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Well done to everybody who found a way to represent this information. Chloe and Sophia from Banstead Prep School in England felt it was clearest to display the information in a table:

Dhruv from The Glasgow Academy in the UK also chose to represent the data in tables:

Thank you all for sending us these tables. Dhruv says:

I think tables are clearer than paragraphs because there aren't that many words to read and it is faster to read from a table.

Muhammad sent in these representations of the numbers of people who have electricity and who have different devices:

These are very clear representations, Muhammad! Gabriel from Wembrook Primary School in the UK also sent in a similar bar graph to show the numbers of people who have different electronic devices. Why might a bar graph be a good choice for this data?

The children at Priory Junior School in the UK sent in these representations, which you can make larger by clicking on the picture:

Thank you all for sharing these ideas with us!