Section C: Quantitative Ability

 

Answer question no 85 based on the following information:

 

Data on an ongoing football leaguer of a country is given below. 20 teams are playing in the league. The rules of the league are as follows.

1.    Each team plays all the other teams twice, once in its home ground, and once in the opponent’s home ground. These matches are known as the “Home” match and the “Away” match respectively.

2.    A win results in 3 points, a draw in 1 point, and a loss in 0 point for the team

3.    The number of goals a team scores is termed as “Goals For” and the number of goals it concedes is termed as “Goals Against”. We get the “Goal Difference” by subtracting “Goals Against” from “Goals For”.

 

 

The ranking of the teams is decided on the total points. If two teams are tied on the their total points, the team which has a higher Goal Difference gets the higher rank. If the tie cannot be resolved on Goal Difference, Goals For is checked followed by Goals Against. If the tie persists, the teams are ranked in the ascending order of their names

 

Table 1 provides data on the current top 13 teams based on the overall situation, i.e. by taking into account both home matches and away matches of each team.

 

Table 2 provides data on the current top 13 teams based on home matches only

Chart 1 provides a plot of the goal difference of each of the 13 teams based on the overall situation

 

Table 1

 

Overall

Team

M

W

D

GF

Ch

3

3

0

8

SW

3

2

1

10

WB

3

2

1

6

MC

3

2

1

8

MU

3

2

0

6

WH

3

2

0

4

EV

3

2

0

4

AS

3

1

2

2

WG

3

1

1

4

NC

3

1

1

3

FU

3

1

0

7

ST

3

0

3

3

SU

2

0

2

2

 

Table 2

Home

Team

M

W

D

GF

GA

WB

2

2

0

5

0

WH

2

2

0

4

0

CH

2

2

0

6

2

MC

2

2

0

6

3

SW

2

1

1

5

2

NC

2

1

1

3

2

FU

1

1

0

5

0

EV

1

1

0

1

0

MU

1

1

0

3

2

TOT

2

0

2

2

2

NW

1

0

1

1

1

AS

1

0

1

0

0

ST

1

0

1

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chart 1

 


85.  Considering away matches only, which of the following teams is the second ranking team?

A.    AS 

B.    CH

C.   WG

D.   SW

E.    WB

 

Solution:

AS would be ranked first and SW would be ranked second (* Three options – AS, SW and WG are possible depending on whether WG scored 1 or 0 points at home. All question of this set are solved only considering teams, for which the records of both overall and home matches are given).                                                                                                                                                                                           Choice (D)