Reading Bar Graph Exercises

Complete this assessment to practice reading bar graphs. Be sure to check your answers.

Read bar graphs

  1. Dessert Zone asked its customers about their favorite ice cream flavor and graphed the results.

    How many more customers picked the most popular flavor than the least popular flavor?

  2. Bella counted the number of students who play various instruments in her school's marching band and graphed the results.

    Which instruments did the same number of students play?
    1. Choose 2 answers:
    2. Trombone
    3. Flute
    4. Drums
    5. Saxophone
    6. Trumpet

  3. Dina measured the heights of her favorite snow day sledding hills and graphed the results.

    Which hill is higher than Snow Slope but lower than Blizzard Run?
    Choose 1 answer:
    1. Winter Hill
    2. Snow Slope
    3. Frozen Field
    4. Blizzard Run

  4. The bar graph below shows the favorite color of the students in Mr. Badger's class.


    The number of students who chose red as their favorite color is the same as the difference between the number of students who chose green and blue as their favorite color.

    How many students chose red as their favorite color?
    Choose 1 answer:
    1. 4 students
    2. 7 students
    3. 10 students
    4. 28 students

  5. Lola asked her classmates their favorite types of movies and graphed the results.

    Which of the following types of movies were the favorite of fewer than 14 people?
    Choose all answers that apply:
    1. Comedy
    2. Scary
    3. Adventure
    4. Cartoon
    5. Mystery

  6. Chelsea asked people at her school their favorite color and graphed the results of her survey.

    How many more people chose green as their favorite color than blue?

  7. James counted the number of alligators in various local bodies of water and graphed the results.
    Which bodies of water had the same number of alligators?

    Choose 2 answers:
    1. Bite Swamp
    2. Reptile Creek
    3. Chomp Lake
    4. Danger River

Source: Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-third-grade-math/represent-and-interpret-data/imp-bar-graphs/e/solving-problems-with-bar-graphs-3
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