NCERT Solutions Class 6th Maths Chapter – 9 Data Handling Exercise – 9.2

Question 1. Total number of animals in five villages are as follows:
Village A : 80
Village B : 120
Village C : 90
Village D : 40
Village E : 60
Prepare a pictograph of these animals using one symbol ⊗ to represent 10 animals and answer the following questions:
(a) How many symbols represent animals of village E?
(b) Which village has the maximum number of animals?
(c) Which village has more animals: village A or village C?

Solution: From the given information, we have

(a) 6, symbols are used to represent the number of animals in village E.
(6) Village B, has the maximum number of animals, i.e., 120
(c) Village C, has the more number of animals.

Question 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.

Solution: (B) Second.