Bar Graphs

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Bar Graphs: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Tabular Representation of Data, Bar Graph, Understanding a Bar Graph, Drawing a Bar Graph, Types of Bar Graph, Double Bar Graph for Data Having Two Types, and Drawing a Double Bar Graph.

Important Questions on Bar Graphs

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Study the following table and answer the questions based on it.
Expenditures of a Company (in Lakh Rupees) per Annum Over the given Years.

Year Item of Expenditure
Salary Fuel and Transport Bonus Interest on Loans Taxes
1998 288 98 3 23.4 83
1999 342 112 2.52 32.5 108
2000 324 101 3.84 41.6 74
2001 336 133 3.68 36.4 88
2002 420 142 3.96 49.4 98


Total expenditure on all these items in 1998 was approximately what percent of the total expenditure in  2002?

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Read the following table carefully and answer the questions given below
PRODUCTION OF T.V BY DIFFERENT COMPANIES IN 2010 (in thousand)

COMPANY A B C D E F
PRODUCTION OF T.V. 1.14 3.25 1.27 2.85 3.73 1.06
RATIO OF NUMBER OF T.V SOLD IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS
RATIO
COMPANY URBAN RURAL
A 2 3
B 7 6
C 3 7
D 5 1
E 3 2
F 1 3


What is the average of number of T.V. sold in rural area by company F and number of T.V. sold in urban area by company D?

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Read the following table carefully and answer the questions given below .
Number of books of different subjects in various book stores -

Books Book store
A B C D E F
Maths 560 560 540 400 200 420
Science 550 290 560 240 680 520
Hindi 450 240 410 560 610 560
English 230 400 670 820 520 210
Sanskrit 230 210 230 500 200 500
Geography 590 890 530 430 360 480


What is the difference between the total number of books of Science and English in all the book stores together?

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Study the table carefully to answer the questions that follow:-
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: If on an average, 20% rate of interest was charged on borrowed funds, then the total borrowed funds used by this company in the given two years amounted to

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Read the following table carefully answer the questions given below
MARK OBTAINED BY 6 STUDENTS IN DIFFERENT SUBJECTS

STUDENT BUSINESS STUDY (75) MATHS (120) ACCOUNTANCY (150) FINE ARTS(80) ECONOMICS (60)
SIDDHARTHA 34 111 76 71 33
RITU 54 77 100 53 36
RAHUL 64 98 99 60 54
KISHAN 48 101 108 48 45
SUJEET 70 95 121 72 24
RADHA 60 100 120 46 30


By which of the following students is the marks obtained in Business study equal to the average marks in Business study?

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The table given below shows the income (in rupees) together with their sources, received by 5 employees of a company during the last month of a particular year.
Study the table carefully and answer the questions.

Employee
Source
of Income
A B C D E
Salary 12000 6000 21000 9000 12000
Bonus 2400 1200 4500 2400 3000
Overtime 5400 2100 6000 5100 6000
Arrears 6000 5400 12000 4200 7500
Miscella neous 1200 300 1500 300 1500
Total 27000 15000 45000 21000 30000


How many employees have their salaries more than four times the income from bonus?

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Study the following table carefully and answer the question that follow.

Major currencies in dollar terms

Date Pound sterling Deutsche mark Yen 100(Units) Euro
28-Jul 1.5088 0.4739 0.9164 0.9369
31-Jul 1.4991 0.4727 0.9141 0.9246
1-Aug 1.4989 0.4735 0.9113 0.9232
2-Aug 1.4914 0.4689 0.9180 0.9171
3-Aug 1.4901 0.4640 0.9213 0.9074


On which date the value of Euro was maximum against Dollar?

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Study the following table carefully to answer the question given below.
Marks obtained by six students in five different subjects:

Subject ----->
Student
Business study 75 Mathematics 120 Accountancy 150 Financial MGT 80 Economics 60
Shyam 60 100 120 46 30
Krishna 70 95 121 72 24
Rahul 48 101 108 48 45
Radha 64 98 99 60 54
Leena 54 77 100 53 36
Ram 34 111 76 71 33

In which subject did Shyam score the maximum marks out of a hundred?

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Study the graph carefully the answer the questions that follow:

Number of students passed (in thousands) from two universities over the years.

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What is the difference between the total number of students passed from both the universities in the year 2009 together and the total number of students passed in year 2007 from both the universities together?

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The frequency diagram shows the amount of sleep (in hours) of a group of 80 people.

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How many people slept for between 6 & 10 hours? and Caroline slept for 1412 hours last night how can you tell she was not one of the 80 people.

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Construct a double bar graph, using the table given below:

Suppose population of India and China are

Years195119611971198119912001 Population of India (in crores) 3644546884102 Population of China (in crores) 58647090100110

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Construct a double bar graph, using the table given below:

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The figure is a bar graph showing the number of students in different clubs of the school:

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_____ club is most popular among the students?

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The histogram given depicts the marks obtained by 40 students of class 8 in English. Look at the histogram and answer the following questions.

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What is the class size?

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The histogram given alongside shows the frequency distribution of the age of 22 teachers in a school.

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Using the histogram, answer the following.

What are the class marks of the classes?

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Observe the following graph and answer the question:

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If the savings of Vaishali of in March month is k, then find the value of k.

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Observe the following graph and answer the question:

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Find the total savings of Saroj in the months of March and April in .

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The following table shows the number of visitors to a park for the months January to March.

Month January February March
Number of visitors 150 300 250

Construct a horizontal bar chart for the table.

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The following bar shows the number of family members in a house in a particular society.

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What is the total number of people in the society?

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The following bar graph shows the number of family members in a house in a particular society.
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What is the total number of houses in the society?