Essentials of Business Analytics 1st Edition by Jeffrey Camm,James Cochran,Michael Fry,Jeffrey Ohlmann ,David Anderson

Exercise 18

The total number of term life insurance contracts sold in Problem 13 is 199. The following pie chart shows the percentages of contracts sold by each salesperson.

a. What are the problems with using a pie chart to display these data
b. What type of chart would be preferred for displaying the data in this pie chart
c. Use a different type of chart to display the percentage of contracts sold by each salesperson that conveys the data better than the pie chart. Format the chart and add data labels to improve the chart's readability.