We have learnt, that a collection of objects can be stored out based on their color, shape, size or any other common thing among them. We can organise all the information in a table to understand how many of each item is there in a collection. Information collected is called data.
1. Fill in the blanks:
(i) Information collected is called ...................
(ii) We can organise information in a ...................
Answer:
1. (i) data
(ii) table
2. Students of XYZ school, have prepared following details of birds seen in a bird sanctuary.
Kingfisher |
25 |
Myna |
18 |
Parrot |
32 |
Pigeon |
32 |
Bulbul |
8 |
Answer the following questions:
(i) Which bird was seen the most?
(ii) Which bird was seen the least?
(iii) Which two birds were equal in number?
(iv) How many birds were seen in all?
Answer:
2. (i) Parrot and Pigeon
(ii) Bulbul
(iii) Parrot and Pigeon
(iv) 115
3. Mr. John has collected details of weather conditions in a month.
Answer the following questions:
(i) How many sunny days are there in the month?
(ii) How many rainy days are there in the month?
(iii) How many days were having thunderstorm?
(iv) What is the total number of days in the month?
(v) How many more sunny days are there than rainy days in the month?
Answer:
3. (i) 15
(ii) 10
(iii) 2
(iv) 31
(v) 5
4. The following table shows the number of students who attends different activities after school.
Music |
15 |
Dance |
10 |
Drama |
8 |
Drawing |
5 |
Games |
10 |
Answer the following questions:
(i) How many students learn drama?
(ii) How many students learn music?
(iii) How many students in all learn dance and drama?
(iv) Which activity is attended by least number of students?
Answer:
4. (i) 8
(ii) 15
(iii) 18
(iv) Drawing
5. Mr. James has a toy shop. He has recorded the number of various items he sold last week.
Dolls |
10 |
Aeroplanes |
12 |
Balls |
30 |
Cars |
16 |
Guns |
20 |
Trains |
14 |
Answer the following questions:
(i) How many dolls were sold?
(ii) How many toys were sold in all?
(iii) How many more guns were sold than cars?
(iv) Which toy sold the most?
(v) Which toy sold the least?
Answer:
5. (i) 10
(ii) 102
(iii) 4
(iv) Balls
(v) Dolls
6. Prepare a table giving details of number of items you can carrying today in your school bad.
Item |
Number |
Item |
Number |
Framing Word Problem:
Create a story using the items in the table. You can use the words least, most, more and less in your story. Write your story in the space below.
Carrot |
8 |
Capsicum |
6 |
Brinjal |
5 |
Tomato |
12 |
Cauliflower |
2 |
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7. The shopkeeper collected details of ice creams sold in his shop in a month. He noted that most popular flavor is vanilla. He sold 25 more vanilla ice creams than chocolate ice creams. He sold 60 chocolate ice creams, 75 mango ice creams and 10 orange ice creams. Write the details in the following table.
Answer the following questions:
(i) Which flavor had the least sales?
(ii) Which flavor had the most sales?
(iii) How many vanilla ice creams were sold?
(iv) How many more mango ice creams than chocolate ice creams were sold?
Answer:
7.
Ice cream |
Number |
Orange |
10 |
Chocolate |
60 |
Mango |
75 |
Vanilla |
85 |
(i) Orange
(ii) Vanilla
(iii) 85
(iv) 15
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