The table below illustrates how much money a single person and a couple in Australia need for a comfortable lifestyle after they retire.

The table below illustrates how much money a single person and a couple in Australia need for a comfortable lifestyle after they retire.
The presented table compares the average expenditures of Australian retired people based on
marriage
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marital
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status.
Overall
, a glance at the figure provided reveals that a person who had
spouse
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a spouse
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had more
expenses
than a single, in which spending
in
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on
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leisure activities was dominant in the couple,
while
housing became the majority in the opposite.
To begin
, the outcomes as a single retirement had a slightly lower cost than a couple at around 684 US
dollars
. Most of the
expenses
by far
was
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were
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for daily activities
in house
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in-house
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with below 200 US
dollars
, followed by free-time actions with almost 150 US
dollars
.
On the other hand
, in the couple categories, the
expenses
for leisure activities were higher than for
the
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apply
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housing at 202 US
dollars
,
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apply
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and became the main expenditures among all groups. Interestingly, the outcomes for health
were not be
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were not
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a priority for both of them, in which their budget
ranges
Wrong verb form
ranged
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between 122 and 177 US
dollars
. The remaining
expenses
had small numbers,
while
only
budget
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the budget
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for transportation
that
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apply
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got more than 100 US
dollars
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words expenses, dollars with synonyms.
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