Bar graphs versus pie chart of student participation

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Bar graphs versus pie chart of student participation in community activities:

The National survey on students Engagement (NSSE) has survey more than 400,000 students -freshmen and seniors- at 730 U.S. schools since 1999 (America's Best Colleges 2004,"2003). Among the many questions on the NSSE, students were asked how often they :participated in a community based projects as part of a regular course" For the students in the 19 institutions classified as national universities that made their data publicly available through the U.S News & World Report Web site, here are the data: Never, 56%, sometimes 31% : often 9% ; very often, 5%. ( the percentages add up to 101% because of rounding decisions.)

Explain why a bar graph would be more suitable for these data than a pie chart,

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