Exercise 8.2

1. The number of wrist watches manufactured by a factory in a week are as follows.

Represent the data using a pictograph. Choose a suitable scale.

Scale: 🔵 = 50 watches 🌓 = 25 watches

2. Details of fruits sold in a week by Ahmed, a fruit vendor are given here under. Prepare a pictograph for the data : [Scale : Represent 5 fruits with a symbol].

Ahmed's apple sales for the week:

Scale: Each 🍏 (symbol) represents 5 apples.

Now, we determine the number of symbols for each day by dividing the apples sold by 5:

Votes polled for various candidates in a sarpanch election are shown below, against their symbols in the following table.

Represent the data using a pictograph. Choose a suitable scale. Answer the following questions :

i) Which symbol got least votes ?

ii) Which symbol’s candidate won in the election ?

Answer:

scale = 50 votes

i) symbol got least votes.

ii) The candidate having symbol won in the election.

The following pictograph shows the number of students have cycles, in five classes of a school.

Answer the following questions based on the pictograph given above :

i) Which class students have the maximum number of cycles ?

ii) Which class students have the minimum number of cycles ?

iii) Which class students have 9 cycles ?

iv) What is the total number of cycles in all the five classes ?

Answer:

image or table

i) IX class students have the number of cycles. They are in number.

ii) VI class students have the number of cycles. They are in number.

iii) VIII class students have cycles.

iv) The total number of cycles in all the five classes is .

The sale of television sets of different companies on a day is shown in the pictograph given below.

Scale : 📺 = 5 televisions

Answer the following questions :

(i) How many TVs of company A were sold ?

(ii) Which company’s TVs did people like more ?

(iii) Which company sold 15 TV sets ?

(iv) Which company had the least sale ?

Answer:

i) TVs of company A sold were .

ii) The people more like the TVs of company .

iii) Company E sold TV sets.

iv) Company D had the least sale. This company sold only TV sets.

Monthly salaries of 5 workers are shown in the pictograph given below :

Work	Salary
Ramesh
Vilas
Venkat
Dinesh
Sachin

Answer the following questions :

(i) What is the scale used in the pictograph ?

(ii) How much is Sachin’s salary ?

(iii) Who earns more salary ?

(iv) How much is Ramesh’s salary more than Vilas’s ?

Answer:

(i) The scale used in the pictograph is rupees.

(ii) The salary of Sachin is Rs. .

(iii) Dinesh and Sachin earn more salary (i.e.,) Rs. each.

(iv) Ramesh earns Rs. 8000 whereas Vilas earns Rs. .

Ramesh’s salary is Rs. more than Vilas’s.