Class 9 Maths Ganita Manjari Chapter 10 End-of-Chapter Exercises Solutions
All 16 end-of-chapter questions, from run rates and gold prices to reading graphs and the three projects. Answers read from graphs are marked as approximate.
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Ch 10How Quantities Combine: Understanding Data
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1Find the weightsOvers, shares, grams, lengths or the number of members: what each value counts for.
2Add or removeWhen something is added, add its value × weight to the top and its weight to the bottom.
3Read charts with careA stacked bar shows amounts and totals. A 100% bar shows only shares.
4Check the rangeA weighted mean always lies between the smallest and the largest value.
Run rate: runs scored divided by overs bowled, an average per over.
Stacked bar: shows the totals and the parts.
100% stacked bar: shows shares only, so the totals are hidden.
Averages of averages
Q1
Question 1: Run rate in a T20 match
Answer: 9 and 6.3
Question: The run rate is the average number of runs per over. A team scored 6 runs in the first over. (i) In the second over they scored 12 runs. What is the run rate now? (ii) After over 19 the run rate was 6. What is the run rate after 20 overs if the last over gave 12 runs?
Part (i) · After two overs
Runs so far: 6 + 12 = 18 in 2 overs.
ƒrun rate = 6 + 122 = 182 = 9
Part (ii) · After twenty overs
A run rate of 6 after 19 overs means 6 × 19 = 114 runs. Add the 12 runs of the last over.
ƒrun rate = 114 + 1219 + 1 = 12620 = 6.3
This is a weighted mean of 6 (weight 19 overs) and 12 (weight 1 over), so it stays close to 6.
(i) The run rate is 9. (ii) The run rate is 6.3.
Q2
Question 2: Shuttlecock prices across five friends
Answer: about ₹176.65
Question: Five friends collected shuttlecock prices (N = Nylon, F = Feather). (i) Each found the average of their own prices, ay, as, ak, ap, ag. Write an expression for the combined average. (ii) Write an expression using the nylon average an and the feather average af. Is it equal to the answer in (i)?
The two kinds of shuttlecock
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Q2 · Nylon (N) and Feather (F) shuttlecocks (from the book)
Step 1 · Count and add each friend's prices
Friend
Prices collected
Sum (₹)
Average
Yusuf
6
917
152.83
Srikanth
4
493
123.25
Kashvi
5
766
153.20
Prasanna
4
897
224.25
Gracy
4
990
247.50
All five
23
4063
Part (i) · Combined average from the five averagesWeighted
Each average must be weighted by how many prices that friend collected: 6, 4, 5, 4 and 4.
The two expressions give the same answer, because both are the total of all 23 prices divided by 23. Only the way of grouping the prices is different.
(i) 6ay + 4as + 5ak + 4ap + 4ag23 ≈ ₹176.65. (ii) 13an + 10af23, and yes, it is equal to the answer in (i).
Adding to an average
Q3
Question 3: Average price of shares
Answer: ₹115.71 and 10 shares
Question: Shreyas holds 25 shares at an average price of ₹150 and Vaishnavi holds 5 shares at ₹150. (i) Shreyas buys 10 more shares at ₹30 each. What is his new average price per share? (ii) Vaishnavi buys some shares at ₹30 each and her new average is ₹70. How many shares did she buy?
Part (i) · Shreyas
Old money spent: 25 × 150 = ₹3750. New purchase: 10 × 30 = ₹300.
ƒ3750 + 30025 + 10 = 405035 ≈ 115.71
The result lies between 30 and 150, and closer to 150 because he has many more old shares.
Part (ii) · Vaishnavi
Old money: 5 × 150 = ₹750. Let n be the new shares bought.
ƒ750 + 30n5 + n = 70
ƒ750 + 30n = 70(5 + n) = 350 + 70n, so 400 = 40n, so n = 10
Check: 750 + 30015 = 105015 = 70.
(i) About ₹115.71 per share. (ii) She bought 10 shares.
Depth and gold price
Q4
Question 4: Mean depth of the pool
Answer: 5 hastas
Question: A pool 30 hastas long is dug to different depths. It has 5 sections of lengths 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 hastas, with depths 9, 7, 7, 3 and 2 hastas. Find the mean depth.
