Band 7+: 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 chart above illustrates the spending pattern of a family in the USA on three items in 2010. The expenditure is in US dollars.

Firstly, the key takeaway is that average expenditure rose from January to March, when it was at peak then fell to an amount which was less than it initially was in january, and hence it can be concluded that there was an overall fall in the average expenditure over the four months.

In addition, it can be observed that food was the major expenditure in the first three months, except in February, since clothing overtook it slightly in the second month. However, in April, this trend completely changed as food fell from being the highest spending to the lowest.

In terms of gas, it is evident that it was given the least importance until April, since less than 400 dollars were spent on that commodity in the other 3 months. Nonetheless, it can be understood that even though higher amounts were spent in April than in January, that did not matter since the average amount spent still came down that it initially was in January.