curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-talk-about-numbers-with-a-coworker/68480a662477b94b54c576cb.md
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
How much of the budget is used for front-end development and UI design?
About 27%
About 72%
This would be the majority of the budget, but Alice says about 27%.
About 14%
Too low - Alice mentions almost a third of the budget.
Exactly 50%
She says about 27%, not an even split or half the budget.
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Alice uses a percentage to describe how much of the budget is used: consume about 27%.
This is a common way to express financial planning in project management — it shows how resources are distributed clearly and briefly.
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