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What was the total Government spending for 2023?  \n2. What was the mean amount the Government spent across the sectors?  \n3. What is the range of the amounts that the Government spent?  \n4. If welfare spending was removed from Government spending, what effect would that have on the mean spend?  \n5. You read in a newspaper that over 30% of Government spending was on welfare. Is that correct? Show why you think this.  \n6. Using estimation, what fraction of the total Government spend was on debt interest? Simplify the fraction.  \n7. If education spending increased by 15%, what would be the new total Government spend on education?  \n8. What is the approximate ratio of spending on health and law and order?  \n9. The Government wants to decrease its total spending by 5% . How much money would that save?  \n10. It took 6 Government economists a total of three days to collate this information. How many economists would have been needed to do it in one day?  \n11. The following pie chart is missing four labels. Using the information from the bar chart, correctly label the pie chart.  \nANSWERS  \n1. £1198bn  \n2. £108 .9bn  \n3. £69 . 23bn  \n4. It would be significantly reduced  \n5. No, it’s 28% 6. 1/10  \n7. £150 . 65bn  \n8. 5:1  \n9. £1138 . 1bn 10. 18  \n11.","cbCaifZc7V2yaMlY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifZc7V2yaMlY","pdf",207907,"English","# Practice Questions\n## Answer Key","[{\"question\":\"What was the total UK Government spending in 2023 according to the data?\",\"answer\":\"The total government spending in 2023 was £1198 billion.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the approximate ratio of spending on health compared to law and order?\",\"answer\":\"Based on the provided figures, the ratio of spending on health (£245bn) to law and order (£47bn) is approximately 5:1.\"},{\"question\":\"If education spending of £131 billion increased by 15%, what would the new total be?\",\"answer\":\"An increase of 15% on the education budget of £131 billion results in a new total of £150.65 billion.\"}]","Functional Skills Maths - Level 1 and 2 Government Spending | PDF",13]