NUMERICAL REASONING TEST

In this test you will be using facts and figures present in various statistical tables to answer questions designed to assess your ability to evaluate numerical data.

In each question you are given either five or ten options to choose from. One, and only one, of the options is correct in each case.

Please refer to the statistics tables below in order to correctly answer each question.

1. What proportion of the UK population in 1981 was equivalent to the number of UK tourist visiting France in that year?

A. 0.2%
B. 04%
C. 0.8%
D. 1%
E. 2%
AB. 4%
AC. 6%
AD. 8%
AE. 10%
BC. Cannot Say

2. Which category of professional associates had the greatest ratio of non-graduate to graduate new admissions in 1984?

A. Accountancy & Law
B. Engineering
C. Science & Technology
D. Others (Commercial)
E. Others (Technical)

3. How many more W German tourists visited France than French tourist visited W Germany in 1981?

A. 740,000
B. 1,910,000
C. 2,311,000
D. 2,650,000
E. 3,131,000
AB. 3,428,000
AC. 3,840,000
AD. 4,016,000
AE. 4,328,000
BC. 4,840,000

4. If Brown’s car uses 25% less fuel than Jennings’, in which week was their combined petrol consumption the lowest?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. Cannot say

5. Between which years did Barlow Chemicals’ pre-tax profit as a percentage of capital increase the most?

A. 1986-87
B. 1987-88
C. 1988-99
D. 1989-90
E. Cannot Say

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