Collection of two - dimensional quantitative Data

GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF DATA

Collection of two - dimensional quantitative Data

The easy method to calculate is to tabulate the collected 2 - dimensional information and represent it in pictures.

Example 1

Sports day celebration

After the Sports day Celebration, the students kept all the used sports articles in a room. The physical director asked the students Dinesh & Ganesh from Fifth Standard to arrange the sports article in order. They tabulated the sports articles as below

Note: Rows are horizontal arrangements whereas column are vertical arrangements.

Let us know: The process of arranging classified data in table form is known as tabulation.

Let us see how they arranged in a proper way

Activity 1

In a Sports day celebration. The Fifth standard students were given a competition of collecting mathematical shapes. Shakuntaladevi team won the competition.

Let us count the shapes collected by the winning team.

Try this

Can you make a rectangle using the triangles taken from a square? Yes (4 triangles which is taken from same square can be made into rectangle)

Example 2

Prabu would like to present some gifts on his birthday party. He collected the details from his friends.

Activity 2

In a house hold articles mart, total stock was calculated at the end of the month as given below. Answer the following question.

Questions:

1. How many chairs were there in the stock list? 5

2. Name the articles which are lesser than the number of cots.

Almirah and tri footed stools

3. What is the total number of things in the stock? 27

4. How many tri footed stools were there? 3

5. Mention the articles which are 3 greater than tri footed stool? Dining tables.

Do it your self: List & tabulate the furniture in your school. Chair, Table, Caboard