Word: ratio
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...energy and a pair of pedals to drive its propellers. The craft was designed and constructed specifically to challenge Albatross's records for both duration (2 hr. 40 min.) and straight- line distance (22.3 miles). To achieve this, the M.I.T. team built a gearbox with a 2-to-3 ratio instead of using a standard bicycle chain to transmit pedal power to the 11-ft. propeller. In addition, Aeronautical Engineer Mark Drela designed an extra-thin wing that provides 30% more aerodynamic lift than stumpier conventional wings. The team chose a strong, lightweight graphite compound to mold the plane...
...retail." The average Disney film during 1987 cost about $12 million to make, in contrast to Hollywood's $16.5 million average. Fully 22 of the 23 films made and released by the new Disney management have turned a profit, far better than the industry ratio of about...
...proportion of women accecpted this year rose more than two percentage points, according to College figures. Due to a record number of women applying, this year's acceptances are 43 percent women. Typically the percentage of men and women admitted is similar to the male-female ratio of the applications, Fitzsimmons said...
...hope as the numbers of women graduating go up, the increased role models will also encourage women to apply," said Fitzsimmons. "Our ultimate goal, besides getting the best students, is to attain a 50-50 ratio...
Simple as it is, the arithmetic is also dead wrong. When the epidemic first got under way, there were few cases of AIDS and the virus was spreading among a largely uninfected gay population; thus the ratio of carriers to cases was high, explains James Curran, director of the AIDS program at the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Today, thanks to a widespread education campaign and safer sex, the rate of new infection among gays has dropped dramatically. But naturally the number of infected people who fall ill continues to rise. As a result, among gays...