Question

In a village six fruit merchants sold the following number of fruit baskets in particular Season:

Merchant	Number of Fruit Baskets
Rahim
Lakhan pal
Anwar
Martin
Ranjit singh
Joseph

= 100 fruit baskets

Observe the above pictograph and answer the following questions:

(i) Which merchant sold the maximum number of baskets?
(ii) How many fruit baskets ware sold by Anwar?
(iii) The merchants who have sold 600 or more number of baskets are planning to buy a godown for the next season. Can you name them?

Answer 1

Given, one figure = 100 fruit baskets
or

Based on the above pictographs and hints, we can prepare the following chart to ascertain the maximum number of fruit baskets sold by each merchant:

Merchant	Number of Fruit Baskets
Rahim	4 × 100 = 400
Lakhan pal	$5\frac{1}{2}\times 100=550$
Anwar	7 × 100 = 700
Martin	$9\frac{1}{2}\times 100=950$
Ranjit singh	8 × 100 = 800
Joseph	$4\frac{1}{2}\times 100=450$

(i) On the above chart we can see that Martin sold the maximum number of baskets, i.e., 950 fruit baskets.
Ans: Martin

(ii) Anwar sold 700 fruit baskets.

(iii) On the above chart we can see that Anwar sold 700 fruit baskets, Martin sold 950 fruit baskets and Ranjit Singh sold 800 fruit baskets. Therefore, Anwar, Martin and Ranjit Singh are the merchants who are planning to buy a godown for the next season.