Mathematics

NCERT QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS

EXERCISE : 9.1 Sol. (a)
1. In a Mathematics test, the following Tally No. of
Sweets
marks were obtained by 40 students. marks students
Arrange these marks in a table using tally |||| |||| |
Ladoo 11
marks.
8 1 3 7 6 5 5 4 4 2 Barfi ||| 3
4 9 5 3 7 1 6 5 2 7 Jalebi |||| || 7
7 3 8 4 2 8 9 5 8 6
7 4 5 6 9 6 4 4 6 6 Rasgulla |||| |||| 9
(a) Find how many students obtained 30
marks equal to or more than 7. (b) Ladoo, Because 11 students prefer to
(b) How many students obtained marks eat.
below 4 ? 3. Catherine threw a dice 40 times and noted
Sol. the number appearing each time as shown
Tally below :
Marks No. of students
marks 1 3 5 6 6 3 5 4 1 6
1 || 2 2 5 3 4 6 1 5 5 6 1
2 ||| 3 1 2 2 3 5 2 4 5 5 6
3 ||| 3 5 1 6 2 3 5 2 4 1 5
4 |||| || 7 Make a table and enter the data using tally
marks. Find the number that appeared
5 |||| | 6
(a) The minimum number of times
6 |||| || 7 (b) The maximum number of times
7 |||| 5 (c) Find those numbers that appear an
equal number of times.
8 |||| 4
Sol.
9 |||| 3
Numbers Tally No. of
(a) Twelve students
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Marks times
(b) Eight students
2. Following is the choice of sweets of 30 appeared
students of Class VI. 1 |||| || 7
Ladoo, Barfi, Ladoo, Jalebi, Ladoo, 2 |||| | 6
Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Barfi, Rasgulla,
Ladoo, Jalebi, Jalebi, Rasgulla, Ladoo, 3 |||| 5
Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Ladoo, 4 |||| 4
Ladoo, Barfi, Rasgulla, Rasgulla, Jalebi, 5 11
|||| |||| |
Rasgulla, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo.
(a) Arrange the names of sweets in a 6 |||| || 7
table using tally marks. (a) The minimum number of times = 4
(b) Which sweet is preferred by most of (b) The maximum number of times = 5
the students ? (c) 1 and 6

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NCERT Basics : Class 6
4. Following pictograph shows the number Sol. (a) Class VIII has the minimum number
of tractors in five villages. of girl students.
Village (b) No
Number of tractors - 1 Tractor
Village A (c) Number of girls in class VII are 3 × 4
= 12 girls
Village B
6. The sale of electric bulbs on different days
Village C of a week is shown below :
Days Number of electric bulbs - 2 bulbs
Village D Monday
Village E
Tuesday
Observe the pictograph and answer the
following questions: Wednesday
(i) Which village has the minimum
Thursday
number of tractors?
(ii) Which village has the maximum
Friday
number of tractors?
(iii) How many more tractors village C Saturday
has as compared to village B?
(iv) What is the total number of tractors Sunday
in all the five villages?
Sol. (i) Village D (ii) Village C Observe the pictograph and answer the
(iii) 3 (iv) 28 following questions :
5. The number of girl students in each class (a) How many bulbs were sold on
of a co-educational middle school is Friday?
depicted by the pictograph. (b) On which day maximum number of
Number of girl students -4 bulbs were sold ?
Classes
Girls (c) If one bulb was sold at the rate of
I
`10, what was the total sale on
II Sunday ?
III (d) Can you find out the total sale of the
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IV week ?
V (e) If one carton can hold 2 bulbs, how
VI many cartons were needed in the
VII
given week ?
Sol. (a) Number of bulbs sold on Friday are
VIII
7 × 2 = 14.
Observe this pictograph and answer the
(b) Maximum number of bulbs were
following questions :
(a) Which class has the minimum sold on Sunday.
number of girl students ? (c) Total sale = 10 × 18 = `180.
(b) Is the number of girls in Class VI less (d) The total number of bulbs sold in
than the number of girls in Class V ? the given week are 86.
(c) How many girls are there in Class 86
VII ? (e) Total cartons = = 43
2
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7. In a village six fruit merchants sold the Sol.
following number of fruit baskets in a Number of animals
Village
- 10 animals
particular season. Village A 80
Name of fruit Number of fruit baskets Village B 120
merchants - 100 baskets Village C 90
Rahim Village D 40
Village E 60
Lakhanpal
(a) 6
Anwar
(b) Village B
Martin
(c) Village C has more animals than
Ranjit Singh
Village A
Joseph 2. Total number of students of a school in
Observe this pictograph and answer the different years is shown in the following
following questions : table.
(a) Which merchant sold the maximum Years Number of students
number of baskets ? 1996 400
(b) How many fruit baskets were sold 1998 550
by Anwar ? 2000 450
(c) The merchants who have sold 600 2002 600
or more number of baskets are 2004 650
planning to buy a godown for the A. Prepare a pictograph of students,
next season. Can you name them ? using one symbol to represent
Sol. (a) Martin 100 students and answer the
(b) 7 × 100 = 700 fruit baskets were following questions :
sold by Anwar. (a) How many symbols represent
(c) Anwar, Martin, Ranjit Singh total number of students in the
year 2002?
Deleted Exercise
(b) How many symbols represent
1. Total number of animals in five villages total number of students in the
are as follows year 1998?
Village A : 80 Village B : 120
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B. Prepare another pictograph of

