The bar chart illustrates the most favorite outdoor activities played by boys and girls in New Zealand in 2002. Overall, there were a significant differences between girls and boys in the percentage of joining in sports.
In terms of netball, there were over 25% in proportion of girls participating this kind of sport while just 1% of boys feeling excited with it. More boys than girls chose soccer to play, 25% compared to 5%. At approximately 23% of the total, swimming became the second favorite activity of the girls whereas only 13% boys like this one. Continued with other sports, there were roughly 10% girls and less than 20% boys taking part in it.
Additionally, the girls playing cricket just accounted for one in ten compared to 10% of the boys. Approximately 4% boys and 5% girls keen on participating athletics. In terms of marital arts, basketball and tennis, fewer girls than boys liked playing this ones, with around 5%, 7% and 9% in the proportion of the girls and 10%, 9%, 9.5% in the proportion of the others.Attachments:
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You must be logged in to view attached files.Can you help me to complete this sentence: “Additionally, the girls playing cricket just accounted for one in ten compared to 10% of the boys” ?
I still do not digest it :(Okay, this one is really just about expression.
The phrase “compared to” is used in situations where you mention two figures, one after another, for example: “The figure of girls is 10%, which is small compared to the figure of boys, at 30%.” Variations of this phrase include: “compared with” or “in comparison with”.
With that in mind, there’s one potential way that this sentence can be misunderstood: “one in ten” may mean that the figure of girls was 10%, which if it was the case then the percentages of girls and boys would be equal.
So to avoid this possible misconception, I changed your sentence to: “Additionally, the girls playing cricket just accounted for only 1%, (which was) one-tenth that of the boys. (which means that the figure of boys is 10%)”. In this way, the readers can know for sure that the figure of girls is 1% instead of 10%.
Hope this can help you understand.
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