A technical writer wants to create a graphic showing the proportion of hurricanes that have hit each of the gulf coast states be
tween 1900 and 2005. the graphic will be included in a safety brochure to be distributed to the public by the federal emergency management agency. which graphic best displays these data?
The graphic that will best display the data is a pie chart. The keyword here is "proportion". Since the technical writer wants to show the proportion of hurricanes that have hit each of the Gulf Coast states between 1900 and 2005, a pie chart will be useful to show that data. It will be able to show data in terms of percentages of a whole.
