Year 5 Reading Pictographs Worksheet — Level 2 — Practice Set 2 — Answers
Answer sheet with worked solutions for the Year 5 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 ■ = 5 votes): green ■■■■■ · blue ■ · yellow ■■■■■ · purple ■■■■■ ■. How many votes did purple get?
Answer: 30
- 6 symbols × 5 = 30
2.Pictograph of favourite fruit (each ★ = 2 votes): grape ★★★★ · mango ★ · pear ★★★★ · banana ★★★★★ ★. How many more votes did grape get than mango?
Answer: 6
- grape: 8; mango: 2
- 8 − 2 = 6
3.Pictograph of favourite pet (each ★ = 2 votes): fish ★★★ · dog ★★ · cat ★★★★★ ★★. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 24
- 12 symbols altogether
- 12 × 2 = 24
4.Pictograph of favourite fruit (each ▲ = 5 votes): grape ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲▲▲ · mango ▲▲▲ · apple ▲▲ · banana ▲▲▲▲▲. Which fruit got the most votes?
Answer: grape
grape has the most symbols (8), so 40 votes.
5.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ★ = 2 votes): cricket ★★★★ · soccer ★★★ · basketball ★★★★★ ★★. How many ★ would show 10 votes?
Answer: 5
- 10 ÷ 2 = 5
6.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ▲ = 2 votes): soccer ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲ · cricket ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲▲▲ · tennis ▲. How many votes did tennis get?
Answer: 2
- 1 symbols × 2 = 2
7.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ■ = 2 votes): green ■■ · purple ■■ · blue ■■■■ · yellow ■■■■■. How many more votes did yellow get than green?
Answer: 6
- yellow: 10; green: 4
- 10 − 4 = 6
8.Pictograph of favourite sport (each ● = 2 votes): basketball ●●● · tennis ●●●●● · swimming ●●● · soccer ●●. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 26
- 13 symbols altogether
- 13 × 2 = 26
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