10 Pictograms, Block Graphs and Bar Charts

10 Pictograms,

Block Graphs and Bar Charts

Pictogram Block graph

Bar chart Compound bar chart

1. Pictogram and block graph are used to represent data.

2. Bar chart represents the data by the lengths of the bars. The widths of the bars are the same.

1. The pictogram shows the most favourite sport of S.1A students.

(a) How many students are there in the class?

(b) Which sport is the most popular?
(c) Find the percentage of students who like playing basketball the most.

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Tips for Students

A whole icon represents 2
students.
2
Half of the icon represents
1 student.
1

Solution:
(a) Number of students 10 9 6 8 3 36

(b) Football is the most popular sport.

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(c) Percentage of students 100% 25%
36

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The pictogram shows the most favourite colour of S.1B students.

(a) Number of students 9 + 8 + 11 + 8 + 4
40

(b) Blue is the most popular colour.

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(c) Percentage of students 100%
40
20%

(a) How many students are there in the class?

(b) Which colour is the most popular?
(c) Find the percentage of students who like orange the most.

2. The block graph shows the number of vehicles outside a sport centre.

(a) How many kinds of vehicles are there?
(b) Find the total number of vehicles.
(c) If a bus can take 128 passengers, how many passengers can all
the buses take?
128

Solution:
(a) There are 4 kinds of vehicles. 4

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(b) Total number of vehicles 8 5 6 11 30

(c) Number of passengers 128 6 768

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The block graph shows the number of books on the bookshelf.

(a) How many books are there?

(b) What kind of the books is the fewest?

(c) Find the percentage of books that are comic.

(a) Number of books 9 + 8 + 2 + 6

3. The bar chart shows the annual rainfall of a city. 25

(b) Dictionary is the fewest.

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(c) Percentage of comic 100%
25
24%

(a) In which year, the annual rainfall was the lowest?

(b) Find the total rainfall in 5 years.

Solution:
(a) The rainfall was the lowest in 2006. 2006

(b) Total rainfall (250 200 300 250 300) mm

1300 mm (a) Total rainfall (80 + 50 + 60 + 80 + 100 + 90) mm
460 mm

3 (b) Difference (100 50) mm

50 mm
The bar chart shows the monthly rainfall of a city in the
last 6 months.

(a) Find the total rainfall in the last 6 months.

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(b) Find the difference between the highest and lowest
rainfall.

4. The compound bar chart shows the number of students joining the school athletic meet.

(a) How many boys join the athletic meet?

(b) Which class has the most students joining the athletic meet?

(c) Which class has the same number of boys and the girls joining the athletic meet?

Solution:
(a) Total number of boys 15 12 10 11 48

(b) Class S.1A S.1B S.1C S.1D

Total 25 25 20 26
S.1D has the most students joining the athletic meet.

(c) S.1C has the same number of boys and the girls joining the athletic meet.

(a) Total number of students (b) Dance is the most popular activity for girls.
50 + 30 + 30 + 20 + 30 + 30 + 10 + 60
4 260 (c) Choir has the same number of boys and girls.

The compound bar chart shows the distribution of

students in joining the extracurricular activities.

(a) Find the total number of students joining the
extracurricular activities.

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(b) Which activity is the most popular for girls?

(c) Which activity has the same number of boys and girls?

1. The pictogram shows the number of students

wearing glasses.

(a) How many students does each icon represent?

(b) How many students wear glasses?

(c) Which class has the most students wearing
glasses?

(a) Each icon represents 2 students.

(b) Number of students 12 + 10 + 15 + 8

45

(c) S.1C has the most students wearing glasses.

2. The block graph shows the number of typhoons in the last 5

years.

(a) Suggest a title of the block graph.

(b) How many typhoons does each block represent?

(c) Find the total number of typhoons in the last 5 years.

(d) Find the difference between the most and the least numbers of typhoons.
(a)

The title is The number of typhoons in the last 5 years.

(b) Each block represents 2 typhoons.

(c) Number of typhoons 10 + 12 + 8 + 5 + 9

44

(d) Difference 12 5
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3. The pictogram shows the sales of a book shop.

(a) Find the total number of story books sold in the
shop.

(b) How many books are sold?

(c) What is the percentage of comic books are sold?

(a) Number of story books sold 50

(b) Number of books sold 50 + 30 + 10 + 30

120

30
(c) Percentage of comic books 100%
120
25%

4. The following shows the number of mobile phones that 20 people owned.
20

1 2 3 1 0 2 1 1 2 2
2 1 0 1 2 1 2 2 3 3

(a) Complete the following table.

Number of mobile phones
0 1 2 3

Number of people

(b) Construct a block graph for the above data.

(a) Number of mobile phones 0 1 2 3

Number of people 2 7 8 3

(b)

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5. The table shows the modes of transport that a group of students usually take to go to school.

Mode of transport Bus Train Minibus Private car On foot

Number of students
8 4 5 6 4

(a) Construct a pictogram to represent the data.

(b) Which two modes of transport have the same number of students?

(a)

(b) Train and on foot have the same numbers of students.

6. The bar chart shows the number of dolls that Candy has.

(a) How many different kinds of dolls does Candy have?

(b) Find the total number of dolls.

(c) What fraction of dolls is Kitty?

(a) There are 4 kinds of dolls.

(b) Total number of dolls 4 + 8 + 5 + 3

20

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(c) Fraction
20
2
5

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7. The compound bar chart shows the numbers of stamps that two children have.

(a) Suggest a title of the compound bar chart.

(b) Find the total number of stamps that Jack
has.

(c) Which child has more stamps?

(d) Find the percentage of Britain stamps in Jacks collection.

(a) The title is The number of stamps that two children have. 30
(d) Percentage 100%
150
(b) Number of stamps that Jack has 25 + 45 + 50 + 30 20%
150

(c) Number of stamp that Peter has 30 + 60 + 50 + 20

160
Peter has more stamps.

8. Annie has just counted the snacks on the table.

(a) Complete the following table.

Snack Cake Chicken leg Chicken wing Sausage

Quantity

(b) Construct a bar chart for the above data.

(a) Snack Cake Chicken leg Chicken wing Sausage
Quantity 3 5 6 5

(b)
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9. The following shows the number of balls in a store room.

Ball Football Basketball Volleyball Baseball
Number of balls
6 8 4 2

(a) Construct a bar chart for the above data.

(b) Find the percentage of balls that are basketball.

(a)

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(b) Percentage of basketball 100%
6842
40%

10. The following table shows the results of inter-house athletic meet in a school.

House Red Yellow Blue Brown
Boys 250 400 250 450
Girls 300 200 250 100

(a) Construct a compound bar chart for the above data.

(b) Which house is the best in Boys events?
(c) Which house got the overall championship?

(a)

(b) Brown house is the best in Boys events.

(c) House Red Yellow Blue Brown

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