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Example 4: The pictograph given below shows the number of persons who travelled from Mumbai to New
Delhi by train on each day of a week.
Answer the following questions: Monday

(a) On which day was there maximum Tuesday
rush in the train? Wednesday

(b) Find the total number of people
travelled during the week. Thursday
(c) On which day was there minimum Friday
rush in the train?
(d) Find the difference between the Saturday
number of people who travelled in Each represents 100 persons.
maximum and minimum numbers.

Solution: (a) There was maximum rush on Thursday with 1000 people in train.

(b) Total number of people travelled during the week = 42 × 100 = 4200
(c) There was minimum rush on Wednesday with 400 people in train.
(d) Difference between maximum and minimum number of people = 1000 – 400 = 600.

Exercise 10.2

1. The number of sweaters sold by a trader in 4 weeks of January has been depicted below by a pictograph.
Find the following.
1st week
(i) Number of sweaters sold in 2nd week.
2nd week
(ii) Total number of sweaters sold in lst and
2nd weeks.
3rd week
(iii) In which week, trader sold 20 sweaters?

(iv) Total number of sweaters sold in the month 4th week
of January.
If stands for 5 sweaters.

2. The following table shows the daily production of TV sets in an industry for 7 days of a week.

Day Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Number of TV Sets 300 400 150 250 100 350 200

Represent the above information by a pictograph.
3. The following table shows the number of Santro cars sold by five dealers in a particular month.

Dealer Saya Bagga Links DD Motors Bhasin Motors Competent Motors

Cars Sold 60 40 20 15 10

Represent the above information by a pictograph.