Question

Consider this data collected from a survey of a colony Favourite Sport Cricket Basket Ball Swimming Hockey 430 Athletics 250 Watching Participating 1240 620 470 320 510 320 (i) Draw a double bar graph choosing an appropriate scale. 250 105 What do you infer from the bar graph? (ii) Which sport is most popular? (iii) Which is more preferred, watching or participating in sports?​

Answer 1

Given info:There is a favourite sport and number of people watching and participating in the colony is given.

Draw the double bar graph for the data ?

Step-by-step explanation:

See the attachment

Number of people watching cricket = 1240

Number of people participating cricket =620

Number of people watching Basket ball =470

Number of people participating Baskets ball=320

Number of people watching Swimming =510

Number of people participating Swimming= 320

Number of people watching Hockey=430

Number of people participating Hockey =250

Number of people watching Athletics =250

Number of people participating Athletics =105

Scale:-

On X - axis taking favourite sport

On Y-axis taking Number of people in the colony

First bar represents Watching

Second bar represents Participating

On Y-axis 1 cm = 100 units

(i)

⇛The number of people who are watching and participating in their favourite sport.

(ii)

⇛Cricket is the most popular of all other sports .

⇛It has the most watching people and the more participants

(iii)

⇛Watching is more preferred than Participating according to the given data of the colony.

Bar graph:-

1. The pictorial representation of the data into some bars is called bar graph.
2. The width of the bars is equal in the graph.
3. The lengths of the bars are Proportional to the frequencies in the given data.

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