Data Handling and Presentation
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Collecting and Organising Data
SubtopicCollecting and Organising Data under Data Handling and Presentation for Grade 6 CBSE.
Preview questions (no answers)
- 1.
If the data represents the marks of students, how many total tally marks should be present in the table?
A.B.C.D. - 2.
In a pictograph, if square = houses, how many houses do squares represent?
A.B.C.D. - 3.
Which type of graph uses a scale to relate the height of the bar to a quantity?
A.Line graph
B.Bar graph
C.Pie chart
D.Flowchart
- 4.
What is the tally mark for the number ?
A.B.One group of and one vertical line
C.D. - 5.
In a bar graph, the bars can be drawn:
A.Only vertically
B.Only horizontally
C.Both vertically and horizontally
D.Only diagonally
- 6.
A symbol in a pictograph represents bulbs. If a shopkeeper sells bulbs on Monday, how many symbols should he use for Monday?
A.B.C.D. - 7.
If the maximum value in a data set is and the range is , what is the minimum value?
A.B.C.D. - 8.
A set of data consists of observations: . If the sum of the observations is , what is the range of this data?
A.4
B.10
C.8
D.5
- 9.
In a pictograph, if half a symbol represents units, how many full symbols are needed to represent units?
A.7
B.14
C.3.5
D.10
- 10.
If the data is , which value has the highest frequency?
A.7
B.9
C.12
D.15
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Pictographs
SubtopicPictographs under Data Handling and Presentation for Grade 6 CBSE.
Preview questions (no answers)
- 1.
A pictograph shows 1 pencil = 6 pencils. If a student has 3 pencil symbols, how many pencils do they have?
A.B.C.D. - 2.
If a circle represents 8 students, how many students are represented by 3 full circles and one half circle?
A.B.C.D. - 3.
In a pictograph showing bulbs produced by a factory, 1 bulb symbol = 100 bulbs. If Monday shows 5 symbols, what is the production?
A.B.C.D. - 4.
A flower shop uses 1 flower icon to represent 10 bouquets. If they sold 25 bouquets, how many icons will be shown?
A.B.C.D. - 5.
A factory produces toys. In a pictograph, 1 toy symbol = 12 toys. If the production for Wednesday is 42 toys, how many symbols are used?
A.B.C.D. - 6.
The number of rainy days in 4 months is shown. Key: 1 drop = 2 days. June: 5 drops, July: 10 drops, Aug: 8 drops, Sept: 4 drops. Which month had 16 rainy days?
A.June
B.July
C.August
D.September
- 7.
A village has 5 orchards. The pictograph uses 1 fruit basket icon = 200 kg of fruit. Orchard C has 4.5 icons. How many kg of fruit did Orchard C produce?
A.kg
B.kg
C.kg
D.kg
- 8.
In a garden, there are different types of flowers. A pictograph uses a 'Flower' symbol to represent 18 flowers. If the pictograph shows 3.5 symbols for Roses, 2.5 symbols for Lilies, and 4 symbols for Sunflowers, what is the total number of flowers in the garden?
A.B.C.D. - 9.
A car dealer uses a car icon to represent 15 cars. In the first quarter of the year, he sold 45 cars in Jan, 30 in Feb, and 60 in March. If he wants to represent the total sales for the quarter, how many icons should he draw?
A.B.C.D. - 10.
A village population data is represented by a 'Human' symbol. 1 symbol = 250 people. The pictograph shows 6 full symbols for Men, 5.5 symbols for Women, and 4 symbols for Children. If 20% of the Children are below 5 years of age, how many children are 5 years or older?
A.B.C.D.
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Bar Graphs
SubtopicBar Graphs under Data Handling and Presentation for Grade 6 CBSE.
Preview questions (no answers)
- 1.
If the height of the bar for 'Rainy days' is units and each unit = days, how many rainy days were there?
A.B.C.D. - 2.
If the bar graph is 'horizontal', what does the length of the bar represent?
A.The category name
B.The numerical value
C.The scale unit
D.The x-axis label
- 3.
Which of the following is represented on the x-axis in this bar graph?
A.Number of Students
B.Types of Sports
C.Scale
D.Title
- 4.
If the total height of two bars is units and the scale is unit = liters, what is the total volume in liters?
A.B.C.D. - 5.
The following bar graph shows the number of books sold by a bookstore from Monday to Friday. On which day did the bookstore sell exactly 15 books more than it sold on Monday?
A.Tuesday
B.Wednesday
C.Thursday
D.Friday
- 6.
Based on the graph, what is the sum of values for the two lowest categories?
A.B.C.D. - 7.
By what percentage is Category B larger than Category A in the graph?
A.B.C.D. - 8.