Step 1 · Lengths are the weights
Section
Length (weight)
Depth
Length × depth
1
4
9
36
2
5
7
35
3
6
7
42
4
7
3
21
5
8
2
16
Total
30
150
This is Brahmagupta's way of finding the mean depth of an uneven pit.
Q4 · the mean depth 5 lies between the deepest (9) and the shallowest (2) sections
The mean depth of the pool is 5 hastas.
Q5
Question 5: Suvarna's average price of gold
Answer: six new averages
Question: Suvarna has 1 g of gold bought at ₹15k. For each new purchase, estimate and then find the new average price (in ₹k): (i) 1 g at ₹30k, (ii) 2 g at ₹30k, (iii) 1 g at ₹10k, (iv) 10 g at ₹10k, (v) 0.5 g at ₹30k, (vi) 0.5 g at ₹15k.
The number line
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Q5 · point O is the starting average price, 15 thousand rupees (from the book)
Step 1 · Estimate first
The new average always lies between 15 and the new price, and it moves towards the new price when more gold is bought. So (i) and (ii) are above 15, with (ii) nearer 30. (iii) and (iv) are below 15, with (iv) very near 10. (vi) buys at the same price, so nothing changes.
Step 2 · Calculate each one
The weights are the grams of gold: 1 g at 15 plus the new grams at the new price.
ƒ(i) 15×1 + 30×11 + 1 = 452 = 22.5
ƒ(ii) 15×1 + 30×21 + 2 = 753 = 25
ƒ(iii) 15×1 + 10×11 + 1 = 252 = 12.5
ƒ(iv) 15×1 + 10×101 + 10 = 11511 ≈ 10.45
ƒ(v) 15×1 + 30×0.51 + 0.5 = 301.5 = 20
ƒ(vi) 15×1 + 15×0.51 + 0.5 = 22.51.5 = 15
Diagram
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Q5 · more gold bought at a price pulls the average closer to that price
The new averages are (i) 22.5k, (ii) 25k, (iii) 12.5k, (iv) about 10.45k, (v) 20k, (vi) 15k.
Doubling the weights
Q6
Question 6: Doubling all the weights
Answer: no change
Question: How does a weighted average change if all the weights are doubled? Experiment, then justify with algebra.
The factor 2 is in every term of the top and of the bottom. It cancels, and the original weighted mean remains. The same is true for any factor, not just 2: what matters is the ratio of the weights, not their size.
Doubling all the weights leaves the weighted average unchanged, because the factor 2 cancels from the top and the bottom.
Reading graphs
Q7
Question 7: Objects orbiting Earth
Approximate readings
Question: The graph shows the cumulative number of objects orbiting Earth by year of launch, split into payload objects and other objects (debris, rocket stages, etc.). (i) About how many objects were there in 2003, and when did that number double? (ii) Find the approximate number and share of payload and other objects in 2025. (iii) What can you say about the numbers and the shares over time?
Note: every number below is read by eye from the graph, so it is approximate. A little more or less is fine.
The graph
From the book
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Q7 · cumulative number of objects orbiting Earth (from the book)
Part (i) · Total in 2003 and the year it doubled
In 2003 the column reaches a little below 10,000, about 9,800 objects. Double is about 19,600. The columns first pass about 19,600 around 2021.
Part (ii) · The year 2025
The 2025 column is about 33,000 tall, of which payload objects are about 17,000 and other objects about 16,000.
Number of payload objects: low and slowly rising for decades, then a very steep rise in the last few years.
Number of other objects: a steady climb for decades with a sudden jump around 2007, and then growth again.
Share of payload objects: about a quarter of all objects around 2000, but about half now. Its share has gone up.
Share of other objects: was about three quarters, now about half. Its share has come down, even though its number has gone up.
So the numbers of both kinds keep rising, but the shares tell a different story: payload objects are now catching up.
(i) About 9,800 in 2003, doubling around 2021. (ii) About 17,000 payload (52%) and 16,000 other (48%) in 2025. (iii) Both counts rise; the payload share rises and the other share falls.
