Question

The following data shows the average age of men in various countries in a certain year:

|

| Country |

| India | Nepal | China | Pakistan | U.K | U.*.A |
|

| Average age (in years) | |

| 55 | 52 | 60 | 50 | 70 | 75 |

Represent the above information by a bar graph.

Answer 1

Steps of constructing graph:

1. Mark the horizontal axis OX as Countries and the vertical axis OY as Average Age of men (in years).

2. Along the horizontal axis OX, choose bars of uniform (equal) width, with a uniform gap between them.

3. Choose a suitable scale to determine the heights of the bars, according to the space available for the graph. Here, we choose 1 big division to represent 10 year.