Question

The pie chart provided below gives the distribution of land (in a village) under various crops. Study the pie chart carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Q. If the total area under Jowar was 1.5 million acres, then what is the area (in million acres) under Rice?

• A. 6
• B. 7.5
• C. 9
• D. 4.5
• E. None of these

Answer 1

The correct option is A 6

The area under any of the food crops is proportional to the central angle corresponding to that crop.
Let the area under rice production be x million acres. $18:72=1.5:x\Rightarrow x=72\times \frac{1.5}{18}=6$ million acres