Total number of students of a school in different years is shown in the following table:

NCERT Math Class 6th Question – 2 Exercise 9.2

Total number of students of a school in different years is shown in the following table:

A. Prepare a pictograph of students using one symbol to represent 100 students and answer the following questions:
(a) How many symbols represent total number of students in the year 2002?
(b) How many symbols represent total number of students for the year 1998?
B. Prepare another pictograph of students using any other symbol each representing 50 students. Which pictograph do you find more informative?

Solution

A. From the given information, we have

(a) 6 symbols represent the total number of students in the year 2002.
(b) 5 complete and 1 incomplete symbols represent total number of students for the year 1998.

(B) Second.