Question 26
Following are the choices of games of 40 students of Class 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 minimum number of students?
(a) In order 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 I. The number 2 is represented as II and so on. But number 5 is represented as
Table with tally marks from the given information is shown below
(b) from the table, we can observe that football is liked by most of the students (13 students).
(c) from the table, we can observe that tennis is liked by the minimum number of students (4 students).