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The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries [#permalink] The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries   16 Jan 2024, 07:55
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The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries in the world by land area:

CountryLand area
(sq. km)		Land area
(sq. mi)		Percentage of
Earth's total
land area
Russia17,098,2426,601,66811.48
Canada9,984,6703,854,0836.55
China9,596,9613,705,4076.32
United States9,147,5933,531,9056.05
Brazil8,515,7673,287,9565.65
Australia7,692,0242,969,9075.06
India2,973,1901,147,9551.98
Argentina2,780,4001,073,5181.84
Kazakhstan2,724,9001,052,1001.79
Algeria2,381,741919,5951.57
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The total area of the Land is estimated to be approximately 149 million (sq. km)
China, the third largest country by land area, is the largest country by population.
Russia is the largest country in the world by land area, with a land area that is more than twice the size of the fifth largest country.
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The total area of the Land is estimated to be approximately 149 million (sq. km): Inferred
China, the third largest country by land area, is the largest country by population.: Cannot be inferred
Russia is the largest country in the world by land area, with a land area that is more than twice the size of the fifth largest country.: Inferred
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Re: The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries [#permalink] The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries   18 Jan 2024, 19:10
The total area of the Land is estimated to be approximately 149 million (sq. km) - how this can be infered ?
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Re: The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries [#permalink] The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries   18 Jan 2024, 20:49
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The total area of the Land is estimated to be approximately 149 million (sq. km) - how this can be infered ?


We are given land area of a country and then in the last column we are given how much % of total land in earth that land is.

Pick up any country and equate. It would be better to choose some % closer to a factor of 100 incase you are calculating manually.

So, India has 2,973,000 and it is nearly 2% of total land area.
Thus, 100% of total land area will be \(2973000*\frac{100}{2}=2973000*50=148650000=1.49*10^8=149*10^6\) or 149 million.

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Re: The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries [#permalink] The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries   08 Apr 2024, 23:29
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­The total area of the Land is estimated to be approximately 149 million (sq. km) => Inferred

Try Russia: 17.1 sq. km accounts for 11.48% of total Land area => Total: 149 sq. km

China, the third largest country by land area, is the largest country by population. => Cannot be inferred

No information regrading population is mentioned

Russia is the largest country in the world by land area, with a land area that is more than twice the size of the fifth largest country. => Inferred

Sort by any of the the three categories regarding land area or percentage of land area

=> The fifth largest is Brazil (5.65% of Total land area)
=> Russia takes 11.48% of Total land area 
\(\frac{11.48}{5.65} = 2.03 > 2\)




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Re: The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries [#permalink] The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries   01 Jun 2024, 06:25
chetan2u wrote:
jaytu wrote:
The total area of the Land is estimated to be approximately 149 million (sq. km) - how this can be infered ?

We are given land area of a country and then in the last column we are given how much % of total land in earth that land is.

Pick up any country and equate. It would be better to choose some % closer to a factor of 100 incase you are calculating manually.

So, India has 2,973,000 and it is nearly 2% of total land area.
Thus, 100% of total land area will be \(2973000*\frac{100}{2}=2973000*50=148650000=1.49*10^8=149*10^6\) or 149 million.

Hope it helps

­Try solving totsl area using Australia's Data and you will get approximately 153mnsqkm. This need not be true
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The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries [#permalink] The table below presents information on the top 10 largest countries   01 Jun 2024, 10:41
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Parthsarthi wrote:
chetan2u wrote:
jaytu wrote:
The total area of the Land is estimated to be approximately 149 million (sq. km) - how this can be infered ?

We are given land area of a country and then in the last column we are given how much % of total land in earth that land is.

Pick up any country and equate. It would be better to choose some % closer to a factor of 100 incase you are calculating manually.

So, India has 2,973,000 and it is nearly 2% of total land area.
Thus, 100% of total land area will be \(2973000*\frac{100}{2}=2973000*50=148650000=1.49*10^8=149*10^6\) or 149 million.

Hope it helps

­Try solving totsl area using Australia's Data and you will get approximately 153mnsqkm. This need not be true

­Yes, you are correct.
From data of few more countries, the land area comes out to be 152 million sq km. But the earth land area cannot change. So, someone was not careful while putting data for the countries.
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