Practice #5 Answers

Using the circle graph below, answer the following questions about private investment expenditures in seven countries.

Private Investment Expenditures
by the G-7 Nations in 1992

  1. Approximately what fraction of the total spending occurred in Japan?
    Approximately 1/3 of the 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.
    The U.S. spent .93 trillion or 930 billion dollars.
  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.
    U.S. investment spending was approximately 6 times that of the U.K.

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