You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The bar and line chart below shows average monthly temperatures and bathing suit sales in New York for the first 6 months of 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The two charts illustrate the data on the monthly average temperatures and the

sales

of swimsuits in an American city broken down by a six-month period.

Overall

, we can see that there is no direct relationship between the temperature and the total

sales

of bathing suits. In regard to the weather change, the temperature slightly decreased in the first two months;

then

, the weather was getting warmer and warmer until the end of the period.

Although

it was getting warmer in New York City, the number of bathing suits sold was not going up all the time. In terms of

sales

figures, in January, the total sale of swimsuits was $100,000.

Then

, the numbers increased gradually by $25,000 in the first 2 months before a sudden rise in April and reached the climax at $300,000.

However

, the

sales

ebbed dramatically by 60% in the next month and dropped to approximately $100,000 in June.