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Read the above pictograph and answer the following questions.

(a) Which is the most liked ice cream in the class? ____________

(b) Which is the least liked ice cream in the class? ____________

(c) How many students are there in the class? ____________
(d) How many students like chocolate chip ice cream? ____________

2. Complete the pictograph to represent the given information about favourite
holiday destination of students of a class.

Holiday Number of Holiday
destination students destination Number of students

Manali 9

Shimla 15

Darjeeling 12

Ooty 6

Ladakh 6

 = 3 students

Tally Marks

We use pictographs to represent data with small numbers. For large numbers, it is
not possible to draw so many pictures. Thus, we draw tally marks to represent such
numbers.

Tally marks are vertical lines. We draw one vertical line for one observation. After
four lines, for the fifth observation, we draw a line crossing the four vertical lines, i.e.,
| | | |. Thus, each | | | | represents five observations.

Example 3: Following is a set of observations showing the interest of 43 students
in different sports. Represent the data using tally marks.

Sport Number of students

Football 8

Skating 13

Badminton 4
Cricket 12

Basketball 6

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