3 The bar charts show the ages of people in a gym at two times of day.

Compare distributions using charts

Monday 10 am
80
70

number of people
1 The bar chart shows the number of boys and girls in each year 60

group in a large primary school. 50

40
girls boys 30
20
Y6 10
Y5 0
18–25 26–35 36–50 51–60 61+
Y4
age (years)
Y3
Y2
Monday 6 pm
Y1
80

100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 70

number of people
60
50
a) How many boys are in Year 2? 40
30
20
b) Are there more girls or more boys in Year 5?
10
0
18–25 26–35 36–50 51–60 61+
2 The pie charts show the amount of rubbish recycled in December 2010 age (years)
and December 2019 in a particular city.
a) What do you notice about the ages of the people in the gym at
2010 2019
different times?

recycled

recycled

Explain what the pie charts show about the amount of rubbish recycled Discuss with a partner why this might be the case.
in the city. b) Are there more people in the gym at 10 am or 6 pm?

How many more people are there?

Is there a way to tell without adding all the numbers, at which time
the gym was busier?
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4 The chart shows the number of visitors from the UK to two different 5 Whitney and Dora each throw arrows at a target.
holiday resorts.
They can score 5, 10, 25, 50, 75 or 100 points.
resort A resort B The bar chart shows how many different times they score each number
Jan of points.

Feb
Mar 50
Apr
40

number of throws
May
Jun 30

Jul 20
Aug
10
Sep
0
Oct 5 10 25 50 75 100
Nov points scored

Dec Whitney Dora

a) Who has the greatest mean average points?

Key: = 1,000 people
How can you tell without actually calculating the mean
average points?
a) What is similar about the number of people who visit the two resorts
during the year? b) Who has the greatest range in points scored?
How can you tell without actually calculating the range in
points scored?

6 The line graph shows how the populations

Discuss possible reasons for the similarities.
of two cities change over time.

population
b) What is different about the number of people who visit the two resorts Make two comparisons of the populations city A
during the year? of the cities over time.

city B

1900 2000
year

Discuss possible reasons for the differences.

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