The proportion of people with total expenditure exceeding 400 to the total number of people.
Forty percent. According to the inquiry of people of insight, assuming that the number of people with total expenditure exceeding 400 is X and the total number is Y, an equation is established: the number of people with total expenditure exceeding 400 is X = 400 and the total number is Y = 1000, which is expressed by a mathematical formula: the ratio is X divided by Y, and the calculation result is 40%.