attention grammarians!

[nolly]

"This index will show you the number and percent of students that selected specific answer options."

OR

"This index will show you the number and percent of students who selected specific answer options."

OR

something else?

Comments

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Interesting... My initial assumption was as follows: It's definitely "that". Your subject is "the number and percentage (of whatever)". The nature of "whatever" is irrelevant to answering your question: Numbers and percentages are always "things".

But then I started working through an example contrasting this with the case where the subject is "people", and a number is used adjectively, and thus where "who" should be used... And twigged my parsing error! The construction of your sentence is:

"This index will show you the number and percent (of students who selected specific answer options)."

NOT:

"This index will show you the number and percent (of students) *that* selected specific answer options."

since the latter would imply that numbers and percentages can select options, which is clearly silly, and therefore the basis for a potentially rather interesting fantasy novel... =;o}

(You don't know me, by the way. I just snuck in here via rosefox's journal. =:o> )