7.5 Pie Charts
7.5 Pie Charts
Here you’ll learn how to construct and interpret data in a pie chart.
You have $1500 for your monthly budget. You need to spend 40% on housing, 20% on food, 10% on gas and other
travel expenses, 15% on utilities and the rest on miscellaneous items. How could you represent this budget in a
chart?
Watch This
First watch this video to learn about pie charts.
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CK-12 Foundation: Chapter7PieChartsA
Then watch this video to see some examples.
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CK-12 Foundation: Chapter7PieChartsB
Guidance
What is the puppet doing? She can’t be cutting a pizza, because the pieces are all different colors and sizes. It seems
like she is drawing some type of a display to show different amounts of a whole circle. The colors must represent
different parts of the whole.