UNIT 5

DATA HANDLING

In questions 1 to 5, out of the four options, only one is correct. write

the correct answer.

1. Using tally marks, which one of the following represents the number
eight:

(A) (B) (C) (D)

2. The marks (out of 10) obtained by 28 students in a Mathematics

test are listed as below:
8, 1, 2, 6, 5, 5, 5, 0, 1, 9, 7, 8, 0, 5, 8, 3, 0, 8, 10, 10, 3, 4, 8, 7, 8, 9,
2, 0
The number of students who obtained marks more than or equal to
5 is
(A) 13 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17

3. In question 2 above, the number of students who scored marks less

than 4 is
(A) 15 (B) 13 (C) 12 (D) 10

4. The choices of the fruits of 42 students in a class are as follows:

A , O , B , M , A , G , B , G , A , G ,

B , M , A , G , M , A , B , G , M , B ,
A , O , M , O , G , B , O , M , G , A ,
A , B , M , O , M , G , B , A , M , O , M , O,
 where A, B, G, M and O stand for the fruits Apple, Banana, Grapes,
Mango and Orange respectively.
Which two fruits are liked by an equal number of students?
(A) A and M (B) M and B (C) B and O (D) B and G

5. According to data of question 4, which fruit is liked by most of the

students?
(A) O (B) G (C) M (D) A

In questions 6 to 13, state whether the given statements are true (T) or
false (F).

6. In a bar graph, the width of bars may be unequal.

7. In a bar graph, bars of uniform width are drawn vertically only.

8. In a bar graph, the gap between two consecutive bars may not be the
same.

9. In a bar graph, each bar (rectangle) represents only one value of the
numerical data.

10. To represent the population of different towns using bar graph, it is

convenient to take one unit length to represent one person.

11. Pictographs and bar graphs are pictorial representations of the

numerical data.

12. An observation occurring five times in a data is recorded as

| | | | |, using tally marks.

13. In a pictograph, if a symbol represents 50 books in a library

shelf, then the symbol represents 25 books.

In questions 14 to 20, fill in the blanks to make the statements true:

14. A _______ is a collection of numbers gathered to give some meaningful
information.
15. The data can be arranged in a tabular form using _______ marks.
16. A _______ represents data through pictures of objects.
17. In a bar graph, ________ can be drawn horizontally or vertically.
18. In a bar graph, bars of ________ width can be drawn horizontally or
vertically with ________ spacing between them.
19. An observation occurring seven times in a data is represented as
________ using tally marks.

20. In a pictograph, if a symbol represents 20 flowers in a basket

then stands for ________ flowers.

21. On the scale of 1 unit length = 10 crore, the bar of length 6 units
will represent ________ crore and of ——— units will represent 75
crore.
22. In an examination, the grades achieved by 30 students of a class are
given below. Arrange these grades in a table using tally marks:

B, C, C, E, A, C, B, B, D, D, D, D, B, C, C, C, A, C, B, E, A, D,
C, B, E, C, B, E, C, D
23. The number of two wheelers owned individually by each of 50 families
are listed below. Make a table using tally marks.
1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3,
1, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1,
2, 3, 2, 1, 1
Find the number of families having two or more, two wheelers.
24. The lengths in centimetres (to the nearest centimetre) of 30 carrots
are given as follows:
15, 22, 21, 20, 22,15, 15, 20, 20,15, 20, 18,
20, 22, 21,

20, 21, 18, 21, 18, 20, 18, 21, 18, 22, 20,
15, 21, 18, 20
Arrange the data given above in a table using tally marks and answer
the following questions.
(a) What is the number of carrots which have length more than 20 cm?
 (b) Which length of the carrots occur maximum number of times?
Minimum number of times?

25. Thirty students were interviewed to find out what they want to be in
future. Their responses are listed as below:

doctor, engineer, doctor, pilot, officer, doctor, engineer, doctor, pilot,

officer, pilot, engineer, officer, pilot, doctor, engineer, pilot, officer,
doctor, officer, doctor, pilot, engineer, doctor, pilot, officer, doctor,
pilot, doctor, engineer
Arrange the data in a table using tally marks.

