Academic Task 1 The graph below shows the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparision where relevant.

Contained in the illustration is information comparing the change value between three distinct metals each month during the year 2014. From an observational perspective, zinc witnessed an upward trend

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the opposite was true for copper and

nickel

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.

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,

nickel

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is the one with the most dramatic change of all. Looking at the graph in

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detail, zinc's value rose by 1% in January before jumping to 3% in February.

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, in the following 4 months, its price declined considerably and ended up with a -1% loss. During the fall, zinc saw a -0.5% loss in value and remained stable until October when it decreased back to -1%. Throughout the remaining months, its figures shot up to 2%. Moving onto the other statistic,

nickel

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's worth started at 6% in January, decreasing rapidly and reaching its lowest point at -3% in June.

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, from January to June, copper began at 2% and decreased steadily to around -0.5%. In the next two seasons, despite a slight drop in October,

nickel

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and copper climbed back to 1% and 1.5%

at the end

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of the timeframe, respectively.