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Question
Try yourself
- Next time when you watch your favourite TV programme, count the number of advertisements during each break. Use tally marks. Put a dot below the tally when you find children in any advertisement.
- Compare with your friends. Do you get different answers?
Solution
The tally mark is as follows:
| Break | Tally marks | Number of advertisement |
| First | |||| |||| || | 12 |
| Second | |||| |||| ||| | 13 |
| THird | |||| |||| ||| | 13 |
| Fourth | |||| |||| ||| | 13 |
When I compared my chart with my friend’s chart, I found a difference.
The other friend was not watching the same programme.
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