Without altering the meaning of the following sentences, reduce the number of words in them.
a. After having completed work on the data-entry problem, we turned our thinking toward our next task, which was the processing problem.
First, we figured out the data entry problem then focused on the processing problem.
b. Those who plan federal and state programs for the elderly should take into account the changing demographic characteristics in terms of size and average income of the composition of the elderly population.
The changing demographic characteristics (size and average income) should be considered when planning federal and state programs for the elderly.
c. Would you please figure out what we should do and advise us?
Please advise.
d. The result of this study will be to make total white-water recycling an economical strategy for meeting federal regulations.
Result expected: total white-water recycling becoming an economical strategy for meeting federal regulations.
Rewrite the following sentences in a way that will keep the related words together.
a. This stamping machine, if you fail to clean it twice per shift and add oil of the proper weight, will cease to operate efficiently.
You must clean the stamping machine twice a shift and add the proper weight of oil otherwise it won’t operate efficiently.
b. The plant manager said that he hopes all employees would seek ways to cut waste at the supervisory meeting yesterday.
At the supervisory meeting yesterday, the plant manager mentioned that all employees should seek ways to cut waste.
c. About 80 percent of our clients, which include over 1500 companies throughout North and South America and a few from Africa, where we’ve built alliances with local distributors, find the help provided at our website to be equivalent in most cases to the assistance supplied by telephone calls to our service centers.
We’ve built alliances with over 1500 companies through local distributors throughout Africa, North and South America. 80% of these clients find the help provided through our website to be equivalent to the assistance supplied by calls to our service centers.
d. Once they wilt, most garden sprays are unable to save vegetable plants from complete collapse.
Most garden sprays are unable to save vegetable plants from complete collapse once they’ve wilted.
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