SOLUTION: I have a budget of £2500 to spend on a holiday. I have done out a list of expenditures but am not sure how to make them into a percentage so that I can draw a pie chart to reflect
Question 256128: I have a budget of £2500 to spend on a holiday. I have done out a list of expenditures but am not sure how to make them into a percentage so that I can draw a pie chart to reflect the amounts. Can you help?
Thanks Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
First thing is to add up all of your individual expense category amounts. If the sum is larger than £2500, then you either have to increase your budget or decrease one or more of your expense amounts. If the sum is less than £2500, create another "Miscellaneous" category to account for the difference.
Divide each of your amounts by the total budget amount, move the decimal point two places to the right and affix a percent sign (%).
So if, for example, you have £900 budgeted for airfare, then
