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Pupil ages
Susan and Marie wanted to find out the ages of all the children at Ormond School.
This is what they found out:

5 year olds 6
6 year olds 12
7 year olds 10
8 year olds 15
9 year olds 9
10 year olds 13

a) Put this information on the graph below. The first bar has been done for you.
Ages of Children at Ormond School

15
14
13
12
11
Number
10
of
9
Children
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
5 6 7 8 9 10
Ages of Children

b) What is the most common age of the children at Ormond School?

__________

c) Altogether how many children are either 5 or 6 years old? __________

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Pupil ages - Teacher information

Statistics - Statistical investigation - Level 2

Description
Students complete a bar graph from information in a tally chart about the ages of students and interpret the data by
answering questions.
Keywords
Bar graphs; tally charts; graph construction; graph interpretation; National Standards.

Answers/responses
Scoring: Y4 (09/00)

2 marks a) Ages of Children at Ormond School all correct –

(all bars correct easy
height)
or 1 error – very
1 mark easy
(1 error in height of
bars)

[Accept if single lines rather than bars are drawn.]

1 mark b) 8 moderate

1 mark c) 18 moderate
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