Percentage Question

Hi Please help me with the below question: In the first quarter of 2008, Harry's Hardware sold 300 hammers and 12000 nails.In the second quarter of 2008,the store sold 375 hammers and 18000 nails .By approximately what percent did the ratio of hammers sold to nails sold decrease from the first quart...

Hi Brent , I had a small question. Like in this question you have used Fundamental counting Principle,which says that if a work has two tasks and one task can be done in x ways and another task can be done in y ways ,then the total no of ways to accomplish the work is x*y ways. Now my question is ,&...

Parallelism

Hi, I was going through Parallelism topic.Can someone please explain to me,the usage of comma here: WRONG: She argues that the agency acts with disregard for human life and property and reckless abandon and it should therefore be shut down . RIGHT: She argues that the agency acts with reckless aband...

Ratio and Proportion

Please explain ow to solve tese questions: 1). It takes the average dryer 80 minutes to dry one full load of Bobs laundary . Bob has one average dryer and also decides to try one jumbo dryer faster than average by ratio of 5:4. Bob as three loads of laundary and both machines are so precise that he ...

Majority - Singular/Plural

Hi All, I am working with sentence correction and have following doubt: 1. The majority of the students in this class are hard workers. 2. In the senate, the majority has coalesced into a unified voting block. How have they decided to keep verb singular/plural with majority.Would be glad if someone ...