Question

Read the following bar graph of a special class of some school and answer the following questions.

(a) What is the scale of this graph? 

(b) How many new students take admission in school every year? 

(c) Are number of students in year 2003 double of number of students in year 2000?

Answer 1

(a) Scale – 1 unit length = 10 students 

(b) New admission every year = 10 × 10 = 100 

(c) Number of students in year 2003 = 60 × 10 = 600 

And number of students in year 2000 = 30 × 10 = 300 

Yes, number of students in year 2003 are double of number of students in year 2000.