1. Four friends met in a park to discuss who they would invite to their Halloween party. Johnny was going to invite seven people, Joey was going to invite five people, Alex was going to invite nine people and Steven was going to invite four people. Using a chart graph, which two friends would bring the most people and the fewest people?

2. Raymond is creating a pie graph to help him budget his monthly living expenses. He believes that out of every $100 in monthly expenses, he will spend $22 on utilities. Which of the following labels should be used for this section of the pie (circle) graph?

3. The school’s library has 25,000 books with thirty-two percent being history books, seventeen percent being science books, seven percent being math books, six percent being biographies and thirty-eight percent being novels. Which type of book had a total of 1,500 books in the library?

4. A new playground was being built by volunteers. Twelve people were tasked with smoothing out the ground. Eight people were put on assembling the swing sets. Four people were put on assembling the see-saws. Eleven people were put on building mazes and five people were tasked with building sandboxes. Using a pie graph, which percentage were tasked with assembling swing sets?

5. The Johnson family went to their local amusement park to enjoy a fun filled day. Papa Johnson gave each of his three children twenty dollars to ride the rides. Create three pie charts showing how much each child spent. Charlie spent four dollars on bumper cars, three dollars on the slippery slope and eight dollars on the roller coaster. Mary spent seven dollars on the Scrambler, three dollars on the slippery slope, two dollars on the Ferris wheel and six dollars on the rocket ship. David spent nine dollars on the roller coaster, two dollars on the Scrambler and four dollars on the bumper cars. What kind of value did Charlie spend compared to what David spent?

6. In taking a survey on people’s favorite sports, you find that baseball, basketball, football and hockey receive the most votes. You surveyed 15,000 people. Baseball got thirty-two percent of the votes, basketball got thirty-eight percent. Football got twenty-five percent and hockey got five percent. Which sport got 3,750 votes?

7. You have just opened your own fast food restaurant and you poll your customers as to what food items they would like to appear on your menu. Sixty-seven people wanted big hamburgers. Thirty-four people wanted corn dogs. Fifty-two people wanted tacos included. Twenty-three people wanted pizza. Eighty-one people wanted milk shakes and eighteen people wanted ice-cream sandwiches. Using a chart graph, which three top items will you include on your menu?

8. Staying with the Johnson family mentioned in Question 4, while Charlie, Mary and David were going on rides - Papa and Mama Johnson were playing games in the arcade. Each had twenty dollars to spend. Create two pie charts showing how much Papa and Mama spent. Papa Johnson spent eleven dollars on bowling, seven dollars on pinball machines and six dollars on shoot the duck. Mama Johnson spent twelve dollars on bingo, three dollars on pinball machines and four dollars on whack-a-mole. What kind of value did Papa spend with his twenty dollars?

9. For our civics class we had to watch the election results of our local candidates. Boyner, Carlson, Jefferson and Wilcox were all running for mayor. There were 100,000 votes to be captured. Create a chart graph that shows the four candidates and the percentage of votes. (NOTE: 100,000 equals 100%.) Boyner got twenty-three percent of the votes. Carlson got twenty-two percent of the votes. Jefferson got twenty-seven percent of the votes and Wilcox got twenty-eight percent of the votes. How many more votes did Wilcox get over Carlson?

10. Six teachers got together to plan two field trips. Mr. Sax wanted to go to a sports museum. Mr. Taylor wanted to go to the zoo. Miss Jensen wanted to see a dramatic play. Miss Hershel wanted to go to a science fair. Mr. Percy wanted to go to the art museum and Mrs. Spencer wanted to go to a water park. The teachers polled the students and 40% voted for the zoo, 20% voted for the water park, 14% voted for the art museum, 10% voted for the sports museum, 11% voted for the dramatic play and 5% voted for the science fair. Using a chart graph, which two field trips came in the middle with the percentages of votes?

11. At the middle school fall dance, students were asked which kind of music they would like played. Create a chart graph that shows that twenty-two percent said they wanted pop music. Twenty-eight percent wanted rock-n-roll music. Fourteen percent wanted country music. Three percent wanted jazz. Seven percent wanted Latin music and twenty-six percent wanted rap. What kind of value did those who wanted rock-n-roll music compare to those who wanted pop music?

12. Martha and her three best friends wanted to lose weight before spring break. Martha had to lose fifteen pounds. Janet wanted to lose nineteen pounds. Carol wanted to lose six pounds and Allison wanted to lose twenty-four pounds. Martha wound up losing half of what she wanted to. Janet lost sixty percent of what she wanted to. Carol lost ninety percent of what she wanted to and Allison lost sixty-eight percent of what she wanted to. By creating a chart graph, which girl lost the most pounds?

13. The man sitting at the piano in the hotel lobby asked the spectators for song requests. Five people requested Moonlight Sonata. Six people requested Fur Elise. Nine people requested Beethoven’s Fifth and ten requested Chopsticks. Using a pie graph, which percentage requested Fur Elise?

14. To make a birthday cake you will need the following ingredients: sugar, flour, butter, eggs, salt, baking soda and vanilla. Of all the ingredients, sugar will make up 21 parts of the entire cake. Which of the following labels should be used for this section of the pie (circle) graph?

15. Jenny came home with her quarterly report card. She got an 83% in math, a 92% in history, a 96% in English, an 87% in science and an 81% in lab. Create a chart to plot Jenny’s grades. Which subject did she get the lowest grade in and which subject did she get the second highest grade in?

16. A group of parents sat down to create a pie graph of a list of six chores to be done at home. Each chore would receive a set allowance attached to it. Doing the laundry was deemed to take the longest time so it would pay out $2.00 each day it was completed. Each child would be able to earn a total of $14 a week. Which of the following labels should be used for this section of the pie (circle) graph?

17. Mr. Atkins bought thirty-two new math books for his fifth period class. Four of the books had missing odd page numbers and had to be returned. Three other books were teacher’s copies showing all of the answers so two of those had to be returned as well. Mrs. Wilson had an extra copy of the same book so she gave her extra copy to Mr. Atkins. Two dogs jumped through the window and stole two of the books, shredding them in the school yard. Using a pie graph, how many of the new books was Mr. Atkins able to keep?

18. Returning to the Johnson family mentioned in Questions 4 and 5, Papa and Mama Johnson were playing games in the arcade and each had twenty dollars to spend. Looking at the two pie charts created earlier, we learned that Papa Johnson spent eleven dollars on bowling, seven dollars on pinball machines and six dollars on shoot the duck while Mama Johnson spent twelve dollars on bingo, three dollars on pinball machines and four dollars on whack-a-mole. What kind of value did Mama spend with her twenty dollars?

19. My grandparents started a college savings account for each of their four grandchildren, Phillip, Patricia, Kelly and Michael. When each grandchild graduated there was $12,000 in their fund. Phillip took sixty-five percent of his fund for his first year of college. Patricia took forty-nine percent of her fund. Kelly took sixty-one percent of her fund and Michael took twenty-two percent of his. Create a chart graph to show each grandchild and the percentage of their college fund they took out their first year. Who took out $7,320.00?

20. A new subdivision is being built in the city that, when completed, will consist of 300 new houses. There will be four different styles of homes built. Fourteen percent will be colonial houses, twenty-one percent will be ranch houses, thirty-five percent will be craftsman and thirty percent will be modern. Which style of home will have 63 of them built?