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I agree Carcass, but why he assumed it was 1000 stolen vehicles? And why he assumed that the population must be increased?

The solution posted is partial, missing the last key sentence.



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I have got the general paradigm for solving this question as you can assume the initial number of stolen cars to be any number from 100 to 1 billion, but you will always get the same ratio always. But the logic of combining everything altogether and assuming that it increased is still vague to me.

I do not think honestly this is a good question.

Actually, you can perform the difference between 22.4 -19.4 = 3

However, considering that the population had a major increase during those years than the theft of the vehicle, the difference is not 3 but slightly more.

D is the answer. But is not a very clear question.
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Is the question incomplete? There are no numbers to being with. How are assuming how many cars were stolen? How do we know 806 cars were stolen? i am so lost. Is this from an actual test?

You didnt read carefully the OE above.

It says that alike the previous question in the book you have to compute a % decrease.

Read now above, I have fixed it.

Hope now is more clear to you.

Regards
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carcass please the explain the question using other solution other than that is mentioned above

This is NOT a good question at a closer look.

The graph mentions of offenses in general and then the explanation talks about vehicles and cars which is not the same thing, strictly consider.

Practice with tons of questions on the board on the hard side yet OFFICIAL question. Do not waste your time here

Data Interpretation HARD questions

Regards
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Is there missing any info ?
I think, enough data is not exist here.

Percentage of cases in 94 = (Number of cases in 94)/(Population in 94)*100 - (1)
Percentage of cases in 98 = (Number of cases in 98)/(Population in 98)*100 - (2)

Percentage of cases in 98 = (100-22.4)/100 * (Percentage of cases in 94) - (3)
Number of cases in 98 = (100-19.4)/100 * (Number of cases in 94) - (4)

Substituting (3) and (4) in (2)

77.6/100 * (Percentage of cases in 94) = 80.6/100 * (Number of cases in 94)/(Population in 98)*100 - (5)

Divide (5) by (1) to get the following

77.6 = 80.6 * (Population in 94)/(Population in 98)

(Population in 98)/(Population in 94) = 1.03866

Subtract 1 from both sides
(Population in 98)/(Population in 94)-1= 1.03866-1
[(Population in 98)-(Population in 94)]/(Population in 94) = 0.03866

So the percentage change is 0.03866*100 = 3.866% = approximately 4% (D)

It took me way too long to come up with the logic of how to solve this problem!