Year 4 Reading Pictographs Worksheet — Level 1 — Practice Set 2 — Answers
Answer sheet with worked solutions for the Year 4 data & graphs worksheet.
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Read the key first: it tells you how many votes each symbol stands for.
1.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ● = 1 vote): red ●●●●● ●●● · purple ●● · green ●●●● · yellow ●●●. How many votes did red get?
Answer: 8
- 8 symbols × 1 = 8
2.Pictograph of favourite fruit (each ■ = 1 vote): grape ■ · pear ■■■■■ · mango ■■■■■ ■■■■. How many more votes did mango get than pear?
Answer: 4
- mango: 9; pear: 5
- 9 − 5 = 4
3.Pictograph of favourite season (each ★ = 1 vote): spring ★★ · autumn ★★★★★ · summer ★★★★★ ★. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 13
- 13 symbols altogether
- 13 × 1 = 13
4.Pictograph of favourite pet (each ▲ = 1 vote): dog ▲▲▲ · bird ▲ · fish ▲▲▲▲▲ · rabbit ▲. Which pet got the most votes?
Answer: fish
fish has the most symbols (5), so 5 votes.
5.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ◆ = 1 vote): green ◆◆◆◆◆ ◆◆◆ · purple ◆◆◆◆◆ ◆ · yellow ◆◆◆◆◆ ◆◆◆◆ · blue ◆◆◆◆◆. How many votes did purple get?
Answer: 6
- 6 symbols × 1 = 6
6.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ◆ = 1 vote): green ◆◆◆◆◆ · purple ◆◆ · yellow ◆. How many more votes did purple get than yellow?
Answer: 1
- purple: 2; yellow: 1
- 2 − 1 = 1
7.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ● = 1 vote): basketball ●●● · cricket ●●●●● ●●● · soccer ●●●●● ●●. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 18
- 18 symbols altogether
- 18 × 1 = 18
8.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ★ = 1 vote): swimming ★★★ · tennis ★★★★★ ★★ · soccer ★★★. Which sport got the most votes?
Answer: tennis
tennis has the most symbols (7), so 7 votes.
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