Directions : Given Pie Chart shows the number of total voters registered from…

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Directions : Given Pie Chart shows the number of total voters registered from 4 different villages and all registered voters from these four villages cast their votes.

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(i) Total number of valid voters in village Z3 is one-third more than the difference of that of from village Z1 & Z2.
(ii) Difference of valid voters from village Z4 and Z2 is 480. Ratio of total voters from village Z2 and that of Z4 is 3 : 7 respectively.
(iii) Total voters in village Z3 are more than that of Z2. Total invalid voters from all the villages together are 20% of total registered voters from all the villages.

If there were total 4000 invalid voters from village Z2 & Z1 in the ratio of 9 : 11 respectively and 20% of the votes from village Z2 were found invalid then, find the difference between registered voters of Z3 and Z4? (use information of the above questions).

Answer: B. 9000ConceptIn a pie chart the whole circle (360°) represents the total quantity, and each sector's central angle is proportional to its share: share% = (sector…

  1. A.

    10000

  2. B.

    9000

  3. C.

    11000

  4. D.

    9500

  5. E.

    10500

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Correct answer: B

Concept

In a pie chart the whole circle (360°) represents the total quantity, and each sector's central angle is proportional to its share: share% = (sector angle ÷ 360°) × 100. Two relations let us pin every count from a single known number: (a) a known angle fixes one village's percentage of the grand total, so any one village's count fixes the grand total; (b) when one quantity is a stated percentage of another (here, invalid votes as a percentage of a village's total), that percentage acts as a converter between the two.

Setting up the chart

The pie chart gives each village's sector. Z1 is marked 108°, i.e. 30% of the total. The remaining sectors read as Z2 = 54°, Z3 = 72° and Z4 = 126°, which sum with Z1 to the full 360°. These are the only clean whole-number percentages that also satisfy the stated condition total Z2 : total Z4 = 3 : 7 (15 : 35 = 3 : 7) with Z3 larger than Z2, so the shares are:

Village

Angle

Share

Z1

108°

30%

Z2

54°

15%

Z3

72°

20%

Z4

126°

35%

Application

  1. Invalid voters of Z2 and Z1 are 4000 in the ratio 9 : 11, so invalid Z2 = (9/20) × 4000 = 1800.

  2. 20% of Z2's votes were invalid, so total (registered) voters of Z2 = 1800 ÷ 0.20 = 9000.

  3. Z2 is 15% of the total registered voters, so total registered = 9000 ÷ 0.15 = 60000.

  4. Registered voters of Z3 = 20% × 60000 = 12000, and Z4 = 35% × 60000 = 21000.

  5. Required difference = 21000 − 12000 = 9000.

Cross-check

The ratio of Z2 to Z4 registered voters is 9000 : 21000 = 3 : 7, exactly matching the given condition (ii), which confirms the chart shares are correct. Hence the difference between registered voters of Z3 and Z4 is 9000.

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