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Create and Interpret Column Graphs II

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Miss Yen recorded her students' favourite pets in the column graph below.

Student's favorite petsPetsNumber of students51015HamsterDogCatFishBird

A bar graph titled "Student's favorite pets" displays the preferences of an unspecified number of students for five types of pets: dogs, hamsters, birds, cats, and fish. The vertical axis is labeled "Number of students" and has a scale that goes from 0 to 15 in increments of 5. Each category of pet has a corresponding bar that indicates the number of students who favor that pet. The bar for Hamster shows a count of 6. The bar for Dog shows a count of 7. The bar for Cat shows a count of 4. The bar for Fish shows a count of 8. The bar for Bird shows a count of 11.  
a

Which type of pet is most popular?

Fish

A

Bird

B

Hamster

C

Cat

D

Dog

E
b

Which pet is least popular?

Bird

A

Cat

B

Fish

C

Dog

D

Hamster

E
c

How many students picked a Fish as their favourite pet?

d

How many students were surveyed in total?

Easy
1min

Mr. Price recorded his students' favourite book genre in the column graph below.

Easy
< 1min

Mr. Hopkins recorded the hair colours of the students in his class in the column graph below.

Easy
< 1min

Mrs Hubbard recorded her students' favourite fruits in the column graph below.

Medium
1min
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Outcomes

S2-1

Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle:– posing and answering questions; – gathering, sorting, and displaying category and whole-number data; – communicating findings based on the data.

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