The bar and line chart below shows average monthly temperatures and bathing suit sales in New York for the first 6 months of 2012.
The bar and line charts provide information about the relevance of the average monthly temperatures to swimsuit
sales
in the city of New York during the first half of 2012.
Overall
, there was an upward trend in New York's weather temperature
from January to June 2012. Also
, the number of sales
of swimming attire was not proportional to the increase in temperature
.
It is very clear that during the beginning of the year, the average temperature
was just slightly above 30 degrees
Fahrenheit
. It was the same level in February and each month after that, a steady climb in the city's weather was noticed from 39 degrees
Fahrenheit
in March to 65 degrees
Fahrenheit
in the month of June.
Looking closely at the figures for swimwear sales
, it is noticeable that from January, there was a 50% rise in sales
from $100,000 to $150,000 in March. As the temperature
constantly rose each month, a dramatic increase was seen peaking at almost $300,000 during April. Interestingly, bathing suit sales
plummeted in May and June at roughly $75,000 and $20,000 respectively just when the temperature
was noticeably halfway to 70 degrees
Fahrenheit
.Submitted by sheenasedeno on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words sales, temperature, degrees, fahrenheit with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
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