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INTEGRATED QUESTION

The table given below shows average monthly rainfall of Mumbai and Lucknow.
Months Lucknow (inches) Mumbai (inches)
January 0.6 0.0
February 0.8 0.1

March 0.5 0.1
April 0.6 0.1
May 1.0 1.8
June 2.8 15.8
July 6.3 23.4

August 6.7 16.8
September 3.9 10.6
October 0.6 3.3
November 0.1 0.4
December 0.3 0.1

Q. 1: Using the data show in above table. Draw the bar graph
for the monthly rainfall in Mumbai. A rain gauge is tool to measure the amount of
rain that has fallen over a period of time.
Q. 2: Using the data show in above table. Draw the bar graph
for the monthly rainfall in Lucknow.

HOTS

1. What is the need of choosing a scale? If in a bar graph representing the number of students in each class, the
scale is changed so as 1 unit represents 5 students instead of the previous 10, what difference will it have on
the length of the bars?
2. What advantage do bar diagrams have over pictographs? Explain with an example.

3. The given pictograph shows the number of students in a university who speak
the following five languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi, Telugu

(i) How many students speak English?
(ii) Which two languages are spoken by equal number of student? What is
their number?
Scale : One represents
100 students.

Word Stock
Frequency Information Primary Secondary Symbol Bar Graph

Pictograph Axes Array Organisation