Task one the two pie charts show the patron of expenditure in US between 1966-1996. Summarise the information by selecting the reporting and main feature and making comparisons where relevant

The pie chart illustrates the changes in American patterns of disbursement for 30 years between 1966 and 1996.

Overall

, it can be inferred that food and cars made up the two biggest items of spending during both

the

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years and together, they comprised well over half of the household figure. As

it is clear that

food accounted for 44 per cent of the spending in 1966, but

this

came down sharply by

two thirds

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, to 14 per cent in 1996.

However

, the percentage of outlay on cars almost doubled, rising from 23% in 1966 to 45 % in 1996. Moving

further

, the proportion of spending on dining out doubled, rising from 7% to 14%. The ratio of amount

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on operating computers increased dramatically to 10

percentage

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In 1996 from 1% in 1966.

However

, as the computer disbursement rose, the ratio of outlay on books fell considerably from six% to 1%.Americans spend approximately the same amount on petrol and furniture each year.