Q1.
Look at the three coloured strips carefully. (i) What activity does each colour stand for? (ii) The three strips correspond to the days Friday – Sunday in some order. Which day do you think each strip represents? (iii) On one of these days, he went out with friends to watch a long movie. When do you think this happened? (iv) At what time does his school break for lunch? (v) What more can the strips tell us?
Answer
Each strip is one day cut into 48 half-hour boxes, from midnight to midnight, with the hours numbered down the side.
(i) What each colour stands for
| Colour | Activity | The clue on the strips |
|---|---|---|
| Light blue | Sleeping | The long unbroken block through the night on all three strips |
| Purple | Showering and getting dressed, yoga or exercise | An hour or so right after waking, every day |
| Green | Eating | Three short half-hour blocks a day, morning, midday and evening |
| Grey | Travelling | Half an hour immediately before and after the long daytime blocks |
| Yellow | Attending classes, studying and homework | The long block that starts right after the morning travel |
| Orange | Meeting friends, hobbies, media, time with family | The evening block, and the whole afternoon on the day with no school |
(ii) Which day is which
| Strip | What the daytime looks like | Day |
|---|---|---|
| Middle | Travel at 8:30, classes 9:00–12:30 and 1:30–4:30, travel home at 4:30 — a full school day | Friday |
| Right | Travel at 8:30, classes 9:00–12:30 only, then home and a nap — a half day | Saturday |
| Left | No classes at all; a long afternoon out, only about two hours of study | Sunday |
(iii) On the left-hand strip (Sunday). After lunch at 12:30 there is half an hour of travel at 1:00, then a single orange block from 1:30 to 4:30, then travel again from 4:30 to 5:00. Travel on both sides of a three-hour block means he went somewhere and came back — long enough for a film.
(iv) On the school-day strip the classes stop at 12:30, there is eating from 12:30 to 1:00 and free time from 1:00 to 1:30, and classes start again at 1:30. So school breaks for lunch at 12:30 pm, for one hour.
(v) What more the strips tell us. Count the boxes and compare:
| Activity | Sunday (left) | Friday (middle) | Saturday (right) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleeping | 10½ h | 10½ h | 10½ h |
| Eating | 1½ h | 1½ h | 1½ h |
| Classes / study | 2 h | 7 h | 4 h |
| Friends, hobbies, family | 7½ h | 3 h | 5½ h |
| Travelling | 1 h | 1 h | 1½ h |
| Washing, dressing, exercise | 1½ h | 1 h | 1 h |
- Manoj sleeps exactly 10½ hours on every one of the three days — but not in one stretch. On Sunday he takes a half-hour nap at 5 pm and on Saturday a full hour at 2 pm, and each time he goes to bed correspondingly later.
- He eats 1½ hours a day, always in three half-hour meals.
- Study time and free time trade places: 7 hours of class on Friday against 3 hours with friends, and almost exactly the reverse on Sunday. The total of the two is roughly 9½ hours on each day.
- Travel only ever appears in half-hour pieces at the edges of an outing, so nothing he does is far from home.
Careful: the text says he recorded ‘five types of activities’ but six are listed, and six colours do appear on the strips. Count the colours, not the sentence.