The chart below shows the amount of money per week spent on fast foods in Britain. The graph shows the trends in consumption of fast foods. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

The chart shows that

high

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income

earners consumed considerably more fast foods than the other

income

groups, spending more than twice as much on

hamburgers

(43

pence

per person per week) than on

fish

and

chips

or

pizza

(both under 20

pence

). Average

income

earners

also

favoured

hamburgers

, spending 33

pence

per person per week, followed by

fish

and

chips

at 24

pence

,

then

pizza

at 11

pence

.

Low

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income

earners appear to spend less than other

income

groups on fast foods, though

fish

and

chips

remains

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their most popular fast food, followed by

hamburgers

and

then

pizza

. From the graph we can see that in 1970,

fish

and

chips

were twice as popular as burgers,

pizza

being at that time the least popular fast food. The consumption of

hamburgers

and

pizza

has risen steadily over the

20 year

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period to 1990

while

the consumption of

fish

and

chips

has been in decline over that same period with a slight increase in popularity since 1985