Question

In a village six fruit merchants sold the following number of fruit baskets in a particular season :

Observe this pictograph and answer the following questions :

1. Which merchant sold the maximum number of baskets?
2. How many fruit baskets were sold by Anwar?
3. The merchants who have sold 600 or more number of baskets are planning to buy a godown for the next season. Can you name them?

Answer 1

From the above pictograph, it can be observed that the number of fruit baskets sold by \(Rahim\), \(Lakhanpal\), \(Anwar\), \(Martin\), \(Ranjit \;Singh\), and \(Joseph\) are \(400, 550, 700, 950, 800\), and \(450\) respectively.

(a) Martin sold the maximum number of baskets, i.e., \(950\).

---

(b) Anwar sold \(700\) baskets.

---

(c) \(Anwar\), \(Martin\), and \(Ranjit \;Singh\) are the three merchants who have sold more than \(600\) baskets. 
Therefore, they are planning to buy a godown for the next season.