SOLUTION: To present a family budget on a circle graph, how many degree of the circle should be used to represent an item that is 20% of the total budget?

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Question 1190682: To present a family budget on a circle graph, how many degree of the circle should be used to represent an item that is 20% of the total budget?
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Answer: 72 degrees

This is because 20% of 360 = 0.20*360 = 72

Notice how 20% = 20/100 = 1/5
This means that you'll split the pie into 5 equal slices, and shade one of those slices to represent 1/5 = 20% of the pie. You can decide to keep the other 4 slices, or ignore them (depending on how you set up the rest of the budget).