Choose the option that will make the following statement correct: IF WE COUNT THE NUMBER OF APPEARANCES OF THE LETTER "N" IN THIS SENTENCE, THE RESULT WILL BE _________.
SEVEN
Counting Letter N Appearances
The question asks us to determine the word that correctly completes the statement: "IF WE COUNT THE NUMBER OF APPEARANCES OF THE LETTER "N" IN THIS SENTENCE, THE RESULT WILL BE _________." The blank needs to be filled with a word representing the total count of the letter 'N' in the specified part of the sentence.
To solve this, we first need to count the occurrences of the letter 'N' in the sentence portion provided before the blank. The relevant part of the sentence where we need to count is: "IF WE COUNT THE NUMBER OF APPEARANCES OF THE LETTER "N" IN THIS SENTENCE, THE RESULT WILL BE ".
Step-by-Step N Count
Let's go through this part of the sentence word by word and count every instance of the letter 'N'.
- IF (0 N's)
- WE (0 N's)
- COUNT (1 N)
- THE (0 N's)
- NUMBER (1 N)
- OF (0 N's)
- APPEARANCES (1 N)
- OF (0 N's)
- THE (0 N's)
- LETTER (0 N's)
- "N" (1 N)
- IN (1 N)
- THIS (0 N's)
- SENTENCE (2 N's)
- , (0 N's)
- THE (0 N's)
- RESULT (0 N's)
- WILL (0 N's)
- BE (0 N's)
Now, let's sum up the number of 'N's found in each word/element:
Total count of N's = 1 (COUNT) + 1 (NUMBER) + 1 (APPEARANCES) + 1 ("N") + 1 (IN) + 2 (SENTENCE)
Total count = \(1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 7\)
Resulting Number and Options
The count of the letter 'N' in the specified part of the sentence is 7.
The statement says that the result of this count will be the word that fills the blank. Therefore, the word in the blank should represent the number 7.
Let's look at the given options:
- SIX
- SEVEN
- NINE
- TEN
We need to find the option that is the word for the number 7.
- SIX represents the number 6.
- SEVEN represents the number 7.
- NINE represents the number 9.
- TEN represents the number 10.
Conclusion
Since the total count of the letter 'N' in the relevant part of the sentence is 7, the word that should fill the blank is the word representing the number 7, which is "SEVEN".
Therefore, the complete and correct statement is: IF WE COUNT THE NUMBER OF APPEARANCES OF THE LETTER "N" IN THIS SENTENCE, THE RESULT WILL BE SEVEN.
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