Sentences with phrase «point average help»

Not only will a good grade point average help with your teen's college plans, it can save you money on your car insurance premium.

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By limiting supply to the market, the two cartels — BPC, a partnership between the largest Russian and Belorussian companies, and Canpotex, made up of Potash Corp. and junior partners Agrium and Mosaic — helped drive the average price of potash from a historic range of between $ 125 and $ 200 a metric tonne to, at one point in 2009, $ 825 a metric tonne.

On average, mobile advances like these could help generate an average global expense ratio improvement of about 500 basis points, from 58 % to 53 % as banks reduce the costs of the branch network and the costs of shipping and storing cash and checks.

Earnings reports are doing very little to help the Dow Jones Industrial Average in morning trade Friday, with the shares of the four companies that reported results adding less than 10 net points to the Dow's price.

There has been speculation in some corners that the inverse products helped fuel this month's sudden stock slump, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average have its largest one - day point loss ever and put the S&P 500 in correction territory (a decline of more than 10 percent from its peak) for the first time since 2015.

Moving averages can be used in combination with other technical and fundamental data points to help form your outlook on an individual stock and on the overall stock market.

Averaged 18.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in11 seasons in Chicago, helping Michael Jordan to six championships.

Tennessee: Foul trouble helped to limit Tennessee's Grant Williams to five points, 11 below his average.

Sorry Mick I've watched Reid, he's average at best, he's no Cahill and he's not good enough to help us challenge for the Pl and remember Chelsea bought Cahill, the are not interested in Reid so that where your point falls, he's typical wenger someone who he can sit behind Mert as 3 rd choice Is this what Arsenal have become a team happy with average players, wenger is very good at starving the fans so much the will settle for anyone

He averaged 10 points and four assists, helping the Bucks to a 42 - 40 record for the sixth place in the East.

«If you had a player averaging 24.9 points a game, it seems reasonable to me that you'd do anything you promised to help him remain eligible.»

If the returning experience on defense can help reduce the 21.5 points against average from a year ago, the Falcons could be a juggernaut by season's end.

In 16 games Parker averaged 19.4 points, 10.1 rebounds and 6.3 assists and helping her team bounce back from one of the worst starts in franchise history.

Sure, the home results have been ridiculous — S.C. took apart East Carolina, UAB, Missouri and Georgia by an average score of 41 - 8 — but the Gamecocks needed help from a late pass interference no - call to hold off Vanderbilt in the season opener, and they actually trailed Kentucky by 10 points at halftime in Lexington two weeks ago before rallying.

After putting together two productive seasons under coach Kevin Ollie, Daniels averaged 16 points and 7.2 rebounds in six postseason games, helping the Huskies win the 2014 NCAA Championship.

A minor surge in which Erving scored three straight fourth - quarter baskets boosted his production to 19 points, 12 below his season average against the Celtics, but it only helped to make the final score respectable.

The versatile guard was electric night - in and night - out, averaging 19.1 points and 5.4 assists to help the Mariners go 25 - 5 and win the North Coast Section Div.

Last season the Weber State product averaged 25.1 points and 6.8 assists per game while helping the Blazers defy expectations with 44 regular season wins and a fifth - place finish in the Western Conference.

After signing to play collegiately at Colorado State in November, she helped the Troubadours to a 4 - 0 December start with her talent and enthusiasm, averaging more than 15 points and seven assists per game.

Mandy Coleman — The senior has helped McNair - Stockton basketball to a fast 11 - 1 start by averaging 19.3 points and 13.1 rebounds per game.

Last season she averaged 17.4 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks to help her team reach the state finals.

Here's the writeup from the league office: «Louis averaged a league - best 6.33 points and 6.17 kills per set helping Marquette to a 2 - 0 week with 3 - 0 sweeps over both Providence and St. John's at home.

Heastie pointed to the Republican support for a subsidy aimed at bolstering upstate nuclear power plants, which is expected to add roughly $ 2 to the average utility bill as a sign some GOP lawmakers are open to tacking on more fees or taxes to help pay for a broader public benefit, such as preserving jobs.

«City agencies must do more to scrub their budgets and operations to identify more savings and efficiencies to help address our risks,» he said, pointing out that prior to 2014, agencies contributed 2.7 percent on average to the city's savings in a year, compared to 1 percent under Mayor de Blasio.

