✅ Answer: Hockey (8 children). Cricket is NOT the most popular — Navya’s guess was wrong.
๐ Page 75Figure it Out · Q3
Try to find out the most popular game among your classmates.
1Ask every classmate their favourite game and write the answers.
2Make a table with tally marks for each game.
3Count the marks; the game with the highest frequency is the most popular.
✅ Answer: Answers depend on your class — follow the steps (collect → tally → count → compare).
๐ Page 75Figure it Out · Q4
Tick (✓) the questions where Pari must collect data and cross (✗) where she need not: (a) most popular TV show among classmates (b) when India got independence (c) water wasted in her locality (d) capital of India.
1(a) Different classmates like different shows → she must ask them → ✓.
2(b) A known fact (1947) → ✗.
3(c) She must measure/observe in her locality → ✓.
4(d) A known fact (New Delhi) → ✗.
✅ Answer: (a) ✓ (b) ✗ (c) ✓ (d) ✗
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๐ Page 76Figure it Out · Q1 (Sweets)
Complete Shri Nilesh’s tally table. How many students chose (a) jalebi (b) barfi (c) gujiya (d) rasgulla (e) gulab jamun?
1Each ‘||||/’ (four lines with a line across) means 5.
3Sangita used ☺ = 10 students and a half symbol for 5: 25 → 2½, 35 → 3½.
✅ Answer: Use a bigger scale (key). Both pictographs are shown.
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๐ Page 83Math Talk
What problems come in drawing such a pictograph if the number present is 33 or 27?
1With ☺ = 5 students: 33 = 6 symbols + 3 students, and 3 is 3/5 of a symbol — hard to draw exactly.
2With ☺ = 10: 27 = 2 symbols + 7/10 of a symbol.
3So we have to draw parts of symbols that are hard to read, or round off (33 ≈ 35, 27 ≈ 25).
✅ Answer: The numbers are not multiples of the key, so we must draw awkward parts of a symbol (or round the numbers).
๐ Page 83Figure it Out · Q1
The pictograph shows books borrowed in a week (one book symbol = 1 book). (a) Minimum on which day? (b) Total in the week? (c) Maximum on which day? A possible reason?
1Read the rows: Mon 5, Tue 4, Wed 2, Thu 0, Fri 5, Sat 8.
2(a) Thursday — no books (0).
3(b) 5 + 4 + 2 + 0 + 5 + 8 = 24.
4(c) Saturday (8). Reason: a holiday (Sunday) comes next, so students borrow books to read at home; Thursday the library may have been closed.
✅ Answer: (a) Thursday (b) 24 books (c) Saturday — students borrow books for the weekend.
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๐ Page 84Figure it Out · Q2
Make a pictograph of kites sold (one kite symbol = 100 kites). (a) Symbols for Rani? (b) Who bought most? (c) Jasmeet or Chaman — who bought more? (d) Rukhsana says Poonam Ben bought more than double Rani’s kites. Is she right?
✅ Answer: Most in Match 4 (100 runs); total 470 runs.
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๐ Page 93Imran’s family · Questions
Using the bar graph of Imran’s family expenses: (1) on which item do they spend the most and second most? (2) Is electricity about half of education? (3) Is education less than one-fourth of food?
1Scale: 1 unit = ₹200.
2(1) Food ₹3400 (most), house rent ₹3000 (second).
3(2) Half of 800 = 400 = electricity → Yes.
4(3) One-fourth of 3400 = 850; 800 < 850 → Yes.
✅ Answer: (1) Food, then house rent (2) Yes (3) Yes
๐ Page 93Figure it Out · Q1
Help Samantha prepare a bar graph: mites 6, caterpillars 10, beetles 5, butterflies 3, grasshoppers 2.
1Scale: 1 unit = 1 insect (largest value 10 fits easily).
2Mark 0 to 10 on the vertical axis.
3Bars of equal width: 6, 10, 5, 3, 2.
✅ Answer: See the bar graph.
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๐ Page 94Figure it Out · Q2
Pooja’s ticket graph was partly erased (Vidisha 24, Jabalpur 20, Seoni 16, Indore 28, Sagar 16). (a)–(b) Write 24 and 20 above the bars. (c) Vidisha’s bar is 6 units, Jabalpur’s 5 units. What is the scale? (d) Draw Sagar’s bar. (e) Number the vertical axis. (f) Are Seoni’s and Indore’s bars correct?
