Question

Consider this data collected from a survey of a colony.

Favourite sport	Cricket	Basket Ball	Swimming	Hockey	Athletics
Watching	1240	470	510	430	250
Participating	620	320	320	250	105

Draw a double bar graph choosing an appropriate scale. What do you infer from the bar graph?

Answer 1

Hint: A bar graph shows the vertical rectangular bars of given frequency for given sport.
The winning and participating number of colony members of the colony is represented as two bars for one given sport.

Complete step by step solution:
A Bar Graph helps in presenting complex data in an understandable manner through which data can be analyzed easily.
The Bar graph for given data is shown as

The orange rectangular bars show the number of people of the colony surveyed who watch the given favourite sport while green bars show the number of people of the colony surveyed who participated in the given favourite sport.
Cricket is watched by the highest numbers of members in the colony while most participate in playing Cricket. Athletics is watched least by people in the colony and least number of people participate in Athletics.
More people in the colony like watching their favourite sports rather than participating in them as for every sport, the number of people who watch the given sport is more than the number of people who participated in it.

Note:
A bar graph helps in presenting data in a more attractive and understanding manner.
The presentation of data through a bar graph is used for further analysis and interpretation to arrive at final results and help in making a decision.