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This is an attempt to reconcile two extreme positions in a way that is acceptable to the majority of the community:
Some might feel it's irrelevant that it's homework:we should always provide a complete answer.
Others might feel this site is not the pla...
What is the possessive of a noun ending in s?
The boys' books.
? The boss' car.
For example, I found the following sentence written by a native English speaker (UK) so I'm going to assume that he knows how to put it the right way, although I wouldn't use this form.
I now have a bit more time to fix bugs
etc but I'm open to offers if anyone
wants to help maintain this...
Älvdalen Municipality (Älvdalens kommun) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Älvdalen.
The two parishes Särna and Idre were ceded to Sweden from Norway under the treaty of Brömsebro on 13 August 1645. In 1971 the three municipalities Särna, Idre (which itself had been split off from Särna in 1916) and Älvdalen were amalgamated to form the present municipality.
Älvdalen literally means River Valley, a name stemming from the area around the town Älvdalen, situated along the Österdal River, in the municipality's southern part.
The midd...
In statistics, mean has two related meanings:
* the arithmetic mean (and is distinguished from the geometric mean or harmonic mean).
* the expected value of a random variable, which is also called the population mean.
There are other statistical measures that use samples that some people confuse with averages - including 'median' and 'mode'. Other simple statistical analyses use measures of spread, such as range, interquartile range, or standard deviation.
For a real-valued random variable X, the mean is the expectation of X.
Note that not every probability distribution has a defined mean...
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Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Mensa is formally composed of national groups and the umbrella organization Mensa International, with a registered office in Caythorpe, Lincolnshire.
Mensa (, in Latin) means "table" in Latin as is symbolized in the organization's logo.
Founding
Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Dr Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, founded Mensa at Lincoln Co...
Need help about my cv.
I want to add one sentence below my Name. Telling the company that I am free to relocate to any city.
I am not native speaker and not sure about this.
Can anybody tell me how to say it? which way is proper and professional.
Thanks.
One expression is that "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." (attributed to Samuel Goldwyn), i.e. nothing at all.
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