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Observe this bar graph which is showing the sale of shirts in a ready made shop from Monday to Saturday.


Now answer the following questions:


(a) What information does the above bar graph give?


(b) What is the scale chosen on the horizontal line representing number of shirts?


(c) On which day was the maximum number of shirts sold? How many shirts were dols on that day?


(d) On which day was the minimum number of shirts sold?


(e) How many shirts were sold on Thursday?

The parts of the questions are solved below:

(a) The bar graph represents the number of shirts sold from Monday to Saturday.


(b) The scale of the horizontal line representing the number of shirts is chosen as:


1 unit = 5 shirts


(c) From the given bar graph we can observe that,


The maximum shirts were sold on Saturday with a total number of 60 shirts.


(d) From the given bar graph we can observe that,


The minimum shirts were sold on Tuesday with a total number of 10 shirts.


(e) 35 shirts were sold on Thursday.


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A total number of students of a school in different years is shown in the following table:














Years



Number of Students



1996


1998


2000


2002


2004



400


535


472


600


623



A. Prepare a pictograph of students using one symbol to represent 100 students and answer the following questions:


(a) How many symbols represent total number of students in the year 2002?


(b) How many symbols represent total number of students for the year 1998?


B. Prepare another pictograph of students using any other symbol each representing 50 students. Which pictograph do you find more informative?

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The bar graph given alongside shows the amount of wheat purchased by the government during the years 1998-2002.


Read the bar graph and write down your observations. In which year was


(a) The wheat purchased maximum?


(b) In which year was the wheat purchased minimum?

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Observe this bar graph which shows the marks obtained by Aziz in half-yearly examination in different subjects


Answer the given questions:


(a) What information does the bar graph give?


(b) Name the subject in which Aziz scored maximum marks.


(c) Name the subject in which he has scored minimum marks.


(d) State the name of the subjects and marks obtained in each of them

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A survey of 120 school students was done to find which activity they prefer to do in their free time











Preferred activity



Number of students



Playing


Reading story books


Watching TV


Listening to music


Painting



45


30


20


10


15



Draw a bar graph to illustrate the above data taking scale of 1 unit length = 5 students.


Which activity is preferred by most of the students other than playing?