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Exercise - Modes of Transportation, Bar Graph

The document presents statistics on travel modes in England from 1985 to 2000, showing an overall increase in distance traveled, with car usage rising significantly while walking, cycling, and local bus usage declined. Additionally, it discusses film production and ticket sales for various genres between 1996 and 2006, highlighting that drama and comedy remained dominant while romance stagnated and saw a decline in ticket sales. The data indicates notable increases in ticket sales for fantasy, contrasting with minimal growth for drama and comedy.

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Exercise - Modes of Transportation, Bar Graph

The document presents statistics on travel modes in England from 1985 to 2000, showing an overall increase in distance traveled, with car usage rising significantly while walking, cycling, and local bus usage declined. Additionally, it discusses film production and ticket sales for various genres between 1996 and 2006, highlighting that drama and comedy remained dominant while romance stagnated and saw a decline in ticket sales. The data indicates notable increases in ticket sales for fantasy, contrasting with minimal growth for drama and comedy.

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The table illustrates the statistics of the change in modes of travel in England in the year 1985 and 2000.

The study included walking, bicycle, car, local bus, long distance bus, train, taxi and other. The average
distance travelled are measured in miles per person per year.

Overall, the total distance travelled by all modes of transportation had experienced an increase of usage,
rising from an average individual yearly mileage of 4,740 in 1985 to 6,475 in 2000. In 1985, driving was the
most popular choice of commute while taxi was the least common option. In 2000, most modes of
transportation had experienced an increase of mileage, with the exception of walking, cycling and local bus.

In 1985, the population in England had travelled the longest distance with car, with a remarkable average
indivdual mileage of 3,199 per year. This is followed by a mix of other modes of commute, albeit with a
significant difference, at 450 miles per person per year. Conversely, taxi and bicycle were the least travelled
option, averaging at a mere 13 and 51 miles per person yearly.

In 2000, both car and other modes of travelling not only had the highest increase in distance travelled, but
also remained the two most used method of commute, at 4,806 and 585 miles per person per year
respectively. Interestingly, train overtook local bus’s position as the third most utilized option of transport,
at a yearly individual mileage of 366. In contrast, commuting through walking, cycling and local bus had
decreased from an average distance of 255, 51 and 429 to 237, 41, and 274 miles per person per year
respectively between 1985 and 2000.

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The bar charts illustrate the statistics of films released and cinema ticket sales for the genres
drama, comedy, fantasy and romance in 1996 and 2006 in a country. The data are measured in
percentage.

Overall, both drama and comedy dominated the market, having the highest production, at
consistently over 20%, as well as being the highest grossing categories, consituting more than 15%
in ticket sales, in 1996 and 2006. Interestingly, production increased for all genres of film with the
exception of romance, which experienced stagnation. Similarly, all categories of films had an
increase in ticket sales except romance, which underwent a decline.

With regard to the percentage of films released, the drama category had the largest increase in
production, rising significantly from 26% in 1996 to 35% in 2006. This is closely followed by comedy
and fantasy, which experienced an increase of 5% and slightly less than 5% respectively. On the
other hand, romance consistently constituted 7% in both years, maintaining its position as the least
released genre of films.

In terms of ticket sales, while being the least popular genre in 1996, at approximately 3%, ticket
sales of fantasy had increased significantly to around 7% in 2006, making it the most notable
increase among all genres. Interestingly, despite dominating the market, drama and comedy had
minimal growth in this period, both at less than 4% (GIVE DATA – ESPECIALLY THE MAX).
Conversely, ticket sales in romance had declined from 5% to a negligible proportion, making it the
least popular category among moviegoers.

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