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This chart shows the average prices (X1000s) of terraced, semi-detached and detached properties in different locations around South Wales.

On average, the most expensive properties are

(Please select 1 option)

1. Rural detached (The most expensive properties are those which correspond to the tallest of the three-dimensional bars in the chart.)
2. Urban detached
3. Inner city detached
4. Urban semi detached
5. Inner city terraced

If an urban detached property costs 200,000, you would expect a rural terraced house to cost

(Please select 1 option)

1. £100,000
2. £125,000
3. £150,000 (The chart shows that when an urban detached property costs 200,000, a rural terraced house is expected to cost 150,000.)
4. £175,000
5. £300,000

A tax of 5% must be paid on all properties valued at or over £250,000 when they are sold. If 3 terraced inner city properties, 5 semi-detached urban properties and 2 rural detached properties are sold in 2006, how much tax has been paid?

(Please select 1 option)

1. £2,500
2. £5,000
3. £7,500
4. £15,000
5. £30,000 (The chart shows that inner city terraced properties and semi-detached urban properties are valued at under £250,000 and therefore they will attract no tax when sold. This leaves the 2 rural detached properties at £300,000 each. 5% of £300,000 is £15,000, so a total of £30,000 tax will have been paid._)

All property prices are expected to rise by 10% per annum over the next 5 years. The greatest monetary gain will be achieved by buying

(Please select 1 option)

1. A rural terraced house
2. A rural detached house (Although the percentage rise in property prices will be identical for all types of property, since rural detached houses are more expensive to start with, they will see the greatest absolute monetary gain (10% of 300,000 is more than 10% of 200,000).
3. An inner city terraced house
4. An inner city detached house
5. All properties will produce the same gain