Question

An automobile dealer wants to construct a pie graph to represent types of cars will July. He sold 270 cars; 45 of which were convertibles. The convertibles represent how many degrees in the circle?

Answer 1

The convertibles would take up 60 degrees of the circle.

Explanation:

There are 360 degrees in a circle, so we need to find out how many degrees 1 car would take up on the pie chart. `360/270=1.333...` degrees. We then multiply that by 45 since the automobile dealer sold 45 convertibles: `1.333... * 45= 60`. This means that the convertibles take up 60 degrees of the circle.