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Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions:

(a) Which merchant sold the maximum number of baskets?
(b) How many fruit baskets were sold by Anwar?
(c) The merchants who have sold 600 or more baskets are planning to buy a godown for the next
season. Can you name them?
5. The sales of bicycles on different days of Days Number of bicycles sold (1 = 10 bicycles)
the week are shown in the pictograph:
Observe the pictograph and answer the Monday
following questions: Tuesday

(a) On which day of the week was the Wednesday
maximum number of bicycles sold? Thursday

(b) On which day of the week was the Friday
minimum number of bicycles sold?
(c) How many bicycles were sold on Saturday
Tuesday?
6. In the solved example 7, prepare a pictograph by taking the key as 1 = 100 kites and answer the
following questions:
(a) What is the total number of kites Magan Bhai has sold?
(b) How many symbols represent the kites that Jasmeet purchased?
(c) What is the difference between the maximum and minimum number of symbols used in the
pictograph?
(d) What is the difference between the symbols representing the kites purchased by Jasmeet and
Jetha Lal?

(e) What is the sum of the symbols representing Chaman, Rukhsana and Poonam Ben?
7. Weights of 25 students are recorded as under (in kg).
30, 35, 26, 32, 40, 35, 30, 35, 32, 38, 30, 28, 28,
35, 40, 35, 30, 32, 38, 26, 35, 40, 30, 28, 26.

(a) Arrange the above data in tabular form using tally marks.
(b) What is the weight of (i) the maximum number of students? (ii) the minimum number of students?
(c) How many students have a weight less than 30 kg?

4.5 BAR GRAPH

Just like pictographs, bar graphs help us to quickly understand and interpret data. The only difference is that in
place of symbols or pictures we use bars or rectangles to represent and interpret the information given by data.

How to Draw a Bar Graph

Step 1: Draw Two Axes

First, we draw two lines perpendicular to each other — one horizontal and the other vertical. They are also called
the horizontal axis (or x-axis) and vertical axis (or y-axis). If the bars (rectangles) are drawn on the horizontal
line, they grow vertically upwards, and the heights of the bars are along the vertical line. If the bars are drawn

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