✩ Using bar graphs

Use the graph to answer the questions.

Highboro School Library
books borrowed on Tuesday
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16 were borrowed on Tuesday? 10
Number of books

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8 How many more sports books
6 were borrowed than history books?
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Mystery Science Sports History Cartoons
Kinds of books

Use the graphs to answer the questions.

Middleboro School math club Which topping is

favorite pizza toppings the most popular?
Onions

Extra cheese
Which topping got 8 votes?
Toppings

Pepperoni
About how many more votes did
Mushrooms sausage receive than pepperoni?
Sausage

Broccoli
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Votes

Ice cream sales About how many servings

100 of toffee ice cream were sold?
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60
Servings

50 About how many more servings of

40 chocolate were sold than vanilla?
30
20
10
0 Which flavor sold more than
Vanilla Chocolate Peach Toffee
Flavors
40 servings but fewer than 50?

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Highboro School Library
books borrowed on Tuesday
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Number of books

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How many more sports books
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22 Middleboro School math club Which topping is
23 favorite pizza toppings extra cheese
the most popular?
24 4 Onions
25 Which topping got 8 votes? mushrooms
Extra cheese
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Toppings

27 Pepperoni
About how many more votes did
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Mushrooms sausage receive than pepperoni?
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Sausage
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31 Broccoli
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36 Ice cream sales About how many servings
37 100 of toffee ice cream were sold?
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41 About how many more servings of

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40 chocolate were sold than vanilla?
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40 servings but fewer than 50? toffee
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On this page, children have to find specific entries,
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information read from a bar graph. Some children may need to be reassured that
a horizontal bar graph can be read in much the same way as a vertical bar graph.

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