Year 3 Reading Pictographs Worksheet — Level 2 — Practice Set 4 — 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 sport (each ◆ = 5 votes): basketball ◆◆ · soccer ◆◆◆◆◆ ◆ · cricket ◆◆◆◆◆ ◆◆. How many votes did soccer get?
Answer: 30
- 6 symbols × 5 = 30
2.Pictograph of favourite season (each ◆ = 5 votes): spring ◆◆◆◆◆ ◆◆ · winter ◆ · autumn ◆. How many more votes did spring get than autumn?
Answer: 30
- spring: 35; autumn: 5
- 35 − 5 = 30
3.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ● = 5 votes): basketball ●●●●● ●● · tennis ●●● · cricket ●●●● · soccer ●●●●● ●. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 100
- 20 symbols altogether
- 20 × 5 = 100
4.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ▲ = 5 votes): yellow ▲▲▲▲ · purple ▲ · blue ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲▲. Which colour got the most votes?
Answer: blue
blue has the most symbols (7), so 35 votes.
5.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ◆ = 5 votes): cricket ◆ · tennis ◆◆◆ · soccer ◆◆◆◆◆ ◆◆ · basketball ◆◆◆. How many ◆ would show 50 votes?
Answer: 10
- 50 ÷ 5 = 10
6.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ● = 2 votes): blue ●●● · purple ●●●●● ●● · yellow ● · green ●●●●● ●●●. How many votes did blue get?
Answer: 6
- 3 symbols × 2 = 6
7.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ▲ = 5 votes): tennis ▲▲▲▲ · soccer ▲ · cricket ▲▲. How many more votes did tennis get than soccer?
Answer: 15
- tennis: 20; soccer: 5
- 20 − 5 = 15
8.Pictograph of favourite season (each ▲ = 2 votes): spring ▲▲▲ · winter ▲▲▲▲ · autumn ▲. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 16
- 8 symbols altogether
- 8 × 2 = 16
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