Question

Read the passage and examine the chart.

The senior class took a vote to see where to go for a class trip. The choices were a theme park, a museum, a water park, or a ropes course. Once the voting was tabulated, the results were announced. Ten percent of the class voted to visit a museum, 14 percent voted to visit a ropes course, and 25 percent voted to go to a theme park. Fifty-one percent of the class wanted to go to a water park. The senior class is off to the water park!

A pie chart titled Senior Trip Survey Results. Water park, 51 percent. Theme park, 25 percent. Ropes course, 14 percent. Museum, 10 percent.

Which statement best describes how both formats influence understanding of the topic?

The passage explains the detailed results of the voting, and the chart shows the voting results visually.
The passage and the chart must be used together to understand the voting results.
The passage gives the reader the voting choices, and the chart gives the reader the voting results.
The passage contains more accurate data than the visual chart.

Answer 1

The first statement. The text gives the detailed vote results in words, while the pie chart presents those same results visually, so the passage explains the details and the chart displays them.