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IELTS
 JOURNAL 
 
80 
Sample Answer 33
The bar chart shows the monthly spending in dollars of a family in the USA on three items in 2010 
The bar chart depicts the monthly expenditure on food, gas and clothing of a family 
living in the USA in 2010. Overall, it can be seen that levels of expenditure fluctuated 
over the period. 
To begin, in January the most money was spent on food, at approximately $500 per 
month. Although expenditure on food increased slightly the following month, it then 
fell to account for the lowest expenditure of all the items at the end of the period at 
just over $300. 
Gas appeared to follow the opposite pattern to food spending. It started lower at 
about $350 per month, falling in the following month, and then increasing 
significantly to finish at just under $600 in April.
Clothing, which at just over $200 accounted for the lowest expenditure at the 
beginning of the period, fluctuated dramatically over the time frame. After reaching 
around the same levels as food in February (nearly $600), it dropped markedly in 
March, then jumped to just under $700 in the final month.
With the exception of an increase in March, average spending decreased slightly over 
the four months.
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IELTS
 JOURNAL 
 
81 
Sample Answer 34 
The bar chart shows the number of times per week (in 1000s), over five 
weeks, that three computer packages were downloaded from the internet 
The bar chart illustrates the download rate per week of ActiveX, Java and Net 
computer packages over a period of five weeks. It can clearly be seen that ActiveX 
was the most popular computer package to download, whilst Net was the least 
popular of the three. 
To begin, ActiveX and Java showed a similar pattern, with both gradually increasing 
from week 1 to week 5. However, the purchases of Active X remained significantly 
higher than for the other product over this time frame. In week 1, purchases of 
ActiveX stood at around 75,000, while those for Java were about 30,000 lower. With 
the exception of a slight fall in week 4, downloading of ActiveX kept increasing until it 
reached a peak in the final week of just over 120,000. Java also increased at a steady 
rate, finishing the period at 80,000. 
The product that was downloaded the least was Net. This began at slightly under 
40,000, and, in contrast to the other two products, fell over the next two weeks to 
reach a low of approximately 25,000. It then increased sharply over the following two 
weeks to finish at about 50,000, which was well below that of ActiveX.