Question

A business statistics course has 2 accounting majors, 4 finance majors, 6 marketing majors, and 8 insurance majors. Which one of the following is true if a pie chart was constructed to depict majors of students? Multiple choice question. The marketing slice would be three times as big as the accounting slice. The slice for accounting would represent 20% of the pie chart. The slice for insurance would make up more than half of the pie chart. The slice for marketing majors would be two times as big as the finance slice.

Answer 1

Answer: The marketing slice would be three times as big as the accounting slice.

Explanation:

The total number of majors are:

= 2 + 4 + 6 + 8

= 20 majors

The proportions of the majors are:

Accounting = 2 / 20 * 100% = 10%

Finance = 4 / 20 * 100% = 20%

Marketing = 6 / 20 = 30%

Insurance = 8 / 20 = 40%

Notice how marketing takes 30% and Accounting takes 10%.

Marketing will therefore take up three times as much slices as Accounting.