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Lesson 1 of 7 · Single pie (percent/degree)

Amount from share

DI: Pie Charts · for IPMAT Indore, IPMAT Rohtak and JIPMAT · asked in JIPMAT 2025

The exam method

  1. Stay in shares. for ratios, "what percent of" and "how many times": the total cancels.

Worked examples

Example 2Sitter

A family spends 39.6 degrees on medicine and 82.8 degrees on groceries. Ratio of the amounts?

Formulas you need

Amount=share %100×total=angle360×total\text{Amount} = \dfrac{\text{share}\,\%}{100} \times \text{total} = \dfrac{\text{angle}}{360} \times \text{total}

amountAamountB=%A%B=angleAangleB\dfrac{\text{amount}_A}{\text{amount}_B} = \dfrac{\%_A}{\%_B} = \dfrac{\text{angle}_A}{\text{angle}_B}

Picked from the Single pie (percent/degree) note for this micro-concept automatically. The whole note: Single pie (percent/degree).