The table below shows the cost of water in five cities in Australia in 2004.
City
Usage charge per kiloliter (up to 125 kls)
Usage charge per kiloliter (over 125 kls)
Average water bill per household
Adelaide
$0.42
$1
$312
Brisbane
$0.84
$0.84
$310
Melbourne
$0.78
$0.78
$253
Perth
$0.42
$1.50
$332
Sydney
$0.98
$0.98
$319
The chart compares the usage charges for water per kiloliter and average household expenditure on water in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in Australia in the year 2004.
There were greate disparities of usage charges per kiloliter of water among six cities in the table and in some cities, residents had to pay more for amount of water consumed above 125 Kls. It is also noticeable that Melbourne was the only city where household paid water bill less than $300 on average.
In Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, citizens paid $0.98, 0.84 and $0.78 for per Kls water used respectively, no matter how much water they consumed in total. By contrast, residents who lived in Adelaide and Perth only had to pay $0.42 per Kls if they consumed less than 125 Kls. However, for each additional Kls over 125 Kls, Adelaide's citizens had to pay $1 per Kls while Perth dwellers had to pay $1.5 per Kls.
In terms expenditure on waster, households in Perth paid most on average, at a average water bill of $332, which was $13, $18 and $20 larger than the figures for Sydney,Adelaide and Brisbane respectively. However, despite the middle level of unit water cost, Melbourne saw the lowest average water bill, just at $253 per family.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.0 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 33.7804878049 89% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.97073170732 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1015.0 965.302439024 105% => OK
No of words: 211.0 196.424390244 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81042654028 4.92477711251 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.81127787577 3.73543355544 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59527901149 2.65546596893 98% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 106.607317073 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559241706161 0.547539520022 102% => OK
syllable_count: 309.6 283.868780488 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.33902439024 23% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK
Performance on sentences:
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Sentence length: 26.0 22.4926829268 116% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.8471840498 43.030603864 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.875 112.824112599 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.375 22.9334400587 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 5.23603664747 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 1.69756097561 353% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 3.70975609756 54% => More positive sentences wanted.
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Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.478719657396 0.215688989381 222% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.215859978112 0.103423049105 209% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769743235115 0.0843802449381 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.293670911478 0.15604864568 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.058389492428 0.0819641961636 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.2329268293 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 61.2550243902 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.3012195122 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 11.4140731707 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.06136585366 101% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 40.7170731707 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.4329268293 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.9970731707 113% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.0658536585 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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