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Geography Paper 1B , Nov/Dec 2012  
Questions:   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8   Main
General Comments
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Question 2

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

  1. Represent the data above by means of a pie chart.

 

State two advantages of using pie chart in representing data.
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Observation

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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