Grade 5 Scaled Bar Graphs Worksheet
Use a scale of five to read and compare bar heights. Choose supported, standard, or challenge practice with a worked example, printable visual, and explained answers.
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Reading scaled bar graphs
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Use a scale of five to read and compare bar heights.
Grade 5 review and application of earlier data skills. Use the stated units and scales. These activities do not claim to cover an entire Grade 5 standard.
Supported practice
Example: Each tick step represents 5 books. Class A reaches the third step above zero: 3 × 5 = 15 books.
1. What does one tick interval represent?
2. How many books did Class B collect?
3. Which class collected 10 books?
4. Class D is one tick interval below Class B. How many fewer books is that?
Supported answers
1. 5 books, not 1 book.
2. 25 books: five intervals of 5.
3. Class C. Its bar reaches 10.
4. 5 fewer books: 25 − 20 = 5.
Standard practice
Example: Compare actual values, not the number of tick marks: Class D collected 20 − 15 = 5 more books than Class A.
1. Find the total number of books collected.
2. How many more books did B collect than C?
3. Which two classes together collected as many books as B?
4. Class A collects 10 additional books. What is its new count?
Standard answers
1. 70 books: 15 + 25 + 10 + 20.
2. 15 books: 25 − 10 = 15.
3. A and C: 15 + 10 = 25.
4. 25 books: 15 + 10 = 25. Its bar would tie Class B.
Challenge practice
Example: Changing a graph’s scale changes how tall the drawing looks; it does not change the underlying counts.
1. A student says B collected 5 books because its bar spans 5 intervals. Correct the reasoning.
2. If you redraw the graph with a maximum of 50 instead of 25, do the classes have fewer books?
3. How many more books are needed to reach 100 altogether?
4. A new class collects 18 books. Can the same scale show that exactly? Describe its bar.
Challenge answers
1. Each interval means 5 books, so 5 × 5 = 25 books.
2. No. Values stay 15, 25, 10 and 20; bars occupy less of the graph height.
3. 30 books: 100 − 70 = 30.
4. Yes. Draw it between 15 and 20, three fifths of the interval above 15. A scale need not label every possible value.
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