Psychology A-Level
pie chart construction
What pie chart construction means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of pie chart construction
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Reference: AQA
Dividing each category total by the grand total, multiplying by 360, and labelling every sector with its category and its percentage.
Topics that use pie chart construction
- Arithmetic and numerical computation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- behavioural categories and tallies
- decimal conversion
- Estimating results
- percentage calculation
- range
- ratio and fraction forms
- raw frequency data
- Spread of scores
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