These two line graphs compare the percentage of
households
in a given country that own appliances and the cost of time spent on household chores from 1920 to 2019.
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It is clear that
over a period of almost a century, people spent less time per Linking Words
week
on household chores with the help of three appliances: washing machines, refrigerators and hoovers. Use synonyms
Accordingly
, the holding rate of the above-mentioned appliances showed an Linking Words
overall
increase over the same period.
Starting with the 50 hours a Linking Words
week
spent on housework in 1920, only 30% of Use synonyms
households
owned a hoover, the rate of holding Use synonyms
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washing machines was only 40% and almost no Change preposition
apply
households
used hoovers to clean their houses. The Use synonyms
next
century saw a gradual reduction in the number of hours spent on housework per Linking Words
week
, reaching a low of almost 10 hours per Use synonyms
week
by 2019.
From almost zero in 1920, more and more Use synonyms
households
bought Hoover, which led to a rapid increase in hoover ownership, reaching a peak of 100% in 1980. The same trend is shown in the proportion of Use synonyms
households
owning a washing machine, the latter reaching 100% in 2000, a decade after washing machines. ownership of refrigerators rose sharply between 1920 and 1960, Use synonyms
then
fluctuated over the Linking Words
next
59 years, reaching around 75% in 2019.Linking Words
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