[[Image:Credit_score_chart.png|right|300px|thumb|Typical pie chart]]
[[Image:Credit_score_chart.png|right|300px|thumb|Typical pie chart]]
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A '''pie chart''' is a kind of [[circular]] [[chart]] designed to communicate [[statistics]] to the [[public]].
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A '''[[pie]] chart''' is a [[circular]] [[statistics|statistical]] [[chart]] where shaded or colored [[sector]]s of a [[circle]] (pie slices) are [[angle|angularly]] scaled to represent relative fractions of the whole.