Question

The number of girl students in co-ed middle school is depicted by the following pictograph. Observe the below pictograph and answer the following question:
Which class has the maximum number of girl students?

Answer 1

Hint: In this question, we are given a pictograph which tells us about the number of girl students in various classes of a middle school and we have been asked the class in which there are the highest number of girls. Each star in the pictograph denotes 4 girls. Observe in the pictograph which class has the highest number of stars in front of them. That class will have the highest number of girl students.

Complete step-by-step solution:
We are given a pictograph denoting the number of girls in each section of a co-ed middle school. We are asked which class has the highest number of girls.
It is also given that each star in the pictograph denotes 4 girls.
Let us calculate the number of girls in each class keeping in mind that 1 star = 4 girls
Class I – It has 6 stars. Therefore, 6 stars = 24 girls.
Class II – It has 4.5 stars. Therefore, 4.5 stars = 18 girls.
Class III – It has 5 stars. Therefore, 5 stars = 20 girls.
Class IV – It has 3.5 stars. Therefore, 3.5 stars = 14 girls.
Class V – It has 2.5 stars. Therefore, 2.5 stars = 10 girls.
Class VI – It has 4 stars. Therefore, 4 stars = 16 girls.
Class VII – It has 3 stars. Therefore, 3 stars = 12 girls.
Class VIII – It has 1.5 stars. Therefore, 1.5 stars = 6 girls.
As we can see, Class I has 24 girls. It is the highest number of girls in all the classes.

Hence, class I has the highest number of girls.

Note: We need not show the number of girls in each and every class. We can simply observe and notice that class I has the highest number of stars in front of it. Therefore, it has the highest number of girls.
We are not required to calculate the number of girls in each class. It can also be solved by the following method:
The class with the highest number of stars in front of it will have the highest number of girls. As we can see in the following table, Class I has the highest number of stars.

Hence, Class I has the highest number of girl students.