Chapter 16 : Data Handling & Interpreting Results
1. The bar chart shows the favourite fruit of the
students in Arun’s class.
a How many students choose pear as their
favourite fruit?
b What is the favourite fruit of the students?
c How many students are in the class?
2. The frequency diagram shows the masses
of the items posted at a post office on
one day.
a How many items weighed
600–800 grams?
b What was the least common mass of items
posted?
c How many fewer items were posted with a
mass of 0–200 grams than items posted with
a mass of 400–600 grams?
d How many items were posted altogether
3. Ian records the sales of skateboards at his
shop each month for one year. He joins the
points with straight lines. The data are shown
in the line graph.
a How many skateboards did Ian sell in:
i March? ii May?
b In which month did he sell the most
skateboards?
c Between which two months did his sales double?
d Describe how the sales of skateboards changed over the year
4. The pie chart shows the number of emails Preety received in
one week.
a On which day did she receive the most emails?
b On which day did she receive the fewest emails?
c On which two days did she receive the same
number of emails?
d Can you tell from the pie chart how many
emails Preety received on Friday? Explain your answer
5. Fu writes down the ages of the five members of his family:
1
42 38 16 12 12
Work out the:
a mean age b median age
c modal age d range in ages
6. The Venn diagram shows the number of students that study
biology and chemistry.
How many students study:
a biology b chemistry c only biology
d biology and chemistry e only chemistry