Year 3 Reading Pictographs Worksheet — Level 1 — Answers
Answer sheet with worked solutions for the Year 3 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 ●●●●● ●● · yellow ●●●●● ●●●●. How many votes did purple get?
Answer: 7
- 7 symbols × 1 = 7
2.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ● = 1 vote): cricket ● · tennis ●●●●● · basketball ●●●●● ●. How many more votes did basketball get than tennis?
Answer: 1
- basketball: 6; tennis: 5
- 6 − 5 = 1
3.Pictograph of favourite fruit (each ★ = 1 vote): mango ★★★ · apple ★★★★★ ★★★ · grape ★★★★★. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 16
- 16 symbols altogether
- 16 × 1 = 16
4.Pictograph of favourite season (each ● = 1 vote): spring ●●●●● ●●●● · autumn ● · winter ●●●●● ●● · summer ●●●●●. Which season got the most votes?
Answer: spring
spring has the most symbols (9), so 9 votes.
5.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ▲ = 1 vote): cricket ▲▲▲▲▲ · soccer ▲▲▲▲▲ · swimming ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲▲▲▲ · tennis ▲▲. How many votes did soccer get?
Answer: 5
- 5 symbols × 1 = 5
6.Pictograph of favourite pet (each ■ = 1 vote): rabbit ■■■■■ ■ · fish ■ · dog ■. How many more votes did rabbit get than fish?
Answer: 5
- rabbit: 6; fish: 1
- 6 − 1 = 5
7.Pictograph of favourite fruit (each ★ = 1 vote): mango ★ · apple ★★★★★ ★★★ · pear ★. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 10
- 10 symbols altogether
- 10 × 1 = 10
8.Pictograph of favourite pet (each ● = 1 vote): dog ●●●●● ●●●● · rabbit ●●●●● ●●● · bird ●●● · fish ●●. Which pet got the most votes?
Answer: dog
dog has the most symbols (9), so 9 votes.
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