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by ektamatta » Thu May 29, 2008 7:47 pm
The annual budget of a certain college is to be shown on a circle graph. If the size of each sector of the graph is to be proportional to the amount of the budget it represents, how many degrees of the circle should be used to represent an item that is 15 percent of the budget?
(A) 15 °
(B) °36
(C) °54
(D) 90 °
(E) 150


OA is c
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by ksh » Thu May 29, 2008 9:48 pm
Hi ektamatta,

15% of budget means 15 in 100
so it will be 100/15=6.6 part

Now, in circle chart, its share can be represented by 360/6.6=54deg

answer is 54deg C
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by getneonow » Thu May 29, 2008 10:06 pm
reqd angle = 0.15 * 360 = 54 degrees
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