Ice-cream flavours

This task is about creating and reading information from a strip graph.

This table shows the flavours of ice cream the students in Room 8 bought when on a field trip.  

Flavour Boys Girls
Vanilla (V)

2

2

Hokey Pokey (HP)

4

2

Strawberry (S)

1

5

Chocolate (C)

3

4

Other (O)

3

3

 
a)
 
Complete the strip graph for the flavours of ice cream the boys bought.
 

         Flavours of ice cream bought by Room 8 boys

 

 
b)
 
Complete the strip graph for the flavours of ice cream the girls bought.
 

Flavours of ice cream bought by Room 8 girls

 

 
c)
 
Why is the strip graph for girls longer than the strip graph for boys?