Constructing and Interpreting Bar Graphs Maths - Constructing and Interpreting Bar Graphs

A man started his journey on his car from location a and came back. The graph given below shows his position at different times during the whole journey.

Study the above graph carefully and answer the questions given below:

1. At what time did he start and end his journey?
2. What was the total duration of the journey?
3. Which journey, onward or return, was of longer duration?
4. For how many hours did he not move?
5. At what time did he have the fastest speed?

A courier-person cycles from a town to a neighbouring suburban area to deliver a parcel to a merchant. His distances from the town at different times are shown by the given graph.

Study the above graph carefully and answer the questions given below:

1. What is the scale taken for the time-axis?
2. How much time did the person take for the travel?
3. How far is the place of the merchant from the town?
4. Did the person stop on his way? Explain.
5. During which period did the ride fastest?

The following is the distance-time graph of amit's walking.

Study the above graph carefully and answer the questions given below:

1. When does Amit make the least progress? Explain your answer.
2. Find his average speed in km/ hr.

The line graph given below shows the yearly sales figures for a manufacturing company during the last five years.

Study the above graph carefully and answer the questions given below:

1. What were the sales in.

1. 2013
2. 2015
3. 2016

2. Compute the difference between the sales in 2012 and 2016?
3. In which year was there the greatest difference between the sales as compared to its previous year?

The following table depicts the maximum temperature on the seven days of a particular week. Study the table and draw a line graph for the same.

Day	Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
Maximum temp. (in °C)	25	28	26	32	29	24	31

The following table shows the percentage of students who dropped out of school after completing high school.

Year	2005	2007	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017
Percentage of students who dropped out of school	6%	5.5%	5%	4.7%	4.9%	4%	4.5%

Study the above table carefully and draw a line graph to depict it.

The following line graph shows the journey made by two cyclists, cyclist I and cyclist II, one from town B to town A and the other from town A to town B.
Study the above graph carefully and answer the questions given below:

1. At what time did cyclist II rest? For how long did the cyclist rest?
2. Was cyclist II cycling faster or slower after the rest?
3. At what time did the two cyclists meet?
4. How far had cyclist II travelled when he met cyclist I?
5. When cyclist II reached town B, how far was cyclist I from town A?

Study the table given below and draw a line graph for it.

Side of the square (in cm)	2	3	3.5	5	6
Perimeter (in cm)	8	12	14	20	24

Is the graph drawn, a linear graph?

A car is travelling from city P to city Q, which are 350km apart. The line graph given below describes the distances of the car from the city P at different times.
Study the above graph and answer the questions given below:

1. What information is given on the two axes?
2. From where and when did the car begin its journey?
3. How far dis the car go in the first hour?
4. How far did the car go during (a) the 2nd hour and (b) the 3rd hour?
5. Was the speed same during first three hours? How do you know it?
6. Did the car stop for some during at any place? Justify your answer.
7. When did the car reach city Q?

Explain the situations represented by the following distance-time graph:

Can there be a temperature-time graph as follows? Justify your answer.

Can there be a temperature-time graph as follows? Justify your answer.

Explain the situations represented by the following distance-time graph:

Explain the situations represented by the following distance-time graph: