Practice #5

Using the circle graph below, answer the following questions about private investment expenditures in seven countries. When you are done check your answers with the ones provided in the solution (to view the solution, click on the [solution to practice] button at the bottom of this page).

Private Investment Expenditures
by the G-7 Nations in 1992

  1. Approximately what fraction of the total spending occurred in Japan?
  2. Given that the total investment spending is 3.115 trillion dollars, approximately how much of that was spent by the U.S.? Round to the nearest hundredth.
  3. The investment spending in the U.S. is approximately how many times greater than the investment spending in the UK? Report your answer as a whole number.


Solution
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