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.

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.
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The figure above presents two sets of data, the bar chart shows the selling amount of bathing suits and the line graph illustrates the average monthly temperatures. Both datasets were taken each month from January until June 2012.
Overall
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, it can be seen that the highest swimsuit sales occurred in April and the lowest in June.
First,
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at the beginning of the year, the bathing suit business kept rising steadily as summer was coming and the temperature was rising. In January, when it was 30 degrees Fahrenheit, 10 million US Dollars worth of swimsuits was sold. Two months later, the temperature rose by almost 10 degrees and the sales increased to 15 million.
Moreover
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, right before summer, the sales spiked by more than twice when the temperature hit almost 60.
Then
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, as the climate got hotter in May and June, the number of bathing suits sold was decreasing to nearly zero.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • average monthly temperatures
  • bathing suit sales
  • correlation
  • monthly breakdown
  • significant changes
  • warmest months
  • speculate
  • trends
  • increase in temperature
  • contrasting
  • predictive speculation
  • general trends
  • specific months
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