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• Drawing and presenting: Draw two columns representing the category and the data. Make the
symbols according to the considered scale to represent the frequencies. If the frequency is not
a whole, then the symbol can be divided into halves, quarters, etc., depending on our

requirement to represent the fractional part.
During COVID, online classes were in rampant use. Look at Activity Time spent
the data representing the average hours spent by students Online classes 4 hours
of a particular school on different activities. Make a suitable
pictograph for this data. Using gadgets 4 hours
Self-study 2 hour
All data given in the tabular form talks about time, so let us
Sleeping 9 hours
use the picture of a clock to represent time. If we assume
Yoga and swimming 2 hours
1 = 2 hours, then obviously 1 hour will be represented by TV 3 hours

half picture of the clock . Let us represent the data from the

table pictographically using the chosen symbol.

Activity Time spent

Online classes

Using gadgets

Self-study

Sleeping

Yoga and swimming

TV

Key: = 1 hour and = 2 hours

Example 4: The table given below shows the number of newspapers supplied by a distributor over
a period of 7 months.

Months January February March April May June July
No. of newspapers
supplied 35000 15000 25000 20000 25000 30000 10000

Prepare a pictograph to represent the above information and then answer the following questions:
(a) In which months were the same number of newspapers supplied?

(b) In which month were the least number of newspapers supplied?

(c) How many newspapers were supplied over a period of 7 months?

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