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EX AM PLE 1. The num ber of caps sold by a shop dur ing a week are given be low:
Days Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Number of caps sold 10 15 25 20 30 15

Represent the above data by a pictograph.

SO LU TION : The above data can be rep re sented by a pictograph as given be low:

Scale : represents 5 caps.

Days Number of caps sold
Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

In the above pictograph, the picture symbol represents 5 caps. As we have seen that this
way of representing numerical data is time consuming and some times we have to draw
part picture symbol which is also a difficult task. So, it is not very useful.
EX AM PLE 2. The fol low ing pictograph rep re sents num ber of cars of dif fer ent colours sold dur ing the
month.

Here, one = 10 cars

Name of Colours Number of Cars

Red

Blue

Black

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