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Answer the following questions on the basis of the data given below.

Jamshedpur Electronics sells Television sets and IPods through three retail outlets located in Bistupur, Sakchi and Kadma. The table below gives the sales figures (in Rupees thousand) of these two products for the months of January, February and March.



Note: Units ordered = Units sold + Ending inventory - Beginning inventory. All other things remain constant, and all Rupee figures are in thousands.

For Jamshedpur Electronics, the beginning inventory in January was 720 units for Television and 1800 units for IPods, and the ending inventory in January was 840 units for Television and 1920 units for IPods.

Additional data: in the month of February, 1050 units of Television and 2400 units of IPods were sold across all three areas put together.

How many units of Television and IPods, respectively, did Jamshedpur Electronics order for the month of January?

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Use February's sales to find the price per unit for each product, then apply that same price to January's sales value.
Updated On: Jul 10, 2026
  • 1020, 2270
  • 1020, 2370
  • 2270, 1030
  • 1030, 2370
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The Correct Option is B

Solution and Explanation

Instead of pulling the unit price from February alone, we can cross check it using the full January to March totals given elsewhere for this same data set, since the price per unit stays fixed across all three months.

  1. Whole-quarter Television price: total Television sales value across January, February and March is $31500$ (Rupees thousand), and the total units sold over the same quarter is $3150$. So price per unit $= 31500/3150 = 10$, the same figure February alone would have given.
  2. Whole-quarter IPods price: total IPods sales value across the quarter is $100800$, and total units sold is $7200$. So price per unit $= 100800/7200 = 14$, again matching what February's own figures give.
  3. January units sold: using these confirmed prices on January's own sales values, Television units sold $= 9000/10 = 900$, and IPods units sold $= 31500/14 = 2250$.
  4. January units ordered: applying units ordered $=$ units sold $+$ ending inventory $-$ beginning inventory: Television $= 900 + 840 - 720 = 1020$; IPods $= 2250 + 1920 - 1800 = 2370$.

Getting the same unit prices from the whole quarter as from February alone confirms the price is genuinely fixed across the three months, so applying it to January is valid.

Let's summarize:

  • Both the full-quarter data and February's own data give a Television price of 10 and an IPods price of 14.
  • Applying these prices to January's sales values gives 900 Television units and 2250 IPods units sold, which then convert to 1020 and 2370 units ordered.

So Jamshedpur Electronics ordered 1020 units of Television and 2370 units of IPods for January.

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