Question

As a manager of a restaurant, you are working on creating a graph to demonstrate the makeup of your staff. The data you are to present is shown in the table below.

Task
Employees on Task
Table waiting
8
Food preparation
14
Cleanup
6
Supervision
4

If you wish to emphasize the relation of each group to the whole, what kind of graph would be appropriate?
a.
pie chart
b.
bar graph
c.
pictograph
d.
scatter plot

Answer 1

a. pie chart

A pie chart shows parts of a whole, so it emphasizes how each task group contributes to the total staff. (Totals: 8+14+6+4 = 32; Table waiting 25%, Food preparation 43.75%, Cleanup 18.75%, Supervision 12.5%.)