Class 6 Maths Chapter 4 MCQ

NCERT CLASS 6 | MATHEMATICS | GANITA PRAKASH

Chapter 4: Data Handling and Presentation MCQs

1. What is a collection of facts, numbers, measures and observations that conveys information called?
A. Pattern
B. Data
C. Equation
D. Graph
Answer: B. Data

2. Which of the following is an example of data?
A. Favourite colours of students
B. A single mathematical symbol
C. An alphabet
D. A punctuation mark
Answer: A. Favourite colours of students

3. What should Navya and Naresh do to find the most popular game among their classmates?
A. Guess the answer
B. Ask only their friends
C. Collect information from the students
D. Choose their favourite game
Answer: C. Collect information from the students

4. According to the collected data in the chapter, which was the most popular game among the students?
A. Cricket
B. Hockey
C. Football
D. Kabaddi
Answer: B. Hockey

5. What is the purpose of using tally marks?
A. To draw pictures
B. To record and count data
C. To measure length
D. To arrange numbers in descending order
Answer: B. To record and count data

6. How is the fifth tally mark usually represented?
A. By drawing a circle around four marks
B. By drawing a line through the previous four marks
C. By writing the number 5
D. By drawing five vertical lines
Answer: B. By drawing a line through the previous four marks

7. What is the frequency of a value in a data set?
A. The largest value
B. The smallest value
C. The number of times it occurs
D. The difference between two values
Answer: C. The number of times it occurs



8. How many students chose gujiya in the sweets preference table?
A. 9
B. 10
C. 13
D. 15
Answer: C. 13

9. How many students chose barfi in the sweets preference table?
A. 3
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
Answer: A. 3

10. What is one way to organise collected data?
A. Arrange it in a table
B. Remove repeated values
C. Ignore the observations
D. Write it randomly
Answer: A. Arrange it in a table

11. How can arranging data in ascending order help?
A. It makes the data disappear
B. It helps identify the smallest and largest values
C. It changes the frequency
D. It increases the number of observations
Answer: B. It helps identify the smallest and largest values



12. What was the largest shoe size in the class data given in the chapter?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
Answer: D. 7

13. How many students wore shoe size 5 in the given data?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 12
Answer: C. 10

14. What is a pictograph?
A. A representation of data using pictures or symbols
B. A representation of data using only equations
C. A list of numbers in ascending order
D. A diagram showing geometrical shapes
Answer: A. A representation of data using pictures or symbols

15. What does a key or scale in a pictograph tell us?
A. The title of the graph
B. What each picture or symbol represents
C. The colour of the pictures
D. The number of categories
Answer: B. What each picture or symbol represents



16. If one symbol represents 10 children, what do 5 symbols represent?
A. 15 children
B. 25 children
C. 40 children
D. 50 children
Answer: D. 50 children

17. In a pictograph, what does half of a symbol represent if one full symbol stands for 10 children?
A. 2 children
B. 5 children
C. 10 children
D. 15 children
Answer: B. 5 children

18. Which of the following is an advantage of a pictograph?
A. It always shows exact individual names
B. It helps understand data quickly
C. It does not require a scale
D. It can only represent small numbers
Answer: B. It helps understand data quickly

19. What may make preparing a pictograph difficult?
A. When all values are equal
B. When the data is large or values are not exact multiples of the scale
C. When there are only two categories
D. When the title is short
Answer: B. When the data is large or values are not exact multiples of the scale

20. In Lakhanpal’s data, how many students were absent in Class VIII?
A. 3
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
Answer: D. 7

21. What is a bar graph used for?
A. Representing and comparing data using bars
B. Showing only geometrical angles
C. Writing stories
D. Measuring temperature directly
Answer: A. Representing and comparing data using bars

22. What should be the width of bars in a properly drawn bar graph?
A. Different widths
B. Uniform widths
C. Increasing widths
D. Decreasing widths
Answer: B. Uniform widths

23. What should be the spacing between bars in a bar graph?
A. No spacing
B. Unequal spacing
C. Equal spacing
D. Random spacing
Answer: C. Equal spacing

24. What does the height or length of a bar represent?
A. The title of the graph
B. The frequency or quantity of a category
C. The number of axes
D. The colour of the bar
Answer: B. The frequency or quantity of a category

25. In Lakhanpal’s bar graph, which class had the maximum number of students absent?
A. Class II
B. Class IV
C. Class VII
D. Class VIII
Answer: D. Class VIII

26. Which class had full attendance in Lakhanpal’s example?
A. Class I
B. Class III
C. Class V
D. Class VIII
Answer: C. Class V

27. In the traffic example, during which time interval was the maximum traffic recorded?
A. 6–7 a.m.
B. 7–8 a.m.
C. 9–10 a.m.
D. 11 a.m.–12 noon
Answer: B. 7–8 a.m.

