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The students of Class V went to an adventure park with their teacher. They were asked to
give choices about their favourite activity. The following pictograph shows the choices of
the students.

Activity Number of students

Bungee jumping

Rope climbing

Giant wheel

Boating

Dancing car

Key: = 5 students

Answer the following questions after studying the data from the above table.

1. How many students like rope climbing?
2. Which is the most preferred adventure activity?

3. Which is the least preferred adventure activity?
4. What is the total number of students who like bungee jumping and giant wheel?

5. What is the difference between the number of students who like dancing car and rope
climbing?
6. How many students are there in Class V?

7. What is your favourite adventure activity?

Data

Data is a collection of facts, such as numbers, words,
measurements, observations or just description of things. Knowledge Desk
The collection of data is done keeping in mind the specific The collection of
information in the
information needed from the data. form of numbers is
Suppose your maths teacher wants to measure the performance called numeric data.
of the students of Class V in maths test, so the teacher will collect data in the form of
marks obtained by each student in the test.
When we collect data, we have to record and organise to make it easy to understand.

For data to be meaningful and useful, the items of data must be gathered or captured and
recorded in a systematic manner.

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