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 season (each ● = 1 vote): summer ●●●●● · spring ●●●●● ●● · autumn ●●●●● ●● · winter ●●●●● ●●●. How many votes did spring get?
Answer: 7
- 7 symbols × 1 = 7
2.Pictograph of favourite season (each ● = 1 vote): winter ●●●●● ● · autumn ●●●●● ●● · spring ●●●●●. How many more votes did autumn get than winter?
Answer: 1
- autumn: 7; winter: 6
- 7 − 6 = 1
3.Pictograph of favourite season (each ▲ = 1 vote): autumn ▲ · winter ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲▲▲▲ · summer ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲▲. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 17
- 17 symbols altogether
- 17 × 1 = 17
4.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ▲ = 1 vote): purple ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲▲ · green ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲ · yellow ▲▲▲▲▲ ▲▲▲▲. Which colour got the most votes?
Answer: yellow
yellow has the most symbols (9), so 9 votes.
5.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ● = 1 vote): purple ●●●● · blue ●●●●● ●●● · yellow ●● · red ●●●●● ●●. How many votes did red get?
Answer: 7
- 7 symbols × 1 = 7
6.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ■ = 1 vote): purple ■■■ · yellow ■■■ · blue ■■ · red ■■■■■ ■■. How many more votes did red get than yellow?
Answer: 4
- red: 7; yellow: 3
- 7 − 3 = 4
7.Pictograph of favourite colour (each ■ = 1 vote): yellow ■■■■■ · purple ■ · red ■. How many votes were there altogether?
Answer: 7
- 7 symbols altogether
- 7 × 1 = 7
8.Pictograph of favourite fruit (each ● = 1 vote): apple ●●● · pear ●●● · mango ●●●●● ●●● · grape ●●●●. Which fruit got the most votes?
Answer: mango
mango has the most symbols (8), so 8 votes.
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