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Solution: Here the frequencies are all divisible by 5.
January
So, we choose = 5 computers.

The following pictograph shows the February
number of computers sold by a company
from January to April. March

April

Example 2: The following table shows the number of parents visited the school exhibition during a week.

Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Number of Parents 300 200 400 500 600

Prepare a pictograph of visiting parents using one symbol to represent 100 parents and answer
the following questions:
(a) On which day the maximum number of parents visited the exhibition?

(b) Find the total number of parents visiting the exhibition.
(c) If the price of entry ticket is ` 20, find the earning made on Friday.

Solution: Using scale = 100 parents
The following pictograph shows number of parents Day Number of Parents
visiting school exhibition Monday

(a) Maximum number of parents visited the
exhibition on Friday. Tuesday

(b) Total number of parents visited the exhibition are Wednesday
= 300 + 200 + 400 + 500 + 600 = 2000
Thursday
(c) Number of tickets sold on Friday = 600

Earning made = 600 × 20 = ` 12000 Friday

Exercise 10B
Exercise 10B
1. In a pictograph, if a symbol ∆ represents 20 flower in a basket then ∆∆∆ stands for _______ flowers.

2. On the scale if 1 unit length = 10 crore then, what length of the scale will represent 75 crores?
3. Sneha and her team asked some shoppers how they had travelled to a nearby mall. She recorded their answer
and drew a pictograph as shown here:

Car

Bus