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Graph Reading Practice

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Graph Reading Practice

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📊 Part 1: Reading Pictographs and Bar Graphs

Study the pictograph below showing favourite pets in Year 3:

Dogs: 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 (Each symbol = 2 students)

Cats: 🐱 🐱 🐱 🐱

Birds: 🐦 🐦

Fish: 🐠 🐠 🐠

1. How many students chose dogs as their favourite pet?

6 students

12 students

8 students

10 students

2. Which pet is the most popular?

Dogs

Cats

Birds

Fish

3. How many more students chose dogs than cats?

Answer: _______ students

4. What is the total number of students who were surveyed?

Answer: _______ students

📈 Part 2: Interpreting Column Graphs

The column graph below shows rainfall in Melbourne over 4 months:

January: 45mm | February: 30mm | March: 55mm | April: 70mm

5. Which month had the highest rainfall?

January

February

March

April

6. What was the difference in rainfall between the wettest and driest months?

Answer: _______ mm

7. Which months had more than 50mm of rainfall? (Tick all that apply)

January

February

March

April

✏️ Part 3: Explaining Your Thinking

8. Look at the tally chart showing favourite school subjects:

Maths: |||| |||| ||| (13 votes)

English: |||| |||| (10 votes)

Science: |||| |||| |||| | (16 votes)

Art: |||| ||| (8 votes)

Which subject is most popular? _________________

9. Explain how you can tell which subject is most popular from looking at the tally chart:
10. If you were creating a pictograph from this tally data, and each symbol represented 2 students, how many symbols would you draw for Science?

Answer: _______ symbols

Explain your working:

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