You work as an Office Assistant for Media Perfect Inc. You are creating a report in Microsoft Excel
2010. The report worksheet will include the sales made by all the sales managers in the month of January.

In the worksheet, you are required to place a pictorial representation displaying the percentage of
total sales made by each sales manager in January. Which of the following charts will you use to
accomplish the task?

A.
Line

B.
Pie

C.
Column

D.
Bar

Explanation:
In order to accomplish the task, you will have to insert a pie chart in the worksheet. Excel provides a
pie chart facility to display data that is arranged in one column or row on a worksheet. Pie charts
display the size of items in one data series, proportional to the sum of the items.

The items in the pie chart are displayed as a percentage of the whole pie.
Answer C is incorrect. Excel provides column chart facility to display data that is arranged in
columns or rows on a worksheet. In column charts, categories are organized along the horizontal
axis and values along the vertical axis.

Column charts are used for showing data changes over a period of time or for illustrating
comparisons among items.
Answer A is incorrect. Excel provides a column chart facility to display data that is arranged in
columns or rows on a worksheet. Line charts are used to display continuous data over time, set
against a common scale. In a line chart, category data is distributed along the horizontal axis, and all
value data is distributed along the vertical axis. Line charts are ideal for showing trends in data at
equal intervals.

A line chart should be used where category labels are text, and are representing evenly spaced
values such as months, quarters, or years.

Answer D is incorrect. A bar chart is a feature provided in excel to graphically display data that is
arranged in columns or rows on a worksheet. Bar charts are used for illustrating comparisons among
individual items.

Bar charts are useful where axis labels are long.