Question 2(b)
Following is the choice of sweets of 30 students of Class VI.
Ladoo, Barfi, Ladoo, jalebi, Ladoo, Rashulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Barfi, Rasgulla, Ladoo,Jalebi, Jalebi, Rashulla, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Ladoo, Ladoo, Barfi,Rasgulla, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Rasgulla, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo
Which sweet is preferred by most of the students?
There are 4 types of sweets - Ladoo, Barfi, Rasgulla and Jalebi. We can represent the above data in an organised way in the form of a table as shown below. The tally marks give a count of a particular sweet.
The number 1 is represented as I. The number 2 is represented as II and so on. But number 5 is represented as
It is very clear from the table that Ladoo is the most preferred sweet as the maximum number of students,11, prefer it.