Moving out on your own is exciting, but it's also a really big step. There are a lot of questions to ask yourself, but one of the biggest ones is:

CAN I AFFORD TO MOVE OUT?

When you move out on your own, you will want to be sure you can pay all of your expenses with the money that you earn. It can be confusing and hard to know what the best deal is. A place to live can cost anywhere from $200 to $2,000 a month! How much will food cost? How about transportation? Can you afford a cellphone?

Throughout the lessons in this theme, we are going to look at the different ways information is presented to us and learn how to use this information to help us make decisions about the way we live.

A lot of information is presented to us in the form of a chart. This lesson shows you the parts of a chart, how to read the information, and how to use that information in decision making.

In this lesson, you will:

• learn to identify the components of a chart
• learn to understand the information provided in a chart
• analyze the information in a chart
• use information from a chart to make decisions