The chart below gives information about the most common sports played in New Zealand in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.
The bar graph illustrates data on sports that people in New Zealand were likely to participate in most in 2002.
Overall
, the proportion of boys
and girls
was similar in athletics, basketball, and tennis. However
, that distribution in cricket, martial arts, netball, soccer, swimming, and other sports was not equivalent.
The percentage of girls
in athletics is about 4%, compared to 3% of boys
. Basketball was a little more preferred by boys
than by girls
. The figures were slightly over 6% and 5% respectively. Likewise
, tennis also
attracted boys
a bit more than girls
. Boys
’ involvement in this
activity was nearly 8%, whereas
the figure for girls
was about 7%.
Around 25% of participants in netball were girls
, while
the proportion of boys
in this
sport was nearly 0%. In contrast
, the figure for boys
in soccer was almost 5 times higher than their female counterparts, at just under 25% and approximately 5% respectively. Additionally
, cricket also
saw a significant difference between the number of boys
(10%) and girls
(slightly over 0%).Submitted by quando98952 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words boys, girls with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figures" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "nearly" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "slightly" was used 2 times.
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