1.11 The World Steel Organization reported that world crude steel production stands at 839.3 million short tons for the first 9 months of 2004, 8.7%

higher compared with the same period of 2003.

The crude steel production (in millions of short tons) is reported in table below. Note that the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
includes Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

a Construct a bar chart to describe this data.
b Comment on the patterns observed, if any.

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2004 2003 Asia/Oceania 393.3 352.0 European Union 159.0 150.6 North America 109.0 102.1 CIS 92.2 87.1 South America 37.7 35.5 Other Europe 23.8 21.0 Africa 13.5 13.4 Middle east 11.0 10.7