REPRESENTING DATA
Exercise 1. Identify the name of each of the following graphs/charts:
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PICTOGRAM
Exercise 2. At the bus terminal buses arrive and depart at regular intervals. This pictograph shows the number
of buses that departed the bus terminal in one week. Use the graph and the key to answer the following:
a) On which day did 55 buses depart? ……………………………………………..
b) Which is the terminal's busiest day? ……………………………………………..
c) How many buses depart on this day? ……………………………………………..
d) How many buses leave on Tuesday? ……………………………………………..
e) How many more buses depart on Friday than Saturday? ……………………………………………..
Exercise 3. 5F put on a dance competition. Use the graph and key to answer the following:
a) How many tickets does each represent? ……………………………………
b) How many tickets were sold in Week 1? ……………………………………
c) How many tickets were sold in Week 5? ……………………………………
d) In which week were the most tickets sold? ……………………………………
e) How many tickets were sold that week? ……………………………………
f) During which two weeks were the same number of tickets sold? ……………………………………
g) How many more tickets were sold in Week 3 than Week 1? ……………………………………
h) How many tickets were sold during the entire sales period? ……………………………………
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Exercise 4. Plants sold in Week 2 of the charity drive appear in the tally column of this table. Represent this
information using symbols. The first student has been done for you:
a) During Week 2, how much money was raised altogether? Each plant is $2
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b) A prize was given at the end of the two weeks to the student who raised the most money. Who won?
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c) Mia sold ……………… plants.
BAR GRAPH
Exercise 5. Answer the questions about this bar graph:
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a) Which city had the highest rainfall in October? ……………………………………..
b) What was this city's rainfall? ……………………………………..
c) Which cities had a rainfall between 70 mm and 90 mm? ……………………………………..
d) How many more millimetres of rain did Rome have than Paris? ……………………………………..
Exercise 6. 5D decide to run a recycling campaign and collect cans in and around the school. They recorded
how many cans were collected each week and started constructing this bar graph. In Week 3 they collected
40 cans and in Week 4 they collected 10 cans.
a) Add Week 3 and 4 data to the graph.
b) There was a canned goods special at the local store during one
of the weeks. Which week do you think it was and why?
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c) How many cans were collected in all?
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d) If each can is worth $5, how much money did 5D make from
the campaign?
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Exercise 7. The same information can be represented in different graphs.
a) Design a bar graph to represent the data shown in this pictograph.
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b) If you ran a cinema and wanted to plan your weekly movie schedule, which graph would you prefer? Which
type of graph makes it easier to analyze and compare data?
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LINE GRAPH
Exercise 8. Look carefully at this broken-line graph and answer the questions:
a) How many square kilometres of forest was lost in 1996? ……………………………………………..
b) How many square kilometres of forest was lost in 2000? ……………………………………………..
c) In which year were 7000 square kilometres of forest lost? ……………………………………………..
d) How much more forest was lost in 2000 than in 2008? ……………………………………………..
e) Use the graph to estimate the forest loss in 1999. ……………………………………………..
f) Use the graph to estimate the forest loss in 2003. ……………………………………………..
Exercise 9. This graph shows a kite's height at different times. Answer the questions below:
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a) What was the kite's height at 65 seconds?
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b) How long did the kite take to rise from 25 metres to 40 metres?
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c) Estimate the height of the kite at 1 minute.
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d) If the kite continued to rise, how high do you think it would be after 90 seconds?
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Exercise 10. Polly and her friend Molly were practicing reading a thermometer for homework. They boiled water
in a kettle and then took turns measuring the temperature every minute as it cooled down. To make this more
interesting, they made it a guessing game.
Look at the graph and answer the questions to see how they went:
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PIE CHART
Exercise 11. A pie chart is a circle divided into sectors. It's also known as a sector graph. The circle represents
the whole of the data and the sectors show how the total is divided.
This pie chart is divided into 10 equal parts. It shows what a group of children did on Saturday night.
Category Amount Percentage
Went to the movies 3 30 %
Party 20 %
Stayed home
Sleepover 4
Total
Exercise 12. 500 students voted on their next fund-raising activity. The pie chart shows the most popular
responses. Complete the table:
Activity Amount Percentage
Raffle 50
Petday
Talent Quest
Mufti Day
Bike Day
Total
Exercise 13. To boost ratings, Radio Non-Stop-Hits ran a promotion where they
gave away prizes every hour. This circle graph shows the distribution of 60
prizes that they gave away.
a) How many of each prize were given out?
Concert tickets: ……………… Grocery vouchers: ………………
Money:………………………
b) The radio station's accountant realized the circle graph was correctly divided
but there'd been a miscalculation in the number of prizes given out. There'd
actually been 25 money prizes given away. Calculate the actual amounts:
Concert tickets: ……………… Grocery vouchers: ………………
Money:………………………
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Exercise 14. During one weekend, the owners of Pascal's Pizzeria recorded how they received pizza orders and
then presented the data using a circle graph and a pictograph.
a) How many more pizzas were ordered by phone than on the Internet? Which graph shows this more clearly?
Explain.
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b) Almost half of the total number of orders came by phone. Which graph shows this more clearly? Explain.
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c) Which graph better shows the number of pizzas ordered by Internet? Justify your choice.
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d) Would a line graph be a useful way to display the data? Explain why or why not.
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e) What other type of graph could be used to display the data?
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