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2.15 Bar Charts

EDEXCEL 1MA1 · Calculator allowed · about 80 minutes
Total Marks
Name: _______________________________    Date: ____ / ____ / ______
Answer ALL questions. Show all your working.
1
The bar chart shows how 35 pupils travel to school.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Walk Cycle Bus Car Method of travel Number of pupils
(a)Write down the number of pupils who cycle to school.(1)
(b)Write down the mode of the method of travel.(1)
(c)Work out the total number of pupils shown on the bar chart.(2)
(Total for Question 1 is 4 marks)
2
The bar chart shows the number of goals scored by a football team in each of 5 matches.
0 1 2 3 4 Goals scored 1 2 3 4 5 Match
(a)Write down the number of goals scored in Match 3.(1)
(b)Work out the total number of goals scored in all 5 matches.(2)
(Total for Question 2 is 3 marks)
3
The bar chart shows the number of each flavour of ice cream sold at a seaside cafe one afternoon.
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Mint Flavour Number sold
(a)Which flavour of ice cream was the least popular?(1)
  • A) Vanilla
  • B) Chocolate
  • C) Strawberry
  • D) Mint
(b)How many more chocolate ice creams were sold than mint ice creams?(2)
(Total for Question 3 is 3 marks)
4
For each statement about bar charts, write down whether it is True or False.
(i)A bar chart can be used to display categorical (non-numerical) data, such as favourite colours.(1)
(ii)In a bar chart, the bars must always be drawn touching each other with no gaps between them.(1)
(Total for Question 4 is 2 marks)
5
24 pupils were asked to name their favourite fruit. The results are shown in the table.
FruitAppleBananaOrangeGrape
Frequency9654

On the grid provided, draw a bar chart to show this information.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Apple Banana Orange Grape Fruit Frequency
(Total for Question 5 is 3 marks)
6
The bar chart shows the number of pupils who chose tea, coffee and juice as their favourite drink in a survey. The bar for water is missing. In total, 35 pupils took part in the survey.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Tea Coffee Juice Water Drink Number of pupils
(a)Work out the number of pupils who chose water as their favourite drink.(3)
(b)Draw the missing bar for water on the bar chart.(1)
(Total for Question 6 is 4 marks)
7
The dual bar chart shows the favourite sport of the boys and the girls in a class.
Boys Girls 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Football Swimming Tennis Athletics Sport Number of pupils
(a)Write down the number of boys whose favourite sport is football.(1)
(b)Work out the total number of girls who took part in the survey.(2)
(c)Work out how many more boys than girls chose football as their favourite sport.(2)
(Total for Question 7 is 5 marks)
8
The bar chart shows the number of cars sold by a garage in each of four months.
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 January February March April Month Cars sold
(a)Write down the number of cars sold in March.(1)
(b)Work out the total number of cars sold from January to April.(2)
(Total for Question 8 is 3 marks)
9
The horizontal bar chart shows how the 50 staff at a company travel to work.
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Car Bus Bike Walk Train Number of staff
(a)Write down which method of travel was used by the most staff.(1)
(b)Work out what fraction of the staff travel to work by bike. Give your answer in its simplest form.(2)
(Total for Question 9 is 3 marks)
10
The vertical line chart shows the number of siblings of each of 30 pupils in a survey.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 0 1 2 3 4 Number of siblings Frequency
(a)Write down the mode of the number of siblings.(1)
(b)Work out how many pupils have more than 2 siblings.(2)
(c)Work out the total number of pupils in the survey.(2)
(Total for Question 10 is 5 marks)
11
The dual bar chart shows the monthly rainfall, in mm, recorded in Cardiff and in Leeds during January, February and March.
January February March 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Month Rainfall (mm) Cardiff Leeds
(a)Write down the rainfall recorded in Leeds in February.(1)
(b)Work out the difference in rainfall between Cardiff and Leeds in March.(2)
(c)Work out the total rainfall in Cardiff over the three months.(2)
(Total for Question 11 is 5 marks)
12
The composite (stacked) bar chart shows the number of red cars and white cars sold by a dealership in May, June and July. Each bar is split into a red section and a white section.
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 May June July Month Total cars sold Key: Red cars White cars
(a)Work out the total number of cars sold in June.(2)
(b)Write down the month in which the greatest total number of cars was sold.(1)
(Total for Question 12 is 3 marks)
13
The bar chart shows the eye colour of 40 pupils in a survey.
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Brown Blue Green Other Eye colour Number of pupils
(a)Work out the fraction of pupils with brown eyes. Give your answer in its simplest form.(2)
(b)Work out the percentage of pupils with green eyes.(2)
(Total for Question 13 is 4 marks)
14
Here are the shoe sizes of 20 pupils in a class:
4, 5, 6, 7, 5, 6, 4, 5, 6, 7, 5, 6, 4, 5, 6, 7, 6, 5, 6, 6
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 5 6 7 Shoe size Frequency
(a)Use a tally to complete a frequency table for shoe sizes 4, 5, 6 and 7.(2)
(b)Using your frequency table, draw a fully labelled bar chart to show this information.(3)
(Total for Question 14 is 5 marks)
15
The bar chart compares the total sales, in thousands of pounds sterling, of Company A and Company B last year. Company A had sales of 42 (thousand pounds) and Company B had sales of 48 (thousand pounds).
40 42 44 46 48 50 Company A Company B Company Sales (GBP thousands)
(Total for Question 15 is 1 mark)
16
The bar charts show the test grades (1 to 5) achieved by the 25 students in Class 7A and the 25 students in Class 7B.
Class 7A Class 7B 0 2 4 6 8 10 1 2 3 4 5 Grade Number of students 0 2 4 6 8 10 1 2 3 4 5 Grade Number of students
(a)Write down the modal grade for Class 7A and the modal grade for Class 7B.(2)
(b)Make one comparison between the test results of Class 7A and Class 7B.(1)
(Total for Question 16 is 3 marks)
17
The bar chart shows the number of votes received by candidates A, B and D in a school council election. The bar for candidate C is missing. A total of 240 votes were cast, and candidate C received 25% of all the votes.
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Candidate Number of votes A B C D
(a)Work out the number of votes candidate C received.(2)
(b)Draw the bar for candidate C on the bar chart.(1)
(Total for Question 17 is 3 marks)
18
The bar chart shows the number of items sold last week by each of 6 sales staff at a shop.

Any sales staff who sold more than 50 items receive a bonus of GBP15.
bonus threshold (50) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Items sold Amy Ben Chloe Dev Ella Finn Sales staff
(a)Write down how many of the sales staff receive a bonus.(1)
(b)Work out the total amount of money paid out in bonuses.(2)
(Total for Question 18 is 3 marks)
Mark scheme · 2.15 Bar Charts

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