The total amount per month the family spends on food and entertainment together is

11441

To reduce the calculations, in these types of questions, we can directly add the percentage together as the base is same. For example: 10% of 100 + 25% of 100 = 35% of 100.

10% of 100 = 10, 25% of 100 = 25 and 35% of 100 = 35. So, we can conclude that if bases are same ( 100 in this case) for any computation we can directly add the numbers. But this will not be the case when the bases are not same. For example: 10% of 100 + 25% of 40 ≠ 35% of 140 as 10(10% of 100) + 10(25% of 40) ≠ 49.

So, the base here in the question is same i.e. 33,650. So, we can add the percentage amount.

25% + 9% = 34%

So, 34% of 33,650 is 11,441