Village C : 90 Village D: 40 students using any other symbol each
Village E: 60 representing 50 students.
Prepare a pictograph of these animals Sol.
using one symbol  to represent 10 Years Number of students, - 100 Students
animals and answer the following 1996
questions:
1998
(a) How many symbols represent
2000
animals of village E?
(b) Which village has the maximum 2002
number of animals? 2004
(c) Which village has more animals:
(a) 6
village A or village C? (b) Five complete and one incomplete

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(B) Y 1 unit length = 5 shirts
Saturday
Years Number of students, - 50 Students
Friday
1996
Thursday

Days
1998 Wednesday
2000 Tuesday

2002 Monday
X
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65
2004
Number of shirts sold

Deleted Exercise Now answer the following questions :

1. The bar graph given alongside shows the (a) What information does the above

amount of wheat purchased by bar graph give ?

government during the year 1998-2002. (b) What is the scale chosen on the

Y 1 unit length = 5 thousand tonnes

horizontal line representing
Wheat (in thousand tonnes)

30 number of shirts ?
25
20
(c) On which day were the maximum
15 number of shirts sold ? How many
10
5 shirts were sold on that day ?
0 X
(d) On which day were the minimum
2001
1999

2002
2000
1998

Years number of shirts sold ?

(e) How many shirts were sold on
Read the bar graph and write down your
Thursday ?
observations. In which year was
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(a) the wheat production maximum ?
shirts in a ready made shop from
(b) the wheat production minimum ?
Monday to Saturday.
Sol. (a) In 2002, production of wheat was
(b) 1 unit = 5 shirts.
maximum.
(c) On Saturday, maximum number of
(b) In 1998, production of wheat was
shirts, i.e. 60 shirts were sold.
minimum.
(d) On Tuesday, minimum number of
2. Observe this bar graph which is showing
shirts were sold.
the sale of shirts in a ready made shop
(e) On Thursday, 35 shirts were sold.
from Monday to Saturday.

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3. Observe this bar graph which shows the Deleted Exercise
1. A survey of 120 school students was done
marks obtained by Aziz in half-yearly
to find which activity they prefer to do in
examination in different subjects.
their free time.
Y
90 1 unit length =10 marks Preferred Number of
80
70 activity students
60
50 Playing 45
Marks

Mathematics

40
30 Reading story books 30
English

Science

Social Sc.

20
Hindi

Watching T.V. 20
10
0 X Listening to music 10
Subjects
Painting 15
Answer the given questions :
Draw a bar graph to illustrate the above
(a) What information does the bar
data taking scale of 1 unit length = 5
graph give ?
students.
(b) Name the subject in which Aziz has
Which activity is preferred by most of the
scored maximum marks.
students other than playing ?
(c) Name the subject in which he has
Y
scored minimum marks. Sol. 1 unit length = 5 students
45
(d) State the name of the subjects and 40
35
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Number of students

marks obtained in each of them. 30

Reading story books

25
Sol. (a) The bar graph shows the marks 20
Watching T.V.

15
obtained by Aziz in half yearly
Playing

Painting

10
Listening
to music

examination in different subjects. 5

0 X
(b) Hindi. Activity

(c) Social Studies. Reading story books is preferred by most

(d) Hindi 80, English 60, Mathematics of the students other than playing.
70, Science 50, Social Studies 40.

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2. The number of Mathematics books sold by a 3. Following table shows the number of

shopkeeper on six consecutive days is bicycles manufactured in a factory during

the years 1998 to 2002. Illustrate this
shown below:
data using a bar graph. Choose a scale of
Days Number of Books
your choice.
Sunday 65 Years Numbers of bicycles
Monday 40 manufactured
1998 800
Tuesday 30
1999 600
Wednesday 50
2000 900
Thursday 20 2001 1100

Friday 70 2002 1200

(a) In which year were the maximum
Draw a bar graph to represent the above
number of bicycles manufactured ?
information choosing the scale of your
(b) In which year were the minimum
choice.
number of bicycles manufactured ?
Sol. Y
Y 1 unit length = 100 bicycles
75 1 unit length = 5 books Sol.
1200
70 1100
65 1000
60
900
55
Number of mathematics books

800
50
700
45
40 600
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35 500
30 400
25 300
20 200
1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

15 100
10 0 X
Years
5
0 X
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday

Friday
Thursday
Sunday

(a) Maximum number of bicycles were

manufactured in 2002

Days (b) Minimum number of bicycles were

manufactured in 1999

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4. Number of persons in various age groups Sol.
in a town is given in the following table. Y
Age group Number of persons 2,00,000 1 unit length = 20 thousands
1 - 14 2 lakhs 1,80,000
15 - 29 1 lakh 1,60,000

Number of persons
1,40,000
60 thousands
1,20,000
30 - 44 1 lakh 1,00,000
20 thousands 80,000
45 - 59 1 lakh 60,000
40,000
60 thousands
20,000
60 -74 80 thousands X
0

75 and
45-59

60-74
30-44
1-14

15-29

above
75 and above 40 thousands
Draw a bar graph to represent the above
Age group
information and answer the following
questions.
(a) Group 15 – 29 and group 45 – 59
(take 1 unit length = 20 thousands)
(b) 80,000 + 40,000 = 1,20,000
(a) Which two age groups have same
population?
(b) All persons in the age group of 60
and above are called senior citizens.
How many senior citizens are there
in the town?
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