Question

Continuing from the soda ash data: Tata Chemicals' own natural and synthetic soda ash output was:

Year	Natural Soda Ash (MT)	Synthetic Soda Ash (MT)
2005	0	0.7
2007	0.4	2.2
2008	3.2	2.2

The world production chart, however, only plots totals for the years 2001 to 2006.

What is Tata Chemicals' share of global production in 2008?

• A. 12.86%
• B. 17.42%
• C. 59.34%
• D. Incomplete data.

Hint:

Check the world production chart's years before dividing: it stops at 2006, so there is no global total for 2008 to divide Tata's output by.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is D

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
Tata Chemicals' share of global production in 2008 would be Tata's own 2008 output divided by the world's total 2008 output, times 100.

Step 2: Key Formula or Approach:
Before doing any division, check that both the numerator and the denominator are actually available in the given charts.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
The Tata Chemicals chart does give us the numerator: in 2008 Tata made 3.2 MT of natural soda ash plus 2.2 MT of synthetic soda ash, so its own total output was 5.4 MT.
But the world production chart only plots bars for 2001 through 2006. It stops before 2008, so nowhere on either chart is there a figure for the world's total soda ash output in 2008.
Without that denominator, we cannot divide Tata's 5.4 MT by anything meaningful to get a genuine percentage. Any of the specific percentages offered (12.86%, 17.42%, 59.34%) would require inventing a world 2008 total that the data never gives us.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Since the world total for 2008 is missing, Tata's share of global production that year cannot be worked out from the given data.
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