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Tables and charts – practice for Years 4–9

Sample questions on Tables and charts with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.

Subject
Maths
Year
Years 4–9
Curriculum area
Relationships, functions and data

Question types: Reading a bar chart

Rule: Tables and charts

First read the title and the labels: what the chart shows and what each grid line stands for.

Read the height of a bar on the vertical axis, and only then work it out (difference, total).

Example: Monday 12 books, Tuesday 2: on Monday 12 − 2 = 10 more

Watch out: A grid line need not mean 1. If the lines go up in 5s, a bar up to the third line is 15.

Sample questions

  1. Question 1 Easy

    The chart shows how many books pupils borrowed from the school library on each day of one week. How many books did they borrow on Tuesday?

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    Answer: 8

    How it works: on Tuesday: 8

  2. Question 2 Normal

    The chart shows how many books pupils borrowed from the school library on each day of one week. How many books did they borrow in the whole week?

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    Answer: 42

    How it works: 8 + 6 + 2 + 8 + 18 = 42

  3. Question 3 Hard

    The chart shows how many books pupils borrowed from the school library on each day of one week. How many books did they borrow in the whole week?

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    Answer: 175

    How it works: 45 + 50 + 30 + 5 + 45 = 175

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