Data Handling and Presentation Class 6 Short Question Answer
mediumData Handling and Presentation Class 6 Short Question Answer
Data Handling and Presentation Class 6 Short Question Answer
Questions 1.
Following pictograph represents some surnames of people listed in the telephone directory of a city.
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?
Solution:
(a) 400
(b) Patel
(c) Saikia
(d) Rao, Roy
Questions 2.
Fill in the blanks in the following table which represents shirt sizes of 40 students of a school.
Solution:
Shirt size 32 : 5, Shirt size 34 : 
Shirt size 36 : 7
Shirt size 38 : 
Shirt size 40 : 
Questions 3.
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:
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?
Solution:
(a) Metal
(b) Glass
(c) Rubber
(d) 160
Questions 4.
Read the bar graph given below which shows the number of books sold by a bookstore during five consecutive years and answer the following questions :
(i) About how many books were sold in 1989? 1990? 1992?
(ii) In which year were about 475 books sold? About 225 books sold?
(iii) In which years were fewer than 250 books sold?
(iv) Can you explain how you would estimate the number of books sold in 1989?
Solution:
Clearly, from the given graph, we have
(i) Number of books sold in the year
1989 : 170 (approx.)
1990 :475 (approx.)
1992 : 225 (approx.)
(ii) In the year 1990, about 475 books were sold.
In the year 1992, about 225 books were sold.
(iii) Fewer than 250 books were sold in the years 1989 and 1992.
(iv) It can be estimated using the height of the bar such that height of 1 cm = 100 books.
Questions 5.
In a village, six fruit merchants sold the following number of fruit baskets in a particular season :
Observe this pictograph and answer the following questions :
(а) Which merchant sold the maximum number of baskets?
(b) How many fruit baskets were sold by Anwar?
(c) The merchants who have sold 600 or more number of baskets are planning to buy a godown for the next season. Can you name them?
Solution:
Looking at the given pictograph, clearly:
(a) Martin sold the maximum number of baskets.
(b) Anwar sold 7 × 100 i.e., 700 fruit baskets.
(c) The merchants who are planning to buy a godown are Anwar, Martin and Ranjit Singh.