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Question
A survey of 120 school students was done to find which activity they prefer to do in their free time.
| Preferred activity | Number of students |
| Playing | 45 |
| Reading story books | 30 |
| Watching TV | 20 |
| Listening to music | 10 |
| Painting | 15 |
Draw a bar graph to illustrate the above data taking a scale of 1 unit length = 5 students.
Which activity is preferred by most of the students other than playing?
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Solution
By taking a scale of 1 unit length = 5 students, a bar graph is shown below considering the above data.

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