Tally marks questions with solutions are given here for practice to understand how to represent data using tally marks. Tally marks are a symbolical way to represent the frequency of the data within a data distribution. Using tally marks, we can easily determine how many times data appears in a data distribution.
Tally marks symbols up to 10:
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Tally Marks Questions with Solutions
Let us solve some tally marks questions to learn how to represent the frequency of data.
Question 1:
Study the following tally marks frequency table and answer the questions given below:
(i) How many students score 10 marks?
(ii) How many students scored above 10?
(iii) How many total students appeared on the test?
Solution:
(i) Number of students scored 10 marks = 10
(ii) Number of students scored above 10 marks = 17
(iii) Total number of students who appeared for the test = 27
Question 2:
The following tally marks frequency table shows the daily wages of some workers:
Answer the following:
(i) How many workers work for below ₹ 400 daily wages?
(ii) How many workers work for above ₹ 400 daily wages?
Solution:
(i) Number of workers who work for daily wages below ₹ 400 = 16
(ii) Number of workers who work for daily wages above ₹ 400 = 20
Question 3:
A survey was conducted among a few people regarding their favourite beverages. The below tally marks table shows the data:
Answer the following questions:
(i) How many more people like green tea than coffee?
(ii) How many people like tea?
(iii) How many total people were surveyed?
Solution:
(i) Number of people like green tea = 9
Number of people like coffee = 8
∴ One more people like green tea than coffee
(ii) Number of people who liked tea = 19
(iii) Total number of people surveyed = 40
Question 4:
The following tally marks table shows the age group of people lives in an apartment:
Answer the following questions:
(i) How many total people live in the apartment?
(ii) How many people are there whose age is more than 20 years?
(iii) How many people are there with less than 20 years of age?
Solution:
(i) Total number of people lives in the apartment = 75
(ii) Total number of people above 20 years age = 63
(iii) Total number of people below 20 years age = 12
Question 5:
A dice is rolled 20 times. The following tally marks table shows which number came up how many times:
Answer the following questions:
(i) Which number appeared the maximum number of times?
(ii) Which number appeared the minimum number of times?
(iii) How often does a number appear which is more than 2?
Solution:
(i) 1 appeared the most.
(ii) 4 appeared the least.
(iii) 8 times, a number appeared which is more than 2.
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Question 6:
Make a tally marks table for the following data:
1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 4, 5, 2, 4, 5, 5, 2, 6, 1, 2, 3, 1
Solution:
Question 7:
Following are the scores of students of class 3 in a maths test:
12, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 13, 16, 20, 20, 19, 17, 15, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18, 19, 20, 16. 19.
Make a tally marks table.
Solution:
Question 8:
Draw a tally marks table for the following data:
A, B, A, B, C, D, E, D, C, B, A, E, C, D, B, E, A, E, C, D, B, E, C.
Solution:
Question 9:
Draw a tally marks table for the following data:
|
Sports |
Cricket |
Football |
Basketball |
Badminton |
Chess |
|
Number students like |
17 |
16 |
15 |
12 |
5 |
Solution:
Question 10:
Draw the tally marks table for the following data:
|
Activities |
Sleeping |
Eating |
Travelling |
Watching TV |
Cooking |
Miscellaneous |
|
Number of hours spent in a day |
8 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
Solution:
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Practice Question on Tally Marks
1. The following tally marks table shows data for a card drawn from a well-shuffled deck of cards:
Answer the following questions:
(i) From which suit are the cards drawn maximum times?
(ii) How many total cards were drawn?
2. Draw a tally marks table for the following data:
28, 21, 25, 24, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29, 30, 25, 26, 24, 23, 26, 27, 24, 28, 29, 23, 27, 25, 26, 29, 30, 30, 30, 25, 26, 27, 28, 24, 29.
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