Study the following Table carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Note: Teacher Pupil Ratio = ‘n’ implies that there is 1 teacher for every ‘n’ students on an average;
Q16. In 2010-11, 80% of the students graduated to High School from Upper Primary School. The number of teachers that is to be added, in percentage terms, to the High Schools in order to keep the Teacher Pupil Ratio same as that of Upper Primary School is?
(d) 25%
This is irrespective of the number of students graduating.
Let, the number of students in High School=100;
No. of teachers=100/25 = 4;
To increase the teacher pupil ratio to 20, the number of teachers should be 100/20 = 5;
% One teacher should be added to the already existing 4. i.e. 25% increase in the no. of teachers