Task 1:

You are advised to spend a maximum of 20 minutes on this task.

The table below summarizes some data collected by a college bookshop for the month of February 1995.Write a report describing the sales figures of various types of publications, based on the information shown in the table.You should write at least 150 words.

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Table shows the sales figures of fiction books, non-fiction books, and magazines in a college bookshop for February 1995. The figures are divided into two groups: sales to non – Book Club members and to Book Club members.

The non-Book Club member figures are comprised of sales to college staff, college students, and members of the public. College staff bought 332 magazines, 44 fiction and 29 non-fiction books. College students bought 1249 magazines, 194 non-fiction and 31 fiction books. More magazines were sold to college students than to other group of  customers. Although no fiction books were sold to members of the public, they purchase 122 non-fiction books and 82 magazines.

Book Club members bought more fiction (76) and non-fiction books (942) than other customers. On the other hand, magazines sales to members (33) were fewer than the combined magazine sales to other customers.

The total number of publications sold for the month was 3024(1474 t o college students, 405 to college staff, and 94 to members of the public). Of this figure, 151 items were fiction books and 1287 were non fiction. Therefore, magazines accounted for the greatest number of sales (1696).