TASK 1:
Question: The chart below shows the numbers of three types of visitors to a museum between 1997 and 2012.
ANSWER:
The bar graph illustrates how many guests visited a specific museum from 1997 to 2012, categorized into three types of visitors.
Overall, the museum welcomed an increasing number of adults and those coming for special exhibitions over the period, while it saw a decrease among children under 15. Notably, the total number of adult visitors was the highest throughout, while special exhibition viewers were the lowest.
Looking firstly at the increasing categories, just over 300,000 adults came to the museum in both 1997 and 2002. In 2007, the figure reached a peak of approximately 400,000, although by 2012, that had fallen to precisely 380,000. Somewhat similarly, the number of special exhibition guests increased continuously over the period, starting at 28,000 and ending at 42,000.
Conversely, the museum documented an approximate one-third decrease among children under the age of 15 from 1997 to 2012. Traffic from this cohort was 120,000 visitors in the first surveyed year. From this point, it declined at a decelerating rate to 82,300 in 2012.
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