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The bar chart shows poverty rates by sex and age. They are from the United States in 2008.

The bar chart shows poverty rates by sex and age. They are from the United States in 2008.
The chart illustrates the gender-based and
age
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-based proportion rates of poverty in the United States in 2008. It can be seen a notable fluctuation graph shows as children grow older, the poverty rates gradually
declined
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 until the
age
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group
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 of 45 to 54 and
started
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 slowly to rise
at
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above 55
years
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 old. All babies under 5
years
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 old, in each gender, had proportion rates of 20%,
while
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 children in
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age
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the age
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 range 5 to 17 scored
lower
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a lower
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 percentage at 15%. In
young
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the young
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 adult category of
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age
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aged
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 18 to 24,15% of
boy
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boys
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 and 20% of
girl
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girls
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 suffered in poverty, but the percentage decreases at the
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 of 25 by around 9% of women and 15% of men. The proportion
continue
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 to drop
at
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from
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 35
years
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 old to 44
years
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 old with approximately 7% of male and 10% of female. The
age
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group
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 of 45 to 54 had the lowest rate of all with around 9% in each sex. The rate,
however
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, bounced back to almost 10% at the
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 of 55% to 59% in each gender. It significantly increased
at
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in
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group
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groups
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 of 60 to 64 and 65 to 74,
shared
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and it was
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a slightly
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slightly
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 amount
at
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of
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 around 6% to 10%.
Senior
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The senior
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group
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 at the
age
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 of 75
above
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and above
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 got nearly 5% of
male
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males
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 and 10% of
female
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females
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Vocabulary: Rephrase your introduction. Words match: 75%.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words age, group, years with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 3 times.
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