In July 2005, Greg Sandoval of the Associated Press authored a study of the video game industry that focused on the efforts of the industry to interest women in the games. In that study, he cited another report by the Entertainments Software Association that indicated that the percentage of women who played video games in 2004 was 43%, whereas only 12.5% of the software developers were female. Sandoval also presented the following data showing the U.S. computer/video game sales:
Year Sales (Billions)
1996…………………………. $3.80
1997…………………………. $4.30
1998…………………………. $5.70
1999…………………………. $6.10
2000…………………………. $6.00
2001…………………………. $6.30
2002…………………………. $6.95
2003…………………………. $7.00
2004…………………………. $7.30
Construct a line chart showing these computer/video game sales data. Write a short statement describing the graph.