Drawing a Pictograph

Author:NCERT
6th CBSE
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Drawing a Pictograph: Overview

This topic discusses information about pictographs and their uses. It provides several steps to explain how to draw a pictograph with the aid of some examples.

Important Questions on Drawing a Pictograph

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The following table shows the area of the land on which different crops were grown.

Crop Area of land (in million hectares)
Rice 50
Wheat 30
Pulses 20
Sugarcane          25
Cotton 15

Prepare a pictograph by choosing a suitable symbol to represent 10 million hectares.

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Prepare a pictograph of the information given in the question.

The following graph gives information about the number of railway tickets sold for different cities on a railway ticket counter between 6.00 am to 10.00 am.

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Prepare a pictograph of the data by taking a suitable symbol to represent 200 kilometers.

The bar graph given below represents the approximate length (in kilometres) of some National Highways in India.

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Annual expenditure of a company in the year 2007-2008 is given below:

Items Expenditure
Salaries of employees 65
Advertisement 10
Purchase of machinery 85
Electricity and water 15
Transportation 25
Other expenses 30

 

Prepare a pictograph of the above data using an appropriate symbol to represent 10 lakh.

 

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The following table gives information about the circulation of newspapers (dailies) in a town in five languages.

Language English Hindi Tamil Punjabi Gujarati
Number of newspapers 5000 8500 500 2500 1000

Prepare a pictograph of the above data, using a symbol of your choice, each representing 1000 newspapers.

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The number of bottles of cold drinks sold by a shopkeeper on six consecutive days is as follows:

Day   Sunday   Monday   Tuesday   Wednesday   Thursday   Friday 
Number of bottles     350     200     300        250      100    150

Prepare a pictograph of the data using one symbol to represent 50 bottles.