Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
The number of scouts in a school is depicted by the following pictograph:
| Class | Number of scouts  = 10 scouts |
| VI |  |
| VII |  |
| VIII |  |
| IX |  |
| X |  |
Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions:
(a) Which class has the minimum number of scouts?
(b) Which class has the maximum number of scouts?
(c) How many scouts are there in Class VI?
(d) Which class has exactly four times the scouts as that of Class X?
(e) What is the total number of scouts in the Classes VI to X?
Solution
| Class | Number of scouts |
| VI | 4 × 10 = 40 |
| VII | 2 × 10 = 20 |
| VIII | 6 × 10 = 60 |
| IX | 3 × 10 = 30 |
| X | 1 × 10 = 10 |
| Total | 160 |
(a) Class X has minimum number of scouts.
(b) Class VIII has maximum number of scouts.
(c) There are 40 scouts in Class VI.
(d) Class VI has exactly four times the scouts as that of Class X.
(e) Total number of scouts in the Classes VI to X is 160.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
The sale of vehicles, in a particular city, during the first six months of the year 2016 is shown below:
| Month | Jan | Feb | March | April | May | June |
| Number of vehicles sold | 3000 | 2500 | 4000 | 1000 | 1500 | 3500 |
Draw a pictograph to represent the above data.
A Pictograph is also known as _____________
Mr. Dinesh collected the information about the rainfall of a particular city in a week from the newspaper and recorded his information in the pictograph.
| Millimeters of Rain | |
| Sunday |  |
| Monday |  |
| Tuesday |  |
| Wednesday |  |
| Thursday |  |
| Friday |  |
| Saturday |  |
a. On which day, the rain was most?
b. On which day, the rain was least?
c. How much rain was there on Sunday?
d. How much rain was there on Monday?
e. Find total rainfall of the city in that week?
Pictographs and bar graphs are pictorial representations of the numerical data.
A ______ represents data through pictures of objects.
In a pictograph, if a symbol 
represents 20 flowers in a basket then 
stands for ______ flowers.
Following pictograph represents some surnames of people listed in the telephone directory of a city
| Surname | Number of people  = 100 people |
| Khan |  |
| Patel |  |
| Rao |  |
| Roy |  |
| Saikia |  |
| Singh |  |
Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions:
(a) How many people have surname ‘Roy’?
(b) Which surname appears the maximum number of times in the telephone directory?
(c) Which surname appears the least number of times in the directory?
(d) Which two surnames appear an equal number of times?
Students of Class VI in a school were given a task to count the number of articles made of different materials in the school. The information collected by them is represented as follows:
| Material used | Articles  = 20 articles |
| Wood |  |
| Glass |  |
| Metal |  |
| Rubber |  |
| Plastic |  |
Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions:
(a) Which material is used in maximum number of articles?
(b) Which material is used in minimum number of articles?
(c) Which material is used in exactly half the number of articles as those made up of metal?
(d) What is the total number of articles counted by the students?
The number of bottles of cold drinks sold by a shopkeeper on six consecutive days is as follows:
| Day | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Number of bottles | 350 | 200 | 300 | 250 | 100 | 150 |
Prepare a pictograph of the data using one symbol to represent 50 bottles.
Annual expenditure of a company in the year 2007-2008 is given below:
| Items | Expenditure (Rs in lakh) |
| Salaries of employees | 65 |
| Advertisement | 10 |
| Purchase of machiner | 85 |
| Electricity and water | 15 |
| Transportation | 25 |
| Other expenses | 30 |
Prepare a pictograph of the above data using an appropriate symbol to represent Rs 10 lakh.