26. Following are the choices of games of 40 students of Class VI:

football, cricket, football, kho-kho, hockey, cricket, hockey, kho-kho,

tennis, tennis, cricket, football, football, hockey, kho-kho, football,
cricket, tennis, football, hockey, kho-kho, football, cricket, cricket,
football, hockey, kho-kho, tennis, football, hockey, cricket, football,
hockey, cricket, football, kho-kho, football, cricket, hockey, football.
(a) Arrange the choices of games in a table using tally marks.
(b) Which game is liked by most of the students?
(c) Which game is liked by minimum number of students?
27. Fill in the blanks in the following table which represents shirt size
of 40 students of a school.

Shirt size Tally Marks Number of students

30 3

32

34 8

36

38 10

40 7
28. Following pictograph represents some surnames of people listed in
the telephone directory of a city

Surname Number of people = 100 people

Khan

Patel

Rao

Roy

Saikia

Singh

Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions:

(a) How many people have surname ‘Roy’?
(b) Which surname appears the maximum number of times in the
telephone directory?
(c) Which surname appears the least number of times in the
directory?
(d) Which two surnames appear an equal number of times?

29. Students of Class VI in a school were given a task to count the

number of articles made of different materials in the school. The
information collected by them is represented as follows:
 Material used Articles = 20 articles

Wood

Glass

Metal

Rubber

Plastic

Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions:

(a) Which material is used in maximum number of articles?

(b) Which material is used in minimum number of articles?

(c) Which material is used in exactly half the number of articles as

those made up of metal?

(d) What is the total number of articles counted by the students?

30. The number of scouts in a school is depicted by the following

pictograph:

Class Number of scouts = 10 scouts

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X
 Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions:

(a) Which class has the minimum number of scouts?

(b) Which class has the maximum number of scouts?

(c) How many scouts are there in Class VI?

(d) Which class has exactly four times the scouts as that of Class
X?

(e) What is the total number of scouts in the Classes VI to X?

31. A survey was carried out in a certain school to find out the popular
school subjects among students of Classes VI to VIII. The data in
this regard is displayed as pictograph given below:

Subject Number of Students = 50 students

Hindi

English

Mathematics

Science

Social Studies

(a) Which subject is most popular among the students?

(b) How many students like Mathematics?

(c) Find the number of students who like subjects other than
Mathematics and Science.
32. The following pictograph depicts the information about the areas in
sqkm (to nearest hundred) of some districts of Chhattisgarh State:

District Area (in km2) = 1000sqkm

Raigarh

Rajnandgaon

Koria

Mahasamund

Kabirdham

Jashpur

(a) What is the area of Koria district?

(b) Which two districts have the same area?

(c) How many districts have area more than 5000 square kilometres?

33. The number of bottles of cold drinks sold by a shopkeeper on six

consecutive days is as follows:

Day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Number of 350 200 300 250 100 150

bottles

Prepare a pictograph of the data using one symbol to represent 50

bottles.
34. The following table gives information about the circulation of
newspapers (dailies) in a town in five languages.

Language English Hindi Tamil Punjabi Gujarati

Number of 5000 8500 500 2500 1000

newspapers
Prepare a pictograph of the above data, using a symbol of your choice,
each representing 1000 newspapers.
35. Annual expenditure of a company in the year 2007-2008 is given
below:

Items Expenditure
(Rs in lakh)
Salaries of employees 65
Advertisement 10
Purchase of machinery 85
Electricity and water 15
Transportation 25
Other expenses 30

Prepare a pictograph of the above data using an appropriate symbol

to represent Rs 10 lakh.

36. The following bar graph shows the number of houses (out of 100) in
a town using different types of fuels for cooking.

Read the bar graph and answer the following questions:

Scale: 1 unit length = 5 houses

(a) Which fuel is used in maximum number of houses?

(b) How many houses are using coal as fuel?
(c) Suppose that the total number of houses in the town is 1 lakh.
From the above graph estimate the number of houses using
electricity.
37. The following bar graph represents the data for different sizes of
shoes worn by the students in a school. Read the graph and answer
the following questions.

Scale : 1 unit length = 50 students

(a) Find the number of

students whose shoe
sizes have been collected.
(b) What is the number of
students wearing shoe
size 6?
(c) What are the different
sizes of the shoes worn by
the students?
(d) Which shoe size is worn by the maximum number of students?
(e) Which shoe size is worn by minimum number of students?
(f) State whether true or false:
The total number of students wearing shoe sizes 5 and 8 is the same
as the number of students wearing shoe size 6.

