**The table below shows the quarterly sales (in lakh units) of four pr…

Question

**The table below shows the quarterly sales (in lakh units) of four product categories of a company in 2025.**

| Quarter | Phones | Laptops | Tablets | TVs |
|---------|-------:|--------:|--------:|----:|
| Q1      |     25 |      15 |      10 |   8 |
| Q2      |     30 |      20 |      12 |  10 |
| Q3      |     35 |      18 |      15 |  12 |
| Q4      |     40 |      25 |      18 |  15 |

**Annual totals.** Phones = 130, Laptops = 78, Tablets = 55, TVs = 45. Grand total = 308 lakh units.

**Question.** Approximately, what percentage less were the annual Tablet sales compared to annual Phone sales?

Accepted Answer

B. $57.7\%$

**Set up.** Phones $= 130$, Tablets $= 55$. Difference $= 75$.
**Percentage less.** $\dfrac{75}{130} 	imes 100 \approx 57.69\% \approx 57.7\%$.
**Why option D ($75\%$) is tempting.** A naive reading uses the raw difference $75$ as a percentage — but the percentage *less* is relative to the larger base (Phones), so we divide by $130$, not by $100$.
**Why option A ($50\%$) is tempting.** Estimating $55$ as roughly half of $130$ gets you close but undercounts.

Answer

$50\%$

Answer

$65\%$

Answer

$75\%$