Q8
Question 8: Schools with a playground
Answer: (b), (d); (ii) no
Question: The map gives the percentage of schools with a playground in each state. (i) Which inferences are correct? (a) More schools have a playground in Haryana than in Uttarakhand. (b) Roughly 2 out of 3 schools in Arunachal Pradesh have a playground. (c) Punjab has the highest number of schools with a playground. (d) Maharashtra has more schools than Telangana, so more schools with a playground are in Maharashtra. (ii) Can we find the national percentage?
The infographic
From the book
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Q8 · percentage of schools with a playground (from the book)
Part (i) · Check each statement
A percentage is a share, not a count. We can only use it to find a number if we know the total number of schools.
(a) Haryana is 90% and Uttarakhand is 78%, but we do not know how many schools each state has. Uttarakhand could have more schools. Not an inference.
(b) Arunachal Pradesh is about 68%, which is close to 23 ≈ 66.7%. A correct inference.
(c) Punjab (98%) has a high percentage, not necessarily the most schools, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is higher at 99.8%. Not an inference.
(d) Maharashtra has 93% of a larger number of schools, while Telangana has 74% of a smaller number. Both factors favour Maharashtra, so Maharashtra has more schools with a playground. A correct inference.
So the correct inferences are (b) and (d).
Part (ii) · National percentage
No. The national percentage is a weighted mean of the state percentages, and the weights are the number of schools in each state.
ƒnational % = (schools in state 1 × %) + (schools in state 2 × %) + …total schools in all states
We would need the number of schools in each state or union territory. Averaging the state percentages directly would treat a small state like Goa as equal to a huge state like Uttar Pradesh.
(i) Correct inferences are (b) and (d). (ii) No. We also need the number of schools in each state, used as weights.
Q9
Question 9: Decision dilemma: which play to watch
Answer: Play B
Question: (i) Which play would you choose from the 100% stacked bar of rating shares? (ii) Would you change your decision after seeing the stacked bar of rating counts?
Note: numbers are read by eye from the charts, so they are approximate.
Part (i) · Using the shares
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Q9(i) · share of ratings of the three plays (from the book)
5★ and 4★ share
1★ share
Play A
about 71%
about 12%
Play B
about 71%
about 10%
Play C
about 52%
about 33%
Plays A and B have about the same share of high ratings and very few low ratings. Play C has the largest share of 5★ (about 40%), but a third of its ratings are 1★. People either love or dislike it. A cautious choice is Play A or Play B; Play B is slightly better with fewer 1★.
Part (ii) · Using the counts
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Q9(ii) · number of ratings of the three plays (from the book)
The count chart shows how many ratings each play has: about 210 for Play A, 920 for Play B and 380 for Play C.
Play B has many more ratings than Play A. Its good score (about 71% high ratings) is based on about 920 people, so it is much more reliable than the same score from only about 210 people.
What this teaches
A 100% stacked bar shows shares but hides the totals. The stacked bar shows the totals. Using both, Play B is the safest decision, and the decision does not change. It becomes more certain.
Choose Play B. The 100% bar showed A and B equal in share. The count chart shows B has far more ratings, which makes its score more trustworthy.
Q10
Question 10: Triathlon finish times
Answer: stacked bar; (b) only
Question: Finish times (hh : mm) of three athletes are: Athlete 1: swim 01:08, cycle 05:00, run 03:15. Athlete 2: 01:05, 05:10, 03:35. Athlete 3: 01:22, 05:55, 03:50. (i) Is a stacked bar or a 100% stacked bar more suitable? (ii) Which of these can be answered from only a 100% stacked bar: (a) who finished first, (b) the fraction of time Athlete 1 spent cycling, (c) who took the longest for running?
Step 1 · Total time of each athlete
Athlete
Swim
Cycle
Run
Total
Athlete 1
1 h 08
5 h 00
3 h 15
9 h 23
Athlete 2
1 h 05
5 h 10
3 h 35
9 h 50
Athlete 3
1 h 22
5 h 55
3 h 50
11 h 07
Diagram
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Q10 · a stacked bar shows the total time and the parts together
Part (i) · Which chart?Stacked bar
Athletes compete for the fastest overall time, so the totals matter, and we also want to see how the time splits across the three segments. A stacked bar chart keeps both. A 100% stacked bar would make every bar the same length and hide the totals.
