Question

The pie chart below shows how the annual budget for a certain company is divided by department. If the amount budgeted for sales and research combined is 75,000,000. What is the total annual budget?

Answer 1

$150,000

1) In that pie chart, we can tell that the Sales and Research department combined responds to 50% (35%+15% =50%)

2) Thus, we can tell that:

`\begin{gathered} 0.35x+0.15x=75000 \\ 0.5x=75000 \\ x=(75000)/(0.5) \\ x=150,000 \end{gathered}`

So, since 50% of that budget corresponds to $75,000 we can tell that 100% (the total budget) corresponds to twice that figure, which yields 150,000