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    Which is correct? One in five children struggles with hunger -or- One in five children struggle with hunger

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    "One in five children struggles". Ignore the rest of the sentence; it's one child that struggles.

    One out of five children struggles with hunger.      


    (?)  They all are beginning to sound right.  Clonge sounds the most sure.

    Children struggle with hunger - one out of five.



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