Question 2 - Drawing a Pictograph - Chapter 4 Class 6 - Data Handling and Presentation (Ganita Prakash)

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Question 2 Magan Bhai sells kites at Jamnagar. Six shopkeepers from nearby villages come to purchase kites from him. The number of kites he sold to these six shopkeepers are given below — Prepare a pictograph using the symbol to represent 100 kites. Answer the following questions: (a) How many symbols represent the kites that Rani purchased? (b) Who purchased the maximum number of kites?(c) Who purchased more kites, Jasmeet or Chaman? (d) Rukhsana says Poonam Ben purchased more than double the number of kites that Rani purchased. Is she correct? Why?First, let’s make the pictograph using = 100 kites Now, let’s answer our questions How many symbols represent the kites that Rani purchased? 3 symbols represent the kites that Rani Purchased (b) Who purchased the maximum number of kites? Poonam Ben purchased the maximum number of kites (c) Who purchased more kites, Jasmeet or Chaman? Jasmeet has more symbols, so Jasmeet purchased more kites than Chaman (d) Rukhsana says Poonam Ben purchased more than double the number of kites that Rani purchased. Is she correct? Why? We see that Rani has 3 symbols Poonam Ben has 7 symbols Since 7 is greater than twice of 3 (i.e 2 × 3 = 6) Thus, Rukhsana is correct - Poonam Ben purchased more than double the number of kites that Rani purchased