Bar graph

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Bar graph: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Bar Graphs, Representing Data in Bar Graphs, Drawing Bar Graphs & Choosing Scales to Draw Bar Graphs etc.

Important Questions on Bar graph

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Study the following graph carefully and answer the given question. Number of students (Males & Females) passed out from various colleges in a year. (Number in thousands) is shown below:

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COLLEGES

What is the average number of students (Males & Females) passed out from all the colleges together?

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The figure shows the Sales(S), Expenses(E) and the Equity Base (EB) of a company XYZ Ltd. over different years in Crore.
I. Profit = Sales – Expenses
II Share holders’s Return = profit / Equity Base
III Profitability = Profit / Sales
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Maximum profitability is attained in which year?

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Home appliances like fridge and television consume electrical energy. Jiya made a bar graph of the electricity consumption of six appliances in her house in a year.

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Jiya represents the energy consumption of a microwave and a television as given below.

Microwave – Question Image

Television – Question Image

How much energy consumption (in kWh) does a Question Image represent?

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Bar graph is used to represent data in continuous elements.

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What is a bar graph? What are the disadvantages of using a bar graph?

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What are the limitations of using a bar graph?

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A survey of 145 people asked them "Which is the nicest fruit?':

Fruit Apple Orange Banana Kiwifruit Blueberry Grapes
People 35 30 10 25 10 5

Represent the given data in a bar graph.

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The bar graph shows the number of persons in a certian profession.

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Which profession has the most number of persons?

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The bar graph shows the number of persons in a certian profession.

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Which profession has the least number of persons? Write one advantage of using a bar graph.

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A bar graph does not help to summarise a large data set in visual form.

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A bar graph shows each data category in a _____ distribution.

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State two advantages of bar graph.

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How many people are farmers?

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Each bar or column in a bar chart is of equal width.

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State two characteristics of bar graphs.

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The professions of people living in a colony are given below:

Profession Farmers Private Employee Businessmen Goverment employee Labourers
Number of people 40 15 10 35 5

Represent the data with the most suitable graph.

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This chart was used in an article that claimed, 'High school graduation rates have increased dramatically under new government!'

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Draw a graph that would represent the data more fairly and effectively.

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The two graphs shown here represent the same data regarding child labour.

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Is either graph 'wrong'? Explain why someone would prefer to create the first graph instead of the second one.

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Look at the bar graph given below:

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In which subject the student's performance is poorest?

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Draw a bar-chart to represent the following data :

Name of animal

Goat

Horse

Cow

Camel

Elephant

Age (in years)

12

15

15

26

60