When looking at the ingredient label of a bottled spaghetti sauce, you see that olive oil is the second ingredient. This means t
hat olive oil is ... A. the second most abundant ingredient by volume.
B. the second most abundant ingredient by weight.
C. just one of the ingredients present in the sauce.
D. the second ingredient by alphabetical listing.
The ingredients written in the ingredient label are written in ascending order of abundance present in that product.All the quantities written on the ingredient label are measured by weight.
So if the olive oil is written on the second number it means that the olive oil is the second most abundant ingredient in that product by weight.
Raw cotton crops doubled each decade after 1800 because farmers grew nothing else. The cotton gin sped production and the "de-seeding" of cotton so much that the economy improved so farmers stuck with cotton.
