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Question

It’s Like Time to Do This Exercise In a Marist survey of adults, these are the words or phrases that subjects find most annoying in conversation (along with their frequencies of response): like (127); just sayin’ (81); you know (104); whatever (219); obviously (35). Construct a pie chart. Identify one disadvantage of a pie chart.

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Hello, everyone. Let's take a look at this question together. A survey was conducted to determine the favorite outdoor activities among a group of 500 people. The number of respondents who preferred each activity is as followed hiking 150, cycling 120, fishing 80, camping 90, and running 60. Construct a pie chart to represent the data. Identify one disadvantage of a pie chart. So, in order to solve this question, we have to recall how to construct a pie chart to represent the data of the favorite outdoor activities among the group of 500 people, and we need to identify a disadvantage of a pie chart as well. Well, the first step in constructing our pie chart is to calculate the percentage for each activity using the percentage. Formula, which is the percentage is equal to the category frequency divided by total responses multiplied by 100. And once we have calculated the percentages, we convert them to angles for the pie chart using the formula angle is equal to the percentage divided by 100 multiplied by 360 degrees. So calculating the angle for all of The different activities from our data of the 500 people, we get the following values displayed in this table, and then using the angles from this table, we can construct our pie chart. So the data gives us the following pie chart with the different outdoor activities, as well as their percentages, and we know that a key disadvantage of using a pie chart is that it may Not effectively display small differences between categories. For example, it may be difficult to distinguish between categories with similar proportions, such as in this pie chart camping having 18% and cycling having 24%. So a bar chart might be a better option because it allows for easier comparison of values and using This information as well as our pie chart, we can identify that the correct answer choice is answer choice A, as it contains the correct pie chart and the correct disadvantage of using a pie chart, which is that they may not effectively display small differences between categories. So answer choice A is correct and all other answer choices are incorrect. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.

Key Concepts

Pie Chart

Data Visualization

Disadvantages of Pie Charts

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