Question

Following are the choices of games of $40$ students in Class $\mathrm{VI}$:
Football, cricket, football, kho-kho, hockey, cricket, hockey, kho-kho, tennis, tennis, cricket, football, football, hockey, kho-kho, football, cricket, tennis, football, hockey, kho-kho, football, cricket, cricket, football, hockey, kho-kho, tennis, football, hockey, cricket, football, hockey, cricket, football, kho-kho, football, cricket, hockey, football.
(a) Arrange the choices of games in a table using tally marks.
(b) which game is liked by most of the students?
(c) which game is liked by a minimum number of students?

Answer 1

The organization of data:

(a) To deduce any information from the given data, we will arrange the given data in a table, using tally marks. We use the repetitions to construct a tally table as shown below. The number $1$is represented as$|$. The number $2$ is represented as $\left|\right|$ and so on. But the number $5$ is represented as $\cancel{\left|\right|\left|\right|}$

A table with tally marks from the given information is shown below

Name of the game	Tally marks	Number of students
Cricket	$\cancel{\left|\right|\left|\right|}$ $\left|\right|\left|\right|$	$9$
Football	$\cancel{\left|\right|\left|\right|}$ $\cancel{\left|\right|\left|\right|}$ $\left|\right||$	$13$
Hockey	$\cancel{\left|\right|\left|\right|}$ $\left|\right||$	$8$
Kho-Kho	$\cancel{\left|\right|\left|\right|}$ |	$6$
Tennis	$\left|\right|\left|\right|$	$4$

(b) Hence, from the table, we can observe that football is liked by most of the students ($13$ students).
(c) Hence, from the table, we can observe that tennis is liked by the minimum number of students ($4$ students).