Question

The following bar graph shows the number of houses (out of 100) in a town using different types of fuels for cooking.

Read the bar graph and answer the following questions:

Scale: 1 unit length = 5 houses

1. Which fuel is used in maximum number of houses?
2. How many houses are using coal as fuel?
3. Suppose that the total number of houses in the town is 1 lakh.
   From the above graph estimate the number of houses using electricity.

Answer 1

1. LPG is used in maximum number of houses.
2. 10 houses are using coal as fuel.
3. Since, there are 5 houses using electricity out of 100.
   Therefore, out of 1 lakh the electricity will be used by `5/100 xx 100000` = 5000 houses.