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Pie Charts

The document discusses how to create a pie chart from frequency data. It provides an example of 60 children going to school by various methods and the frequencies. To create the pie chart, a scale factor is calculated by dividing the total angle (360 degrees) by the total frequency (60). This scale factor of 6 is used to calculate the angle for each method by multiplying the frequency by the scale factor. The process is generalized for creating pie charts from any frequency data by always calculating a scale factor from the total values.

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Pie Charts

The document discusses how to create a pie chart from frequency data. It provides an example of 60 children going to school by various methods and the frequencies. To create the pie chart, a scale factor is calculated by dividing the total angle (360 degrees) by the total frequency (60). This scale factor of 6 is used to calculate the angle for each method by multiplying the frequency by the scale factor. The process is generalized for creating pie charts from any frequency data by always calculating a scale factor from the total values.

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3/3/2020 Pie Charts

Pie Charts
60 children go to school. There are various methods they use – they may walk, go by car, bus or train. The statistics are in the
following table.

Method of Going to School Frequency Angle

Walk 21

Car 15

Bus 20

Train 4

Total 60 360

Because it is for a pie chart, the angles have to add to 360 o . The frequencies add to 60. If we multiply the total of the frequencies by 6 do in
fact add up to 360.

In general to calculate the angles we find the scale factor between the Frequency and Angles columns by looking at the Total
row and finding the scale factor. The finished table is shown below

Method od Going to School Frequency Angle

Walk 21 126

Car 15 90

Bus 20 120

Train 4 24

Total 60 360

We can always do this – find the scale factor from the shares column to the £ (or whatever is actually being shared out column)
then multiply the shares by the scale factor to get the answers.

Example:

12 people travel from London to Edinburgh. 7 fly, 3 drive and 2 take the train. Sketch a pie chart.

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3/3/2020 Pie Charts

Method Frequency Angle

Fly 7 210

Drive 3 90

Train 2 60

Total 12 360

T^he scale factor from the Frequency to the Angle column is 30 – worked out from the bottom row - so multiply the frequency
column by 30 to get the Angle column. We can now draw the pie Chart.

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