28. Approximately how many vehicles passed through the crossing between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.?
A. 600
B. 800
C. 1,000
D. 1,200
Answer: D. 1,200

29. Approximately how many vehicles passed through the crossing between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.?
A. 600
B. 800
C. 1,000
D. 1,200
Answer: C. 1,000

30. What was the approximate number of vehicles passing through the crossing between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.?
A. 1,200
B. 1,500
C. 1,800
D. 2,000
Answer: C. 1,800

31. What scale was used in the traffic bar graph?
A. 1 unit length = 10 vehicles
B. 1 unit length = 50 vehicles
C. 1 unit length = 100 vehicles
D. 1 unit length = 500 vehicles
Answer: C. 1 unit length = 100 vehicles

32. In the population bar graph, what scale was chosen to represent India’s population?
A. 1 unit length = 1 crore
B. 1 unit length = 5 crores
C. 1 unit length = 10 crores
D. 1 unit length = 100 crores
Answer: C. 1 unit length = 10 crores

33. What is the first step in drawing a bar graph?
A. Colour all the bars
B. Draw a horizontal line and a vertical line
C. Write the conclusion
D. Draw circles around the values
Answer: B. Draw a horizontal line and a vertical line

34. What should be marked along the horizontal line when drawing a bar graph?
A. Categories
B. Only frequencies
C. Graph colours
D. Units of measurement only
Answer: A. Categories

35. What should be represented along the vertical line in the sweet preference bar graph?
A. Names of students
B. Names of sweets
C. Frequencies or number of students
D. Dates
Answer: C. Frequencies or number of students

36. In the sweets preference table, which sweet was chosen by the highest number of students?
A. Jalebi
B. Gulab jamun
C. Gujiya
D. Barfi
Answer: C. Gujiya

37. How many students chose gulab jamun?
A. 6
B. 7
C. 9
D. 13
Answer: C. 9

38. In Smriti’s eight-match data, how many runs did she score in Match 4?
A. 50
B. 80
C. 90
D. 100
Answer: D. 100

39. What scale was used for Smriti’s runs bar graph?
A. 1 unit length = 1 run
B. 1 unit length = 5 runs
C. 1 unit length = 10 runs
D. 1 unit length = 20 runs
Answer: C. 1 unit length = 10 runs

40. Which item had the highest monthly expenditure in Imran’s family?
A. House rent
B. Food
C. Education
D. Transport
Answer: B. Food

41. What was the monthly expenditure on electricity in Imran’s family?
A. ₹300
B. ₹400
C. ₹600
D. ₹800
Answer: B. ₹400

42. What scale was used to draw Imran’s family expenditure bar graph?
A. 1 unit length = ₹100
B. 1 unit length = ₹200
C. 1 unit length = ₹500
D. 1 unit length = ₹1,000
Answer: B. 1 unit length = ₹200

43. What is a frequency distribution table?
A. A table that records the frequency of different values or categories
B. A table containing only names
C. A table showing only the largest number
D. A table used only for multiplication
Answer: A. A table that records the frequency of different values or categories

44. According to the transport data collected by Chinu, which means of transport was used the most?
A. Car
B. Bicycle
C. Scooter
D. Bike
Answer: D. Bike

45. In the table showing Jaspreet Bumrah’s last 30 matches, in how many matches did he take 4 wickets?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
Answer: B. 3

46. What is a column graph?
A. A bar graph with vertical bars
B. A bar graph with only horizontal bars
C. A pictograph with circles
D. A table with columns only
Answer: A. A bar graph with vertical bars

47. What are information graphics commonly called?
A. Frequency tables
B. Infographics
C. Tally charts
D. Number lines
Answer: B. Infographics

48. Why are infographics used?
A. To make information more engaging and easier to communicate
B. To hide important information
C. To remove the need for data
D. To make every graph complicated
Answer: A. To make information more engaging and easier to communicate

49. Why should we be careful while making visual presentations of data?
A. Pictures can sometimes mislead people about the facts
B. Pictures always show incorrect data
C. Graphs cannot represent numbers
D. Colours cannot be used in graphs
Answer: A. Pictures can sometimes mislead people about the facts

50. Which of the following is important when preparing a pictograph or bar graph?
A. Choosing an appropriate scale
B. Using unequal bar widths
C. Hiding the frequency values
D. Arranging data randomly
Answer: A. Choosing an appropriate scale

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