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Question 2
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The table below represents the value of export commodities of country Q in 2011.
Product |
Value in Million Dollars |
Petroleum
Rubber
Groundnut
Coal
Others |
240 140
200
90
50 |
Total |
720 |
- Represent the data above by means of a pie chart.
State two advantages of using pie chart in representing data. |
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Many candidates attempted this question and performed well in the (a) part of the question. Such candidates were able to convert the figures to degrees, drew the sectors in a pie chart but quite a good number of the candidates could only give one advantage of using pie chart in representing data. The expected advantages of using pie chart in representing data are:
- easy to draw;
- suitable for comparison of statistics;
- ease of determining which units have the highest or lowest value of quantity. |
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