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Example 5: In a class, a survey was done about preferred fruit of the students and the result is
given in the following table:

Type of fruit Mango Apple Litchi Banana

No. of students 7 4 8 6
Represent it by a pictograph.

Solution: Type of fruit Number of students

Mango

Apple

Litchi

Banana

Example 6: Total number of cows in five villages are as follows:
Village A : 70 Village B : 100
Village C : 80 Village D : 60
Village E : 50

Prepare a pictograph of these cows using symbol to represent 10 cows and answer
the following questions:
(a) How many times is a symbol repeated to represent cows of village A?
(b) Which village has the maximum number of cows?
(c) How many more cows does village A have than village D?
(d) How can we represent a cattle population of 35?

Solution: The required pictograph is as follows:
Village Number of cattles = 10 Cows
A

B
C

D
E

(a) The symbol is written 7 times to represent cows of village A.
(b) Village ‘B’

(c) 10 cows
(d) Cattle population of 35 can be represented symbolically as .

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