Drawing a Pictograph
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
The following table shows the area of the land on which different crops were grown.
Crop | Area of land (in million hectares) |
Rice | |
Wheat | |
Pulses | |
Sugarcane | |
Cotton |
Prepare a pictograph by choosing a suitable symbol to represent million hectares.

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 to .

Prepare a pictograph of the data by taking a suitable symbol to represent kilometers.
The bar graph given below represents the approximate length (in kilometres) of some National Highways in India.

Annual expenditure of a company in the year 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 .

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

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