The graph below shows the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The line chart depicts the differences in the average price of three commodities monthly, which are measured in percentages in 2014.
At the beginning of the year,
copper
and zinc
had similar values of change in price at 1% and 2%, respectively. However
, the highest percentage among the three was possessed by nickel
at 6%. Then
, all of them had constantly decreased gradually until June as their lowest numbers for nickel
, zinc
, and copper
were -3%, -1%, and -0.5% .
Having experienced a dip, they managed to get back in July with nickel
at -1%, zinc
at 0.5%, and copper
at 1%. At the same time, their number were stagnant at their levels in that month to September before they had a slight decline in October and rose up again to similar points at the beginning of the year; except for nickel
which had drastically dropped to approximately the same value with the other metals that ranged between 1% and 2%.
To conclude
, copper
, nickel
, and zinc
experienced the lowest point in June and nickel
faced the most drastic downfall of price change among the others.Submitted by kelly on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words copper, zinc, nickel with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 2 times.
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