The number of items produced by a company over a five- year period is given below: Year 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 No produced 4100 2500 1500 1800 9200 (i) Pl...

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - General Mathematics - 1988 (Essay) Subject: General Mathematics

Question 1 Report

The number of items produced by a company over a five- year period is given below:

Year 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
No produced 4100 2500 1500 1800 9200

(i) Plot a bar chart for this information; (ii) What is the average production for the five- year period.

Answer Details

(i) Bar chart of company production

The bar chart below represents the number of items produced in each year. The horizontal axis shows the years and the vertical axis shows the number of items produced.

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Bar chart showing the number of items produced by the company from 1978 to 1982.

(ii) Average production

Year19781979198019811982
Items produced41002500150018009200

\[\text{Average production}=\frac{4100+2500+1500+1800+9200}{5}=\frac{19100}{5}=3820\]

Therefore, the average production for the five-year period is 3,820 items.

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