In some large cities, people have to pay a fee when they drive their cars into the city centre, in a policy to reduce the number of cars in the city. Give reasons in support of and opposing this policy, and give your own opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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The table illustrates sales at a small restaurant located in a downtown business district. Overall, sales at
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were the highest on Wednesday and the lowest on Sunday and on the same day
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it was the lowest for dinner too. Most sales
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on Friday for dinner. Categorically, for lunch, sales on Monday and Tuesday were nearly
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ame and it
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around $2,400. For Wednesday, it
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$2,595 and that was the highest among all days from October 7th to 13th. On Thursday, sales decreased a bit and on Friday
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$2,500. On Sunday, the sales were the least and were around $1,500 which were $400 less than on Saturday. Moving on to dinner, the sale was nearly
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ame from Monday to Thursday which was around $3,800 except Monday, and on Monday it was $3,623. On Friday night, the sale was maximum and was around $4,350. Again the sale decreased on weekend and it was $2,900 and $2,450 for Saturday and Sunday respectively.
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