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# Interpretation of Circle Graphs

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Interpreting Pie Charts

#### Objective

Here you will learn to read and evaluate the comparative data on a pie chart.

#### Concept

Kalena’s cheerleading squad is raising money for prom by selling candy at school football games. After a month of sales, the squad is running low on candy and decides to review the sales so far to help them decide what to order when they restock.

The pie chart below describes the number of sales that the girls have recorded for each item. If you know that they sold 850 fruit popsicles, how could you calculate the number of chocolate bars or bags of lemon drops they sold? We will review this question after the lesson.

#### Watch This

http://youtu.be/4JqH55rLGKY KhanAcademy – Reading Pie Chart Graphs

#### Guidance

Reading a pie chart is relatively simple, which is one of the primary values of a pie chart. The only real trick to it is to become very familiar with the sector angle formula and to practice using it to deduce the value(s) of unspecified data.

Recall that each piece of the pie is called a sector, and each sector encompasses an angle that is proportional to the frequency of the data it represents. The formula relating the angle of a sector to frequency is:

$Sector \ Angle=\frac{Frequency \ of \ Data \ in \ the \ Sector}{Total \ Frequency \ of \ Data \ in \ Sample} \times 360^\circ$

Because the primary skill here is just familiarity that comes with practice, let’s jump right into the examples.

Example A

Given the pie chart below, identify or calculate the following:

1. The total number of tickets to comedy-themed movies.
2. The dollar value of tickets sold to horror movies.
3. The percentage of tickets sold to action and romantic comedies together.

Solution:

a. To calculate the total number of comedy movie tickets, we need to multiply the decimal equivalent of each of the two comedy categories by the total number of tickets sold to learn how many of each were sold, then find the sum.

i.  $.21 \times 2070 = 435 \ romantic \ comedy \ tickets$

j.  $.25 \times 2070 = 518 \ physical \ comedy \ tickets$

k. $435 \ romantic \ comedy \ + \ 518 \ physical \ comedy = 953 \ Total \ Comedy \ Tickets$

b. To find the dollar value of the horror movies, first multiply the decimal equivalent of the horror movie percentage, and multiply the result by $7, the price of each ticket. l. $.17 \times 2070 = 352 \ horror \ movie \ tickets$ m. $352 \times \7 = \2,464 \ in \ horror \ movie \ ticket \ sales$ c. To find the percentage of action and romantic comedy tickets together, simply sum the given percentages. n. $22\% + 21\% = 33\% \ total \ action \ and \ romantic \ comedy \ tickets$ Example B Given the pie chart below, calculate the actual gross sales in years 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Gross sales in 2005 were$94,000