Part (ii) · What a 100% stacked bar can answer
(a) Who finished first? No. All bars have equal length, so total times are hidden.
(b) Fraction of time Athlete 1 spent cycling? Yes. This is a share of the athlete's own total. The exact value is 300563 ≈ 0.53, using 5 h = 300 min and 9 h 23 = 563 min, so a little more than half.
(c) Who took the longest for running? No. The chart shows shares of each athlete's own total, not actual times.
(i) A stacked bar chart. (ii) Only (b) can be answered from a 100% stacked bar, with the answer about 300563 ≈ 53%.
Q11
Question 11: Disability by age group (Census 2011)
Sample inferences
Question: Look at the 100% stacked bar of the distribution of disabled persons by age group and type of disability. What do you notice? What do you wonder? Write your inferences.
Note: this is an open question, so there is no single answer. Below are sample answers. The percentages are read by eye from the graph.
The graph
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Q11 · distribution of disabled persons by age group and type (from the book)
What we notice
Each bar is a 100% bar, so it shows the share of each type of disability within an age group.
Seeing and hearing together take a large share in every age group, about 33% to 44%. The share of seeing alone rises from about 18% (0–19) to 25% (60 and above).
The share of movement disability is about 13% in the 0–19 group, but about 25% in the 60 and above group. It goes up with age.
The shares of speech (about 9% down to 4%) and mental retardation (about 8% down to 2%) are larger among the young and smaller among those aged 60 and above.
The share of 'any other' disability is about 21% in 0–19 but about 11% in 60 and above, while multiple disability is largest at 60 and above (about 12%).
What we wonder
How many persons are in each age group? The chart cannot say, because every bar has the same length.
Why does movement disability take a larger share at older ages? Could it be due to age-related causes, such as injuries or arthritis?
Do the shares change in newer census data?
What we cannot infer
We cannot say that there are more persons with movement disability in the 60 and above group than in the 0–19 group. The graph gives shares within each age group, not the number of persons.
Sample inference: movement disability's share grows with age, while seeing and hearing stay large in every group. This graph shows shares, so it cannot compare numbers between age groups.
Projects
Q12
Question 12: Individual project: body-states and family expenditure
Guide with a worked example
Task: Do at least one: (i) track time spent lying down, sitting and standing or moving for yourself or two family members and draw a stacked bar chart; (ii) draw a 100% stacked bar chart of your family's monthly expenditure.
Note: this is a project, so the data is yours. The numbers below are an example only, made up to show the method.
Part (i) · Body-state chart (example)
Write what you did hour by hour from waking up to sleeping again, and tag each hour as lying down, sitting or standing or moving.
Add the hours for each tag. The three numbers must add up to 24.
Draw one stacked bar per person on a scale from 0 to 24 hours, with the three segments one after another.
Write how you decided each hour, for example whether travelling in a bus counts as sitting.
Person (example)
Lying down
Sitting
Standing / moving
Total
Student (you)
8
9
7
24
Parent A
7
3
14
24
Parent B
8
8
8
24
Part (ii) · Monthly expenditure in a 100% bar (example)
Categories: list the headings in your family budget, such as housing, food, education, transport, health, recreation and others.
Collect: note the amount for each category in at least 3 months.
Convert: find each share = category amountmonthly total × 100.
Draw: one bar per month, all from 0% to 100%.
Observe: write what changed from month to month.
Example for one month with a total of ₹30,000:
Category
Amount (₹)
Share
Housing
9000
30%
Food
7500
25%
Education
4500
15%
Transport
3000
10%
Health
2400
8%
Recreation
1500
5%
Others
2100
7%
Total
30000
100%
Check: 30 + 25 + 15 + 10 + 8 + 5 + 7 = 100%. If the shares do not add up to 100, there is an error in the amounts.
The steps are: collect, total, convert to shares, draw bars of equal length, and write observations.
Q13
Question 13: Small-group project: a custom rating scheme
Guide with a worked example
Task: Choose a scenario (cloth store, bus travel, a tourist spot or a clinic) and design a rating scheme with weights.
