Q3 of 26 Page 258

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?

The parts of the questions are solved below:

(i) The given polling results are represented by the bar graph below:



(ii) The party named A has won the maximum number of seats.


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1

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.

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.

4

The length of 40 leaves of a plant are measured correct to one millimetre, and the obtained data is represented in the following table:











Length (in mm)



Number of leaves



118 - 126


127 - 135


136 - 144


145 - 153


154 - 162


163 - 171


172 - 180



3


5


9


12


5


4


2



(i) Draw a histogram to represent the given data.


(ii) Is there any other suitable graphical representation for the same data?


(iii) Is it correct to conclude that the maximum number of leave are 153 mm long? Why?

5

The following table gives the life times of 400 neon lamps:











Life time (in hours)



Number of lamps



300 - 400


400 - 500


500 - 600


600 - 700


700 – 800


800 – 900


900 - 1000



14


56


60


86


74


62


48



(i) Represent the given information with the help of a histogram.


(ii) How many lamps have a life time of more than 700 hours?