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Reading and Creating Graphs

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Reading and Creating Graphs

Use the festival data and graphs to answer the questions. Read graph titles, labels and keys carefully. For creating tasks, show your thinking and label your graph.

Read the graphs

Festival visitors voted for their favourite stall snack. The bar graph shows the votes.

Fruit cups ■■■■■■■■■■■■

Pikelets ■■■■■■■■

Popcorn ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

Vegemite scrolls ■■■■■■

1.How many visitors voted for popcorn? Give the number of votes.
2.Which snack received the fewest votes?
3.How many more votes did popcorn receive than pikelets?
4.How many votes were counted altogether? Show an addition sentence.

Choose and interpret

A volunteer recorded how many reusable drink bottles were sold over four days.

Monday — 18 bottles

Tuesday — 25 bottles

Wednesday — 20 bottles

Thursday — 27 bottles

5.Which day had the greatest number of bottle sales?
  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
6.How many bottles were sold on Monday and Wednesday altogether?
7.Which graph would be clearer for comparing sales on each day: a bar graph or a pictograph where each symbol stands for 1 bottle? Explain your choice.

Make your own graph

A beach clean-up team counted the items they collected. Make a bar graph in the grid: add a title, label both axes, choose a sensible scale, and draw one bar for each item.

Plastic bottles — 8

Wrappers — 12

Cans — 4

Straws — 6

Use the counts above. Include a title, category labels, a number scale and bars.
8.Use the beach clean-up counts. Which item was collected most, and how many more of it were collected than cans?

3 printable pages

  • Reading and Creating Graphs, page 1 of 3: Read the graphs

    Page 1

  • Reading and Creating Graphs, page 2 of 3: Choose and interpret, Make your own graph

    Page 2

  • Reading and Creating Graphs, page 3 of 3: Use the counts above. Include a title, category labels, a number scale and bars.

    Page 3

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