The following table shows the number of books in each shelf of different languages in a library. Study the table and answer which language book is least in number?
Shelf Numbers Malay Chinese English Tamil
$1$ $73$ $112$ $158$ $64$
$2$ $83$ $100$ $102$ $49$
$3$ $56$ $92$ $75$ $54$
$4$ $66$ $138$ $175$ $59$

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Solution

From the given table,
Total books of Malay language $= 73 + 83 + 56 + 66 = 278 books$ .
Total books of Chinese language $= 112 + 100 + 92 + 138 = 442 books$ .
Total books of English language $= 158 + 102 + 75 + 175 = 510 books .$
Total books of Tamil language $= 64 + 49 + 54 + 59 = 226 books .$
From the above data the sum of total books of Tamil language is lowest.
So, Tamil language book is least in number.

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