Class 4 Maths Chapter 14 Data Handling – Extra Questions with Answers

Tally marks, pictographs, and bar graphs are the three ways Class 4 Maths Chapter 14 teaches students to organize and read data, and these questions check whether that data can be interpreted correctly.

Last Updated: September 23, 2026

Very Short Answer Questions

Q1. How is a group of 5 shown using tally marks?
Ans: Four vertical strokes with a fifth stroke crossed diagonally through them.

Q2. What is a pictograph used for?
Ans: To represent data using pictures or symbols, where each symbol stands for a certain quantity.

Q3. In a bar graph, what does the height of a bar usually represent?
Ans: The value or quantity of the data being shown.

Short Answer Questions

Q4. If each picture in a pictograph represents 10 books, and a class shows 3.5 pictures, how many books does that represent?
Ans: 3.5 x 10 = 35 books.

Q5. Convert the tally marks IIII IIII II into a number.
Ans: 5 + 5 + 2 = 12.

Higher-Order Thinking Question

Q6. A bar graph shows fruit sales: apples 40, bananas 25, oranges 55. Which fruit sold the most, and how much more did it sell than the least-sold fruit?
Ans: Oranges sold the most (55); it sold 55 − 25 = 30 more than bananas, the least-sold fruit.

More Practice Questions (2026-27 Curriculum)

Q1. How would you show the number 7 using tally marks?
A group of 5 (four strokes crossed by a fifth) plus 2 more single strokes.

Q2. If a pictograph shows 3 apple pictures and each picture = 2 apples, how many apples are there in total?
3 × 2 = 6 apples.

Q3. In a bar graph, if the bar for “Mango” is taller than the bar for “Orange”, what does that tell you?
More people chose Mango than Orange.

Q4. What is one advantage of a bar graph over just listing numbers?
It makes it easy to compare quantities visually and quickly.

Q5. What is a “key” used for in a pictograph?
It explains how many items one picture/symbol represents.

Frequently Asked Questions

If a class recorded the favorite fruit of 20 students as 8 mango, 7 banana and 5 apple, how would you find the fraction of students who chose mango?
The fraction is 8 out of 20, which simplifies to 2 over 5 of the class.

How would you organize this fruit data into a table to make it easier to read?
List each fruit name in one column and the number of students who chose it in the next column, so the counts can be compared at a glance.

Written by Satish

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