Spot the Mistakes – Graphs and Charts

1. The table represents the favourite colours of the students in class 9A.

Colour Frequency

red 2

blue 6

green 6

purple 8

15

10

1 2 4 6 8 10 12
Frequency

a. Jai has drawn a bar chart to represent this data. He has made seven mistakes. See
how many you can list.

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

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b. Draw an accurate bar chart to represent this information. Make sure you correct all
the mistakes you listed in part a.

2. These pie charts give information about the number of pets owned by two different
classes. Billy says class B has more dogs. Explain his mistake.

Not drawn Class A Class B

to scale.

Dog Dog
Cat Cat
Fish Fish
Other Other

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3. A comedian performs four nights a week in a comedy club. Each night, she records the
number of audience members as a pictogram.

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Saturday

a. What two mistakes has she made when constructing the pictogram?

Mistake 1: 

Mistake 2: 

b. How many people took part in the survey?

4. Kayla and Brooke ask 45 people what their favourite football club is. They collate the data
into a table and calculate the angles needed to display the data as a pie chart.

Number of Kayla’s Brooke’s Correct

Football Club
people Angles Angles angles
Manchester United 20 80° 160°

Arsenal 12 48° 90°

Liverpool 5 20° 40°

Chelsea 2 8° 20°

Other 6 24° 48°

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a. Both Kayla and Brooke have made mistakes. Identify their mistakes.

Kayla: 

Brooke: 

b. Complete the table by calculating the correct angles needed to construct a pie chart
for this data.

Challenge
Mr Jones, a shop keeper, is analysing how his umbrella sales for each month relate to the
monthly rainfall. He represents this data in a scatter diagram:

Rainfall (mm) 80 53 52 62 52.5 53 53.5 68 81 85 79 51

Umbrellas Sold 95 30 29 75 99 28 31 39 96 99 89 27

Monthly Umbrella Sales

120

100

80
Rainfall (km)

60

40

20

0
40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Umbrellas Sold

a. Mr Jones has made three mistakes. What are they?

Mistake 1: 

Mistake 2: 

Mistake 3: 

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b. Mr Jones describes the data as having a negative correlation. Explain why he is not
correct.

c. Mr Jones has circled one piece of data. He states, “This is an outlier because, on this
day, I sold the most umbrellas.” Comment on his statement.

d. Circle the real outlier.

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