The staffs of the accounting and the quality control departments rated their respective supervisor's leadership style as either (1)authoritarian or (2)participatory. Sixty-eight percent of the accounting staff rated their supervisor "authoritarian," and thirty-two percent rated him "participatory." Forty percent of the quality control staff rated their supervisor "authoritarian," and sixty percent rated her "participatory." The best graphic depiction of these data would be two ___________________.
A) histograms
B) frequency polygons
C) ogives
D) pie charts
E) scatter plots

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Pie charts are the best option for comparing the percentage of accounting and quality control staff who rated their supervisors as authoritarian or participatory. The data can easily be split into two categories and depicted as a percentage of the whole, making the differences between the groups easy to see.

The Staffs of the Accounting and the Quality Control Departments