As the chart shows ... is earning more than half — 50.4 percent — of U.S. income. The top 1 percent is eating nearly a quarter of the American income pie: In 2007, before the recession ...

The smallest slice shows that the fewest children come by car. If the walking slice is half of the pie chart, it means 50% of children walk. If the bus slice is a quarter of the pie, it means 25% ...

Narrator: Pie charts are brilliant at showing proportions ... we can also express fractions as percentages, so half is 50%, or in decimals, 0.5. And remember! A Pie is a circle, which is 360 ...

Note that the hole in the center of the pie should measure about 60 percent of the circle’s diameter. An alternate way to display similar information is with a dot chart. A 10-by-10 grid of dots can ...