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Chapter 1: Q. 23 (page 24)

Popular colours—here and there Favorite vehicle colours may differ among countries. The side-by-sidebar graph shows data on the most popular colours of cars in 2008 for the United States and Europe. Write a few sentences comparing the two distributions.

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The favourite colour in the UK is silver and black and the favourite colour in the USA is black

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Description of the graph 

The graph also describes the statistics of the favourite colour of UK and the USA.

02

Description of the bar

This bar also deals with the difference of colours between two countries

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