The graphs show changes in spending habits of people in UK between 1971 and 2001. Write a report to a university lecturer describing the data.
The two pie charts given compare the changes in spending habits of
people
on seven consumable goods (food
, cars
, computers
, furniture, petrol
, restaurants and books
) in the United Kingdom in the years 1971 and 2001.
Overall
, a significant change is noticed in the expenditure of
Change preposition
on
cars
, computers
and restaurants; which has increased almost
two to Change preposition
by almost
three
folds. On the other hand
, there is a minimum change in the spending on petrol
and furniture. However
, the money spent on food
and books
has declined moderately.
To begin
with, the three
major durable goods that have moderately increased over three
decades are cars
and computers
. The money spent by people
on cars
was only 22% in 1971, in
contrast
43% of Add the comma(s)
contrast,
wealth
was splurged on Add an article
the wealth
cars
in the year 2001. Similarly
, the expense on
Change preposition
of
computers
was only 2% in seventies
, compared to in 2001, Change the article
the seventies
the
cost increased by six folds up to 12%. The spending on Rephrase
when the
petrol
has also
doubled from 7% to 14% in three
decades.
On the other hand
, it is observed that there has been a steady decline in spending habits of people
on food
and books
. The expense of English people
on food
was 44% in 1971 which dropped to 14% in the year 2001. Likewise
, the spending on books
also
fell from 6% to 1% over thirty years. There is only minimal change noticed on
the money spent on Change preposition
in
petrol
and restaurants, dropping to only 1% over three
decades.Submitted by hnm0804 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words people, food, cars, computers, petrol, books, three with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "changes" in your introduction.
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Vocabulary: The word "compare" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "changes" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "declined" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "moderately" was used 2 times.
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