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1.32. Lesson 3 Summary

Mathematics 20-3 Module 1

Section 1: Personal Budgets

 

Lesson 3 Summary

 

In this photo, a man with a laptop is preparing a pie chart.

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In this lesson you created circle graphs to interpret and clarify personal budgets. To create a circle graph you needed to

  • calculate what percentage is represented by the expense

  • calculate the number of degrees this percentage is represented by in a circle

This skill is used by professionals in business and government to make budget details more easily understood by the general public. After all, isn’t a picture worth a thousand words?