Mathematics

Lesson 47

Types of bar chart

Vertical bar chart

Stacked bar chart

Number of Students That Sings

Sales of Ice-cream from January to

April

14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0

5
4
3
2
1
0
January

February

March

April

F2A4

F2A3

Sales of Ice-cream

Boys

F2A2

Girls

Horizontal bar chart

Time Spent Reading Books

Day

Thrusday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
0

Time (hours)
Manu

Raju

Example 1:
Types of Insects
Frequency

Bee
8

Dragonfly
3

Butterfly
6

Ladybug
4

You have collected a data on the insects around you as you walk around your park. After
that, you drawn a vertical bar chart below to represent the data for the frequency table
above.

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Answer the following questions:

a.) Which insects did you see the most? State the frequency.

_________________

b.) What is the total number of insects?

_________________

c.) Dragonfly or Butterfly? Which insects have higher frequency? _________________

d.) Which insects have the lowest frequency?

_________________

1.
Types of
Durians
Frequency

Golden Phoenix

XO

D24

Red Prawn

30

20

60

40

The frequency table above shows the different types of durian sold at a fruit stall in a day.
Draw a vertical bar chart to represent the data.

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Answer the following questions:

a) What is the total number of durians sold? ___________________

b) Which durian type is the most popular? ___________________

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2. The table below shows the number of ice cream sold in five days. Fill in the values by
referring to the horizontal bar chart below.
Day
Number of
ice cream
sold

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

65

Answer the following questions:

a.) Which day has the highest number of ice cream sold?

b.) What is the total number of ice cream sold from Monday to Thursday?

Friday

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3.
Days
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Distance
6
8
4
2
12
(km)
The frequency table above shows the distance travelled from Monday to Friday while playing
Pokmon GO in a park near your house. Draw a horizontal bar chart to represent the data.

After playing Pokmon GO, you went back to your room to study. Answer the following
questions:
a) What is the total distance travelled from Monday to Friday?

b) What is your average distance travelled from Monday to Friday?

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4. Complete the frequency tables by referring to the bar chart below.

Months
January
February
March
April
RM
30
The above frequency table shows Marys monthly expenses from January to April.
The frequency table below belongs to Ah Weis monthly expenses from January to April.
Months
RM

January
50

February

March

April

A bar chart is drawn below to compare both Mary and Ah Weis monthly expenses.

Answer the following questions:

a.) What is the total expenses of Mary from January to April?

b.) What is the percentage increase of Marys expenses from March to April?

c.) Whose total expenses is the lowest for the four months?

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5.
Months
July
August
September
Number of Days
18
16
20
The above table shows the number of days of the months with sunny weather.
The table below shows rainy days for months of July, August and September.
Months
July
August
September
Number of Days
13
12
11
Draw a bar chart to compare both the data of sunny and rainy days for the three months.

Answer the following questions:

a.) What is the fraction of rainy days for the three months period?

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6.

The bar chart above shows the number of tickets sold at Cinema XYZ for Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday.
a.) What is the total number of tickets sold on Monday?

b.) What is the ratio of Sci-fi tickets to Documentary tickets for the four days?

c.) One ticket on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday cost RM 8.00. However, on Monday, one ticket
cost RM 2.00 more than the other days. Find the total amount paid for Sci-fi tickets for the
four days.

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Number of visitors (hundreds)

7.

The stacked bar chart shows the number of visitors to Sekinchan Paddy Field. Find the number
of children for the month of May.

8. The stacked bar chart below shows the number of pens sold by shop A, shop B, shop C and
shop D.

What is the total number of blue pens sold by Shop D?

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9. The stacked bar chart below shows the favourite sports of Form 2 students.

What is the total number of girls that play badminton and volleyball?

10. A stacked bar chart showing the number of birds at three farms.

a.) Find the number of ducks for Farm B.

b.) What is the differences of the number of ducks between Farm A and Farm C?

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11. Mr Hue owns two coffee shop, H and B. He recorded the number of drinks sold in a
frequency table. Draw a vertical stacked bar chart to represent the data.

Drinks
H
B

Milo
30
50

Coffee
40
10

11

Tea
60
40

Fruit Juice
50
10

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12. Apple picking season is here in your neighbourhood. You recorded the number of red
apples and green apples from four locations: A, B, C and D.
Apples
Red
A
10
B
5
C
8
D
14
Draw a horizontal stacked bar chart to represent the data above.

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Green
6
9
2
4