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Data Handling Class 8

1. The document provides information about 20 math and data handling questions from Class 8. It includes questions about pie charts, bar graphs, histograms, frequency distributions, and probability. 2. The questions cover topics such as interpreting data from various charts and graphs, calculating values based on the presented data, comparing data points, and constructing charts to represent given numerical data. 3. The document serves as a study guide for students to practice analyzing and working with different types of quantitative data representations.

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Data Handling Class 8

1. The document provides information about 20 math and data handling questions from Class 8. It includes questions about pie charts, bar graphs, histograms, frequency distributions, and probability. 2. The questions cover topics such as interpreting data from various charts and graphs, calculating values based on the presented data, comparing data points, and constructing charts to represent given numerical data. 3. The document serves as a study guide for students to practice analyzing and working with different types of quantitative data representations.

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CLASS 8 - MATHEMATICS

Data handling

1. Given below is a pie chart showing the time spend by a group of 350 children in different [4]
games. Observe it and answer the questions that follow.
a. How many children spend atleast one hour in playing games?
b. How many children spend more than 2 h in playing games?
c. How many children spend 3 or lesser hours in playing games?
d. Which is greater, number of children who spend 2 hours or more per day or number of
children who play for less than one hour?

2. The following data represents the approximate percentage of water in various oceans. [4]
Prepare a pie chart of the given data.

Ocean Percentage of water

pacific 40%

Atlantic 30%

Indian 20%

Others 10%

3. The below histogram shows the number of literate females in the age group of 10 yr to 40 yr in [4]
a town.
a. Write the classes assuming all the classes are of equal width.
b. What is the classes width?
c. In which age group, are literate females the least?

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d. In which age group, is the number of literate females the highest?

4. Study the following frequency distribution table and answer the questions given below. [4]
Frequency distribution of daily income 550 workers of a factory

Class interval (daily income in rupees) Frequency (Number of workers)

100-125 45

125-150 25

150-175 55

175-200 125

200-225 140

225-250 55

250-275 35

275-300 50

300-375 20

Total 550

i. What is the size of the class intervals?


ii. Which class has the highest frequency?
iii. Which class has the lowest frequency?
iv. What is the upper limit of the class interval 250-275?
v. Which two classes have the same frequency?
5. The bar graph given below shows the sales of books(in thousands)from six branches of a [4]
publishing company during two consecutive years 2000 and 2001.

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a. What is the ratio of the total sales of branch B2 for both years to the total sales of branch B4
for both years?
b. What is the average sale of all the branches (in thousands numbers) for the year 2000?
c. Total sales of branches B6 for both the years is what percentage of the total sales of
branches B3 for both the years?
6. A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that card drawn is: [4]
i. a black queen
ii. a jack
iii. a card of heart or an ace
iv. a card of diamond
7. The pie chart given below shows the result of a survey carried out to find the modes of travel [4]
used by the children to go to school. Study the pie chart and answer the questions that follow.

a. What is the most common mode of transport?


b. What fraction of children travel by car?
c. If 18 children travel by car, how many children took part in the survey?
d. By which two modes of transport are equal number of children travelling?
8. Read the following histogram and answer the questions given at the end: [4]

i. What information is depicted by the histogram?


ii. Which group contains the maximum number of girls?
iii. Which groups contain the same number of girls?
iv. Heights of how many girls are 145 cm or more?
9. A survey was made to find the type of music that a certain group of young people liked in a [4]
city. The adjoining pie chart shows the findings of this survey.

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From this pie chart answer the following:
i. If 20 people liked classical music, how many young people were surveyed?
ii. Which type of music is liked by the maximum number of people?
iii. If a cassette company were to make 1000 CD's, how many of each type would they make?
10. Given below is a frequency distribution table. Read it and answer the questions that follow. [4]

Class interval Frequency

10-20 5

20-30 10

30-40 4

40-50 15

50-60 12

a. What is the lower limit of the second class interval?


b. What is the upper limit of the last class interval?
c. What is the frequency of the third class?
d. Which interval has a frequency of 10?
e. Which interval has the lowest frequency?
f. What is the class size?
11. Construct a frequency distribution table for the following weights (in gm) of 30 oranges using [4]
the equal class intervals, one of them is 40-45 (45 not included). The weights are: 31, 41, 46, 33,
44, 51, 56, 63, 71, 71, 62, 63, 54, 53, 51, 43, 36, 38, 54, 56, 66, 71, 74, 75, 46, 47, 59, 60, 61, 63.
a. What is the class mark of the class intervals 50-55?
b. What is the range of the above weights?
c. How many class intervals are there?
d. Which class interval has the lowest frequency?
12. Draw a pie chart of the data given below: The time spent by a child during a day. [4]
Sleep – 8 hours
School – 6 hours
Homework – 4 hours
Play – 4 hours
Other – 2 hours
13. In the time table of a school, periods allotted per week to different teaching subjects are given [4]
below.

Subject Hindi English Maths Science Social Science Computer Sanskrit

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Periods allotted 7 8 8 8 7 4 3

Draw a pie chart for this data.


14. The number of hours spent by a school student on various activities on a working day, is given [4]
below. Construct a pie chart using the angle measurement.

Activity Sleep School Play Homework Others

Number of hours 8 6 3 3 4

15. In 100 throws of a dice, the number 4 is obtained 36 times. In a random thrown of a dice, what [4]
is the probability of getting 4?
16. We toss a coin 50 times and get a head 26 times. What is the probability of getting (i) a head (ii) [4]
a tail
17. A financial counselor gave a client this pie chart describing how to budget his income. If the [4]
client brings home 50000 each month, how much should he spend in each category?

1.Housing
2.Food (including eating out)
3.Car loan and maintenance
4.Utilities
5.Phone
6.Clothing
7.Entertainment
18. Look at the histogram and answer the following [4]

i. What is the variable being represented by the histogram? Is the discrete or continuous?
ii. How many students are over 170 cm tall?
iii. How many students are there in all?
iv. What is the minimum height possible of the shortest student?
v. What is the minimum height possible of the tallest student?
19. The number of students in a hostel, speaking different languages is given below. Display the [4]

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data in a pie chart.

Language Hindi English Marathi Tamil Bengali Total

Number of Students 40 12 9 7 4 72

20. For the development of basic infrastructure in a district, a project of ₹108 crore approved by [4]
Development Bank is as follows:

Item head Road Electricity Drinking water Sewerage

Amount (in ₹ crore) 43.2 16.2 27.00 21.6

Draw a pie chart for this data.

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