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IELTS Academic Task 1: Mixed Charts — Food & retail
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The charts below show monthly ice cream sales and the average temperature over a six-month period in a seaside town. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The data is as follows. Ice cream sales (bars, in thousands of units): 12 in April, 21 in May, 35 in June, 48 in July, 44 in August, and 25 in September. Average temperature (line, in °C): 12° in April, 16° in May, 20° in June, 24° in July, 23° in August, and 19° in September. Sales and temperature rise together from April to a peak in July, and both decline in August and September; sales in the peak month are exactly four times the April figure, whereas the temperature only doubles over the same period.
Examiner focus: Correlation with different scales: sales respond far more dramatically than the temperature that drives them.
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