CAT DILR Questions | CAT Data Tabulation questions

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The following is the wholesale price index (WPI) of a select list of items with the base year of 1993-94. In other words, all the item prices are made 100 in that year (1993-94). Prices in all other years for an item are measured with respect to its price in the base year. For instance, the price of cement went up by 1% in 1994-95 as compared to 1993-94. Similarly, the price of power went up by 3% in 1996-97 as compared to 1993-94.

CAT/2003

Question . 187

Which item(s) experienced only one decline in price during the ten-year period?

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Method of solving this CAT DILR Question from Data Tabulation question

(d) The table clearly shows that the price of timber & wages decline only once in 1998-99 and 1999-00 respectively.