This table displays data on coffee sold by a Guatemalan producer in 20

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This table displays data on coffee sold by a Guatemalan producer in 2015.    VARIETY    SALES,
NATIONAL
SHARE (%)    SALES,
NATIONAL
RANK    EXPORTS,
NATIONAL
SHARE (%)    EXPORTS,
NATONAL
RANK     Coarse ground  18  4  7  5    Dark roast  31  1  60  1    Espresso roast  12  4  87  1    Fine ground  20  5  15  4    French roast  53  2  49  2    Light roast  21  2  32  2    Medium ground  36  1  15  3    Medium roast  71  1  58  1    Whole bean  50  3  22  4     ( Sort ↕  the table by clicking on the headers)

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement can be shown to be true based on information in the table. Otherwise, select No.

RheaBhatia0302 · Answer

No.  From the table we can clearly see that this exporter is only responsible for 49% of the nation's exports of French Roast Coffee. The majority needs to be more than 50%.

No.  There is no information in the table that would lead us to this conclusion. The table only shows the percentage of national share of exports, not the actual export quantities.

Yes.  The given producer is responsible for 32% of the nation's exports for light-roast coffee and is ranked in the 2nd place for exports in this category. Therefore, the producer who exports the most light-roast coffee will be greater than 32%. Therefore the top two exporters combined export a majority of the nation's light roast coffee.

Archit3110 · Answer

This producer is responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee.
given share is 49% and ranked 2 answer is  NO

This producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee.
 YES  also rank and % is more for fine ground than coarse ground

The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee.
 
NO  not sufficient information is given

Oppenheimer1945 · Answer

This producer is responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee (rank 2 , 49% share) - False

This producer exports more fine-ground (15%) than coarse-ground coffee(7%) - True

The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee (False)

pintukr · Answer

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement can be shown to be true based on information in the table. Otherwise, select No.

QUESTION !  
 1. This producer is responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee.

For the French Roast Coffee, (Using 'Sorted by Exports, National Share (Column 4)')

Exports (National Share) = 49%
Exports (National Rank) = 2

Since the producer only exports 49% of the total exports (also, ranks 2nd in Exports),

It's evident that this producer is NOT responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee.

NO is the CORRECT answer

QUESTION 2  
 2. This producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee.

For the Fine Ground Coffee vis-a-vis Coarse Ground Coffee, (Using 'Sorted by Exports, National Share (Column 4)')

Exports (National Share) --- Coarse Ground Coffee = 7%
Exports (National Share) --- Fine Ground Coffee = 15%

However, Total Exports value (for both cases) is not provided, hence Absolute Values can NOT be compared.

NO is the CORRECT answe r

QUESTION 3  
 3. The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee.

For the Light Roast Coffee, (Using 'Sorted by Exports, National Share (Column 4)')

Rank 2 Exporter , Exports (National Share) = 32%.............(1)

It implies that 
Rank 1 Exporter , Exports (National Share) > 32%..............(2)

Exports Share of top two producers = (32%) + (>32%)
 = > 64%

Thus. the top two producer export >64% of the total exports. (majority share of the nation's exports of light-roast coffee)

YES is the CORRECT answer

NO, NO & YES are the CORRECT answers to Questions 1, 2, 3, respectively.

$!vakumar.m · Answer

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement can be shown to be true based on information in the table. Otherwise, select No.

This producer is responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee. 
This producer is ranked second with 49% share of exports wrt French roast coffee in the country. So, the producer is not responsible for majority(>50%) of the nation's exports.
 Answer: No

This producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee. 
Coarse ground: 7%
Fine ground: 15%
Since, the information is given in percentage terms we cannot comment on the amount/absolute values of coffee being exported.
Hence, the information is not supported from the table.
 Answer: No

The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee. 
This producer is ranked 2nd and is responsible for 32% of the exports wrt light-roast coffee.
So, the first ranked producer must be exporting more that 32% of light-roast coffee and together they are exporting the majority of the nation's light-roast coffee.
 Answer: Yes

No; No; Yes

Catman · Answer

This producer is responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee.

No , the export of french roast coffee share of this producer is 49% of the exports national share and rank 2nd, so there must be another supplier with greater than 49% share and 1st rank who export majority of French roast coffee.

This producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee.

No , since the absolute production and export number of fine ground and coarse ground coffee is not known so this information cannot be determined.

The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee.

Yes , the 2nd exporter i:e Guatemalan Producer export 32% of the total Light Roast Coffee, so the 1st rank exporter export share is greater than 32%.
The combined exports national share of 1st and 2nd rank is greater than 64% which is the majority of the exports national share.

RahulJain293 · Answer

IMO
NO
NO
YES

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement can be shown to be true based on information in the table. Otherwise, select No.

This producer is responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee.

Solution: 
French roast contributes to 49% of total nation's export and is ranked 2nd. So it is NOT responsible for majority of nation's export.
Also, since it is ranked 2nd, the first exporter would have % share >49% and might have a majority share.
 HENCE NO.

This producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee.

Solution: 
Since we do not know the total production of fine or coarse ground coffee, we CANNOT say if one is more than other in terms of absolute value.
As a %, all we know is fine ground has higher national share than coarse ground.
 HENCE NO

The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee.

Solution: 
YES. Since, at 32% export, the company is ranked 2nd, the company that is ranked first would have a % share of >32%.
Hence a total of >64% national share is exported by the top 2 exporters of light roast coffee.
 Hence YES

rn1112 · Answer

(A)  This producer is responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee.

Given data provides the following information :-

French Roast Coffee

Share in Exports = 49 percent (Rank 2)

It is inferred that there is some producer(Rank 1) , which is exporting higher than 49% of Total Exports.

