NCERT Solutions Class 6 Maths
Chapter – 9 (Data Handling)
The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 6 Mathematics Chapter – 9 Data Handling Exercise 9.2 has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.
Chapter 9: Data Handling
- NCERT Solution Class 6 Maths Exercise – 9.1
- NCERT Solution Class 6 Maths Exercise – 9.3
- NCERT Solution Class 6 Maths Exercise – 9.4
Exercise – 9.2
1. Total number of animals in five villages are as follows:
Village A : 80
Village B : 120
Village C : 90
Village D : 40
Village E : 60
Prepare a pictograph of these animals using one symbol ⊗ to represent 10 animals and answer the following questions:
(a) How many symbols represent animals of village E?
(b) Which village has the maximum number of animals?
(c) Which village has more animals: village A or village C?
Solutions:
We can draw the pictograph for the given data as shown below
(a) 6 symbols represent animals of village E.
(b) Village B has the maximum number of animals, i.e., 120
(c) Village C has more animals than village A.
2. The total number of students in a school in different years is shown in the following table:
| Year | Number of students |
| 1996 | 400 |
| 1998 | 535 |
| 2000 | 472 |
| 2002 | 600 |
| 2004 | 623 |
A. Prepare a pictograph of students using one symbol to 
represent 100 students and answer the following questions:
(i) How many symbols represent total number of students in the year 2002?
(ii) How many symbols represent total number of students for the year 1998?
B. Prepare another pictograph of students using any other symbol each representing 50 students. Which pictograph do you find more informative?
Solution .
A. From the given information, we have
(a) 6 symbols represent total number of students in the year 2002.
(b) 5 complete and 1 incomplete symbols represent total number of students for the year 1998.
B. Second is more informative
