Reading bar charts

A bar chart shows the favourite sport of some pupils. The scale on the vertical axis goes up in 5s. The heights of the bars are in the table.

How many pupils chose tennis?

A bar chart shows the favourite fruit of a group of students. The table gives the height of each bar.

Write down the modal fruit.

A bar chart shows the number of pets sold by a pet shop on four days. The table gives the height of each bar.

1. Write down the day on which the fewest pets were sold.
2. Work out how many more pets were sold on Thursday than on Tuesday.

A bar chart shows the number of books borrowed from a library each day. The heights of the bars are in the table.

1. On which day were the most books borrowed?
2. How many more books were borrowed on Tuesday than on Wednesday?

The vertical axis of a bar chart is labelled 0, 10, 20, 30. There are 5 equal small squares between each label.

The bar for cycling goes up to the 3rd small square above 20.

How many pupils cycle?

A bar chart shows how the students in class 8R travel to school. The table gives the height of each bar.

1. Write down the number of students who travel by bus.
2. Write down the ratio of the number of students who walk to the number who travel by car. Give your ratio in its simplest form.

40 pupils were asked how they travel to school. The table shows the heights of the bars on the bar chart. The bar for cycling has not been drawn.

1. Work out the height of the bar for cycling.
2. Ali says, "The bus is the most popular because it has the tallest bar." Is Ali correct? Give a reason.

Tickets for a school play cost £4 each. The table shows the number of tickets sold on each of four days. 70 tickets were sold altogether. The bar for Thursday has not been drawn.

1. Work out the number of tickets sold on Thursday.
2. Work out the total money taken from all 70 tickets.

40 students each joined exactly one after-school club. A bar chart shows the numbers for three of the clubs. The table gives the height of each of these bars.

1. Work out the number of students who joined the football club.
2. Write down the modal club.

A bar chart shows the number of raffle tickets a school sold each day for a week. The table gives the height of each bar.

Each ticket costs 50p.

Work out the total amount of money the school took from ticket sales. Give your answer in pounds.

30 toy cars are red, blue, green or yellow. The table shows the heights of the bars on a bar chart. The bar for yellow has not been drawn.

1. Work out the height of the bar for yellow.
2. What fraction of the cars are blue? Give your answer in its simplest form.
3. Write the ratio of red cars to green cars in its simplest form.

The composite bar chart shows the number of adults and the number of children who visited a museum on Saturday and on Sunday.

1. Work out the number of children who visited on Saturday.
2. Write down the ratio of the number of adults on Saturday to the number of adults on Sunday. Give your ratio in its simplest form.