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the line graph given illustrates the differences in share prices in a period of 6 years, from
1996.
Overall, the Western area has the highest consumption rate of total. Coca-Cola
share prices fluctuated and hit the peak in 1998.
In the year 2000, total cases for Coca-Cola was 17.1 billion. North America led the
highest consumption rate, 30.4%, followed by Latin America, 25.7%. Europe and Asia
purchased 20.5% and 16.4% of the total volume of sales. Africa and Middle East
consumed 7.0% of total, became the smallest consumer of all.
From 1996 to 2001, there was a fluctuation in Coca-Cola’s share price. In 1996,
the product’s price was just over $30 and then increased sharply to nearly $70 in 1997.
The value decreased slightly to $60 in the mid-1997 but then hit its peak at approximately
$80 in 1998. From then till 2000, the drink’s price went down gradually yet there was a
rapid rise between the year 2000 and 2001. Generally, the price for Coca-Cola’s drink
kept rising from 1996 to 1998 and peaked in 1998. However, since then, their value
declined significantly over the next 3 years.
The chart given indicates the changes in sales of game programs, CDs and DVD or
video around the world over a 3-year period, from 2000.
Overall, the sales of CDs fell gradually while the figures of the other two items
increased, especially DVD/video.
From 2000 to 2003, there was a sudden rise in the sales of DVD/video. In 2000,
only about 10 billion dollars worth of these items were purchased, yet in 2003, this
number went up to over 30 billion dollars.
The sales of games material also grew during the period. In the year 2000, the sales
of game software was about 12 billion dollars and then this figure increased to just under
20 billion dollars after 3 years.
On the contrary, although the sale of CDs still led the highest value, there was a
slight decline by nearly 5 billion dollars in its figure, from 35 billion in 2000 to just over
30 billion dollars in the year 2003.
The graphs show the types of music albums purchased
by people in Britain according to sex and age.
The graphs given compare three types of music in Britain in terms of the
proportion of people purchased the albums.
Overall, pop music and rock music are much more popular than classical music. In
addition, men seem to be more interested in buying music albums than women do.
The percentage of people who buy pop music is just under 30% from age 16 to 24
and this figure peaked among the 25 to 34 year olds. After the age of 35, people buying
this types of music albums decline significantly and only about 10% of the population
continue to buy pop music from age 45 onwards.
The rock market is dominated by men with about 28% buying rock music,
comparing to 17% of women. From the age 16-24, only one third of the population
purchased rock music albums. This number reaches its peak among the age 25-34 and
then fall considerably after the age of 35. The proportion even drops more dramatically
after the age of 44, which is completely different from the classical music graph.
As can be seen from the third graph, classical music is not popular with people
aged 16-24 and 35-44 since the percentage of people who buy classical music albums of
the two age groups is both under 5%. However, at the age of 25 to 34, this number is 16%
and reach the peak among people aged 45 or more, at over 20% of the population.
The graphs below show the numbers of male and female workers in 1975 and 1995
in several employment sectors of the republic of Freedonia.
The two graphs given illustrates the differences in the number of men and women
worked in several employment sectors of Freedonia in 1975 and 1995.
Two sectors that had the number of both male and female employees stayed
constant over two decades were manufacturing with 300000 women and over 600000
men and the public sector (non-defence) which employed nearly 700000 women and
900000 men.
There were a sudden rise in the number of women worked in communications
sector, from just under 300000 to 600000 workers though the number of men remained
unchanged at 300000 employees after 20 years. A similar situation can be seen in the
wholesale & retail trade. Whereas the number of male workers stood steady at 700000,
the number of female worked in this sector grew by 300000, from over 500000 to 800000
people during the period.
Overall, in modern ages, car and tube seem to be more popular while in the past,
people preferred train and bus.
In the year 1960, bus was the most-used mode of transport with nearly 40% of
commuters, followed by tube with about 28%. Only 6% of population travelled by car
and train passengers occupied for nearly 20%.
In 1980, although there was a considerable fall from 40% to over 25% in the
proportion of commuters using bus, it still led the most-used means of transport. The
percentage of car users increased significantly from just over 5% to nearly 25%, the same
as the figures of tube passengers. Although there was a gradual rise to about 28% in the
percentage of people travelling by train, it was the most unpopular mode of transport.