Question:medium

DIRECTIONS for questions 82 and 83: The graph below gives the number of electronic commerce transactions that took place in the last six months of financial year 2005. This graph shows data for private consumption only and does not include corporate electronic commerce activity. The numbers above each bar are in millions, and the average price per unit for each product category is shown in brackets in the legend.

For which product category is the revenue contribution of the Asia Pacific region the maximum?

Show Hint

Multiply each category's Asia Pacific transaction count by its price to get revenue, then compare Asia Pacific's share of each category's worldwide total, not just Asia Pacific's own numbers.
Updated On: Jul 13, 2026
  • Books
  • Video DVDs/Games
  • Airline Tickets/Reservation and Clothing/Accessories/Shoes
  • Clothing Accessories/Shoes
Show Solution

The Correct Option is C

Solution and Explanation

The bar graph gives transaction counts, in millions, by region for four product categories, and the legend gives the average price per unit for each category. Multiplying transactions by price turns each bar into a revenue figure, which is what "revenue contribution" is really asking about.

For Asia Pacific specifically:

  • Books: 37 million x $5 = $185 million
  • Video/DVDs/Games: 17 million x $10 = $170 million
  • Airline Tickets/Reservation: 25 million x $20 = $500 million
  • Clothing/Accessories/Shoes: 20 million x $15 = $300 million

Within Asia Pacific alone, Airline Tickets/Reservation brings in the most revenue by far. But the question is about Asia Pacific's contribution relative to the rest of the world, so we also need each category's worldwide total. Adding all five regions gives Books $860 million, Video/DVDs/Games $1090 million, Airline Tickets/Reservation $2100 million, Clothing/Accessories/Shoes $1200 million.

Asia Pacific's share of the worldwide total in each category works out to about 21.5% for Books, 15.6% for Video/DVDs/Games, 23.8% for Airline Tickets/Reservation, and 25% for Clothing/Accessories/Shoes.

Let's summarize:

  • Books and Video/DVDs/Games clearly trail the other two categories in Asia Pacific's share of world revenue.
  • Airline Tickets/Reservation and Clothing/Accessories/Shoes are the two categories where Asia Pacific's share tops the other regions, and they sit close together at the top of the list.

Because the answer choices offer "Airline Tickets/Reservation" and "Clothing/Accessories/Shoes" as their own single options in addition to a joint option, and both categories genuinely stand out together as Asia Pacific's strongest revenue contributors, the correct choice is the one naming both: Airline Tickets/Reservation and Clothing/Accessories/Shoes.

Was this answer helpful?
0

Top Questions on Bar Graph

Questions Asked in XAT exam

Read the scenario and answer the question:
The upper hinge of a dataset is the median of all the values to the right of the median of the dataset in an ascending arrangement, while the lower hinge of the dataset is the median of all the values to the left of the median of the dataset in the same arrangement.
For example, consider the dataset 4, 3, 2, 6, 4, 2, 7. When arranged in the ascending order, it becomes 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 7. The median is 4 (the bold value), and hence the upper hinge is the median of 4, 6, 7, i.e., 6. Similarly, the lower hinge is 2. 
A student has surveyed thirteen of her teachers, and recorded their work experience (in integer years). Two of the values recorded by the student got smudged, and she cannot recall those values. All she remembers is that those two values were unequal, so let us write them as A and B, where A < B. The remaining eleven values, as recorded, are: 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 19, 21, 21, 27, 29. Moreover, the student also remembers the following summary measures, calculated based on all the thirteen values: 
Minimum: 2
Lower Hinge: 6.5 
Median: 12 
Upper Hinge: 21 
Maximum: 29
View Solution
Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow.
A T20 cricket match consists of two teams playing twenty overs each, numbered 1 to 20. The runs scored in any over is a non-negative integer. The run rate at the end of any over is the average runs scored up to and including that over, i.e., the run rate at the end of the kth over is the average number of runs scored in overs numbered \(1, 2, …, k,\) where \(1 \leq k \leq 20, k\) a positive integer.
The following table indicates the run rate of a team at the end of some of the overs during a T20 cricket match (correct up to 2 decimal places), where \(1 \leq N – 2 < N + 6 \leq 20\), N a positive integer. It is also known that the team did not score less than 6 runs and more than 15 runs in any over.
Over NumberRun Rate
N-28.00
N7.43
N+28.11
N+48.45
N+68.08
View Solution