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The two pie charts draw the conclusion from a survey of
boys
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' and
girls
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' cultural and leisure
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. Overall,
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preferred sports
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loved dancing and reading. It is
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evident that both genders enjoyed listening to music. Looking at the details in the
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, being the most favoured among
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with 26% and 17% respectively. For
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, reading was the least favoured activity among the others that made up only 2% of the chart.
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, reading was ten times the figure of
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after dancing which was nearly a quarter of the whole
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. Female children
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for
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, with 11%.
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