If you were to going to use a graphic that best showed the relative proportions of educational spending in the State of California, what kind of graphic would you choose? This graphic would show how all the money allocated for education is broken down into five respective units: state universities, junior colleges, high schools, middle schools, elementary schools. This graphic would provide the best visual demonstration of how much money that each unit listed in the preceding sentence gets relative to (or contrasted to) the overall amount of education money allocated by the state government.

a. Line graph
b. Table
c. Circle graph
d. Bar graph
e. Column chart

(c) Circle graph

Explanation:

The circle graph or pie chart is commonly used when we want to give a visual demonstration of the proportional division of a data. Each item is expressed as a sector of the circle where the angle is relative to the value of the item.

The correct answer is letter "C": Circle graph.

Explanation:

A circle graph is a graphic representation of a series of quantities that consists of a circle divided into various sectors which size is proportional to the quantity of the whole circle they represent. In essence, this type of graph shows a percentage relationship between the parts and the whole.

The circle graph portraits only one variable -educational spending in the example- that could be qualitative or quantitative.

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