Assessment Test 1

Between which three years was there an average of 1,553 employees for one of the Subsidiary Companies?

Note: the entire workforce of the parent company comprises only the employees of its five subsidiary companies

In 2008 subsidiary company 4 comprised 2 regions with double the number of employees in one region compared to the other. If the ratio of male:female employees in the smaller region was 1:1.15, what was this region’s number of male employees?

Note: the entire workforce of the parent company comprises only the employees of its five subsidiary companies

1 in 15 of the parent company’s part-time employees were managers in 2005, and 1 in 13 part-time employees were managers in 2007. What was the difference in the number of part-time managers in 2005 compared to 2007?

Note: the entire workforce of the parent company comprises only the employees of its five subsidiary companies

What % of the Parent Company’s total employees worked for Subsidiary 5 in 2006 (to the nearest whole %)?

Note: the entire workforce of the parent company comprises only the employees of its five subsidiary companies

In 2009 what was the absolute difference between the Parent Company’s full-time employees and part-time employees (if Number of employees = Full-time employees + part-time employees)?

Note: the entire workforce of the parent company comprises only the employees of its five subsidiary companies

For which laptop, or laptops, is the difference between the manufacturing cost and the design cost less than 20% of the manufacturing cost?

Put the laptop models in order of increasing mark-up (Mark-up = Price – Costs).

If the same number of each model was sold last month and total sales were £220,000, how many of each model were sold? Prices have remained the same.

Which of the following would generate the highest total amount at the sale prices shown?

The current exchange rate for US Dollars to the Pound is 1.62 USD to 1 Pound. How much would it cost a customer in the USA to purchase a Faze laptop once a discount of 12% has been applied? Assuming that the USA prices are equivalent to that in the UK and do not include a sale price fraction.

In which country was there the second highest number of people searching who were buying goods/services online?

In which country was there the second lowest number of people searching who were selling goods/services online?

Of those in the UK that buy goods/services online they spend on average £1.50 per month. Approximately, what is the total annual spend from this group of people?

Tip: make sure you use the number of people actually buying goods/services, as opposed to people just searching.

If the three countries I.U.I. (Ireland, UK, Italy) are grouped together and the other two countries S.A. (Sweden, Australia) are also grouped together, what is the difference between the total number of searches per I.U.I. country and the total number of searches per S.A. country?

Which country has the lowest number of online searches per person searching?

In which year, or years, was Television advertising revenue less than 22.5% of the year’s total advertising revenue?

Which of the following two media are predicted together to generate £6.15 billion of advertising revenue in 2011?

If the Internet advertising forecast for 2011 is expected to split into mobile: display advertising in a 1:4 ratio, what is the mobile forecast?

If the same absolute trends in advertising revenue from 2009 to 2010 continue for 2010 to 2011, then what will be the 2011 advertising revenue for Television and Internet combined?

If in 2009 an external market force had reduced the year’s advertising revenue from Newspapers by 10% and from the Internet by 20%, then what was the total 2009 advertising revenue?

Of the regions shown, what was the difference between the highest and the lowest trade balance in 2008?

If Japan’s exports value increased by 1/5th between 2008 and 2009 then what was Japan’s imports value in 2009?

Compared to 2009, the UK’s trade balance is expected to increase by 3.5% in 2010 and China’s trading balance is expected to decrease by 4.4%. What is the difference between the 2010 trade balance forecasts for these countries (to the nearest $million)?

Which region or regions have experienced a decrease in their trade balance between 2008 and 2009?

What is the trading balance range (highest minus lowest) for the five regions between 2008-2009?

If the number of annual births are distributed evenly across the year and they remain constant at the levels shown, then how many months will it take for Outer London‘s population to increase by 245,000? (Ignoring death rate)

Which country or countries shown have a population of less than 2.9 million people?

What is the population of Inner and Outer London combined (to the nearest 100,000)?

How many babies are born on average as twin births in Wales over five years? (Assume that the annual birth rate and number of births remains the same across the five years).

What percent of births are male across the 5 Regions shown?