You should spend no more than 20 minutes on this task.
  In the city of Plonkers the people have developed a game called Aerial Ping Pong, derived from Gaellic football. The graph below shows spectator numbers for the 3 codes of football layed in Plonkers.
  Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information in the graph.
  You should write at least 150 words.


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  The column graph shows us the spectator numbers for three different types of football, namely, Aerial Ping Pong, Rugby and Soccer in the city of Plonkers for the years 1986, 1990, and 1994.

  Aerial Ping Pong was popular in all the three years. As we can see, there are 300 thousand spectators in1986, 350 thousand in 1990 and nearly 325 thousand in 1994. Spectator numbers were high for Rugby in l986, at 250 thousand, but numbers fell to 200 thousand in 1990, and things go worse to less than 150 thousand in 1994. In contrast, spectator numbers for Soccer were less than 50 thousand in 1986, but the numbers were doubled in 1990 at100 thousand, and in l994 they had increased to 150 thousand, which was more than the number for Rugby.

  From the figures provided for these three years, we have the reason to conclude that, generally speaking, during this period for these three years that, Aerial Ping Pong remained the most popular sport, while the spectator numbers for Rugby and Soccer were contrastive

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