Data & Tally Charts — Answer Key
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. The ice cream graph shows 5 chocolate, 3 vanilla, and 4 strawberry. The most picked flavor is chocolate.
Chocolate has five votes, which is more than three vanilla or four strawberry, so it is the largest.
2. Using the same graph, the flavor with the fewest votes is vanilla.
Vanilla has only three votes, which is the smallest count among the three ice cream flavors.
3. How many more chose chocolate than vanilla? The answer is 2.
Five chocolate minus three vanilla equals two, showing how many more picked chocolate.
4. Chocolate and strawberry together were picked by 9 kids.
Five chocolate plus four strawberry equals nine, the total for those two flavors combined.
5. A pictograph uses pictures where each picture stands for 1 item.
In a Grade 1 pictograph each little picture usually stands for one thing, making counting easy.
6. If the pet graph shows 6 dogs and 2 cats, there are 4 more dogs than cats.
Six dogs minus two cats equals four, so there are four more dogs counted in the graph.
7. The total number of pets shown in the dog and cat graph is 8.
Adding six dogs and two cats gives eight pets all together in the picture graph.
8. A bar that reaches higher on the graph shows a bigger number.
The height of a bar shows the count, so a taller bar means more items were counted.
9. If two bars have the same height, their counts are equal.
Bars of equal height show equal totals, meaning the two groups have the exact same count.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
Most picked flavor (5 choc, 3 van, 4 straw)
→ chocolate
chocolate
Fewest votes flavor
→ vanilla
vanilla
How many more chocolate than vanilla
→ 2
2
Total of all three flavors
→ 12
12
Finding the most, the least, the difference, and the full sum builds careful graph reading habits.