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The document provides notes and important questions from NCERT Class 6 Maths Chapter 9 on Data Handling, covering topics such as data definition, organization, pictographs, and bar graphs. It includes exercise questions with solutions related to students' preferences for sweets, animals in villages, wheat production, shirt sales, and preferred activities among school students. The notes aim to help students understand data representation and analysis effectively.

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NCERT Class 6 Maths Chapter 9 Data Handling Notes and Important Questions Solutions (2)

The document provides notes and important questions from NCERT Class 6 Maths Chapter 9 on Data Handling, covering topics such as data definition, organization, pictographs, and bar graphs. It includes exercise questions with solutions related to students' preferences for sweets, animals in villages, wheat production, shirt sales, and preferred activities among school students. The notes aim to help students understand data representation and analysis effectively.

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NCERT Class 6 Maths Chapter 9 Data Handling

Notes and Important Questions Solutions

Notes
Below we have given topic-wise notes for the CBSE NCERT Maths Class 6 Chapter 9 Data
Handling.

Topic 1: What is Data?


Data is a collection of numbers gathered to give some information.

Topic 2: Organisation of Data


The organisation of data involves separating and arranging different data based on some
given/desired parameters.

Topic 3: Pictograph
A pictograph represents data through pictures of objects. It helps answer the questions on the
data at a glance.

Topic 4: Bar Graph


Bars of uniform width can be drawn horizontally or vertically with equal spacing between them
and then the length of each bar represents the given number. Such a method of representing
data is called a bar diagram or a bar graph.

Important Exercise Questions and Answers


Below we have provided some important exercise questions and their solutions from Chapter 9
of CBSE NCERT Maths for Class 6.

Exercise 9.1
Q 1. Following is the choice of sweets for 30 students of Class VI.
Ladoo, Barfi, Ladoo, Jalebi, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Barfi, Rasgulla, Ladoo,
Jalebi, Jalebi, Rasgulla, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Ladoo, Ladoo, Barfi,
Rasgulla, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Rasgulla, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo.
(a) Arrange the names of sweets on a table using tally marks.
(b) Which sweet is preferred by most of the students?
Ans. (a) The sweets are arranged using the tally marks below.

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Name of Sweets Tally Marks Number of Students

Laddoo 11
I

Barfi III 3

Jalebi 7
II

Rasgulla 9
IIII

Total 30

(b) Laddoos are favoured by most of the students.

Q 2. The following pictograph shows the number of tractors in five villages.

Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions.


(a) Which village has the minimum number of tractors?
(b) Which village has the maximum number of tractors?
(c) How many more tractors does village C have as compared to village B?
(d) What is the total number of tractors in all the five villages?
Ans. The answers to the given questions are given below.
(a) Village D has the minimum number of tractors.
(b) Village C has the maximum number of tractors.
(c) Village C has 3 more tractors than Village B.
(d) The total number of tractors in all the 5 villages = 6 + 5 + 8 + 3 + 6 = 28 tractors.

Exercise 9.2
Q 1. The total number of animals in the five villages is as follows :
Village A: 80
Village B: 120
Village C: 90
Village D: 40
Village E: 60

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Prepare a pictograph of these animals using one ☐ symbol to represent 10 animals
and answer the following questions :
(a) How many symbols represent the animals of village E?
(b) Which village has the maximum number of animals?
(c) Which village has more animals: village A or village C?
Ans. Since one ☐ = 10 animals, the pictograph of the given data is:

Village Number of Animals (☐ = 10 animals)

Village A ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐

Village B ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐

Village C ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐

Village D ☐☐☐☐

Village E ☐☐☐☐☐☐

(a) A total of 6 symbols represent the animals of Village E.


(b) Village B has the maximum number of animals.
(c) Village A has 80 animals and Village C has 90 animals. So, village C has more animals.

Exercise 9.3
Q 1. The bar graph given below shows the amount of wheat purchased by the
government during the years 1998-2002.

Read the bar graph and write down your observations. In which year was:
(a) the wheat production maximum?

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(b) the wheat production minimum?
Ans. The answers are given below.
(a) The wheat production was maximum in 2002, i.e. 5 × 30 = 150 thousand tonnes.
(b) The wheat production was minimum in 1998, i.e. 5 × 15 = 75 thousand tonnes.

Q 2. Observe the bar graph below which shows the sale of shirts in a ready-made shop
from Monday to Saturday.

Now answer the following questions :


(a) What information does the above bar graph give?
(b) What is the scale chosen on the horizontal line representing the number of shirts?
(c) On which day was the maximum number of shirts sold? How many shirts were
sold on that day?
(d) On which day were the minimum number of shirts sold?
(e) How many shirts were sold on Thursday?
Ans. The answers to the above questions are given below.
(a) The bar graph shows the number of shirts sold from Monday to Saturday in a
ready-made shop.
(b) 1 unit length = 20 shirts sold is the scale chosen in the given bar graph.
(c) The maximum number of shirts were sold on Saturday, i.e. 60 shirts.
(d) The minimum number of shirts were sold on Tuesday.
(e) 35 shirts were sold on Thursday.

Exercise 9.4
Q 1. A survey of 120 school students was done to find which activity they prefer to do in
their free time.

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S.No. Preferred Activity Number of Students

1. Reading Story Books 30

2. Playing 45

3. Watching TV 20

4. Painting 15

5. Listening to Music 10
Draw a bar graph to illustrate the above data taking a scale of 1 unit length = 10 students.
Which activity is preferred by most of the students other than playing?

Ans. The bar graph for the above data taking a scale of 1 unit length = 10 students is given
below.

Students prefer to read story books rather than playing.

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