{"id":80,"date":"2023-08-02T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T01:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/math0660\/chapter\/circle-graphs\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:09:22","slug":"circle-graphs","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/math0660\/chapter\/circle-graphs\/","title":{"raw":"Topic D: Circle Graphs (\u201cPie Graphs\u201d)","rendered":"Topic D: Circle Graphs (\u201cPie Graphs\u201d)"},"content":{"raw":"Circle graphs show how the parts of something compare to each other<\/strong>. Circle graphs also give a good picture of each part compared to the whole thing<\/strong>. In a circle graph or pie graph, the complete circle is the whole thing. The parts of a circle graph may be identified with a percentage. The total of the parts must be 100%.\r\n
Graph 1<\/h6>\r\nThe circle represents each dollar the government spends. The information for the graph was found at the Department of Finance, April 2010.\r\n
Where Your Tax Dollar Goes - 2007-2008 (Department of Finance Canada)<\/a><\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nThe parts are shown as cents of the dollar.<\/span>\r\n
<\/a>\r\n\"A<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n
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  1. What is the biggest expense of the federal government?<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. How much of each federal dollar is spent in actually operating the government business?<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. What part of the federal dollar is spent on defence?<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. How much of each dollar is spent on Provincial Payments? Write this amount as a percent.<\/li>\r\n \t
  5. What is the smallest expenditure of the federal government? Write this amount as a percent.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nAnswers to Graph 1<\/strong>\r\n
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    1. Payments to Persons<\/li>\r\n \t
    2. 20\u00a2<\/li>\r\n \t
    3. 7\u00a2<\/li>\r\n \t
    4. 20\u00a2; 20%<\/li>\r\n \t
    5. Budgetary Surplus, 4%<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      Graph 2<\/h2>\r\n
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      1. What makes up the largest part of the waste in the landfill site?<\/li>\r\n \t
      2. What four categories contribute equal weight to the landfill site?<\/li>\r\n \t
      3. In a municipality of 139,000 people, the amount of waste going to a landfill site in one day is 150 tonnes.\r\n
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        1. What is the mass of plastics?<\/li>\r\n \t
        2. What is the mass of yard waste?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n
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          1. What is the mass of construction\/demo waste?<\/li>\r\n \t
          2. If all the food waste were composted, how many tonnes of waste would not<\/em> end up in the landfill each day?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t
          3. The plastics category can be separated into these categories:\r\n