Bar Graphs

1. A group of students record their favourite pets. Here are the results.
Complete the bar graph using the information in the table.
Favourite Pet Reptile Dog Fish Cat Bird
Number of Students |||| |||| ||| |||| ||| |||| || |||| |

Student’s Favourite Pets

10

8
Number of Students

0
Reptile Dog Fish Cat Bird
Type of Pet

2. The favourite sport of some students is recorded. Here are the results.
Complete the bar graph on the grid below from the given information.
Favourite Sport Soccer Swimming Netball Rugby Hockey
Number of Students |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||| |||| |||| ||

Student’s Favourite Sports

10

8
Number of Students

0
Soccer Swimming Netball Rugby Hockey
Sport

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3. The favourite subject of some students is collected. Here are the results.
Complete the bar graph on the grid below from the given information.
Decide on a scale that fits the grid given.
Favourite Subject Maths Science Inquiry English PE
Number of Students |||| |||| ||| |||| || |||| |||| | |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||

Student’s Favourite Subject

Number of Students

Maths Science Inquiry English PE

Subject
4. The favourite food of some students is collected. Here are the results.
Complete the bar graph on the grid below from the given information.
Fish and Spaghetti
Favourite Food Pizza Curry Roast
Chips Bolognese
|||| |||| |||| |||| ||||
Number of Students |||| || |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ||
|||| | |

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5. Conduct your own research to a question and present your results in a
bar graph.

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 Favourite Colour Bar Graph
and Tallying
Here is a tally chart to show the favourite colour of a group of students.
Number of Students

Red 8

Orange 9
Colour

Yellow 5

Blue 2

Purple 1

Green 7

Complete the tally chart and bar graph.

10

8
Number of Students

Red Orange Yellow Blue Purple Green

Colour

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 Favourite Colour Bar Graph and Tallying

1. Which colour was the second most favourite?

2. Which colours have a difference of 1 vote?

3. How many more students voted for red than they did blue?

4. How many students were asked about their favourite colour?

5. Write the colours in order from favourite to least favourite.

6. Which colour recieved over 5 votes?

7. Which colour was least favourite?

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 Interpreting Scaled Bar Charts
Favorite Fruit

10

0
bananas grapes apples pears

Answer the following questions.

1. Which fruit is the class’ favorite?
2. How many children chose apples as their favorite fruit?
3. How many more children chose bananas than grapes as their favorite fruit?
4. How many children chose apples or pears as their favorite fruit?

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 Interpreting Scaled Bar Charts
Favorite Color
10

0
red blue green yellow pink

Answer the following questions.

1. What is the least favorite color?
2. How many children chose yellow as their favorite color?
3. How many fewer children chose green than blue as their favorite color?
4. How many children chose pink or red as their favorite color?

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 Interpreting Scaled Bar Charts
Class Pets

10

0
dog cat fish rabbit hamster

Answer the following questions.

1. Which is the most common pet?
2. How many pets are there in total?
3. How many more rabbits are there than hamsters?
4. How many fewer dogs are there than cats?

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 Newspapers double bar graph
Data and Graphing Worksheet

Students collected and recorded the weight of old newspapers for

5 months. Create a double bar graph and answer the questions.

Title:_____________________
60

Weight of newspaper
50
___________________

Month
Grade 4 Grade 5
40 January 20 kg 25 kg
February 30 kg 20 kg
30
March 25 kg 55 kg
April 40 kg 30 kg
20
May 35 kg 50 kg

10
______

0 ______
January February March April May
_____________________

1. In which month did grade 4 pupils collect the most

newspapers? ________
2. In which month did grade 5 pupils collect the fewest
newspapers? ________
3. How many kg of newspapers did the Grade 5
students collect? ________
4. How many months did Grade 5 students collect
more newspapers than Grade 4 students? ________
5. Which month has the fewest newspapers collected?
________
6. What is the difference between the total collection of
Grades 4 and Grade 5? ________

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Donut boxes double bar graph
Data and Graphing Worksheet

The double bar graph shows the number of donut boxes that
were sold in Helen’s two shops for 5 weeks.

Number of donut boxes sold in Helen’s shops

120
Shop A

100 Shop B
Number of boxes sold

80

60

40

20

0
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
Week

1. How many donut boxes did she sell in week 3? _________

2. Which week did she sell the fewest boxes? _________
3. In week 1 and 2 combined, how many more
boxes were sold in Shop A than B? _________
4. How many weeks did she sell more than 80
boxes in shop A? _________
5. Which two weeks did she sell the same total
number of boxes? _________
6. Which shop would you rather own? _________

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Chess club double bar graph
Data and Graphing Worksheet

The double bar graph shows the number of school chess club
members.

Number of chess club members

24
Boys

Girls
Number of members

12

0
8 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 - 16 17 - 18
years old years old years old years old years old

Age
1. How many members are boys? _________
2. How many members are 11 - 12 years old? _________
3. Which age bracket has the same number of boys _________
and girls?
4. How many members are below 15 years old? _________
5. Which age bracket has the greatest number of
boys? _________
6. How many chess club members are there in total? _________
7. Are most of the boys younger or older than most
of the girls in the club? _________

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1. How many children scored more than 6 marks in the test?

2. How many children scored exactly 5 marks?

3. What is the total number of children who took the test?

4. How many children scored less than 4 marks?

5. How many more children scored 7 marks than 3 marks?

6. Compare the number of children who scored 9 marks to those who scored 6 marks. Which
score has more students?

7. What is the difference between the number of children who scored 8 marks and those who
scored 2 marks?

8. What is the most common score in the test?

9. What is the least common score in the test?

1) How many children scored more than 6 marks in the test?

2) How many children scored exactly 5 marks?

3) What is the total number of children who took the test?

4) How many children scored less than 4 marks?

5) How many more children scored 7 marks than 3 marks?

6) Compare the number of children who scored 9 marks to those who scored 6 marks. Which
score has more students?

7) What is the difference between the number of children who scored 8 marks and those who
scored 2 marks?

8) What is the most common score in the test?

9) What is the least common score in the test?

 Data Handling.

These are daily hours of sunshine recorded in London during the month
of June.

5 8 7 6 4 5 7 9 8 9 5 7 6 7 9
9 8 8 7 7 7 8 6 5 5 4 6 7 9 9

Complete the tally-table to show the results.

Hours of sunshine Tally Total

4

a) What was the most common number of hours of sunshine?

b) How many days had 9 hours of sunshine?

c) How many days had more than 6 hours of sunshine?

 d) Draw a bar chart to show the results from your tally-table.

10

7
Number of days

0
4 5 6 7 8 9
Number of hours of sunshine

e) What was the least common number of hours of sunshine?

f) How many days have less than 7 hours of sunshine?