Given below are the seats won by different political parties in the polling outcome of a state assembly elections:

(i) Draw a bar graph to represent the polling results.
(ii) Which political party won the maximum number of seats?

Solution:

(i) The given data is represented on a bar graph by:

1. Taking ‘Political Party’ on the x-axis and seats won on the y-axis with a scale of 1 unit = 10 seats on the y-axis.
2. Maintaining equal width for all the bars in the x-axis with equal gaps in between them.

(ii) From the graph, it can be observed that the political party ‘A’ won the maximum number of results.

☛ Check: NCERT Solutions Class 9 Maths Chapter 14

Video Solution:

Given below are the seats won by different political parties in the polling outcome of a state assembly elections: (i) Draw a bar graph to represent the polling results. (ii) Which political party won the maximum number of seats?

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 14 Exercise 14.3 Question 3

Summary:

The data of seats won by different political parties in the polling outcome of state assembly elections is given. We have represented all data on a graph and found that the political party ‘A’ won the maximum number of seats.

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