To Write Economically, You Should

question 40

Multiple Choice

To write economically, you should:

• A) use passive voice instead active voice.
• B) avoid active verbs.
• C) use see-saw sentences.
• D) use cluttering phrases.
• E) eliminate surplus words.

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Definitions:

Mean Salary

The average amount of income earned by employees in a particular job, sector, or region, calculated by summing all salaries and dividing by the number of employees.

Skewed

A term describing asymmetry in the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable, indicating a deviation from the normal distribution.

Median

The middle value in a data set, which effectively divides the dataset into two halves, with one half having values above the median and the other half below.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them together and dividing by the number of values.