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Example 6: The 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 for the given data using symbol to represent 10 cows and answer
the following questions.
(a) How many times is the symbol repeated to represent cows in 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 symbolically?

Solution: The required pictograph is shown.

Village Number of cattles = 10 Cows

A

B

C

D

E

(a) The symbol is written 7 times to represent cows in village A.
(b) Village ‘B’
(c) 10 cows
(d) Cattle population of 35 can be represented symbolically as .

Example 7: The total number of students in a school in different years is shown in the table.
Years 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004

No. of students 400 540 420 560 580

Prepare a pictograph for the given data using an appropriate symbol for the number of
students.

Solution:
Year Number of students = 50 students

1996

1998

2000

2002

2004

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