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The two tables present the sales of coffee and bananas through fairtrade in five European countries including UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. The expenses in Euro were calculated in two year: 1999 and 2004.
Overall, the total money spent on coffee and bananas was significantly increased for each product in which the sales in 2004 were approximately 3 times higher than in 1999 . UK and Switzerland took the two first places as the largest buyers of coffee and bananas.
Regarding coffee market, UK's customers in 2004 paid money for coffee 10 times more than in 1999 while Switzerland's sales also doubled from 3 to 6 millions of Euros. The consumption of coffee in the remaining markets were small and tended to rise slightly after 5 years to reach no more than 2 millions per each country.
In terms of banana sales, UK was replaced by Switzerland to be the biggest consumer in Europe whose market was at least 10 times larger than the rest of countries in the statistic. The total sales in Sweden and Denmark seemed to decline gradually. They made up only half of UK-Swiss market in 1999 and decrease to one tenth after 5 years.
It is very important that you be mathematically accurate when you write about data. Currency expressions: The sales in 1999 were 3 million Euros . 4 million Euros, respectively.
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It is very important that you be mathematically accurate when you write about data.
Currency expressions:
The sales in 1999 were 3 million Euros.
Example:
The total sales of coffee and bananas in 1999 were 8.1 and 20.4 million Euros, respectively. In that year, these countries spent about two and a half times more on bananas than they did on coffee. In