Pie Charts: Eduqas GCSE Higher June 2019 Paper 1 Q1

Higher June 2019 Paper 1 Q1

EduqasHigherCurrent spec2 marksPie Charts Time-Series

1. Cherie is in charge of marketing for a tourist attraction.

(a) One weekend, she collects some data about the value of ice cream sales from the café.
She records her data in a table and uses it to draw a pie chart.

Ice cream flavour	Value of sales (£)
Chocolate	500
Strawberry	300
Coffee	0
Vanilla	300
Fudge	100
Green tea	0
Mint choc chip	50
Rum and raisin	20

Pie chart titled Value of Sales (£) with sectors for Chocolate, Strawberry, Vanilla, Fudge, Mint choc chip and Rum and raisin

State one criticism of the use of a pie chart to display her data. [1]

(b) Cherie also records the number of visitors to the tourist attraction each season for 4 years.
Her results are shown in the table.

Season		Winter	Spring	Summer	Autumn
Visitors (thousands)	2015	9	14	19	13
	2016	9	13	17	12
	2017	6	11	14	9
	2018	4	8	15	10

Comment on the trend in the annual number of visitors shown by the data in the table. [1]

Mark scheme (a)

Scheme	Marks	Comments
Valid comment e.g. ‘Some of the data is lost’ or ‘There are too many categories for a pie chart’ or ‘It does not show coffee and green tea’	E1	Allow e.g. ‘It does not show the value of sales’

Mark scheme (b)

Scheme	Marks	Comments
Valid comment e.g. ‘The number of visitors seems to be decreasing’ or ‘The annual number is going down.’	E1	Ignore embellishments/superfluous comments about seasons. Allow e.g. ‘From 2015 to 2018 the numbers have decreased.’
	(2)