I just got my son's Saxon math homework, & I see one of his problems asks this:
"What fractional part of the pets is birds?"
& again this one:
"What fractional part of the pets is cats?"
Am I wrong, or what? But shouldn't both the "is'" be "are"? ie. "What fractional part of the pets ARE birds?"
"What fractional part of the pets is birds?"
& again this one:
"What fractional part of the pets is cats?"

Am I wrong, or what? But shouldn't both the "is'" be "are"? ie. "What fractional part of the pets ARE birds?"
