Tables are very commonly used to represent the set of related data. Tabulation is a very popular technique of data interpretation in which a set of questions are derived from a given table of data/ observations.
Food item | Jan | Feb | March | April | May | June |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rice | 250 | 230 | 210 | 260 | 240 | 220 |
Wheat | 320 | 340 | 280 | 290 | 300 | 360 |
Sugar | 240 | 210 | 200 | 210 | 160 | 150 |
Pulses | 360 | 300 | 320 | 245 | 235 | 250 |
Vegetable | 380 | 390 | 385 | 375 | 355 | 370 |
Misc. | 460 | 485 | 440 | 460 | 475 | 480 |
For example, using the above table, you want to check in percentage of sugar in April.
Quantity of suger used in April = 210 Kg Total quantity of food items used in april month = (260+290+210+245+375+460) kg = 1860 kg Required % = (210/1840*100)% = 11.4%