Your other suggestion of by one hundred times is definitely better than a. People often say that percentages greater than 100 make no sense because you can't have more than all of something This is simply silly and mathematically ignorant A percentage is just a ratio between two numbers There are many situations where it is perfectly reasonable for the numerator of a fraction to be greater than the denominator. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take
Kanter, aarp—asset accumulation, retention and protection, taxes 69 Wayne gretzky, relating the comment of one of his early coaches who, frustrated by his lack of scoring in an important game told him, 'you miss 100% of the shots you never take.'. Is it less than $100 or under $100 Is it more than $100 or is it over $100 Ask question asked 14 years, 2 months ago modified 14 years, 2 months ago The type of writing you are doing also plays into your decision
While 100 dollars is plural so you naturally say were But twenty quid was taken But it would be a score was taken Similarly twenty bob, nicker, wedge or wonga would be was But 20 smackeroos were taken. Marking or beginning a century, with the example the centurial years 1600 and 1700
But there is a word that is widely used to indicate the range of years or centuries covered by an article or book But a real world is a real world. One of the most confusing things for me is spelling english numerals What is grammatical way to spell the following numbers in the context of writing the numeral in a receipt
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