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9.  The number of bottles of cold drinks sold by a shopkeeper on six consecutive days is as
                 follows:

                      Day        Sunday        Monday       Tuesday      Wednesday     Thursday        Friday
                  Number of        350           200           300          250           100           150
                    bottles

                 Prepare a pictograph of the data using one symbol to represent 50 bottles.
             10.  The following bar graph shows the number of houses (out of 100) in a town using different
                 types of fuels for cooking.

                 Read the bar graph and answer the following                         Scale: 1 unit length = 5 houses
                 questions:                                                   40

                 (a)  Which fuel is used in maximum number of                 35
                                                                              30
                     houses?                                                Number of houses (out of 100)  25

                 (b)  How many houses are using coal as fuel?                 20
                                                                              15
                 (c)  Suppose that the total number of houses in the          10             Kerosene  Electricity
                     town is 1 lakh. From the given graph estimate             5     Wood  LPG        Coal
                     the number of houses using electricity.                   0        Type of fuel




















































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