Question

A financial analyst needs to show how a company's $2.4M annual operating budget is divided across five departments for a single fiscal year. The audience wants to quickly understand each department's share of the total. Which visualization best communicates this part-to-whole relationship?

Accepted Answer

A 100% stacked bar (or pie) chart showing each department's proportion of the total budget

Answer

A line chart plotting each department's budget over the year

Answer

A scatter plot comparing budget against department headcount

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A box plot showing the spread of spending across departments