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2. The table given below shows the data about the favourite activities of 35 students
of class V. Read the table and answer the following questions:
( a) What activity is liked by the most Activity Tally marks No. of students
students? Painting || 7

( b) What activity is liked by the least Dancing |||| 9
students? Singing 5

( c) How many students like reading? Reading ||| 3
Watching TV |||| 9
( d) How many students like singing,
dancing and painting in total? Swimming 5

( e) What is the difference between the number of students who like watching TV and
swimming?
3. Priya wanted to find out what is the most popular car colour. So, she stood outside

her house to see the running cars on the road and recorded the information about
the colours of 40 cars. Here is the data.

Red White White Yellow Blue Yellow Black Green
Green Black Red Green Blue Silver White Silver
White Blue Yellow Green Red Red Yellow Red

Blue Green Red Green White Green White Green
White Red Blue White White Yellow Yellow White
Represent the above information in a table using tally marks and answer the following
questions.

( a) How many white cars did Priya count?

( b) How many green cars did Priya count?
( c) What is the most popular car colour that she counted?

4. The approximate weight (in kg) of 20 students are given below:

43 40 47 53 40 47 55 57 53 47

57 55 47 53 40 55 53 43 40 57
Represent the data in tabular form using tally marks.

reaDing bar graPhs

When numeric data is represented using rectangular bars of different heights, it is called
a bar graph. It is a very effective way of representing data graphically. In a bar graph, the
bars are of equal width and have equal spaces between them.

A bar graph has:
( i) a title (ii) horizontal and vertical axes
(iii) labels on both the axes (iv) a suitable scale

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