Describing Trends
1. True or False? Unit Sales in Thousands, 2010-2011.Compare the statements below with the data on the graph. Correct the false statements. ________________2010 ----------2011
1) Performance in 2010 was generally steadier than in 2011. 2) Between January and the beginning of March, 2011, there was an upward trend in unit sales. 3) In 2011, there was a steady improvement in unit sales between the middle of July and the end of October. 4) In 2010, unit sales remained steady from mid-April until about the beginning of June. 5) The figures for maximum sales in both years are the same. 6) Minimum sales were worse in 2010. 7) The graph is not designed to show why the figures for the two years are different. 8) If the latest trend continues, performance will improve. 9) If the graph were larger, it would contain more information. 10) The graph would contain the same information if it illustrated unit sales only between 15,000 and 35,000. 2. Chemical Consortium R&D Expenditure 2002-2011 1) Read this description of the amounts spent by Chemical Consortium on R&D between 2002 and 2011. In 2002, ChemicalConsortium spent forty million pounds on R&D. In the following year that figure went up by ten million pounds to fifty million. Over the next two years, 2004 and 2005, total expenditure on R&D increased by a further twenty-five million pounds. This upward trend continued in the following year when the figure reached ninety million pounds. In 2007, however, company spending on R&D remained the same as in the year before, and in the next twelve months it fell by ten million pounds. There was a further increase in 2009 of ten per cent on the previous year’s spending. This two-year trend ended in 2010 with a sudden increase to one hundred and twenty-five million pounds. In the final year of the period under review, the amount spent on R&D went up again to one hundred and fifty-five million pounds. 2) Now complete the following bar chart with the help of the information in the description above.
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