hey there, good effort 1.About 50% of budget was spent on having meals at restaurants, five times the rate of 30 years earlier. Is it grammatically correct? (almost perfect) The pie chart shows the percentage of their food budget that the average family had spent on restaurant meals and home cooking from 1970 to 2000. (few changes) Can I rewrite this sentence as follow (few changes :) The pie chart illustrates (yes because it's a picture) how the average family arranges (uses more then arranges, but it could work as well ) their food budget on restaurant meals and home cooking during the period of 1970 to 2000.

1.About 50% of budget were spent in having meals at restaurant, five times the rate of 30years ago. 2. The pie chart shows the percentage of their food budget the average family spent on restaurant meals and home cooking from 1970 to 2000.