1(c) 24 ÷ 6 = 4 and 20 ÷ 5 = 4 → 1 unit = 4 tickets.
2(e) Axis: 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32.
3(d) Sagar: 16 ÷ 4 = 4 units.
4(f) Seoni’s bar is 4 units = 16 ✔ correct.
5Indore’s bar is only about 4½ units (≈ 18), but 28 ÷ 4 = 7 units → wrong; draw it 7 units high.
✅ Answer: (c) 1 unit = 4 tickets (d) Sagar 4 units (f) Seoni correct; Indore wrong — it should be 7 units (28).
๐ Page 94Figure it Out · Q3
Chinu listed the vehicles passing his house from 9 to 10 a.m. (a) Make a frequency table. (b) Which means of transport was used most? (c) How would you collect such data?
1(a) Tally each vehicle: bike 13, scooter 9, auto rickshaw 8, bicycle 8, car 6, bus 4, bullock cart 2 (total 50).
2(b) Bike (13).
3(c) Sit at a safe place near the road with a notebook and a watch; make a column for each type; put a tally mark for every vehicle from 9:00 to 10:00; count at the end.
✅ Answer: (b) Bike — 13 times out of 50.
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๐ Page 95Figure it Out · Q4
Roll a die 30 times, make a tally table and find the number that appeared (a) the least (b) the most (c) numbers that appeared equally often.
1Roll 30 times and put a tally against the number each time.
3(a) least: 4 (3 times) (b) most: 2, 5 and 6 (6 times each) (c) 2, 5 and 6 appeared equally.
✅ Answer: Your answers depend on your rolls — see the example.
๐ Page 95Figure it Out · Q5
Faiz’s table: wickets taken by Bumrah in 30 matches. (a) What does it tell? (b) A title? (c) What catches your attention? (d) In how many matches did he take 4 wickets? (e) Can Mayank find total wickets by adding 0 + 1 + … + 7? (f) How do we find the total?
Wickets taken
Number of matches
0
2
1
4
2
6
3
8
4
3
5
5
6
1
7
1
1(a) For each number of wickets (0 to 7), the number of matches in which he took that many.
2(b) ‘Wickets taken by Jaspreet Bumrah in his last 30 matches’.
3(c) He most often took 3 wickets (8 matches); only 2 matches with no wicket.
4(d) 3 matches.
5(e) No — 0 + 1 + … + 7 = 28 ignores how many matches each happened in.
⚠️ Common mistake: Adding only 0 to 7. Each wicket number must be multiplied by how many matches it happened in.
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๐ Page 96Figure it Out · Q6
Tractors in five villages (one symbol = 1 tractor). (a) Smallest number? (b) Most? (c) How many more in C than B? (d) Komal: ‘D has half as many as E.’ Is she right?
1Read: A 6, B 5, C 8, D 3, E 6.
2(a) Village D (3).
3(b) Village C (8).
4(c) 8 − 5 = 3.
5(d) Half of 6 = 3 = D → Yes.
✅ Answer: (a) D (b) C (c) 3 more (d) Yes
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๐ Page 97Figure it Out · Q7
Girl students in each class (one symbol = 4 girls). (a) Least girls? (b) Difference between Classes 5 and 6? (c) If 2 more girls join Class 2, how does the graph change? (d) Girls in Class 7?
4(c) Class 2: 18 + 2 = 20 → the half symbol becomes a full one: 5 full symbols.
5(d) Class 7: 3 × 4 = 12.
✅ Answer: (a) Class 8 (b) 6 (c) Class 2 gets 5 full symbols (d) 12
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๐ Page 98Figure it Out · Q8
Mudhol hounds: A 18, B 36, C 12, D 48, E 18, F 24. Make a pictograph. (a) A useful key? (b) Symbols for Village B? (c) Kamini says B and D together have more dogs than the other 4 villages together. Is she right?
1(a) All numbers are multiples of 6 → one symbol = 6 dogs (no part symbols needed).
2(b) 36 ÷ 6 = 6 symbols.
3(c) B + D = 36 + 48 = 84; A + C + E + F = 18 + 12 + 18 + 24 = 72.
๐ก Tip: Choose a key that divides all the numbers exactly — then no broken symbols are needed.
๐ Page 98Figure it Out · Q9
Draw a bar graph of activities (playing 45, reading story books 30, TV 20, music 10, painting 15) using 1 unit = 5 students. Which activity is liked most after playing?