The correct option will be NO

(B) . This producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee. 
 
 Fine Ground Coffee  -- 15% (national share)
 Coarse Ground Coffee  -- 7% (national share)

These are % values.

If Total Exports (Fine Ground Coffee) = 100 & Total Exports (Coarse Ground Coffee) = 300
 Fine Ground Coffee < Coarse Ground Coffee

If Total Exports (Fine Ground Coffee) = 300 & Total Exports (Coarse Ground Coffee) = 100
 Fine Ground Coffee > Coarse Ground Coffee

It can not be ascertained that this producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee.

The correct option will be NO

(C) The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee.

Light Roast Coffee

Exporter (Rank 2) produces 32%
So, Exporter (Rank 1) produces higher than 32%

It can be ascertained that the top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee.

The correct option will be YES

NO, NO, YES

TenthCentury · Answer

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Sajjad1994 · Answer

Hello Everyone!

OA to this question is posted, It is:

No, No, and Yes

Most of the guys get it correct.

Sajjad1994 · Answer

Official Explanation

This producer is responsible for 53% of the nation’s sales of French roast coffee, but only 49% of its exports.

This producer has a bigger share of the nation’s exports of fineground coffee, but without knowing the actual amounts exported, it is impossible to tell which type this producer exports more of.

The grower shown in the table exports 32% of the nation’s light-roast coffee and is the nation’s second-biggest exporter of that type of coffee. Therefore, the biggest exporter must export more than 32%, so the top two exporters together export more than 64% of the nation’s total.

Answer: No, No, and Yes

Amrita01 · Answer

I have a doubt in the table, how can the 53% French roast sales can become 2nd rank? Doesn't that implies 1st rank greater than 53? how is it possible?

chetan2u · Answer

Yes, that is correct. There are certain more columns that do not seem to be logical.

SwethaReddyL · Answer

KarishmaB , is this question valid? could you please explain this
My answer was No, Yes, No

Thanks in advance

KarishmaB · Answer

The question is valid.

This producer is responsible for a majority of the nation's exports of French roast coffee.

This producer is responsible for 49% of the French roast export which is not majority. Majority means more than 50%.
Select No.

This producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee.

Amount of coffee is not mentioned anywhere. We only have percentages. How much of each coffee type is exported, we do not know at all. We only know the market share and export share of sales of each type.
Select No.

The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee.

This producer is responsible for 32% of export of light roast. It is ranked no. 2. This means that no. 1 ranked producer is responsible for more than 32% of light roast exports. Hence together they definitely make up more than 50% i.e. majority.
Select Yes.

Video on Table Analysis: https://youtu.be/41uPmg6ipos

SwethaReddyL · Answer

but  KarishmaB 
 This producer exports more fine-ground than coarse-ground coffee - here both the fine ground and coarse ground is of the same base right? and fine ground is 15% of National exports and coarse is 7% of National exports, is that not mean yes?

The top two exporters of light-roast coffee combined export a majority of the nation's light-roast coffee  - this confuses the most, the top 2 exporters  OF  light roast coffee - there is only one light roast coffee where does the first one come from? plus the rank is the National exports rank how can we infer the No 1 of light roast is higher than this? where does that come from?

Adit_ · Answer

Not KarishmaB, but I can help out maybe.

The column you are referring to is National Exports for THAT category.
If it were National Exports for all categories combined, the summation of percentage would add upto 100% (or less than 100%) but it clearly exceeds. So you can confirm it like that.

Hope it helps.

egmat · Answer

Hi SwethaReddyL,

You've put your finger on the two trickiest spots in this set. Let me take them one at a time.

Statement 2 - fine-ground vs. coarse-ground

The catch is that the  15%  and the  7%  are  not  slices of the same pie. Look at the "Exports, National Share (%)" column:

- Fine ground =  15%  of the nation's total fine-ground exports
- Coarse ground =  7%  of the nation's total coarse-ground exports

Different bases. The nation might export a huge amount of coarse-ground coffee and only a little fine-ground. So a smaller percentage of a bigger total can still be a larger  amount .

Quick rehearsal with round numbers:  15%  of  100  =  15 , but  7%  of  1,000  =  70 . The  7%  wins on actual quantity. Since the table never gives us those national totals, we can't say which the producer exports more of -  No .

Statement 3 - where does the "top exporter" come from?

You're right that there's only one Light-roast row, and it's  this  producer. The key is the  Exports, National Rank  cell for Light roast: it says  2 .

Rank  2  means this producer is the nation's  second-biggest  light-roast exporter - so there is some  other  producer sitting at rank  1 . That's where the "first one" comes from: the ranking itself tells us a bigger exporter exists.

Now the inference:

- This producer (rank  2 ) holds  32% .
- The rank- 1  producer must hold  more than 32%  (otherwise they couldn't be ranked ahead).
- Combined:  32%  + (more than  32% ) =  more than 64% , which clears  50% .

So the top two together export a  majority  -  Yes . We don't need the exact rank- 1  number; being ranked above  32%  is enough to guarantee it exceeds  32% .

Answer: Statement 1: No; Statement 2: No; Statement 3: Yes

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VARIETY	SALES, NATIONAL SHARE (%)	SALES, NATIONAL RANK	EXPORTS, NATIONAL SHARE (%)	EXPORTS, NATONAL RANK
Coarse ground	18	4	7	5
Dark roast	31	1	60	1
Espresso roast	12	4	87	1
Fine ground	20	5	15	4
French roast	53	2	49	2
Light roast	21	2	32	2
Medium ground	36	1	15	3
Medium roast	71	1	58	1
Whole bean	50	3	22	4

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