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Solution:     (a)   Mango flavour of juice is the most liked by the children, i.e., 20 children.
                                  (b)   Grape flavour of juice is the least liked by the children, i.e., 8 children.

                                  (c)  14 children like the mixed fruit flavour of juice.

                                  (d)   Total number of children depicted in the bar graph = (15 + 20 + 8 + 12
                                       + 9 + 14) children = 78 children.
                    Vertical Bar Graph


                    Example 3:  The following ver  cal bar graph shows the number of votes received by
                                  fi ve candidates who contested for elec  ons in a locality. Read the bar graph
                                  carefully and answer the ques  ons that follow.


                                                  Number of votes received by fi ve candidates
                                                            Scale: 1 square = 400 voters


                                                    6,000
                                                    5,600
                                                    5,200
                                                    4,800
                                                    4,400
                                                    4,000
                                                    3,600
                                                  Number of votes  2,800
                                                    3,200


                                                    2,400
                                                    2,000
                                                    1,600
                                                    1,200
                                                     800
                                                             Rahul  Jyo   Aman
                                                     400                        Sachin  Himani
                                                        0
                                                                 Candidates


                                  (a)   Which candidate got the maximum votes?

                                  (b)   How many people voted in the elec  ons?
                                  (c)   Which candidate got the least number of votes?

                                  (d)   How many votes did Himani get?

                    Solu  on:     (a)  Aman got the maximum votes, i.e., 6,000 votes.
                                  (b)   20,000 people voted in the elec  ons.

                                  (c)  Rahul got the least number of votes, i.e., 2,400 votes.

                                  (d)   Himani got 4,800 votes.

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