Free GMAT Practice Question

A certain research institute funds four programmes. Panel A shows the institute's total expenditure in each of five years. Panel B shows how that total was divided among the four programmes in 2019 and again in 2023, each programme's figure being its share of the institute's total expenditure for that year.

On the basis of this information, select from each drop-down menu the option that creates the most accurate statement.

Expenditure on Instruments in 2023 exceeded expenditure on Instruments in 2019 by --- Select ---1560150250 percent.

The number of programmes whose share of total expenditure was smaller in 2023 than in 2019 but whose expenditure in dollars was larger in 2023 than in 2019 is --- Select ---124.