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Loan balances by branch, split across mortgage, auto, personal, $MThree stacked bars, one per branch; each bar has three segments: mortgage, auto, personal, in millions of dollars.023.146.269.392.4115.59055Downtown383532Uptown303025HarborLoan balances ($M)MortgageAutoPersonal

The stacked bar chart below shows, for three bank branches (Downtown, Uptown, and Harbor), the loan balances outstanding at the end of last quarter, split across three loan products: mortgage, auto, and personal, in millions of dollars. Each bar is divided into three stacked segments, one per product. Select from each drop-down menu to complete the statement so that it is most accurate according to the data shown.

The branch with the largest total loan balances was , with total balances of .

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Answer & Explanation

Correct answer

1: Uptown · 2: $105 million

Each branch's bar stacks three loan products, and the blank asks for the branch with the largest total balances, which means adding all three segments for each branch, not eyeballing the biggest block.

Add the three products for each branch. Downtown has 90 in mortgages but only 5 and 5 in auto and personal, totaling 100. Uptown has 38, 35, and 32, totaling 105. Harbor has 30, 30, and 25, totaling 85. So Uptown has the largest total balances, at 105 million dollars.

The trap is Downtown's mortgage block. It is the single tallest segment on the whole chart at 90 million, and the eye reads tallest block as biggest branch. But Downtown's other two products are tiny, so its total is only 100 million, just short of Uptown's 105. Uptown has no single dominant product, but three healthy ones that add up to more. When the totals are close and one branch has a towering single segment, do not trust the eye; add the segments. The largest total balances belong to Uptown, at 105 million dollars.