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Question
Use the bar graph (see the given figure) to answer the following question.
How many students have dog as a pet?
Solution
The number of students having dog as a pet is 8.
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Use the bar graph (see the given figure) to answer the following question.
Which is the most popular pet?
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- About how many books were sold in 1989? 1990? 1992?
- In which year were about 475 books sold? About 225 books sold?
- In which years were fewer than 250 books sold?
- Can you explain how you would estimate the number of books sold in 1989?
The following table shows the number of Buses and Trucks in nearest lakh units. Draw percentage bar-diagram. (Approximate the percentages to the nearest integer)
| Year | No. of Trucks | No. of Buses |
| 2006-2007 | 47 | 9 |
| 2007-2008 | 56 | 13 |
| 2008-2009 | 60 | 16 |
| 2009-2010 | 63 | 18 |
Try yourself
On any one day, choose any three cities and record their temperature from the TV or newspaper.
- Make a bar chart in your notebook and ask your friends a few questions about it. See if they understand your chart!
The graph given below shows the marks obtained out of 10 by Sonia in two different tests. Study the graph and answer the questions that follow.
- What information is represented by the axes?
- In which subject did she score the highest in Test I?
- In which subject did she score the least in Test II?
- In which subject did she score the same marks in both the Tests?
- What are the marks scored by her in English in Test II?
- In which test was the performance better?
- In which subject and which test did she score full marks?
The following chart gives the growth in height in terms of percentage of full height of boys and girls with their respective ages.
| Age (in years) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
18 |
| Boys | 72% | 75% | 78% | 81% | 84% | 88% | 92% | 95% | 98% | 99% | 100% |
| Girls | 77% | 81% | 84% | 88% | 91% | 95% | 98% | 99% | 99.5% | 100% | 100% |
Draw the line graph of above data on the same sheet and answer the following questions.
- In which year both the boys and the girls achieve their maximum height?
- Who grows faster at puberty (14 years to 16 years of age)?
In a bar graph, the width of bars may be unequal.
In a bar graph, ______ can be drawn horizontally or vertically.
Study the double bar graphs given below and answer the following questions:
- Which sport is liked the most by Class VIII students?
- How many students of Class VII like Hockey and Tennis in all?
- How many students are there in Class VII?
- For which sport is the number of students of Class VII less than that of Class VIII?
- For how many sports students of Class VIII are less than Class VII?
- Find the ratio of students who like Badminton in Class VII to students who like Tennis in Class VIII.
Observe the given data:
| Days of the week |
Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
| Number of Mobile Phone Sets Sold |
50 | 45 | 30 | 55 | 27 | 60 |
- Draw a bar graph to represent the above given information.
- On which day of the week was the sales maximum?
- Find the total sales during the week.
- Find the ratio of the minimum sale to the maximum sale.
- Calculate the average sale during the week.
- On how many days of the week was the sale above the average sales?
