You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. Write at least 150 words.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

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.

Write at least 150 words.
The bar graph illustrates data on monthly families' expenditures on 3 items in 2010.
Overall
, Food spending is at its highest
amount
in February,
gas
spending is at its highest in April and families paid the most for clothing in April. The average spending shows that
March
was the
month
when citizens spend the highest
amount
of money on these items. Starting from
food
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the food
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section, the US citizens paid a little
bellow
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below
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500
millions
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million
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in January.
This
amount
raise moderately in the next
month
to reach its
highes
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highest
amount
(550 million dollars).
Then
food
expediture
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expenditure
fell in the next
month
to register its lowest figures in April at a little over 300. Turning to
gas
spending, in January families paid approximately 330
millions
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million
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for
gas
. In the subsequent
month
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,month
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the
amount
of spending on
gas
declined to become circa 250, and
then
returned to its previous figure in
March
. The highest expenditure
in
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on
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fuel
experienced
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was experienced
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in April: roughly 560 million dollars. Clothing had been a sector that fluctuated throughout the period.
Started
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from over
the
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apply
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220
millions
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million
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in January, it registered a substantial rise in February (nearly 560
millions
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million
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) and
then
decreased to almost 300
millions
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million
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in
March
. The clothing expenditure rocketed in the next
month
underwent
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and underwent
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the highest spending figure (nearly 640
millions
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million
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) in the whole period and among the 3
sector
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sectors
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. The average line graph demonstrates that the spending average was constant for the first two
month
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months
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in 360 and
then
registered a hike in
March
sitting at 420 million dollars.
finally
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,finally
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it declined to finish at 280
millions
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million
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.
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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Replace the words amount, gas, march, month, millions with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "graph" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "figures" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 5 times.
Vocabulary: The word "declined" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "nearly" was used 2 times.

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