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Use the information about the ducks on a particular farm to find out which of the statements about them must be true.

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Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:

Remember that all the boys threw the dice $25$ times and that the colours of the numbers remain the same for all diagrams.

The 25 throws are represented by 360 degrees on the pie chart. How many degrees will be needed to represent each throw?


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