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Question
The number of bottles of cold drinks sold by a shopkeeper on six consecutive days is as follows:
| Day | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Number of bottles | 350 | 200 | 300 | 250 | 100 | 150 |
Prepare a pictograph of the data using one symbol to represent 50 bottles.
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Solution
Let 50 bottles of cold drinks can be represented by 
.
For Sunday, 350 cold drink bottles can be represented by 7 complete symbols.
For Monday, 200 cold drink bottles can be represented by 4 complete symbols.
For Tuesday, 300 cold drink bottles can be represented by 6 complete symbols.
For Wednesday, 250 cold drink bottles can be represented by 5 complete symbols.
For Thursday, 100 cold drink bottles can be represented by 2 complete symbols.
For Friday, 150 cold drink bottles can be represented by 3 complete symbols.
Hence, the required pictograph of given data is shown below
| Days | Bottles = 50 bottles |
| Sunday |  |
| Monday |  |
| Tuesday |  |
| Wednesday |  |
| Thursday |  |
| Friday |  |
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