The graph below gives information about the sales of the three most commonly purchased items in a particular bakery for the year 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph shows the value of

sales

of popular baked goods in an individual bakery in 2014.

Overall

, bread and

buns

appear to have been more profitable than pies but the

sales

of

buns

ended the period in steep decline, ending up even below pie

sales

. In

January

,

sales

of bread were valued at $80,000 but

this

figure fell to around $45,000 in March and fluctuated between $40,000 and $65,000 until September. The

last

quarter,

however

, saw a jump in the value of bread

sales

to finish where it was at the beginning of the year. The

sales

of

buns

followed quite a different pattern. In

January

, bun

sales

stood at $40,000 but quickly rose to $70,000 in May and remained stable until August, after which they plunged to just $30,000 in December. The value of pies sold slowly increased from $10,000 in

January

to

reach

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$20,000 in August.

Sales

then

levelled off but went up sharply in the

last

two months of the year to close just ahead of

buns

at $40,000. Pies were the only item where

sales

figures in December exceeded those in

January

.