Question

the pie chart below shows how the annual budget for general Manufacturers Incorporated is divided by department. use this chart to answer the questions

Answer 1

You can read a pie chart as follows

Looking at the given pie chart.

The budget for Research is arounf 1/6

The budget for Engineering is around 2/6

The budget for Support is around 1/8

The budget for media and marketing are 1/16 each

The budget for sales is around 3/16

a) The department that has one eight of the budget is Support.

b) The budgets for sales and marketing together add up to

`(3)/(16)+(1)/(16)=(4)/(16)=(1)/(4)`

Multiply it by 100 to express it as a percentage

`(1)/(4)\cdot100=25`

25% of the budget correpsonds to sales and marketing

c) The budget for media looks around one third the budget for research, to determine the percentage of budget that corresponds to media, divide the budget of research by 3

`(18)/(3)=6`

The budget for media is 6%