Introduction to Graphs
Exercise 15.1
Question 1: The following graph shows the temperature of a patient in a hospital, recorded every hour.
(a) What was the patient’s temperature at 1 p.m.?
Answer: 36.5˚C
(b) When was the patient’s temperature 38.5° C?
Answer: 12:00 Noon
(c) The patient’s temperature was the same two times during the period given. What were these two times?
Answer: at 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM
(d) What was the temperature at 1.30 p.m.? How did you arrive at your answer?
Answer: Data Insufficient
(e) During which periods did the patients’ temperature showed an upward trend?
Answer: from 10:00 to 11:00 AM and from 2:00 to 3:00 PM
Question 2: The following line graph shows the yearly sales figures for a manufacturing company.
(a) What were the sales in (i) 2002 (ii) 2006?
Answer: (i) Rs. 4 crores (ii) Rs. 8 crores
(b) What were the sales in (i) 2003 (ii) 2005?
Answer: (i) Rs. 7 Crores (ii) Rs. 10 crores
(c) Compute the difference between the sales in 2002 and 2006.
Answer: 8-4=4; Sales of 2006 is Rs. 4 crores more than that of 2002
(d) In which year was there the greatest difference between the sales as compared to its previous year?
Answer: 2005 sees the greatest jump in sales which clear from the steepest angle between these years.
Question 3: For an experiment in Botany, two different plants, plant A and plant B were grown under similar laboratory conditions. Their heights were measured at the end of each week for 3 weeks. The results are shown by the following graph.
(a) How high was Plant A after (i) 2 weeks (ii) 3 weeks?
Answer: (i) 7 cm (ii) 9 cm
(b) How high was Plant B after (i) 2 weeks (ii) 3 weeks?
Answer: (i) 7 cm (ii) 10 cm
(c) How much did Plant A grow during the 3rd week?
Answer: 2 cm
(d) How much did Plant B grow from the end of the 2nd week to the end of the 3rd week?
Answer: 3 cm
(e) During which week did Plant A grow most?
Answer: from week 1 to week 2 by 5 cm
(f) During which week did Plant B grow least?
Answer: In the first week by 1 cm
(g) Were the two plants of the same height during any week shown here? Specify.
Answer: Second week both have a height of 7 cm
Question 4: The following graph shows the temperature forecast and the actual temperature for each day of a week.
(a) On which days was the forecast temperature the same as the actual temperature?
Answer: Tuesday 20˚ c, Friday 15˚ c and Sunday 35˚ c
(b) What was the maximum forecast temperature during the week?
Answer: 35˚ c
(c) What was the minimum actual temperature during the week?
Answer: 35˚ c
(d) On which day did the actual temperature differ the most from the forecast temperature?
Answer: Thursday, by 7.5˚ c ( Notice the largest gap between two lines)
Question 5: Use the tables below to draw linear graphs.
(a) The number of days a hill side city received snow in different years.
Year | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Days | 8 | 10 | 5 | 12 |
Answer:
(b) Population (in thousands) of men and women in a village in different years.
Year | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of men | 12 | 12.5 | 13 | 13.2 | 13.5 |
No. of women | 11.3 | 11.9 | 13 | 13.6 | 12.8 |
Answer:
Question 6: A courier-person cycles from a town to a neighbouring suburban area to deliver a parcel to a merchant. His distance from the town at different times is shown by the following graph.
(a) What is the scale taken for the time axis?
Answer: Hours
(b) How much time did the person take for the travel?
Answer: 4 hours
(c) How far is the place of the merchant from the town?
Answer: 22 kms
(d) Did the person stop on his way? Explain.
Answer: Between 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM the line is horizontal, which explains that the person took rest between these timings
(e) During which period did he ride fastest?
Answer: Between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM he traveled 10 kms, (look for the steepest angle made by the line)