Question 14 Marks
The expenditure of a family on different heads in a month is given below:
Draw a bar graph to represent the data above.
| Head | Food | Education | Clothing | House Rent | Others | Savings |
| Expenditure(in Rs.) | $4000$ | $2500$ | $1000$ | $3500$ | $2500$ | $1500$ |
Answer
View full question & answer→We draw a bar graph of this data in the following steps.
Step I: We represent the heads (variable) on the horizontal axis choosing any scale, as the width of the bar is not important. But for clarity, we take equal widths for all bars and maintain equal gaps in between them. Let one head be represented by one unit.
Step II We represent the expenditure on the vertical axis. Since, the maximum expenditure is Rs. $4000$, we can choose the scale as $1$ unit = Rs. $500.$
Step III To represent our first head i.e.,food, we draw a rectangular bar with width $1$ unit and height $8$ units.
Step IV Similarly, other heads are represented by leaving a gap of $\frac{1}{2}\text{unit}$ in between two consecutive bars. The bar graph for given data is shown below:

Step I: We represent the heads (variable) on the horizontal axis choosing any scale, as the width of the bar is not important. But for clarity, we take equal widths for all bars and maintain equal gaps in between them. Let one head be represented by one unit.
Step II We represent the expenditure on the vertical axis. Since, the maximum expenditure is Rs. $4000$, we can choose the scale as $1$ unit = Rs. $500.$
Step III To represent our first head i.e.,food, we draw a rectangular bar with width $1$ unit and height $8$ units.
Step IV Similarly, other heads are represented by leaving a gap of $\frac{1}{2}\text{unit}$ in between two consecutive bars. The bar graph for given data is shown below:







