P6 / Nanyang / 2019 / CA1 / Paper 2 – Q17 [5 marks]

Question:

The bar graph below shows how Bala spent his monthly allowance in March. The bar for the amount of money spent on clothes had not been drawn.
(a) What is the ratio of the amount of money spent on books to that on meals? Express your answer in the simplest form.
(b) The amount of his monthly allowance is 8 times the amount he spent on transport. How much did he spend on clothes?
(c) Each of the statement below is either true, false or not possible to tell from the information given in the bar graph. For each statement, put a tick (✓) in the correct column to indicate your answer.