Question

You want to conduct a survey to find out which new flavour of coffee will sell well in your country. The available flavours are chocolate, hazelnut, cinnamon and rum. Your supplier in another country has this data for her own country:

 36% of people preferred hazelnut,

 28% preferred chocolate,

 22% preferred rum

 8% preferred cinnamon, and

 the remainder didn’t like any of the flavours.

Present the supplier’s findings graphically in two ways. Derive your conclusion from what you drew.

Answer 1

Given that,

36% of people preferred hazelnut,

28% preferred chocolate,

22% preferred rum

8% preferred cinnamon, and

the remainder didn’t like any of the flavours = 100 % - (36%+28%+22%+8) = 6 %

We can use pie chart here because Pie charts are generally used to show percentage or proportional data and usually the percentage represented by each category is provided next to the corresponding slice of pie.

We can use bar chart also. A bar graph shows comparisons among categories.