Circle graphs or pie charts are used to show what?

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Circle graphs or pie charts are used to show what?

Pie charts show how a whole is divided into parts. The total represents 100%, and each slice is a category’s share of that total, so you can quickly see which parts are largest or smallest and how they contribute to the whole. This makes them ideal for illustrating composition, not for showing changes over time (that would be a line or bar graph across time points) or for conveying a single summary statistic like an average (which is better shown with a bar chart of means or a box plot).

Pie charts show how a whole is divided into parts. The total represents 100%, and each slice is a category’s share of that total, so you can quickly see which parts are largest or smallest and how they contribute to the whole. This makes them ideal for illustrating composition, not for showing changes over time (that would be a line or bar graph across time points) or for conveying a single summary statistic like an average (which is better shown with a bar chart of means or a box plot).

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