How to Use "quartile" with Example Sentences

1. Among the worst performers ( the bottom quartile , which are mostly poor countries ) the improvement has been slightly greater : from 112 days to 63 .
2. A study by economists at the atlanta fed found that thirty per cent of people in the lowest quartile of financial literacy thought they had a fixed-rate mortgage when in fact they had an adjustable-rate one .
3. In fact , china 's performance is even worse than that of argentina , the slowest-growing country in the index , and brazil , with the second slowest-growing economy , produced top quartile investment returns .
4. Whites are four times as likely than african-americans to rise from the bottom quartile to the top .
5. In many developing countries , the poorest quartile of consumers spends close to three-quarters of its income on food .