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A survey conducted by an organisation for the cause of illness and death among the women between the ages 15 - 44 (in years) worldwide, found the following figures (in %):













S. No.



Causes



Female fatality rate (%)



1.


2.


3.


4.


5.


6.



Reproductive health conditions


Neuropsychiatric conditions


Injuries


Cardiovascular conditions


Respiratory conditions


Other causes



31.8


25.4


12.4


4.3


4.1


22.0



(i) Represent the information given above graphically.


(ii) Which condition is the major cause of women’s ill health and death worldwide?


(iii) Try to find out, with the help of your teacher, any two factors which play a major role in the cause in (ii) above being the major cause.

The parts of the questions are solved below:

(i) The data is represented below graphically:



(ii) From the above graphical data, we observe that reproductive health condition is the major cause of women’s ill health and death worldwide.


(iii) The two factors that are responsible for the ill health and death of women worldwide due to reproductive health conditions are mentioned below:


 The lack of proper care and understanding.


 Lack of medical facilities in the various regions of the world.


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1 6 2 3 5 12 5 8 4 8


10 3 4 12 2 8 15 1 17 6


3 2 8 5 9 6 8 7 14 12


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(ii) How many children watched television for 15 or more hours a week?

9

A company manufactures car batteries of a particular type. The lives (in years) of 40such batteries were recorded as follows:

2.6 3.0 3.7 3.2 2.2 4.1 3.5 4.5


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4.6 3.8 3.2 2.6 3.5 4.2 2.9 3.6


Construct a grouped frequency distribution table for this data, using class intervals of size 0.5 starting from the interval 2 - 2.5

2

The following data on the number of girls (to the nearest ten) per thousand boys indifferent sections of Indian society is given below.











Section



Number of girls per thousand boys



Scheduled Caste (SC)


Scheduled Tribe (ST)


Non SC/ST


Backward districts


Non-Backward districts


Rural


Urban



940


970


920


950


920


930


910



(i) Represent the information above by a bar graph.


(ii) In the classroom discuss what conclusions can be arrived at from the graph.

3

Given below are the seats won by different political parties in the polling outcome ofa state assembly elections:





















Political Party



A



B



C



D



E



F



Seats Won



75



55



37



29



10



37



(i) Draw a bar graph to represent the polling results.


(ii) Which political party won the maximum number of seats?