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Example 1: The table given below shows number of students present in a class during a week.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
35 30 25 20 40 20

Draw a pictograph.

Solution: Taking = 5 students, the pictograph will be as under:

Monday Thursday

Tuesday Friday

Wednesday Saturday

Exercise 14.1

1. Draw a pictograph to show the number of houses spread out in six zones of a metro city.

Zone A Zone B Zone C Zone D Zone E Zone F
60 70 50 70 90 80

2. There are 1350 people living in a housing society. The number of persons knowing various
languages are:

Hindi Tamil Bengali Punjabi

500 250 450 150
Draw a pictograph which conveys the above information.

Bar Graph

In a bar graph, the data is represented by rectangles of equal width with equal space between
them. These rectangles are called bars. The bars are drawn by using a specific scale.

Drawing Bar Graphs
To draw a bar graph, we follow these steps:

Step 1: Use the data from the table to make an appropriate scale.
Step 2: Draw and label vertical axis.

Step 3: Draw and label the horizontal axis. List the name of each item.
Step 4: Draw bars to represent each number.
Step 5: The width of the bar should be uniform throughout.