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 Pie charts are a way to show how different parts make up a whole. The chart is a circle that is divided into pieces, where each piece's a category. The size of each piece shows how much of the whole it is.

People use pie charts a lot in business, education and marketing because they are easy to understand. For example a company might use a pie chart to show how much of the market they have or how their sales are distributed or how they are spending their money. Schools use them to show what students think or how well they are doing.

One good thing about pie charts is that they give you an idea of how things are divided up. They are simple. Look nice and they are good for showing small groups of data. You can use things like Microsoft Power BI and Google Sheets to make pie charts.

Pie charts are not so good when there are too many categories because the pieces get too small and hard to compare. It can also be hard to see differences, between the numbers. With these problems pie charts are still a popular way to show how things are divided up because they make it easy to see percentages.