Harder numerical tests rarely ask for one number off one table. A typical question needs units sold from the first exhibit, the price from the second, and a footnote you skimmed past: "Units in thousands" or "1 euro = $1.25".
Before you touch the calculator, write the chain in a few words: units × 1,000 × price. Then check three things that cause most of the wrong answers:
- The units line under each table. Thousands and millions change the answer by a factor the options are built around.
- Margin against markup. Margin divides the profit by the price; markup divides it by the cost.
- The direction of a currency conversion. If 1 euro costs $1.25, dollars to euros is a divide.
The wrong options in these questions are the answers you get from each of those slips, so a careful chain matters more than speed.
Units sold, Q2: 36.5 (thousands)
Price per unit: $48
Revenue = 36.5 × 1,000 × 48 = $1,752,000
In euros at 1 euro = $1.20:
1,752,000 ÷ 1.20 = €1,460,000
Write the chain first: units, the thousands, the price, then the conversion.