CIRCLE GRAPHS

How comfortable are you working with circle graphs (also known as pie charts)? Try your hand at these:

Per Capita US Consumption of Milk, 1975-95


Graph A	Graph B	Graph C

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures, annual

Questions/Activities

1) What is the topic or subject of this graph? Ans.

2) Where did the information come from? Ans.

3) What types of milk are described? Ans.

4) Which graph represents data from 1975? Ans.

5) What are the three variables being graphed? Ans.

6) What doesn’t this type of graph tell you? Ans.

7) What does "Per capita" mean? Ans.

8) Consumption of which type of milk has increased the most over the time period indicated? Ans.

9) Which type remains the most popular from 1975 to 1995? Ans.

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