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Louise's question: “After a % sign should the verb be singular or plural? For example, is it 95% of the population live or lives less than ...

28.01.2016 · The rule of thumb established there is that the number of the verb depends on the nature of the noun. If the noun is countable, then 10% of it is plural. If the noun is not countable, then 10% of it is singular. The answer to the topic example therefore depends on whether you consider 'the population' to be countable or not - a topic for ...

Percentages and fractions can be plural or singular. Just like in the last lesson, ... Half of them. Percentages. About 2% of the population has autism.

2001–2002The then largest and most thorough survey in Australia was conducted by telephone interview with 19,307 respondents between the ages of 16 and 59 in 2001/2002. The study found that 97.4% of men identified as heterosexual, 1.6% as homosexual and 0.9% as bisexual. For women 97.7% identified as heterosexual, 0.8% as lesbianand 1.4% as bisexual. Nevertheless, 8.6% of me…

The subject is percent, not people, which is a singular form. That's why the verb needs to be is. 9/30/089:10 PM.

The question on Hispanic or Latino origin is separate from the question on race. Hispanic and Latino Americans have ethnic origins in a Spanish-speaking country or Brazil.Latin American countries are, like the United States, racially diverse. Consequently, no separate racial category exists for Hispanic and Latino Americans, as they do not constitute a race, nor a national group.

Countries over 50 percent (shown in blue) have more females than males; those below 50 percent (shown in red) have fewer females. Most countries have a female share of the population between 49 and 51 percent (within one percentage point of parity). There are however a few notable outliers:

Answer (1 of 19): These are all the widely available statistics for the prevalance of psychopathy and sociopathy in the general population as well as in specific areas. Also I have included statistics about associated personality disorders such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Per...

The subject of this sentence is one percent. Fractions and percentages, like team and staff, can be either singular or plural depending on the object of the ...

As user BillJ says in a comment, singular nouns normally require singular agreement in that construction with percent (BrE per cent), ...

52 rader · 03.10.2021 · The number of Americans getting their first and second doses of the …

The rule of thumb established there is that the number of the verb depends on the nature of the noun. If the noun is countable, then 10% of it ...

Here are a few that are useful for academic writing. ... Fifty percent of the job is routine. ... Ten percent of the population is/are bilingual.

06.10.2017 · The terms "introvert" and "extrovert" were devised by Carl Jung in the 1920s. They've since adopted a prominent, if not undying, life of their own. They're the …

This map shows the percentage of each state’s population with at least one dose of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine, plus the percentage of people who are fully vaccinated. Right now, two of the three COVID-19 vaccines require two shots to be fully vaccinated. The third vaccine requires only one shot.

Almost all statistics on blindness are estimated, which means that the numbers found in a sample are extrapolated to the entire population. United States government agencies—including the Bureau of the Census, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics—use sophisticated statistical techniques that lead to population estimates with great …

Fractions and percentages are "number transparent". That is, when they are used as the subject of a sentence, the noun in the following "of" ...

I think the answer is 'are' but I'm unsure. Do I look at 'eighty percent' as plural hence 'are' or 'population' as a collective noun hence ...

08.10.2002 · In his 1948 book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Alfred Kinsey shocked the world by announcing that 10% of the male population is gay. A 1993 Janus Report estimated that nine percent of men and five percent of women had more than "occasional" homosexual relationships. To some people, homosexuality is a matter of perception and definition.