LO: To be able to use our precision skills to draw

and analytical skills to interpret Pie charts

Starter:
Example template
 Musical Instrument In a survey, people were asked to
Guitar 35 indicate which one of five musical
Violin 10 instruments they played. The
Recorder 15
information is given in the table.
Display the information in a pie chart.
Drum 5
Keyboard 25
Total 90

360/90 = 4 so 40 represents 1 person

Guitar = 4° x 35 = 140°
Violin = 4° x 10 = 40°
Recorder = 4° x 15 = 60°

Drum = 4° x 5 = 20°
Keyboard = 4° x 25 = 100°
Musical Instrument In a survey, people were asked to
Guitar 35 indicate which one of five musical
instruments they played. The
Violin 10
information is given in the table.
Recorder 15 Display the information in a pie chart.
Drum 5
Keyboard 25
Total 90
Keyboard Guitar

Guitar = 4° x 35 = 140°
100°
140°
Violin = 4° x 10 = 40°
20°
60°
Recorder = 4° x 15 = 60° Drum 40°

Recorder
Drum = 4° x 5 = 20° Violin

Keyboard = 4° x 25 = 100°
Worksheet
Answers
 Usual method of travel to shopping centre

A B

car car
bus bus
taxi taxi
walk walk
other other

Which pie chart is for men and which is for women?

 Ireland Greece

under 15 under 15
15 - 39 15 - 39
40 - 59 40 - 59
over 59 over 59

The charts show that:

A there are more people under 15 in Ireland than in Greece;
B there are fewer people under 15 in Greece than in Ireland;
C there is a higher proportion of people under 15 in Ireland than in
Greece.
LO: To be able to
interpret pie
charts
Example:
 Ice-cream Sales The information in the pie chart shows
Vanilla 13 sales of 120 ice-creams sold from an
Banana 22
ice-cream van one Saturday afternoon
in the summer. Calculate the number
Chocolate 28
of each type sold.
Strawberry 57 360/120= 3 so 30 represents 1 person
Total 120
Banana

te
Vanilla = 39/3 = 13

ola

Van
oc
Banana = 66/3 = 22 66o

il
Ch
39o

la
84o
Chocolate = 84/3 = 28 171o

Strawberry = 171/3 = 57
Strawberry
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30 Cars

30 Cars

1) What is the mode car colour? Black

2) Which colour is represented by the orange sector of the pie chart? Other
3) What fraction of cars were black?
4) What percentage were either silver or blue? = 25%
5) 30 cars were black, how many were surveyed altogether? 30 + 30 = 60 cars
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The pie chart shows the types of housing on a new estate. Altogether there were 540 new
houses built.

110° 90° There are 360° in

a full pie

How many are:

(a) Detached? (b) Semi-Detached? (c) Bungalows (d) Terraced?
x 9 x 12 x 4 x 11
of 540 of 540 of 540 of 540
0
360 0360 0
360 0360
= 135 = 180 = 60 = 165
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The pie chart below shows the percentage composition of the human body.

For a person weighing 50kg what is their composition of:

(a) Water? (b) Proteins? (c) Other dry elements?
70% of 50kg 16% of 50kg 14% of 50kg
35kg 8kg 7kg
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60 people 60 people

60 people

1) What is the least popular sport?Rugby

2) Which sport does the purple sector represent?Golf
3) What fraction of people chose football as their favourite sport?
4) List the sports from least popular to most popular.Rugby, Cricket, Golf, Boxing, Athletics, Football
5) 60 people chose football, how many were asked altogether? 60 + 60 + 60 = 180 people
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160 people
240 people 240 people
80°
120°
60°
120 people 50° 20

30°
°
40

60
eople
p eo
240 people ple

peo
10 0 p

ple
Estimate the number who chose each sport given the information above.
Total pie = 240 + 240 + 240 = 720 people
120° = 240 people
÷ 120 ÷ 120
1° = 2 people
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1) 900 pupils were asked to vote for their favourite 2) One weekend in Bedale, a café sold 300 drinks. The
subject. The pie chart shows their responses. pie chart illustrates the different drinks that were sold.

How many voted for: How many of the following drinks were sold that
(a) PE? (b) Science (c) Maths? weekend:
(a) Soft drinks? (b) Tea?

(c) Hot chocolate? (d) Coffee?

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1) The pie chart shows the various expenditure in 2) The pie chart shows the distribution of overseas
publishing a book. tourist traffic from India in one year.

A book costs £1400 to publish. How much does the If the tourist traffic from India is 20million, how many
following cost according to the pie chart: visit:
(a) Promotion? (b) Printing (c) Paper (a) UK? (b) Others

(d) Binding (e) Royalty (c) Japan (d) USA

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BOYS GIRLS
RED Answer the first
RED
GREEN GREEN five questions
with:
BLUE BLUE a. True
b. False
c. Cannot tell.
a) There are 3 boys in the school.
b) There were more girls than boys.
c) A higher portion of girls chose red than boys.
d) Blue was the most commonly chosen colour.
e) Green was the least commonly chosen colour.
 Plenary

Think of one ADVANTAGE and one

DISADVANTAGE of pie charts.

Consider:
Compare them to other types of graph
How easy they are to draw
How easy they are to interpret
Extra formulae needed