Directions: Read the pie chart carefully and answer the following questions.

Note: No new employees joined the given banks of left the given banks from January 2015 to December 2015.

Q:

In December 2014, 4% of the candidates who applied for a job as Scale 1 officer were recruited in Bank A. If Bank A had 44 Scale 1 officers in 2014, what was the number of candidates who applied for the job?

• 1
  240
• 2
  450
• 3
  400
• 4
  250
• 5
  300