Note: this is a project, so your group's choices will differ. The example below is for bus travel, with made-up numbers.
Parts (i) and (ii) · Aspects and weights (example)
Aspect
Why it matters
Weight
Safety
The most important thing in any journey
5
Punctuality
People need to reach on time
4
Cleanliness
Affects health and comfort
3
Seat comfort
Matters most on long trips
2
Fare
Matters, but less than safety
1
The total weight is 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 15.
Parts (iii) and (iv) · Individual rating
One rider rates safety 4, punctuality 3, cleanliness 5, comfort 4 and fare 5.
Do this for each of the 10 people. The overall average is the mean of their 10 individual ratings.
Part (v) · 100% stacked bar
For each aspect, count how many of the 10 people gave 5★, 4★, 3★, 2★ and 1★. Turn the counts into shares of 10 and draw one bar per aspect from 0% to 100%.
Part (vi) · Note on observations
What it captures well: the overall rating reflects what matters most, because safety counts five times as much as fare.
What it misses: the weights are our opinion, so another group may choose differently, and the average hides how much people disagree.
Choose aspects, weights, ratings, then compute sum of (rating × weight)sum of weights for each person, and average over the people.
Q14
Question 14: Whole-class project: average age of all families
Method with a worked example
Task: Each student shares their family's average age and number of members. Find the average age of all the families of the class.
Idea
The average of the family averages would be wrong, because families have different sizes. A family with more members must count more. So the family size is the weight.
Method and example
Each student calculates: average age × number of members = the total age of that family. The class then adds all the totals and divides by the total number of members.
The top has gained the sum of all the values, and the bottom has gained n. That is the same as adding n more equal weights of 1 to the data. So the new weighted mean is pulled towards the simple average of the values.
It stays unchanged only when the weighted mean already equals the simple mean, for example when all the weights are equal.
Adding 1 to every weight changes the average. It moves towards the plain average of the values. (Doubling the weights in Q6 is different, because it keeps the ratios.)
Q16
Question 16: Shares of cows, sheep and chickens
StarredAnswer: (iii), (iv) and (v)
Question: Last year a farm's animals were 60% cows, 25% sheep and 15% chickens. All three populations fell. Which changes in their shares are possible? (i) all three shares decreased, (ii) all increased, (iii) all stayed the same, (iv) cows decreased, sheep increased, chickens same, (v) cows increased, sheep increased, chickens decreased.
Step 1 · The key idea
Shares always add up to 100%, so they cannot all go down or all go up. This kills (i) and (ii).
Let each population be multiplied by a factor smaller than 1: a for cows, b for sheep and d for chickens. The whole farm changes by a factor F, and F is a weighted mean of a, b and d with weights 60, 25 and 15.
ƒF = 60a + 25b + 15d100
A share goes up if its factor is above F, down if it is below F, and stays the same if it equals F.
Step 2 · Check (iii), (iv) and (v)
(iii) a = b = d. Every factor equals F, so all shares stay. Possible. Example: each population falls to 90%.
(iv) Need a < d < b. Take a = 0.80, b = 0.99. Then d = 60×0.80 + 25×0.9985 = 72.7585 ≈ 0.856, which lies between them. Possible. Check: 60 × 0.80 = 48 cows, 25 × 0.99 = 24.75 sheep, 15 × 0.856 = 12.84 chickens, total 85.59. Shares: cows 56.1% (down), sheep 28.9% (up), chickens 15.0% (same).
(v) Need a and b above F and d below F. Take a = b = 0.95 and d = 0.5. Then F = 57 + 23.75 + 7.5100 = 0.8825, so a and b are above F and d is below. Possible. Shares: cows 64.6% (up), sheep 26.9% (up), chickens 8.5% (down).
Diagram
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Q16 · a share rises only if its factor is above the farm's overall factor F
(i) and (ii) are impossible. (iii), (iv) and (v) are possible.
Answers at a glance
Most questions use the weighted mean. Graph answers are read by eye and approximate, and the three projects have worked examples.
Source of the questions: NCERT, Ganita Manjari, Grade 9, Part II, Chapter 10, End-of-Chapter Exercises. The solutions, explanations and diagrams on this page are our own working.