Question

The bar graph shown in the figure represents the circulation of newspapers in $10$ languages. Study the bar graph and answer the following question:
State whether true or false:
The number of newspapers published in Malayalam and Marathi together is less than those published in English.

Answer 1

Hint: In this problem we need to check whether the given statement is true or not. For this we will first read the given data which is represented by a bar graph in which we have the number of newspapers published in various languages. We will list the number of newspapers published in each language and then we will consider the values which are in the given statement and check whether it is true or not.

Complete step-by-step solution:
Given bar graph is

From the above bar graph we can write the following data
Number of papers published in Bengali is $1100$ .
Number of papers published in English is $3400$ .
Number of papers published in Gujrati is $1100$ .
Number of papers published in Hindi is $3400$ .
Number of papers published in Malayalam is $1400$ .
Number of papers published in Marathi is $1400$ .
Number of papers published in Punjabi is $400$ .
Number of papers published in Tamil is $1100$ .
Number of papers published in Telugu is $400$ .
Number of papers published in Urdu is $700$ .
The given statement is “The number of newspapers published in Malayalam and Marathi together is less than those published in English”.
We have the number of papers published in Malayalam as $1400$ and the number of papers published in Marathi as $1400$ . Now the total number of papers published in two languages is given by
$1400+1400=2800$ .
The number of newspapers published in English is $3400$.
We can observe that the number of newspapers published in the both Malayalam and Marathi languages is less than the number of papers published in English.
Hence the given statement is true.

Note: For this type of problem reading the bar graph is the key point. In this problem they have only asked about the languages Malayalam, Marathi and English. So we can read those data only from the graph and solve the problem without reading the whole data in the bar graph.