«While it's easy to sort of point to averages,» Lewis said, «for places like Alaska or like the Southeast that are going to see extreme changes, it doesn't help.»

At schools with a student poverty rate of below 10 percent, by contrast, the research team found that regular informal exchange among parents helps improve students» grade point average and makes them more likely to graduate.

A small change in average global temperature leads to a dramatic change in the frequency of extreme events.23 24 25 The following graphs in Figure 5 help to illustrate this point.

Another study found that expressive writing can help boost students» grade - point averages.

A new HD remaster of the decade - old game Okami and a strong new release in the Resident Evil series helped Capcom reverse a 2016 slide and boost its average Metascore by over five points in 2017.

Despite releasing 29 scored films (third-most among all distributors) in 2014, TWC boosted its average Metascore by over 6 points, helping to return the studio to its usual position in the top half of our rankings (following a sub-par 2013).

Hugo was the best of 9 positively reviewed releases for Paramount last year, helping to boost the studio's average Metascore over six points higher than its nearest major studio competitor (Disney).

To put the gains in perspective, it may help to know that 5 to 6 percentile points is just under half of the gap between the average disadvantaged, minority student in Chicago public schools and the average middle - income, nonminority student in a suburban district.»

This calculus study guide will helps students differentiate between the height of a function, the average height of the function, the slope of a tangent line, the slope of a secant line, the area under a curve, and the change in height between two points.

Research shows that a properly organized peer - led study group can help improve students» grades; a particular study of 110 students found that students who studied in a peer - led group scored an average of 5.5 points higher in their final exams compared to students who were not in a group.

As a trustee of the ISAS Group Benefits Trust, she was invaluable in helping participating schools offer comprehensive health coverage at price points that have risen well below the national average.

It can also help students make significant gains in academic achievement — on average, a gain of 11 percentile points in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published in the journal Child Development.

One study out of Stanford University, which helped design the PACT, found that for each additional point an English Language Arts teacher scored on the exam, which is scored on a 44 - point scale, students averaged a gain of one percentile point per year on California standardized tests.

One of the lessons we can draw from the success of the initiative is that having multiple indicators of student performance — such as graduation rates, suspension rates, and grade point averages — helps educators see the whole child and address each student's needs.

Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, states are provided with funding to develop the technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in CTE programs.46 Currently, 12.5 million high school and college students are enrolled in CTE programs.47 These programs help keep students in school; the graduation rate of CTE students is about 90 percent, 15 percentage points higher than the national average.48 However, research on their effectiveness is still in the preliminary stages.49 The best and most effective CTE programs are linked to and supported by local business or industry; provide real - world experiences or work opportunities; give students tangible outcomes such as an industry credential or college credit; and create pathways for pursuing college or career after graduation.50

CCSA has created the Average Point Difference (APD) to help schools and parents better understand SBAC scale scores and interpret growth.

Even if you don't consider yourself a tech person, services have advanced to the point where an average person can establish a site without knowing code, and without hiring professional help.

As you can see, many students are now purchasing custom writing pieces online to help their grade point average and separate themselves from the pack.

CreditRepair.com claims an average increase of 40 points on TransUnion credit scores within four months while providing online tools to help you check your results.

Used correctly it can help you identify trend signals as well as entry and exit points much faster than a simple moving average can.

They can also help to get rid of high - interest credit card debt, considering that almost 10 percentage points separate the average credit card interest rate from the average 30 - year mortgage rate.

The average yields of bonds in the S&P 500 Bond Index have also fallen but only by 25 basis points during this time frame, helped in part by the inclusion of the energy bond sector.

Being an authorized user can help a teen's credit score, but if the teen is removed as an authorized user at some point in the future then this will shorten their average account age, which is a negative factor in the eyes of credit rating agencies.

Moving averages can be used in combination with other technical and fundamental data points to help form your outlook on an individual stock and on the overall stock market.

Strong investment returns helped lift the average funding level of pension plans by three points, to 88 percent, from 2013 to 2014, according to Segal Consulting, which advises multiemployer trust funds.

The average junk bond risk premium is 4.55 percentage points over comparable Treasury yields, and this has helped buffer high yields somewhat from rising Treasury rates.