The provided bar chart illustrates the quantity of children from both genders engaging in 6 types of sport in a British town in 2012.
Overall, it is clear that football was the most favorite sport for boys while in the other gender, swimming witnessed the highest number of girl participants. At the same time, hockey received the least attention from children of both genders.
In terms of boys, participation in football dominated all sports categories and took the first place with 60 children, which was almost three times as high as the figure for girls. Occupying the second position was the quantity of boys playing tennis being significantly lower than that of football. Furthermore, the number of boys joining in cycling and hockey were more than the girls. In bicycling, the number of boys participating was about 17 more children than that of girls, at around 37 and 20 youths, in that order, which was followed by the hockey players with approximately 15 boys.
Regarding the opposite gender, girls were the most interested in swimming with 50 girls, which was slightly higher than the quantity of boys. The second most popular sport among girls is badminton, the number of girls in badminton was 10 more than the figure for boys, at 40 and 10 youths, respectively.