Introduction to Data Handling

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Introduction to Data Handling: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Data Handling, Data, Collection or Recording of Data, Advantages of Recording Data in the Right Format, Organising Data and Importance of Organising Recorded Data.

Important Questions on Introduction to Data Handling

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Which of these would be a good question to ask to find about people's eating habits?

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Julian runs a bookshop. The table shows the number of books purchased by each of his last 25 customers. 

Number of books 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Number of customers 8 9 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 1

Calculate the median number of books purchased by these customers. 

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Twenty-Five cards were picked up from a pack of cards one by one. The cards picked up are as follows:
Spade, Club, Spade, Club, Spade, Spade, Club, Diamond, Heart, Club, Diamond, Club, Diamond, Club, Diamond, Spade, Diamond, Club, Spade, Diamond, Heart, Diamond, Heart, Club, Heart
What is the frequency of diamond?

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Number of people in various age groups in a town is given in the following table:

Age Group 1-14 15-29 30-44 45-59 60-74 75 above
Number of people 200000 160000 120000 120000 80000 40000

How many senior citizens are there in the town?

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Number of people in various age groups in a town is given in the following table:

Age Group 1-14 15-29 30-44 45-59 60-74 75 above
Number of people 200000 160000 120000 120000 80000 40000

How many age groups have the same population?

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The number of story books read by 4 friends in a year is as follows. Show the tally marks for the number of books read, for each friend.

Manish: 16  Alka: 22  Ayesha: 14  Harjit: 18

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The final marks obtained in Mathematics by 40 students are as follows:

601006860616239   56485837887568   90395964588250   50709852446152   626084777519   675578485349

What is the range?

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Kate made a tally table of the ice-cream cones sold to Kate’s Ice-Cream Parlour during a weekend in May. Use the given data to draw a pictograph.

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Tally mark III  III  III
III  III  III
III  III  III
III  III  III
III
III  III  III
   III  III  
III  III  
III  III  
III  III
   III
Variety of ice cream
cones
Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Pineapple Cherry

 

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Ms Jennifer collected data from the students of class V on their favourite animals. She presented the same using tally marks.

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Now represent the above data using a pictograph.

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Tanvishi is one of the best students. Her predicted marks in class VIII and her actual marks are shown in the graph.
The dotted line represents the predicted marks and the solid line represents the actual marks. In _____ she got more marks than the predicted marks.

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The graph given below shows the maximum temperature during the last week of April. The maximum temperature 35°C was on

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Match List-I with List-II.

List-I List-II
The collection of observations is called Organising data
Entry in data is called Raw data
The collection of observations collected initially is called data
Data handling means Observation

 

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Monthly savings (in rupees) of 14 students of class VIII are as follows: 53, 80, 43, 90, 64, 20, 24, 30, 53, 56, 60, 64, 53, 40.

The frequency of the observation 53 is

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Given class intervals 0-8, 8-16, 16-24, 24-32....., then 24 is considered in the class

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The number of times a particular observation occurs is called its

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Find the odd word from the given options: