How to divide a circle into 3 equal parts in PowerPoint

1 How to equally divide a circle
by Zoe Williams 2015

2 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass.

3 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top.

4 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle?

5 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360°

6 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360° How many slices do you want?

7 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360° How many slices do you need? 3

8 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360° How many slices do you need? 3 Divide 360° by 3.

9 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360° How many slices do you need? 3 Divide 360° by °

10 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360° How many slices do you need? 3 Divide 360° by ° With a protractor, line up the center dot at the center of the half circle and the top dot at zero.

11 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360° How many slices do you need? 3 Divide 360° by ° With a protractor, line up the center dot at the center of the half circle and the top dot at zero. Mark 120° from a dot on the circle.

12 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360° How many slices do you need? 3 Divide 360° by ° With a protractor, line up the center dot at the center of the half circle and the top dot at zero. Mark 120° from a dot on the circle. Repeat for every corner.

13 Divide a circle into three parts
Draw a circle with a compass. Mark the center and top. How many degrees are in a circle? 360° How many slices do you need?360° by ° With a protractor, line up the middle dot and the top dot. With a protractor, line up the center dot at the center of the half circle and the top dot at zero. Repeat for the third corner. Connect the three dots on the circle to the center dot.

14 Divide a circle into six parts
How do I start?

15 Divide a circle into any number of parts
Can you divide a circle into six parts?

16 Divide a circle into any number of parts
Can you divide a circle into four parts?

17 Divide a circle into any number of parts
Five parts?

18 Divide a circle into any number of parts
Seven parts? Eight parts?

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Step 1: Insert a Pie chart

Open a slide. Go to Insert -> Chart ->Pie and select the first option

You will get the following result using the in-built data that PowerPoint uses:

Delete the legend and chart title. Go to Design Option in the Menu Bar and select the look and feel of the chart.

Our base pie chart is ready. But, the segments of the circle are not uniform yet.

Step 2: Edit data in the accompanying worksheet

We want to create a circle diagram with 5 uniform segments. So, right click on the pie chart and go to ‘Edit Data’ option.

Since the total angle in a circle is 360°, we will divide this by 5 to get our 5 segments. So, we enter a value of 72° for each of the 5 segments. Remember to drag the ‘blue selection’ to cover all the 5 data points as follows:

Voila! We got our circle diagram with 5 segments.

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Step 3: Giving the finishing touches

You can enter your text in each of the segments. Add gloss at the top edge and a shadow at the bottom. The result is a beautiful PowerPoint circle diagram:

You can create the diagram with as many segments as you want. You just need to divide 360° by the number of segments you need. When you enter the data in the accompanying worksheet, make sure that you drag the blue selection to accommodate the data you entered.

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