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Extra Practice 1

Lesson 1: Reading Pictographs and Bar Graphs

1. This graph shows the number
of passengers that some
airplanes can hold.
a) Which plane can hold the
most passengers? The
fewest passengers?
b) Order the airplanes from the
plane that can hold the most
passengers to the plane that
can hold the fewest
passengers.
c) Which airplanes can hold less than one-half the number of
passengers that a Boeing 747 can hold?
Lesson 2: Drawing Pictographs
1. This chart shows the lengths of different types of whales.
a) Draw a pictograph to
show these data.
b) What is the key of your
pictograph? The title?
c) Which two whales have
a combined length
1 m longer than
that of a blue whale?
d) Write a question that
could be answered by
looking at this graph.
Answer the question.

Type of whale
Killer
Sperm
Long-Finned Pilot
Blue
Northern Right
Humpback
Bowhead
Fin

Length (m)
9
18
7
26
17
15
18
22

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Extra Practice 2

Lesson 3: Drawing Bar Graphs

1. This table shows the number of earthquakes per year,
from 1994 to 1999, with a magnitude of 7.0 or greater.
a) Draw a bar graph to show these data.
b) What is the scale of your bar graph?
The title?
c) Write a question you could answer
by looking at the graph.
Answer the question.
d) Write a question you could not
answer by looking at the graph.
Explain.

Year
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

Number of
Earthquakes
15
25
22
20
16
23

Lesson 4: Comparing Pictographs and Bar Graphs

1. a) Look at the pictograph and bar graph.
Do they show the same data? Explain how you know.

b) Which planet has the most moons? How do you know?

c) Write 5 other things you know from looking at the graphs.
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Extra Practice Sample Solutions

Extra Practice 1 Master 7.17

Extra Practice 2 Master 7.18

Lesson 1: Reading Pictographs and

Bar Graphs

Lesson 3: Drawing Bar Graphs

1. a) Graphs may vary.

1. a) The Boeing 747 can hold the most

passengers, and the Boeing 737 can hold
the fewest passengers.
b) Boeing 747, Lockheed L1011, McDonnell
Douglas D-8, Airbus 320, Boeing 737
c) Airbus 320 and Boeing 737

Lesson 2: Drawing Pictographs

1. a) Pictographs may vary.

b) The scale is 1 square represents 2

earthquakes.
The title is Earthquakes of Magnitude 7.0
or Greater from 1994 to 1999.
c) Questions may vary. How many more
earthquakes were there in 1999 than
1998? (Answer: 7)
d) How many earthquakes of magnitude 5
were there in 1994? You cannot answer
this question from the graph because the
data only give information about
earthquakes of magnitude greater than
7.0.
b) The title is Lengths of Whales in Metres.
The key is 1 symbol represents 4 m.
Other keys are possible.
c) The lengths of a sperm whale and a killer
whale add to 27 m.
This is 1 m more than the length of a blue
whale.
d) Questions may vary. Which type of whale is
the longest?
(Answer: blue whale)

Lesson 4: Comparing Pictographs

and Bar Graphs
1. a) Yes, these graphs show the same data. I
know because I counted the symbols in the
pictograph and got 47 moons. And I
counted by 5s on the bar graph and added
2 (which was part of a bar) to get 47
moons on the bar graph.
b) Jupiter has the most moons. I know this
because it has the most symbols and the
longest bar.
c) Five things I know from the graph: Venus
and Mercury have no moons; Earth has
only 1 moon; Mars has 2 moons; Saturn
has the second most moons; Jupiter has
47 moons.

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