Question

The following table shows the favourite sports of 300 students of a school.

Sports	Cricket	Badminton	Football	Tennis	Swimming
No. of students	85	60	55	35	65

Represent the above data by a bar graph.

Answer 1

The following steps are followed while drawing the bar graph:

Step 1: On a graph paper, draw a horizontal line OX and a vertical line OY, representing the x-axis and y-axis, respectively.
Step 2: Along OX, write the names of the sports at points taken at uniform gaps.
Step 3: Choose the scale: 1 small division = 1 students
Step 4: Then the height of the various bars are:
Cricket = 85
Football = 60
Tennis = 55
Badminton = 35
Swimming = 65
Step 5: On the x-axis, draw bars of equal width and of heights obtained in step 4 at the points marked in step 2.
The completed bar graph is as shown below: