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Tmnt53 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
similar meaning
Please help me with this question:
Give the answer with the closest meaning to the sentence:
Slightly more than twenty-five percent of the students in the class come from Spanish-speaking countries
A. Seventy-five percent of the students in the class speak Spanish.
B. A considerable proportion of the students in the class are Spanish.
C. A small minority of the students in the class are Hispanic.
D. The percentage of the students speaking Spanish fell by twenty-five percent.
Give the answer with the closest meaning to the sentence:
Slightly more than twenty-five percent of the students in the class come from Spanish-speaking countries
A. Seventy-five percent of the students in the class speak Spanish.
B. A considerable proportion of the students in the class are Spanish.
C. A small minority of the students in the class are Hispanic.
D. The percentage of the students speaking Spanish fell by twenty-five percent.
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None of the options come close in meaning to the original, in my opinion.
- None of the options come close in meaning to the original, in my opinion.
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None of the options come close in meaning to the original, in my opinion.
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C is correct according to the ministry of education of Vietnam. But I think D is the closest in meaning. However, I'm not confused by the meaning of "fall by".
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tmnt53C is correct according to the ministry of education of Vietnam.C. A small minority of the students in the class are Hispanic.
This is not correct People who come from Spanish Speaking country are not necessarily Hispanic and, in any case, 25% is hardly a small minority.
tmnt53However, I'm not confused by the mean
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However, I'm not confused by the meaning of "fall by"
Sorry I mean I'm confused by the phrase "fall by". if we say the percentage of the students speaking Spanish fell by twenty-five percent, how does the meaning change?
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tmnt53if we say the percentage of the students speaking Spanish fell by twenty-five percent, how does the meaning change?If there were originally 200 students, and later only 150, then the number of students fell by twenty-five per cent.
The percentage of students can fall by x per cent only if we know what the original percentage was.
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Thank you very much. Now I know how to use fall by. I misunderstood it.
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