Before you can make a pie chart you need to figure out how much of the circle belongs to each category. Suppose that you earned
$6.00 doing odd jobs. You spent your money in this manner: Tithe$ 0.60 Missions$ 0.40 Recreation$ 1.80 Savings$ 2.40 School supplies$ 0.80 Remembering the formula, (category total) x 360°, you can figure out each part. For example: 60/600 x 360° = 36° Changing the dollars to cents saves confusion with the decimal point. Following thisformula tells us that, when we make our pie chart, 36° of the graph should belong tothe category of tithe.
so first convert all the given costs to cents by multiplying each amount with 100 then add all of them to get the total as 600
in a pie chart we know that it's a circle and all angles within the circle must add up to 360 so to get an angle for a certain cost that will represent it in the chart you have to take that cost over the total to get the fraction of the circle it will occupy multiplied by 360 to get it in degrees or which portion of 360 will it occupy hence
