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Data Handling
I. Choose the correct option:
1. A survey was conducted among a few people regarding their favourite beverages. The below tally marks
table shows the data:

Types of Beverages Number of people

Tea

Coffee

Green Tea

Iced Tea

How many more people like tea than coffee?

a. 9 b. 6 c. 11 Ans d. 12
2. Meera collected used bottle caps for a school project. The different coloured caps collected by her are
shown in this pictograph. If the total number of caps collected by Meera is 96, how many caps does one
symbol represent?

Blue

White

Green

a. 5 b. 6 Ans c. 9 d. 10
3. A teacher awards points to the students in her class for their work. A chart is maintained in the class to
mark the points given or taken away from each student. The symbol  means 10 points given for work
that is well done. The symbol  means 5 points taken away for badly done work. Shown below is a part
of the chart for a certain week. Find Kaira's score for the week.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Jaya     
Kaira     
Parth     
Sunita     

a. 50 b. 60 Ans c. 70 d. 90

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 4. The pictograph shows the number of bouquets sold by a flower shop in the past 4 days.

Day Number of Bouquets

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Key : = 3 Bouquets

What is the difference between the maximum number of bouquets sold and the minimum number of
bouquets sold?
a. 5 b. 9 c. 15 Ans d. 33

5. Victor uses a symbol to represent 5 eggs in his pictograph. How many eggs does
represent?
a. 25 Ans b. 20 c. 100 d. 30

II. Do as directed:
1. ‘Happy Children’s Club’ has children from different age groups. The raw data showing ages of 30
children in years is given below. Complete the given frequency distribution table for this data.
8, 8, 6, 12, 11, 7, 8, 6, 7, 8, 8, 10, 11, 9, 7, 7, 9, 7, 7, 9, 10, 8, 9, 8, 10, 11, 11, 12, 12, 8

Age in years Tally marks Number of children

6 2

7 6

8 8

9 4

10 3

11 4

12 3

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2. The following pictograph shows the number of fans made by a factory during the four weeks of a month.
Observe the pictograph and answer the questions that follow:

1st week

2nd week

3rd week

4th week

Key: = 100 fans

a. What is the maximum number of fans that were produced in a week?

400

b. How many fans were produced in the first and second week together?
500

c. How many fans were produced in the month altogether?

1200

3. A survey was conducted among 30 teenagers to find their favourite amusement park ride. The following
table gives the information collected from the survey. Prepare a frequency distribution table.
Water Ride, Giant Wheel, Free Fall, Roller Coaster, Water Ride, Giant Wheel,
Free Fall, Roller Coaster, Water Ride, Giant Wheel, Free Fall, Roller Coaster,
Water Ride, Giant Wheel, Free Fall, Roller Coaster, Water Ride, Giant Wheel,
Free Fall, Roller Coaster, Giant Wheel, Free Fall, Roller Coaster, Giant Wheel,
Free Fall, Roller Coaster, Giant Wheel, Roller Coaster, Giant Wheel, Roller Coaster,

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 4. Thirty people of a locality contributed the following amounts of money (in `) for charity.
1500, 500, 1500, 1000, 500, 500, 2000, 1500, 500, 1000, 1000, 1500, 500, 500, 1000, 1000, 500, 500,
2000, 1500, 500, 500, 1000, 500, 1500, 1000, 500, 500, 2000, 500
a. Arrange the data in a tabular form using tally marks.

b. How many people contributed more than `1500?

3

c. Find the ratio of the number of people who contributed `1000 to the number of people who
contributed `500.
1:2

III. Answer the following:

1. The number of boxes of cereal sold in a shop during the days of the week is shown below.
Observe the given pictograph and answer the following questions.

Days of the
Number of cereal boxes sold
week
a. On which day was the sale of cereal
Monday maximum?
Friday

Tuesday

b. How many boxes were sold on Thursday?

Wednesday
32

Thursday
c. If each box of cereal costs ` 60, find the
shopkeeper’s earning on Tuesday.
Friday
Rs. 1920

Saturday

Key: = 8 boxes

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 2. Study the following tally chart and answer the questions given below:

Marks obtained by students in maths test Number of people

12

16

18

10

20

a. How many students score 10 marks?

10

b. How many students scored above 10 marks?

17

c. How many total students appeared for the test?

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Assertion and Reasoning

In each of the questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Mark
your answer as per the options provided below:
1. Assertion (A): The table shows the blood group of 56 employees in a company.

Blood group Number of students

0 9
A 15
B 23
AB 9

Reason (R): The most common blood group is A.

a. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
b. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
c. A is false but R is true.
d. A is true but R is false. Ans
2. Assertion (A): Numerical data can be represented using pictures.
Reason (R): Representation of data in the form of pictures is called pictograph.
a. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. Ans
b. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c. A is true but R is false.
d. A is false but R is true.

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 Case Study

The management of a school organised a free medical health check-up camp for the students participating in the
interschool sports competition. During the medical check-up, the physician recorded the height and weight of the
students as shown below.

Student name Height (in cm) Weight (in kg)

Mehek 132 36

Saurabh 142 48

Karan 126 35

Reena 140 37

Abhishek 136 32

Rohan 130 30

Harmeet 135 42

Palak 141 30

Sabreen 137 34

Monica 138 39

Lydia 134 28

Sam 131 26

Read the above case carefully and answer the following questions.
1. Who is the tallest student?
a. Reena b. Palak c. Saurabh Ans d. Monica
2. How many students have height more than 135 cm?
a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6 Ans

3. How many students have weight less than 40 kg?

a. 8 b. 10 Ans c. 12 d. 14
4. If we represent weights of the students by a pictograph and use to represent 4 kg, then the weight of
Rohan will be represented as
a. b. c. d.
Ans

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 Fun with Math

Count the number of squares in each of the following figures and complete the given table.

Figure (i) Figure (ii) Figure (iii) Figure (iv) Figure (v)

Name of the Figure Number of Squares Tally Marks

Figure (i) 4

6
Figure (ii)

Figure (iii) 9

Figure (iv) 5

8
Figure (v)

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