The double bar graph compares the number of boys and girls in three different sections of Grade 6. What is the ratio of the total number of girls to the total number of boys across all three sections?
A.B.C.D. - 9.
A factory produced toys over 3 months. The graph shows the production. If the factory sells each toy for Rs and the production cost is Rs per toy, what is the total profit for these three months?
A.Rs
B.Rs
C.Rs
D.Rs
- 10.
The graph shows the rainfall in cm for 5 months. What is the average monthly rainfall (in cm) for the period shown?
A.B.C.D.
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Drawing a Bar Graph
SubtopicDrawing a Bar Graph under Data Handling and Presentation for Grade 6 CBSE.
Preview questions (no answers)
- 1.
If a bar graph is titled 'Monthly Rainfall in mm', what information does the length of the bars provide?
A.Temperature
B.Duration of rain
C.Amount of rainfall
D.Wind speed
- 2.
In a bar graph, the bars are usually drawn:
A.Touching each other
B.With equal spacing
C.Only vertically
D.Only horizontally
- 3.
In a bar graph, if the scale is 1 unit = 25 students, and the bar for 'Football' is 5 units tall, how many students like football?
A.5
B.25
C.100
D.125
- 4.
On a bar graph, the vertical axis represents 'Number of Pets' and the horizontal axis represents 'Types of Pets'. What is being compared?
A.The size of pets
B.The frequency of each type of pet
C.The age of pets
D.The cost of pets
- 5.
A survey was conducted to find the favorite sports of students. The data for Football is shown in the bar graph below. If the scale used is unit length = students, how many more students prefer Football than Cricket if the Cricket bar has a height of units?
A.students
B.students
C.students
D.students
- 6.
In the given bar graph showing the marks obtained by a student in different subjects, what is the ratio of marks obtained in Mathematics to marks obtained in Science? (Assume the scale is unit = marks).
A.B.C.D. - 7.
A student is drawing a bar graph to represent the number of fruits sold in a day. Based on the provided scale drawing where unit length represents fruits, what is the height of the bar representing the 'Mango' category if mangoes were sold?
A.units
B.units
C.units
D.units
- 8.
Five friends collected stamps: A (120), B (180), C (90), D (150), E (210). They decide to represent this data on a bar graph where the difference in height between the tallest bar and the shortest bar is exactly units. What scale ( unit = stamps) did they use?
A.1 unit = 20 stamps
B.1 unit = 30 stamps
C.1 unit = 40 stamps
D.1 unit = 60 stamps
- 9.
A factory produced electric bulbs over five months: Jan (2500), Feb (3000), Mar (2250), Apr (3500), May (4000). If the scale is unit = bulbs, which two months have a combined bar height equal to units?
A.Jan and May
B.Feb and Apr
C.Mar and Apr
D.Jan and Apr
- 10.
The marks obtained by a student in 4 subjects are: Maths (95), Science (80), English (75), and Social Studies (60). If the scale for a bar graph is unit = marks, what is the difference between the average height of all the bars and the height of the bar for 'Social Studies'?
A.3.5 units
B.7.5 units
C.15.5 units
D.5.5 units
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Artistic and Aesthetic Considerations
SubtopicArtistic and Aesthetic Considerations under Data Handling and Presentation for Grade 6 CBSE.
Preview questions (no answers)
- 1.
What is the most suitable symbol for a pictograph showing the number of 'Smiley Faces' collected by students?
A.A square
B.A happy face icon
C.A triangle
D.A dot
- 2.
Which of these is the most tidy way to represent a large set of raw data?
A.A long list of numbers
B.A summary table with frequencies
C.Writing it in a paragraph
D.Leaving it unorganized
- 3.
If we want to show that people visited a park using pictographs, and symbol = people, how many symbols should we draw?
A.50
B.5
C.500
D.10
- 4.
In a pictograph, symbols must be of the same size to:
A.Save space
B.Maintain visual consistency and accuracy
C.Make it look colorful
D.Use fewer symbols
- 5.
If we have data for 'Number of Pets' as , and we choose unit , what is the height of the bar for pets?
A.unit
B.units
C.units
D.units
- 6.
How many total units does a bar of units represent if the scale is unit ?
A.B.C.D. - 7.
When drawing a pictograph, why do we use a 'Scale' like symbol units?
A.To make the drawing more difficult
B.To represent large numbers within a limited space
C.To avoid using different colors
D.To make the symbols look larger
- 8.
A designer wants to display values and on a bar graph. If they use , which data value will not be represented by a whole number of units?
A.B.C.D. - 9.
If a bar of height represents units, what scale was used?
A.B.C.D. - 10.
A pictograph shows symbols for apples and symbols for oranges. If each symbol represents fruits, how many more oranges are there than apples?
A.B.C.D.
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