The Same Slice, Different Names
One quarter of a pie chart, labelled four different ways.
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The slice never changes. Only the words for it do.
Report figures and percentages with the right words, and get singular and plural right.
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One figure — 25%. Tick every way you could put it into a sentence.
The same number said five ways — plus the two accuracy rules that decide the marks.
25% of households own a car. Every one of these reports that:
25% of households own a car.
A quarter of households own a car.
The proportion of households owning a car was 25%.
The percentage of households owning a car was 25%.
The figure for households owning a car stood at 25%.
A chart usually has four or five figures worth reporting. With one expression available, every sentence opens the same way. With five, none of them has to.
One quarter of a pie chart, labelled four different ways.
The slice never changes. Only the words for it do.
Eight figures, eight ways of writing them in words.
Terms
Definitions
Three sentences turning on the two accuracy rules.
Chain 1
The sentence: Forty ___ of respondents chose the first option.
Candidates: per cent / percentage
What decides it:
So the answer is:
Chain 2
The sentence: The ___ of respondents choosing the first option fell after 2015.
Candidates: per cent / percentage
What decides it:
So the answer is:
Chain 3
The sentence: The figure ___ Germany was considerably higher.
Candidates: for / of
What decides it:
So the answer is:
A Task 1 paragraph reporting the same kind of figure four times — without repeating itself.
How people travelled to work in one city, 2020 (%)
car 50 · public transport 25 · bicycle 15 · on foot 10
Half the workforce to work by car, making it by far the most common method. A of workers used public transport — half as many as those who drove.
The for cycling was lower still, at 15 per cent, and one in ten on foot.
Taken together, the of workers using some form of private motor vehicle was therefore 50 per cent, while the — the other half — relied on transport, a bicycle or their own feet.
The of car users to cyclists was roughly three one.