"six to one" meaning
Hello,
In the lesson, i saw this
"During 1845, expenditures for the telegraph exceeded revenue by six to one and sometimes by ten to one"
i don't understand six to one meaning? can everybody help me.
Thanks so much.
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Please note that we always write I like this. I saw this. I understand your question this way: if the revenue/number/advantage/profit was one, it increased to six or ten -- in other words, six or ten times more.
- Please note that we always write I like this.
- I saw this.
- I understand your question this way: if the revenue/number/advantage/profit was one, it increased to six or ten -- in other words, six or ten times more.
- Let's see what a native speaker has to say on this.
- Tom
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Please note that we always write I like this.
I saw this.
I understand your question this way: if the revenue/number/advantage/profit was one, it increased to six or ten -- in other words, six or ten times more.
Let's see what a native speaker has to say on this.
Tom
0ann2012"During 1845, expenditures for the telegraph exceeded revenue by six to one and sometimes by ten to one"
Imagine that the revenue for the telegraph was $100.
The expenses were much more, $600 (six to one) or $1000 (10 to one).
0ann2012 by six to one
by a multiple of six
You can say this several ways:
Multiply revenue by 6 to get expenditures.
Expenditures were six times revenue.
For every dollar of revenue, there were six dollars of expenditures.
In practical terms, they were losing a lot of money. It was not a profitable business.
CJ
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