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SOME NCERT TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS

1. Take a paragraph you like from your language textbook. Read carefully and find out:
(a) Which word comes most often? ___________

How many times? ___________
(b) Which word comes least often? ___________
(c) The letter used most often is ___________

(d) The letter used least often is ___________
2. All children of a class are getting ready for a drama. Some children are acting. Some
are busy collecting the dresses. Some are bringing tables and chairs to make the sets.

The Drama Chart

This shows 3
children

Number of
children

Acting Collecting Playing Making the
Dresses music sets

(a) How many children are acting in the drama?

(b) Which are more—children making the sets or those acting?
(c) What is being done by most of the children?
(d) How many children are collecting dresses?

SCRATCH YOUR BRAIN

There is another way of representing a given data. It is called circle or pie chart. As the name
suggests, the representation is in the form of a circle.

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