Reading Tables
Reading Tables: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Analysis of Data, Frequency of Data, Lowest Frequency Value, Highest Frequency Value and, Comparison of Data Tables
Important Questions on Reading Tables
Favourite Colour | Number of students |
Blue | |
Red | |
Green | |
Orange | |
White |
How many more students like Green than White?

Favourite Colour | Number of students |
Blue | |
Red | |
Green | |
Orange | |
White |
How many students have favourite colours blue and white?

Name | Saturday | Sunday |
Sasha | ||
William | ||
Anita | ||
Nabi |
The number of more glasses of water Anita drank than Nabi is?

Name | Saturday | Sunday |
Sasha | ||
William | ||
Anita | ||
Nabi |
Who drank a total of glasses of water?

The countries from the list are presented in this pictograph and table.
Country | Height |
United Arab Emirates | metres |
Saudi Arabia | metres |
USA | metres |
Taiwan | metres |
China | metres |
Hong Kong | metres |
Malaysia | metres |
China | metres |
USA | metres |
China | metres |
What information about the tallest buildings is in the table but not in the pictograph?

This table shows the countries that had the top tallest buildings in the world in . It also shows the height of these buildings.
Country | Height |
United Arab Emirates | metres |
Saudi Arabia | metres |
USA | metres |
Taiwan | metres |
China | metres |
Hong Kong | metres |
Malaysia | metres |
China | metres |
USA | metres |
China | metres |
In which country was the building exactly metres taller than the one in Malaysia?

This table shows the countries that had the top tallest buildings in the world in . It also shows the height of these buildings.
Country | Height |
United Arab Emirates | metres |
Saudi Arabia | metres |
USA | metres |
Taiwan | metres |
China | metres |
Hong Kong | metres |
Malaysia | metres |
China | metres |
USA | metres |
China | metres |
Where was the building that was metres tall?

The following table shows the tally marks and the total number of letters in each number word.
Number of letters in word | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine |
Tally | |||||||
Total |
How many of the number words have the most letters?

This table shows the top names for baby girls in .
Position |
Names | Tally marks | Number of letters |
Isabella | |||
Ruby | |||
Chloe | |||
Olivia | |||
Charlotte | |||
Mia | |||
Lily | |||
Emily | |||
Ella | |||
Sienna |
What is the longest name in the table? How many letters does it have?

Tran wanted to know which pet people like. He asked friends. The answers were:
dog, dog, cat, dog, fish, cat, fish, dog, dog, cat, cat, dog
How many more people choose dogs than fish?

Tran wanted to know which pet people like. He asked friends. The answers were:
dog, dog, cat, dog, fish, cat, fish, dog, dog, cat, cat, dog
How many people like cats best?

Solve the problem to find out the value of one of the letter of Bunny’s favourite food.
R | L | C | A | J | T | O | P | S | N | K | I |
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Solve the problem to find out the value of one of the letter of Bunny’s favourite food.
R | L | C | A | J | T | O | P | S | N | K | I |
_____

Some students of a class were asked where they wanted to go for a picnic. They are listed below.
Amit - park; Kavya - park; Faiz - zoo; Romi - beach; Tanisha - zoo; Shama - beach; Pankaj - beach; Ravi - zoo; Surya - park; Honey - beach; Rahul - zoo; Alfin - beach; Ram - zoo; Tajinder - park; Imran - beach; Sandy - zoo
Use the data given to answer the following question.
How many students voted in all? _____

Some students of a class were asked where they wanted to go for a picnic. They are listed below.
Amit - park; Kavya - park; Faiz - zoo; Romi - beach; Tanisha - zoo; Shama - beach; Pankaj - beach; Ravi - zoo; Surya - park; Honey - beach; Rahul - zoo; Alfin - beach; Ram - zoo; Tajinder - park; Imran - beach; Sandy - zoo
Use the data given to answer the following question.
How many students voted for the picnic at the beach? _____

Some students of a class were asked where they wanted to go for a picnic. They are listed below.
Amit - park; Kavya - park; Faiz - zoo; Romi - beach; Tanisha - zoo; Shama - beach; Pankaj - beach; Ravi - zoo; Surya - park; Honey - beach; Rahul - zoo; Alfin - beach; Ram - zoo; Tajinder - park; Imran - beach; Sandy - zoo
Use the data given to answer the following question.
How many students voted for the picnic at the zoo? _____

Some students of a class were asked where they wanted to go for a picnic. They are listed below.
Amit - park; Kavya - park; Faiz - zoo; Romi - beach; Tanisha - zoo; Shama - beach; Pankaj - beach; Ravi - zoo; Surya - park; Honey - beach; Rahul - zoo; Alfin - beach; Ram - zoo; Tajinder - park; Imran - beach; Sandy - zoo
Use the data given to answer the following question.
How many students voted for the picnic at the park? _____

Blankets | Shirts | A pair of trousers | Kurtas | A pair of paints | |
Raj | |||||
Ram |
Raj and Ram gave some clothes to orphan children as shown in the table. What value shown by Raj and Ram?

Blankets | Shirts | A pair of trousers | Kurtas | A pair of paints | |
Raj | |||||
Ram |
Raj and Ram gave some clothes to orphan children as shown in the table. What was the total number of clothes given altogether?

In a class, students scored between to , students scored between to . Only students got marks between to . Check whether the data is represented correctly or not.
Total | |||
If not, rewrite the data correctly.
Total | |||
