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Texas EOC English 1: 2.2 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts 178 Views


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by pie charts Don't be fooled

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They may look like pie but don't take all right

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Check out this job description kindly loving layer high there

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Okay here we go If blair was hired for this

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position approximately how much of her work week would be

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spent handling inter office phone calls and email correspondence No

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Wow this one's a little matthew for an english test

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but it's All right though pie charts are pretty simple

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Or should we say easy as pie We shouldn't facility

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okay This particular pie chart is divided by task with

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the red portion indicating inter office correspondence That little red

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square on the right Here is what tips us off

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What a rat anyway let's Imagine that this pies divided

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into quarters Now we can see that the red piece

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takes up about one fourth or one quarter of the

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whole shebang Oh great we're almost there Now All we

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have to do is ask yourself which of these percentages

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quarter is it a or c Well no fifteen percent

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ten percent away too low way can also eliminate choice

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Dean give seventy percent high overshoots it by choice B

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is the one and only answer there's twenty five cents

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and a quarter right while one fourth or one quarter

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of anything is always twenty five percent Well maybe not

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anything pi were infinite and this might be hard to 00:01:34.376 --> [endTime] calculate Well infinite pie that sounds delicious

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