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NCERT Solutions for Class 5th Maths Chapter 15 Record your own 24 hours and draw your own bar graph — Day in My Life

Book page 183–184 Updated on2026-09-19

Q1.
Record your daily routine (24 hours) in hours and minutes, as necessary. Note the time spent on activities like sleeping, studying, playing, eating, and others. Fill the table.
ActivityNo. of Hours
Sleeping
Time in school
Studying
Eating
 
 
Page 184 — the blank table to fill in with your own day.
Answer

This is about your own day, so your table will be your own. Here is how to make it, and a filled sample you can copy the shape of.

  1. Start from the time you wake up and go through the whole day in order until you fall asleep again.
  2. Write the start time and end time of each block — for example, school from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
  3. Work out the hours in each block. From 8 to 2 is 6 hours.
  4. Put small bits together. Breakfast 30 minutes + lunch 30 minutes + dinner 30 minutes = 1 hour 30 minutes for eating.
  5. Add up all the hours at the end. The total must be exactly 24 hours. If it is not, some time is missing — find it and add a row.

Sample answer:

ActivityNo. of Hours
Sleeping9 hours
Time in school6 hours
Studying (homework at home)2 hours
Eating1 hour 30 minutes
Playing2 hours
Travel, bath, helping at home, TV3 hours 30 minutes
Total24 hours
9 + 6 + 2 = 17 hours
1 h 30 min + 2 h + 3 h 30 min = 7 hours
17 + 7 = 24 hours ✓
Tip for the two empty rows: The book leaves two rows blank on purpose. Use them for the things that are special to your day — cycling to school, cricket practice, helping in the shop, prayers, music class.
Q2.
Make a bar graph of the time you spend on different activities in the space given below.
Answer

Turn each row of your table into one bar. Here is the sample table from the last question drawn as a bar graph.

0123456789 9621 1/223 1/2 SleepingSchoolStudyingEatingPlayingOther Number of Hours Activities
Sample bar graph of one child's day. All six bars together stand for 24 hours.

How to draw yours, step by step:

  1. Write the activity names in the boxes along the bottom line — one name per box.
  2. Use the numbers already printed up the side. The book's graph is marked 0 to 9, which is enough, because no single activity except sleep takes more than 9 hours.
  3. For each activity, find its number on the side line and make a small pencil dot at that height above its box.
  4. Draw the bar from the bottom line up to that dot. Keep every bar the same width and leave the same gap between bars.
  5. Colour the bars the same colour, so that only the height tells the story.
  6. Write the number on top of each bar so a reader does not have to guess.
For half hours: One box on the graph paper is half an hour. So 1 1/2 hours means the bar stops half a square above the line marked 1.
Why bars are drawn the same width: If one bar were fatter than another, a small number could look big. Keeping the width the same means only the height carries the information, and the graph tells the truth.
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