Question

The following table shows the favourite sports of 250 students of a school.

$\begin{array}{cccccc}\text{Sports}& \text{Cricket}& \text{Football}& \text{Tennis}& \text{Badminton}& \text{Swimming}\\ \text{No. of students}& 75& 35& 50& 25& 65\end{array}$

Represent the above data by a bar graph.

Answer 1

We can draw the bar graph by the following steps :

(i) On the graph paper, draw a horizontal line OX and another vertical line OY representing x-axis and y-axis respectively.

(ii) Along the x-axis, write the names of sports taken on uniform gaps.

(iii) Choose the scale : 1 small division = 1 student

(iv) Then the heights of various bars will be drawn as shown on the graph.