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Before drawing a pie chart, the values of each category are first expressed as:

AMultiples of the total
BPercentages of the total
CPercentages of the largest
DMultiples of the smallest
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Percentages of the total
1. Absolute values are not used directly. 2. The share of the whole is what matters. 3. They become percentages of the total. _Source: syllabus Statistics for Economics, Chapter 4, Presentation of Data._
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