3After playing, the tallest bar is reading story books.
✅ Answer: Reading story books (30 students).
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๐ Page 99Figure it Out · Q10
Saplings planted in a week (bar graph). (a) Wednesday + Thursday? (b) Whole week? (c) Most and least on which days? Why?
1Read the bars: Mon 52, Tue 40, Wed 30, Thu 40, Fri 50, Sat 60, Sun 40.
2(a) 30 + 40 = 70.
3(b) 52 + 40 + 30 + 40 + 50 + 60 + 40 = 312.
4(c) Most: Saturday (60); least: Wednesday (30).
5Possible reasons: Saturday is a half day, so more time and more helpers; mid-week there are more classes/tests. We can check by asking the teachers or keeping a record of hours spent each day.
๐ก Tip: Monday’s bar is a little above 50 — about 52.
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๐ Page 100Figure it Out · Q11
Find and fix the mistakes in the bar graph of tigers in India (2006: 1400, 2010: 1700, 2014: 2200, 2018: 3000, 2022: 3700).
Year
Tigers (approx.)
2006
1400
2010
1700
2014
2200
2018
3000
2022
3700
1Compare each bar with the table (one grid gap = 1000).
22006 bar shows only about 800 — it should reach 1400.
32010 bar shows about 1500 — it should reach 1700.
4The 2014 and 2018 bars are swapped: 2014 shows about 2900 and 2018 about 2200.
52022 (≈ 3700) is correct. Redraw the four wrong bars.
Corrected: each bar now matches the table (scale: one grid gap = 1000 tigers).
✅ Answer: Mistakes: 2006 too short (should be 1400), 2010 too short (1700), 2014 and 2018 swapped. See the corrected graph.
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๐ Page 101Think · Mountains
How much taller is Mount Everest than Mount Kosciuszko? Are Denali and Kilimanjaro very different in height?
18848 − 2228 = 6620 m.
2Denali 6194 m, Kilimanjaro 5895 m → difference 299 m only.
3A column graph makes this easy to see at a glance.
✅ Answer: Everest is 6,620 m taller. Denali and Kilimanjaro differ by only 299 m — nearly equal.
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๐ Page 103Figure it Out · Q1
To show the heights of the tallest person in each class, would you use vertical or horizontal bars? Why?
1Heights are measured upward from the ground.
2Vertical bars (columns) grow upward like people standing.
✅ Answer: Vertical bars — they look like people standing, so heights are easy to compare.
๐ Page 103Figure it Out · Q2
For the longest river on each continent, would you use vertical or horizontal bars? Why? Which continents have the longest rivers?
1River lengths run along the ground, so horizontal bars suit them.
2Longest rivers (about): Nile 6650 km, Amazon 6400 km, Yangtze 6300 km, Mississippi–Missouri 6275 km, Murray–Darling 3672 km, Volga 3530 km (Antarctica has no big rivers).
3Africa and South America have the longest rivers.
✅ Answer: Horizontal bars. Africa (Nile) and South America (Amazon) have the longest rivers.
๐ก Tip: Lengths are approximate; different books give slightly different values.
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๐ Page 104Think · Infographics
In the triangle infographic, taller mountains are also wider. Is that a problem? Is the picture accurate?
1In a bar graph all bars have the same width, so only the heights are compared.
2In the infographic the taller triangles are also wider, so they look much ‘bigger’.
3Mountains are not always wider when they are taller, so the picture suggests wrong information.
Triangles of different WIDTHS: taller ones also look wider and ‘bigger’ — this can mislead.
✅ Answer: Yes — the extra width can mislead; only the heights carry the data.
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๐ Page 105Think
In the mountain-range picture Everest looks twice as tall as Elbrus. What is 5642 × 2? Is the picture accurate?
15642 × 2 = 11,284 m.
2Everest is only 8848 m — much less than 11,284 m.
38848 ÷ 5642 ≈ 1.6, so Everest is about 1.6 times as tall as Elbrus, not twice.
✅ Answer: 5642 × 2 = 11,284. The picture is misleading — Everest is only about 1.6 times as tall as Elbrus.
๐ Where do we use data?
Elections, census and population studies; weather reports; sports scores.
Shops track sales; doctors track health records; schools track attendance.
News and TV use bar graphs and infographics every day — read them carefully!
๐ Link to higher classes
Class 7: Connecting the Dots — mean and median. Class 8: Tales by Dots and Lines — line graphs.
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