Scaled Bar Graphs Worksheet
A worksheet for 6th graders to practice reading, interpreting, and creating scaled bar graphs.
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Scaled Bar Graphs
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Read each question carefully and answer based on the provided bar graphs. Some questions will require you to interpret scaled values.
The bar graph below shows the number of students who chose different sports as their favorite.
1. How many students chose Swimming as their favorite sport?
2. Which sport is the least favorite among the students?
3. If each unit on the vertical axis represents 5 students, how many students chose Basketball?
20 students
40 students
8 students
10 students
4. The difference between the number of students who chose Swimming and the number of students who chose Baseball is .
5. If 5 more students chose Tennis, the bar for Tennis would reach the level of .
6. Imagine you are creating a bar graph for the number of books read by four students: Alex (15 books), Ben (25 books), Carla (10 books), and David (30 books). What would be an appropriate scale for the vertical axis if you want to show intervals of 5 books?
7. A scaled bar graph always starts its vertical axis at zero.
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