38. The following graph gives the

Scale : 1 unit length = 10 tickets
information about the
number of railway tickets sold
for different cities on a railway
ticket counter between 6.00
am to 10.00 am. Read the bar
graph and answer the
following questions.
(a) How many tickets were
sold in all?
(b) For which city were the
maximum number of
tickets sold?
 (c) For which city were the minimum number of tickets sold?

(d) Name the cities for which the number of tickets sold is more
than 20.

(e) Fill in the blanks:

Number of tickets sold for Delhi and Jaipur together exceeds the
total number of tickets sold for Patna and Chennai by _______.

39. The bar graph given below represents approximate length

(in kilometres) of some National Highways in India. Study the bar
graph and answer the following questions:

Scale : 1 unit length = 200km

(a) Which National Highway (N.H.) is the longest among the above?

(b) Which National Highway is the shortest among the above?

(c) What is the length of National Highway 9?

(d) Length of which National Highway is about three times the

National Highway10?

40. The bar graph given below represents the circulation of newspapers
in different languages in a town. Study the bar graph and answer
the following questions:
 Scale : 1 unit length = 200 Newspapers

(a) What is the

circulation of
English
newspaper?
(b) Name the two
languages in
which
circulation of
newspaper is
the same.
(c) By how much is the circulation of newspaper in Hindi more
than the newspaper in Bengali?

41. Read the bar graph given below and answer the following questions:

Scale : 1 unit = 50 students

(a) What information is given by the bar graph?

(b) In which year is the
number of students
maximum?
(c) In which year is the
number of students
twice as that of
2001-02?
(d) In which year did the
number of students
decrease as compared
to previous year?
(e) In which year is the increase in number of students maximum
as compared to the previous year?
42. The lengths in km (rounded to nearest hundred) of some major
rivers of India is given below:
River Length (in km)
Narmada 1300
Mahanadi 900
Brahmputra 2900
Ganga 2500
Kaveri 800
Krishna 1300

Draw a bar graph to represent the above information.

43. The number of ATMs of different banks in a city is shown below:

Bank Number of ATMs
Syndicate Bank 5
Dena Bank 15
Indian Bank 20
State Bank of India 25
Vijaya Bank 10

Draw a bar graph to represent the above information by choosing

the scale of your choice.

44. Number of mobile phone users in various age groups in a city is

listed below:

Age group (in years) Number of mobile users

1—20 25000

21—40 40000

41—50 35000

61—80 10000

Draw a bar graph to represent the above information.

45. The following table gives the number of vehicles passing through a
toll gate, every hour from 8.00 am. to 1.00 pm:

Time 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00

Interval to to to to to
9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 1.00

Number 250 450 300 250 150

of vehicles

Draw a bar graph representing the above data.

46. The following table represents income of a Gram Panchayat from

different sources in a particular year:

Sources Income (in Rs.)

Income from local taxes 75000

Funds received from government 150000

Donations 25000

Income from other resources 50000

Draw a bar graph to represent the above information.

47. The following table gives the data of number of schools (stage-wise)
of a country in the year 2002.

Stage Number of schools (in thousands)

Primary 80

Upper Primary 55

Secondary 30

Higher Secondary 20

Draw a bar graph to represent the above data:

48. Home appliances sold by a shop in one month are given as below:

Home appliance Number of home appliances

Refrigerator 75

Television 45

Washing Machine 30

Cooler 60

DVD Player 30

Draw a bar graph to represent the above information.

49. In a botanical garden, the number of different types of plants are

found as follows:

Type of the plant Number of plants

Herb 50

Shrub 60

Creeper 20

Climber 45

Tree 95

Draw a bar graph to represent the above information and answer

the following questions:

(a) Which type of plant is maximum in number in the garden?

(b) Which type of plant is minimum in number in the garden?

50. Prepare a bar graph of the data given in question 28.

51. Refer to question 39. Prepare a pictograph of the data by taking a

suitable symbol to represent 200 kilometers.

52. Prepare a pictograph of the information given in question 38.

53. Refer to question 23. Prepare a bar graph of the data.

54. The following table shows the area of the land on which different
crops were grown.

Crop Area of land (in million hectares)

Rice 50

Wheat 30

Pulses 20

Sugarcane 25

Cotton 15

Prepare a pictograph by choosing a suitable symbol to represent 10

million hectares.

55. Refer to question 54. Prepare a bar graph of the data.