Understanding Graphs

This is a series of exercises which you can give your students (upper primary school level). It
will help them to understand and draw simple line graphs. Level 1 is easy and it increases in
levels of difficulty up to level 5, being the most difficult. Make sure your students do all the
exercises. It will also help you understand the level in which your students have difficulties.

Prepared by:

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Level 1
1. Fill in the table with any pairs of values of x and y from the graph below.
(The smallest division on both axes is 0.5)

x
x

x Y

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2. Fill in the table with any pairs of values of x and y from the graph below.
(The smallest division on both axes is 0.2)

x y

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3. In the space below, draw a table containing at least 3 pairs of values of x and y taken
from the graph.
(The smallest division on both axes is 0.1)

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4. In the space below, draw a table containing at least 3 pairs of values of x and y taken
from the graph.
(Smallest division on x-axis: 0.2
Smallest division on y-axis: 0.05)

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5. In the space below, draw a table containing at least 3 pairs of values of x and y taken
from the graph.
(Smallest division on x-axis: 0.05
Smallest division on y-axis: 0.2)

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Level 2
1. Adam is walking from his house to the library, which is 500 meters away. Fill in the
table with the distances Adam has walked from his house in a certain number of
minutes. One row has already been filled.

Time walked (minutes) Distance from Adam’s

house (meters)
5 100

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2. En. Ah Kow is going on a day trip. He’s brought his phone, which has full battery
when he starts his trip. Fill in the table with values of En. Rizal’s phone battery and
the hours he spends on the trip. One row has already been filled.

Hours spent on trip Phone battery (%)

1 88

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3. Pn. Selvi is delivering orders from Store G to five houses: A, B, C, D and E. She travels
a total of 700 meters in 60 minutes. Complete the table showing the distance Pn.
Selvi travels between each point and the time she takes for travelling. One row has
already been filled.
(Note: The horizontal lines mean that she is not moving for that duration)

Time taken to travel Distance between the

(minutes) two points (meters)
G to A 8 140

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4. A bus from Shah Alam is travelling to Kuantan, which is 300 kilometres away. The bus
makes two stops along the way at A and B. From the graph determine how long, in
minutes, the bus stops at A and B respectively (1 hour = 60 minutes)

Shah Alam

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5. Alex receives RM10 each week as pocket money. At the end of each week, he puts
any remaining pocket money into his savings. Draw a table showing how much
money he puts into his saving each week for 6 weeks. Data for the first week has
already been plotted.

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Level 3
1. Plot a graph using the following table of values
(x-axis/horizontal axis: 1 large square = 0.5
y-axis/vertical axis: 1 large square = 1)

x y

0.5 5

1.0 6

1.5 7

2.0 8

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2. Plot a graph using the following table of values
(x-axis/horizontal axis: 1 large square = 2
y-axis/vertical axis: 1 large square = 2)

x y

1 8

3 6

5 4

7 2

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3. Plot a graph using the following table of values
(x-axis/horizontal axis: 1 large square = 2
y-axis/vertical axis: 1 large square = 0.5)

x y

2.4 0.2

3 0.5

6 2

9 3.5

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4. Plot a graph using the following table of values
(x-axis/horizontal axis: 1 large square = 2
y-axis/vertical axis: 1 large square = 2)

x y

2.5 2.0

3.0 3.5

4.0 6.5

4.5 8

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5. Plot a graph using the following table of values
(x-axis/horizontal axis: 1 large square = 2
y-axis/vertical axis: 1 large square = 2)

x y

1 8.5

4 7.0

9 4.5

17 0.5

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Level 4
1. Subra is riding his bicycle to school, 1000 m away. Draw a graph using the values
from the table below
(x-axis: 1 large square = 2 minutes
y-axis: 1 large square = 200 metres)

Time cycling (minutes) Distance from school (metres)

0 1000

4 500

6 250

8 0

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2. Ah Kow is tracking her weekly spending in the form of a graph. She has written down
how much she has spent each week for four weeks in the table below. Plot the graph
using Farah’s table below.
(x-axis: 1 large square = 1 week
y-axis: 1 large square = RM 10)

Week Spending per week

(RM)
1 25

2 32

3 18

4 41

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3. Pn Assemah is a school principle. She need to record the average UPSR score for the
last 5 years to see the progress of students. Use the table below to plot a graph.
(x-axis: 1 large square = 1 year
y-axis: 1 large square = 20%)

Years Percentage results

1 80
2 86
3 78
4 64
5 92

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4. Mr Azmi wants to try and lose weight. He exercises each week and tracks his weight
over the course of seven weeks. Plot the graph of Mr Azmi’s weight change using the
table below.
(x-axis: 1 large square = 1 week
y-axis: 1 large square = 10 kg)

Week Weight (kg)

0 75
1 72
2 69
3 68
4 66
5 64
6 61
7 57

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5. A stall owner obtains a certain amount of profit each week, such as in the table
below. Plot the graph with weeks as the x-axis and total profits as the y-axis [add the
values together and plot the graph]
(x-axis: 1 large square = 1 week
y-axis: 1 large square = RM 50)

Weeks Profits per week (RM)

1 35

2 30

3 40

4 50

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Level 5
For this level, you must determine the scales of the graph on your own
1. Razi is a shop owner. The table below shows his earnings and spendings for each week
over 5 weeks. Calculate his profits (earnings minus spendings) and plot a graph for his
weekly profit.

Week Earnings (RM) Spendings (RM) Profit (RM)

1 450 200

2 620 340

3 510 190

4 490 220

5 760 380

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2. Kasthuri has her phone fully charged at the start of her day, which is 8:00. Her phone
battery percentage decreases throughout the day. She briefly charges her phone to 80%
at 15:00. Plot a graph of the battery percentage of Kasthuri’s phone against time using
the values in the table below.

Time Phone battery percentage (%)

8:00 100

10:00 70

13:00 55

15:00 80

17:00 60

20:00 45

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3. (This question will involve drawing two lines on the same graph)

Ashraf and Bilal are competing in a 1200 m marathon. They start at the same time but
reach the finish line at different times. The table below shows the time taken since the
start of the race and the distance of Ashraf and Bilal respectively from the starting line.
Draw a graph containing both of Ashraf and Bilal’s values.

Time since starting Distance of Ashraf from Distance of Bilal from

(minutes) the start line (metres) the start line (metres)
0 0 0
5 300 250
10 650 600

15 750 800
20 900 900

25 1100 1200

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4. Mr Shanmugam is driving a train operator, where the train travels to stations B, C, D and
E starting from station A. The table below shows the distance of the train from station A
and the time at which the train arrives and departs from each stop. The train departs
from station A at 14:00. Plot a graph of distance against time (in minutes) of the journey
of the train.

Station Distance travelled Arrival time Departure time

(metres)…

B from A: 300 14:20 14:25

C from B: 1000 14:55 15:00
D from C: 650 15:30 15:35
E from D: 700 16:00 -

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5. Three triplet siblings Ammar, Akif and Ahmad are preparing for exams. Over 7 days, they
each do one practice paper per day and record their marks. On the same graph, plot the
progress for each of the three siblings over 7 days using the data in the table below.

Day Ammar’s marks Akif’s marks (%) Ahmad’s marks

(%) (%)
1 70 68 68
2 74 76 72
3 82 80 84
4 62 58 54

5 80 82 80
6 88 86 90
7 94 92 90

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