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36.
 
The graph below shows the participation of Australian children in sports outside 
school hours in 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main 
features and make comparisons where relevant. 
The given column graph compares the percentage of Australian boys and girls who 
participated in sports as extra-curricular activity in 2014. It is interesting to note that only 4% 
boys and 5% girls did not participate in any sports after school hours. 
Swimming was slightly more popular among girls than boys, with about 13% boys and 16% 
girls participating in it. By contrast, basketball was minimally more popular among boys 
with 8% boys and 7% girls participating in it. Football was most popular among boys with 
20% playing football after school hours. Only a small minority (4%) girls played football. 
Netball, on the other hand, was more popular among girls with 18% playing it and only 2% 
boys liked netball. Therefore netball and football show opposing trends between both 
genders.
Overall, netball could be labeled as a game for girls and football for boys, according to this 
graph. Boys and girls in Australia clearly had different preferences for after school sports 
activities.
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37.
 
The graph below shows the sales of children's books, adult fiction and educational 
books between 2002 and 2006 in one country. Summarise the information by selecting 
and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. 
The given line graph compares the sales of three different types of books from 2002 to 2006. 
It is evident that the sale of educational books and children’s books showed an upward 
trend, but adult fiction lost popularity over the given time period. 
In 2002, adult fiction was on top with a sale of 45 million dollars, followed by children’s 
books at 33 million dollars and educational books at 25 million dollars. After a few 
fluctuations, the sale of adult fiction declined to 30 million dollars by 2006. In contrast, 
educational books were the least sold in 2002. After that their sale showed an opposing trend 
to that of adult fiction and reached $32 million by 2006.
Sales of Children’s books’ started at $32 million in 2002, but rose rapidly to 42 million dollars 
in 2003. From 2003 to 2005 there was a very slight increase in sales, but after 2005, sales grew 
considerably and reached an all time high of $56 million.
Overall, children’s books ruled the market after 2003, among the given three categories of 
books.