For which of these would you use a histogram to show the data?
(a) The number of letters for different areas in a postman’s bag.
(b) The height of competitors in an athletics meet.
(c) The number of cassettes produced by 5 companies.
(d) The number of passengers boarding trains from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at a station.
Give reasons for each.
Answer 1.
Since, Histogram is a graphical representation of data, if data represented in manner of class interval.
Therefore, for case (b) and (d), we would use a histogram to show the data, because in these
cases, data can be divided into class-intervals.
In case (b), a group of competitions having different heights in an athletics meet.
In case (d), the number of passengers boarding trains in an interval of one hour at a station.
Question 2.
The shoppers who come to a departmental store are marked as: man (M), woman (W), boy (B) or girl (G). The following list gives the shoppers who came during the first hour in the morning:
W W W G B W W M G G M M W W W W G B M W B G G M W W M M W W
W M W B W G M W W W W G W M M W W M W G W M G W M M B G G W
Make a frequency distribution table using tally marks. Draw a bar graph to illustrate it.
Answer:
4. Draw a histogram for the frequency table made for the data in Question 3, and answer the following questions.
(i) Which group has the maximum number of workers?
(ii) How many workers earn Rs 850 and more?
(iii) How many workers earn less than Rs 850?
Answer:
(i) 830 – 840 group has the maximum number of workers.
(ii) 10 workers can earn more than 850.
(iii) 20 workers earn less than 850.
5. The number of hours for which students of a particular class watched television during holidays is shown through the given graph.
Answer the following.
(i) For how many hours did the maximum number of students watch TV?
(ii) How many students watched TV for less than 4 hours?
Answer:
(i) The maximum number of students watched T.V. for 4 – 5 hours.
(ii) 34 students watched T.V. for less than 4 hours.
(iii) 14 students spent more than 5 hours in watching T.V.
