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Ex.5.1 Q5 Data Handling Solutions - NCERT Maths Class 8

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Question

The number of hours for which students of a particular class watched television during holidays is shown through the given graph. We draw the histogram for above frequency table:

(i) For how many hours did the maximum number of students watch T.V.?

(ii) How many students watched TV for less than $$4$$ hours?

(iii) How many students spent more than $$5$$ hours in watching TV?

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Data Handling
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Text Solution

What is known?

Histogram representing the number of students versus hours of TV watched per day.

What is unknown?

(i) Number of hours did the maximum number of students watch T.V.

(ii) Number of students watched TV for less than $$4$$ hours.

(iii)Number of students spent more than $$5$$ hours in watching TV.

Reasoning:

Histogram is a graphical representation of data, the data represented in manner of class- interval.

Steps:

(i) The maximum number of students watched T.V. for $$4 – 5$$ hours.

(ii) $$34$$ students watched T.V. for less than $$4$$ hours.

(iii) $$14$$ students spent more than $$5$$ hours in watching T.V.

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