Question

During Christmas sale, the number of items sold each day is recorded by the shopkeeper as shown below.


The highest number of items were sold on the ___ and the number of items sold was ___.

Answer 1

The X-axis represents the days of the sale: 1${}^{\text{st}}$ day, 2${}^{\text{nd}}$ day, 3${}^{\text{rd}}$ day, 4${}^{\text{th}}$ day, and 5${}^{\text{th}}$ day.

The Y-axis represents the number of items sold.

We first find the highest number of items sold on a day. This corresponds to the highest value on the Y-axis of all the given points.

$\therefore$ Highest number of items sold = 40


To find the day on which the highest number of items were sold, look at the value on the X-axis corresponding to 40.

$\therefore$ The highest number of items were sold on the second day and the number was 40.