Consider the following data gathered from a survey of a colony:

Favourate Sport: Cricket Basket-Ball Swimming Hockey Athletics

Watching 1240 470 510 423 250

Participating 620 320 320 250 105

Draw a double bar graph choosing an appropriate scale. What do you infer from the bar graph?
(i) Which sport is most popular?
(ii) What is more preferred watching or participating in sports?

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Solution

Mark the horizontal axis OX as “Favourite Sports” and the vertical axis OY as “Number of People”.

Along the horizontal axis OX, choose bars of uniform (equal) width, with a uniform gap between them.

Choose a suitable scale to determine the heights of the bars,according to the space available for the graph.Here, we choose 2 big division to represent 400 people .

(i) Cricket is the most popular sport.
(ii) Watching is preferred over participation.

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Consider this data collected from a survey of a colony.

(i) Draw a double bar graph choosing an appropriate scale. What do you infer from the bar graph?

(ii) Which sport is most popular?

(iii) Which is more preferred, watching or participating in sports?

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