Answer to Question 1
D
Answer to Question 2
Fractions, ratios, and percentages are examples of common language.In effect, common language reduces difficult figures to the common denominators of language and ideas.Although 218 of 400 expect to travel to Alaska in the future is somewhat easy to understand, 54.4 prefer . . . is even easier, and one out of two indicate a preference for traveling to Alaska is even more understandable.