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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Compute to

Can you use compute this way?
Should I use a different word?

4 out of 5 computes to 80%.
  

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I don't think so. I suppose you could say 4 out of 5 amounts to 80%. This is grammatical but I'm not sure how common it is.

  • I don't think so.
  • I suppose you could say 4 out of 5 amounts to 80%.
  • This is grammatical but I'm not sure how common it is.
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I don't think so. I suppose you could say

4 out of 5 amounts to 80%.

This is grammatical but I'm not sure how common it is.

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