Question

Out of the 30 days in June, you run 13 days and swim 6 days. You lift weights 7 days and ride a bike 4 days. If you make a pie chart to show this data, how many degrees of the circle should represent swimming?

1. 6 degrees
2. 60 degrees
3. 72 degrees
4. 288 degrees

Answer 1

72

Explanation:

Answer 2

3

Explanation:

We can convert the values to percentage values and since a circle is 360°, we can multipy the percentages with 360° to get the degrees. The total of day is all the the things added up:

`=13+6+7+4=30`

Percent swimming:

`=(6/30)\cdot{360}=72`

Answer is 72 degrees