Paying the bills

This task is about ordering fractions, and finding different fractions of an amount.
 

Pere works out his budget to make sure he can pay his bills and have some spending money left over from his pay. The fraction of his budget that he spends on different things each week is shown in the table below.

Pere's Weekly Budget

Category Car Electricity Food Rent Internet Mobile phone
Fraction of his budget \(1 \over 10\) \(1 \over 20\) \(3 \over 20\) \(1 \over 5\) \(1 \over 30\) \(1 \over 20\)

   

a)
 Use the information in the table above to complete and label the strip graph below. 
Use the category headings from the table to label the strip graph of where Pere's pay goes. One label has been done for you.

Pere's Weekly Budget

b)

 

If Pere earns $600 this week, how much money will he put aside for ...
 
i)
the car? $__________
 
ii)
electricity? $__________
 
iii)
food? $__________
 
iv) rent? $__________