The table compares three different types of book data, which was collected by a college bookshop for the month of February in the year 2000.
Overall, it can be seen that there were two groups: sales to non-book club members and book club members. The highest sales was seen for magazines and the lowest sales was seen for fiction books.
Looking at the information in more detail, it can be observed that total number of sales for all three types of books was 3134 items. The college staff bought 44 fiction books, 29 non-friction books and 332 magazines. The college students bought 1249 magazines, 194 non-fiction books and 31 fiction books. Members of public bought no friction book and 122 non-friction book, along with 82 magazines. The maximum number of sales among non-book club members was by college students at 1474 and the minimum was by members of public at 204. Furthermore, for book club members the highest purchased was for non-fiction book with 942 sales and the lowest purchased was for magazines with 33 sales. According to the data, 151 items were fiction books and 1287 were non-fiction books. Magazines contributed the greatest numbers of sales, which was 1696.
