Although these are not used as often as bar and line graphs in reporting data from behavioral studies, you may see them used on occasion, because they are useful in presenting percentage response data for simple surveys from different categories of responses or respondents.

A. line graph
B. pie chart
C. bar graph
D. scatterplot


Answer: B

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