Band 4+: 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 illustrates information about typical US family’s monthly expenditure in dollars on food, gas and clothing in 2010.

Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that the highest monthly expenses was on clothing in April. In contrast, clothing saw the smallest spending in January.

To begin with, families in USA tend to to spend mostly on food at about 500$ in the first month. By contrast, the least preferred was clothing that had just over 200$. Gas was the second item to allocate money but the third in February, with approximately 250$. Meanwhile, the biggest expenditure experienced food and clothing, and both had under 600$.

According to March, clothing had the lowest demand, compared to food and gas that had around 450$ and 350$, respectively. However, things started to completely change, and US families began to spend more money on clothing that saw a peak of approximately 700$.