CAT Data Interpretation questions with solutions
Tables and data sets analysed with percentages, averages and ratios. 110 questions from our 2016–2025 CAT pattern papers. Each has the answer and a full solution.
CAT 2025
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CAT 2021
- Credit Ratings of Six Firms: A credit rating agency scores six firms – Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon and Zeta – on four parameters: Liquidity…
- Tea Estate Production: A plantation company owns five tea estates. For the last season, the table gives each estate's plucking area, the green leaf…
- Bakery Production and Wastage: A neighbourhood bakery makes four items every morning – Bread (loaves), Buns, Croissants and Muffins. Whatever is not…
- Car Rental Fleet: ZoomWheels, a self-drive car rental company, operates in four cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune – and rents out four…
CAT 2020
- Online Course Enrolments: An online learning platform offers five courses. The first table gives the number of enrolments (in hundreds) in each…
- Sales Channels During the Pandemic: Ghar-Tak Retail sells groceries through four channels: its physical Stores, its Website, Phone orders, and a…
- Marks in Four Tests: Five students — Aditi, Bharat, Charu, Dev and Esha — took four tests (T1 to T4), each marked out of 50. All scores are whole…
CAT 2019
- Smartphone Market Shares: The table below gives the total number of smartphones sold in a country (in million units) in each of four years, and the…
- Runs in the Powerplay Overs: A cricket team scored runs in each of the first six overs (the 'powerplay') of its innings. The following information is…
- Relay Race Timings: Four teams – Aces, Bolts, Comets and Dashers – took part in a 4 × 400 m relay race. Each team had four runners, one for each leg.…
- Dividend Payouts: Meera holds shares of four listed companies – Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. The dividend declared by a company is expressed as a…
CAT 2018
- Airline Passengers and Seats: The tables below give the number of passengers carried (in thousands) and the number of seats offered (in thousands) by…
- Test Series Scores: Four batsmen — Arjun, Bala, Chetan and Dev — played all four Tests of a series, batting once in each Test. The table shows some…
- Restaurant Ratings: A food magazine rated six restaurants on four parameters, each on a scale of 1 to 10. The ratings are shown below. | Restaurant |…
CAT 2017
CAT 2016
- Regional Sales of a FMCG Company: The table below gives the sales (in ₹ crore) of a consumer-goods company in 2015, for four product categories…
- Meera's Investment Portfolio: On 1 January 2012, Meera invested ₹10,00,000 across four asset classes: 40% in Equity, 30% in Debt, 20% in Gold and 10%…
- Election Vote Shares: An election was contested by three candidates — A, B and C — across four constituencies, C1 to C4. The table below shows the…