Solution: First we need to calculate the total gross sales for all five years. We know that the $94,000 in gross sales from 2005 represents 25% of the total, so we can calculate: $.25 \times x = \ 94, 000 \rightarrow \frac{\94,000}{.25}=\ 376,000$ Now we can simply multiply the total gross sales by the percentage represented by each year to get the estimated dollar value for each category: • 2001: 14% of$376,000 = $52,640 • 2002: 17% of$376,000 = $63,920 • 2003: 21% of$376,000 = $78,960 • 2004: 23% of$376,000 = $86,480 Verify that the total values add up: $\52,640+\63,920+\78,960+\86,480+\94,000=\376,000$ Example C Evaluate the pie chart below and answer the questions: 1. If the population of Lake C is 27,000 fish, what is the total fish population of all lakes on the chart? 2. What is the ratio of the fish population in lakes A and C? 3. What is the combined population of lakes D and E? Solution: a. The population of lake C is 27,000 fish, and represents 15% of the whole, use the data to set up an equation: $.15x=27,000 \rightarrow x=\frac{27000}{.15} \rightarrow x=180,000$ The combined population of all lakes on the chart is 180,000 fish. b. Lake A represents 26% of the total, and Lake C 15%. The ratio is $\frac{26}{15}=1.73:1$ c. Lake D is 22% of 180,000 and Lake E is 21% of 180,000. Together they represent 22% + 21% = 43% of the total. $43\% \times 180,000=77,400$ fish in lakes D and E together. Concept Problem Revisited The pie chart below describes the sales that the girls have recorded as numbers of sales. If you know that they sold 850 fruit popsicles, how could you calculate the number of chocolate bars or bags of lemon drops they sold? This one should be a piece of… pie… now! 850 fruit popsicles represents 27% of the total. Set up an equation: $27\%x=850 \rightarrow x=\frac{850}{.27} \rightarrow 3,148 \ total \ sales$ Chocolate Bars represent 41% of the 3,148 total sales: $.41 \times 3148=1291 \ chocolate \ bars$ Lemon Drops represent 11% of the 3,148 sales: $.11 \times 3148=346 \ lemon \ drop \ bags$ #### Vocabulary A sector is a single portion of a pie or circle graph (one “slice”) The sector angle formula is used to calculate how many degrees of the circle should be allocated to a given value. The formula is: $Sector \ Angle=\frac{Frequency \ of \ Data \ in \ the \ Sector}{Total \ Frequency \ of \ Data \ in \ Sample} \times 360^\circ$ #### Guided Practice The two charts below show the distribution of overseas tourist traffic from Europe to other countries. They show the distribution by country and by age, respectively. 1. What percentage of tourists went to either the US or Australia? 2. What is the ratio of European tourists that went to the USA to the number of European tourists who were below the age of 30? 3. If, among the “other destinations”, India accounted for 25% of the travel, and it is known that 25 Europeans went to India, how many 30-39 year old Europeans went abroad in that year? 4. Based on the data, about how many 40-49 year olds traveled to Japan? Solutions: 1. We can see from the top chart that U.S. travelers (in blue) accounted for 40% of the travel, and Australian travelers (green) represented 10%. The total percentage who went to either country is $40\%+10\%=50\%$ of travelers. 2. 40% of travelers went to the U.S, and 15% were under 30 (bottom graph, in red). The ratio is 40:15 or 8:3. 3. If India accounts for 25% of the 20% of travelers who went to “other destinations”, then it accounts for 5% of the total travelers $(25\% \times 20\%=5\%)$ . If 25 Europeans went to India, then we know 25 travelers represents 5% of the total. We can calculate the total number of European travelers to be: $5\% \times x=25 \rightarrow x=\frac{25}{.05} \rightarrow x=500 \ total \ travelers$ . We then look at the Age of Travelers chart and see that 30-39 year olds accounted for 15% of the travel that year. Multiply 15% by 500 to find our answer, which is 75 travelers . 4. We know there are a total of 500 travelers. We can look at the number of total travelers who went to Japan, which is 30% of the 500, or 150 people who went to Japan . Out of that 150, we can guess that 20% (the percentage of 40-49 year old travelers, from the bottom chart) of them were between the age of 40-49. $20\% \times 150=30$ people. #### Practice The following pie-chart shows the percentage distribution of the expenses incurred in publishing a statistics math book. Study the Pie Chart and answer the questions below. 1. If the publisher paid$30,600 for printing, then how much did the publisher pay the author to write the book?

2. What is the measurement of the angle of the sector that corresponds to the authoring expense?

3. If the book is sold at 20% above the actual cost per book, and the marked price is $180.00, what is the cost of the paper used in a single copy of the book? 4. If 5500 copies of the book are published, and shipping on them amounts to$82,500, what should the selling price of the book be so that the publisher can earn a profit of 25%?

5. Authorship of the book is less than the printing cost by what percentage?

6. If the difference between two of the expenditures in the chart are represented by 54 degrees, then which combination(s) of two expenditures could they be?

7. If the cost of paper is $56,250 for printing an edition of the book, then what was the advertising cost? 8. Identify two expenditures that together have a central angle of 108 degrees. The following pie chart shows the sources of funds that will be collected by Downtown Development to beautify the city. Use the chart to answer the questions that follow. 9. Nearly 20% of the funding will come from which source? 55290 10. If the city could only pull$9,725 from bonds, by what percent should it increase the amount it borrows against its investments to make up the difference?

11. If the bonds are managed by a third party that collects a 10% commission, how much would the bonds have actually been worth, before being added to the budget represented in the chart above?

12. What is the degree measure corresponding to the Taxes collected?

13. What is the approximate ratio of the funds to be collected through Bonds and through City Investments?

The following charts give information about how weight is distributed throughout the human body, according to different components. Answer the questions below based on the pie charts.

14. What percentage of proteins is equivalent to the weight of skin?

15. How much of the human body is neither made of bones or skin?

16. What is the ratio of the weight of proteins in the muscles to that of the weight of proteins in the bones?