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