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प्रश्न
Given below are the seats won by different political parties in the polling outcome of a state assembly elections:-
| Political Party | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| Seats Won | 75 | 55 | 37 | 29 | 10 | 37 |
- Draw a bar graph to represent the polling results.
- Which political party won the maximum number of seats?
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उत्तर
(i) By taking polling results on x-axis and seats won as y-axis and choosing an appropriate scale (1 unit = 10 seats for y-axis), the required graph of the above information can be constructed as follows.

Here, the rectangle bars are of the same length and have equal spacing in between them.
(ii) Political party ‘A’ won the maximum number of seats.
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| Scheduled Caste (SC) | 940 |
| Scheduled Tribe (ST) | 970 |
| Non SC/ST | 920 |
| Backward districts | 950 |
| Non-backward districts | 920 |
| Rural | 930 |
| Urban | 910 |
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| Height (in cm): | 124 to 128 |
128 to 132 |
132 to 136 |
136 to 140 |
140 to 144 |
144 to 148 |
148 to 152 |
152 to 156 |
156 to 160 |
160 to 164 |
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| 32 | 16 | 24 | 20 | 8 |
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| Bus | Bicycle | Walking | Other sources | |
|
Number of boys |
80 | 60 | 20 | 85 |
|
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90 | 75 | 35 | 60 |
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a. What information is given by the graph?
b. Which state is the largest producer of wheat?
c. Which state is the largest producer of sugar?
d. Which state has total production of wheat and sugar as its maximum?
e. Which state has the total production of wheat and sugar minimum?
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| Heights (in cm) | Number of students |
| 150 – 153 | 7 |
| 153 – 156 | 8 |
| 156 – 159 | 14 |
| 159 – 162 | 10 |
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| 165 – 168 | 5 |
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| 30 – 40 | 3 |
| 40 – 50 | 6 |
| 50 – 60 | 25 |
| 60 – 70 | 65 |
| 70 – 80 | 50 |
| 80 – 90 | 28 |
| 90 – 100 | 14 |
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