The bar chart shows the monthly spending in dollars of a family in the USA on three items in 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

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bar graph illustrates, by three different types of items, how much money people spent on domestic expenses between January and April of 2010.

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, costs of

gas

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and clothing experienced an upward trend,

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those of food experienced a downward trend throughout the whole time frame.   Focusing on house expenses of

gas

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and clothing,

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clothing was the smallest category at around $200,

gas

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was at over $300 at the beginning of the

month

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. Despite the fact that

gas

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showed a dip at around $250 in February, in the

last

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month

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it recorded the

second highest

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expenditure at under $600.

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, costs of clothing depicted a fluctuation, reaching a peak of under $600 in Feb, and the highest at under $700

at the end

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of the

month

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.   Turning to the domestic expenditure

of

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food, it

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increased by approximately $50 from Jan to Feb, reaching almost the same level as the costs of clothing.

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, it decreased gradually and was recorded at around $300, which was the lowest amount in the final

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, the average of amounts was steady at around over $300 over the first two months,

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it reached a peak of over $400 and decreased to under $300 on Apr.