Please help me

A couple of commas would help:

'The hundredth element, which is in the 5th group, is higher up the number line than the sum of the number of elements in smaller groups'.

Also, 'the sum of the number of' is ambiguous; normally 'the sum of' = 'the number of'.

Couldn't "the hundredth element in the 5th group is higher..." work too?

It depends on whether the 5th group contains 100 members, or the 100th member. I presumed the latter.

Mr. Micawber I"m still not sure about 'the sum of the number of' how can I clear

that up?


there are 89 elements in the previous four groups, what I want to say is that the

100th element, which is in the 5th group, is higher up than the 89 elements in previous

groups. Is there a way of saying that?

Are you talking about chemical elements? (I guessed so...)

Hello JKB

I know something about chemistry but I can't catch the sense you want to say by that sentence.

"The 100th element (Fm) is higher up the number line than ..." What did you mean by "higher up the number line"? Do you mean "higher in the order of atomic numbers"? And, what did you mean by "smaller groups"? If it is to mean "the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th groups", I would s

Oh I'm terribly sorry it's a math related question........it is about sets



there are 120 elements divided into 6 sets. The hundredth element, which is

in the 5th set is the higher element than the total of the number of all the elements in the

lower sets. This means since there are a total of 80 elements in all 4 lower sets,

Hello KJB

Do you mean each element has any number or value? If it is so, how about this one?

The 100th element in the 5th set has a value/number greater than the sum of the values/numbers of all the elements in the lower 4 sets.

paco