Class VIII
Chapter 13: Introduction to Graphs
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) (1 Mark)
1. A ________ is a bar graph that shows data in intervals.
(a) Bar-graph (b) Pie-chart (c) Histograph (d) Line
2. A graph that displays data that changes continuously over periods of time is called:
(a) Bar-graph (b) Pie-chart (c) Histograph (d) Line Graph
3. Which point lies on the y-axis?
(a) (4,0) (b) (0,4) (c) (0,−8) (d) both b and c
4. Point (4,0) lies on …
(a) x-axis (b) y-axis (c) origin (d) None of the above
5. The distance of the point (−2,−2) from the origin is
(a) √ 8 units (b) 2√2 units (c) both A & B (d) √2 units
6. The point (-2, 5) is nearer to:
(a) x-axis (b) y-axis (c) Both axis (d) None of the above
7. The points (−3,2) and (2,−3) lie in the
(a) same quadrant (b) II and III quadrant respectively
(c) II and IV quadrant respectively (d) IV and II quadrants respectively
8. The distance of point P(−5,−6) from the Y-axis is
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 3
9. The coordinates of the origin are
(a) (1,0) (b) (0,1) (c) (0,0) (d) (1,1)
10. A point whose x-coordinate is zero and y-coordinate Is non-zero will lie on ______
(a) X-axis (b) Y-axis (c) 1st quadrant (d) 2nd quadrant
Short Answer Questions I (SA I) (2 marks)
1. The following graph shows the temperature of a patient in a hospital, recorded every hour.
i. What was the temperature at 1.30 p.m.? How did you arrive at your answer?
ii. During which periods did the patient's temperature showed an upward trend?
2. Find the co-ordinates of the points A, B, C, D from the graph
3. Sonal and Anmol then made another sequence of the designs. Three of the designs are
shown below.
Complete the table.
Rows, r 4 6 8
Number of white Tiles, w 9
Number of Purple Tiles, p 1
4. As part of his science project, Prithvi was supposed to record the temperature every
hour on Saturday from 6 am to midnight. At noon, he was taking lunch and forgot to
record the temperature. At 8:00 pm, his favourite show came on and so forgot again. He
recorded the data so collected on a graph sheet as shown below.
i. Why does it make sense to connect
the points in this situation?
ii. Describe the overall trend, or
pattern, in the way the temperature
changes over the time period shown
on the graph.
iii. Estimate the temperature at noon
and 8 pm.
Short Answer Questions II (SA II) (3 marks)
1. Interest on deposits for a year.
(i) Does the graph pass through the origin?
(ii) Use the graph to find the interest on `2500 for a year.
(iv) To get an interest of ₹ 280 per year, how much money should be deposited?
2. Ajita starts off from home at 07.00 h with her father on a scooter that goes at a uniform
speed of 30 km/h and drops her at her school after half an hour. She stays in the school
till 13.30 h and takes an auto-rickshaw to return home. The rickshaw has a uniform speed
of 10 km/h. Draw the graph for the above situation and also determine the distance of
Ajita's school from her house.
3. Study the graph and answer the questions that follow:
a. What is the information obtained from
the graph?
b. On which day was the temperature
highest?
c. On which day was the temperature 32 °C
d. Which was the coldest day?
Long Answer Questions (4 marks)
1. Draw a graph for the following.
A man started his journey on his car from location A and came back. The given graph
shows his position at different times during the w
a. At what time did he start and end his journey?
b. What was the total duration of the journey?
c. Which journey, forward or return, was of longer duration?
d. For how many hours did he not move?
e. At what time did he have the faster speed?
2. The graph given below compares the sales of ice-creams of two vendors for a week.
Observe the graph and answer the following questions.
a. Which vendor has sold more ice-creams on Friday?
b. For which day were the sales same for both the vendors?
c. On which day did the sale of vendor A increase the most as compared to the previous
day?
d. On which day was the difference in sales the maximum?
e. On which two days was the sales same for vendor B?
3. The graph given below shows the marks obtained out of 10 by Sonia in two different
tests. Study the graph and answer the questions that follow.
a. What information is represented by the axes?
b. In which subject did she score the highest in Test I?
c. In which subject did she score the least in Test II?
d. In which subject did she score the same marks in both the Tests?
e. What are the marks scored by her in English in Test II?
f. In which test was the performance better?
g. In which subject and which test did she score full marks?
4. The graph given below gives the actual and expected sales of cars of a company for 6
months. Study the graph and answer the questions that follow:
a. In which month were the actual sales the same as the expected sales?
b. For which month(s) was (were) the difference in actual and expected sales the maximum?
c. For which month(s) was (were) the difference in actual and expected sales the least?
d. What was the total sales of cars in the months-January, February and March?
e. What is the average sales of cars in the last three months?
f. Find the ratio of sales in the first three months to the last three months.
g. Is it a linear graph?
Case study based Questions (CCT Questions)(5 marks)
1. Arjun and Ajay went for Picnic in Nainital. They decided to record the full day
temperature. They decided to record the temperature 4 hourly at 8 AM in hotel the temp
was 32oC .At 12 PM when they were at zoo the temp was found to be 40oC .They reached
at lake at 4 PM that time the temp was 38oC. At 8PM in the evening when they were back
t
o Time 8 AM 12 PM 4 PM 8 PM
Temperature (oC) 32 40 36 34
h
otel the temperature was recorded to be 34oC.
2. The line graph of the time and temp is shown below:
i. At what time the temp started decreasing:
a) 8 AM
b) 8 PM
c) 12 PM
d) 4 PM
ii. At what time the temp was minimum:
a) 8 AM
b) 4 PM
c) 8 PM
d) 12 PM
iii. What was the temp rise from 8 AM to 12 PM?
a) 10oC
b) 4oC
c) 9oC
d) 8oC
Fill in the blanks:
iv. The temp at 10 AM was calculated to be ________ oC.
State whether the given statement is True or False:
v. The temp difference between 12 PM and 4 PM was 5 oC.
a) True
b) False
3. Deepak travelled by car from his city P to other city Q. His journey has been plotted in
the following graph.
Deepak started at 8 am from P. At 9 am he crossed through a temple but he did not stop
there. At 10 AM. He reached at another city R. Now he felt tired and hungry so his eyes were
looking for a hotel. After driving for 1 hr he saw a hotel at road side. He decided to stop at
hotel for lunch and relaxing .Total time spent at hotel was 1 hr.At 12 pm Deepak again
started for city Q. Finally he reached city Q at 2 PM.
i. How far did the car go during the 2nd hour?
a) 75 km
b) 100 km
c) 150 km
d) 50 km
ii. For which period Deepak stopped at hotel?
a) 10 am to 11 am
b) 12 pm to 1 pm
c) 11 am to 12 pm
d) 9 am to 10 am
iii. What was the speed of car from Hotel to city Q?
a) 40 km/hr
b) 75 km/hr
c) 50 km/hr
d) 100 km/hr
Fill in the blanks:
iv. The average speed from city P to Q was ________ km/hr.
State whether the given statement is True or False:
v. From temple to city R the speed of car was 100 km/hr.
a) True
b) False
