The line graph shows male and female gym membership over a thirty-year period. The vertical axis represents the number of members in units of 1000. The horizontal axis represents the period from 1980 to 2010

The given line chart compares data about the number of both sexes that joined gyms from 1980 to 2010.

Overall

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, it was important that the figure of women

in contrast

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to the men increased over the period of three decades.

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the diagram, males , the main figure of membership at the gym in 1980, hit just over 2000 in the beginning;

then

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it rose significantly to 4000 in 1985;

however

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, it reduced sharply to roughly 1700 in 1995;

thereafter

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, it climbed overwhelmingly and reached the vertex at 5000 in 2005;

nevertheless

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, it declined enormously to the lowest mark at nearly 500 in 2010. The graph demonstrates that females' fashion jumped and did not alter a lot like men's owing to the fact that at the start, it scored 1000; it leapt considerably and recorded the maximum point at just under 3000 in 1995;

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, it fell slightly to approximately 2200 in 2000. Later it grew fractionally and in 2005, it reported the same number as in 1995 after that, it dropped to almost 2000 in 2010.